I love this time of year, because pumpkins are plentiful and cheap and keep for absolutely ages! We are starting a pumpkin collection! Also aubergines and green peppers and tomatoes and plums… not looking forward to winter when a solitary tomato will cost me seventeen pounds fifty, but that’s the price you pay for delicious seasonal veg the rest of the time, I suppose.

I picked K’s brains last night and we decided on the following meals:

• veggie version of shepherd’s pie (the evenings are just getting cool enough to justify that kind of cooking, which makes me very happy!)

• veg stirfry with the ever present tofu gyouza

• some kind of soup – must find a nice recipe

• grilled salmon with veg and spuds

• pasta and salad

Shopping: salmon, tofu, tinned toms, spuds, rice, broccoli, aubergines, tomatoes, mushrooms, garlic, spring onions, eggs, cereal, carrots, daikon