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The most useful kitchen implement for a single person is a dieter’s scale: using one of those you can weigh as little as ¼ oz (5g), which is invaluable for small quantities.

Many cookery books insist that imperial and metric measurements should not be mixed. As far as I am concerned, anyone using this book should feel free to mix imperial, metric and even American measurements to their heart’s content. The recipes are intended to be robust enough not to require precision, which is why, in the newer recipes particularly, I have often suggested a range of quantities of a particular ingredient, to give maximum flexibility.

The weekly menus are intended to use up all ingredients that would otherwise spoil and are based on standard-sized cans. When using half a can of beans or other vegetables in one recipe, the other half should be transferred to a glass or plastic container and refrigerated until needed later in the week. In the UK tofu is usually found in 8 or 10 oz packets, and I have therefore used this amount as the basis of a week’s menus, but there are various recipes calling for frozen tofu, so if a larger quantity is purchased the remainder can be frozen.