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Discover our favourite foodie finds this month, then read on for quick summer supper recipes and picnic-feast inspiration 3 WAYS WITH… hedge row be rrie s

Explore your local green areas and learn something new by foraging – there’s usually something to discover throughout the year, with hedgerows especially abundant with berries in the summer. Just make sure to follow a few rules: forage away from busy roads; leave enough unpicked berries for wildlife to eat; and don’t pick anything that you’re not 100-per-cent certain you can identify. Find an identification guide on discoverwildlife.com

Wild strawberries are found in woodlands and hedgerows, and you can identify them by the small white flowers that bloom from them. They’re much smaller than their supermarket counterparts, so eat them as they are or use them to decorate desserts or cakes. Bilberries resemble blueberries and they’re often found on low, shrubby plants in conifer woods, heaths and moors. Although you can eat them raw, they’re slightly tart, so make them into jam or lightly stew them with sugar to create a compote, both of which will make them more palatable. Keep an eye on elder trees, as the frothy white elderflowers ripen into elderberries at this time of year. Elderberries should never be eaten raw, however. Instead, use them to create syrup, jam or even infused gin.

BEEFED-UP BURGERS

Upgrade your next barbecue with Asda’s Extra Special Beef Burgers with Truffle & Parmesan Melts. British beef patties are topped with a mix of oozing Cheddar, Parmesan and black truffle – jazzing up a familiar favourite without blowing the budget. Priced at £3.30 for a pack of two.

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KITCHEN

Save money and tailor a sauce to suit your tastebuds by making your own salad dressing. Add 6 tbsp olive oil and the juice of 1 lemon into a jam jar, then season. Secure the lid, then shake. Switch the lemon juice for 2 tbsp balsamic vinegar, rather than buying balsamic vinegar dressing separately – you can also add in leftover chopped herbs. The dressings will last in the fridge in the jars for a few weeks.

Try me…

A new take on a teatime classic, spread this tangy mayo across sandwiches or add it to hot dogs for a flavoursome twist. Hellmann’s new restaurant-inspired mayo range also includes Gravy and Chilli Charger flavours. Pick up the Coronation Mayonnaise in Morrisons for £2.25.

D rink me…

Keep a couple of bottles of Galipette Rosé Cider chilled in the fridge for spontaneous summer sipping – you can thank us later. Rare red-flesh apples from Brittany and Normandy give the cider a distinctive rosé taste that will transport you to the French countryside. Priced at £2 per bottle from Waitrose & Partners.

Buy me…

Tuck into 80 healthy recipes with Eat Well for Less: Happy & Healthy (£14.99, BBC Books), the latest cookbook from the BBC One TV series, Eat Well for Less. Packed full of simple suppers and weekend feasts, this book includes lots of affordable, family-friendly meals. Available to buy from Waterstones.