So, your oats: 17 ways to go beyond porridge, from fruity granola to Scottish cranachan

Porridge is by no means the beginning and end of oats – here are loads of other ideas, from biscuits and cakes to curry and fish tacos

From going grey to hand washing: 12 lockdown habits we’re going to keep

Life in lockdown has been an exercise in patience, but for some, there have been rewards worth bringing into their ‘new normals’

My daily coronavirus lockdown walks are full of food discoveries

Pink wafers from a corner shop, fresh naan at the grocer’s – and a heart-warming sign in one shop window: ‘We are still baking’

If God wanted me to be a size eight, would he have made Birds Eye Potato Waffles so waffly versatile?

‘Being locked away has permitted many of us to eat without the annual creeping tyranny of how we should look in time for summer’

How to grow cucurbits: pumpkins, courgettes and cucumbers

Grow summer and winter squashes to feel prepared, says our gardening expert

Lessons from two years of bedrest: ‘Embrace the gravitational force of the click hole’

Quarantine can seem endless but, after being isolated by a serious illness, Kathryn Wilson learned to thrive in a smaller world

Sitopia by Carolyn Steel review – big questions about food

An ‘all-you-can-eat buffet of thoughts’

Groceries, telehealth and pharmaceuticals: how older Australians can get help at home

Older Australians are highly vulnerable to Covid-19 but new and existing services are available to help them stay healthy, stay sane, and stay home

Dinner parties go digital during coronavirus outbreak: ‘We lock in every Saturday night’

Just like with an ordinary dinner party, it takes a bit of organisation to pull off a group hang online via video chat, but the rewards are worth the effort

Sitopia by Carolyn Steel review – a utopian vision that begins with food

We are out of step with our planet, so how should we live? Cheap food is an oxymoron and anarchism’s time may have come, argues this wide-ranging, stimulating book