A month of family dinners from ten cheap things you'll always have in.

You don't need 200 ingredients or 20 cookbooks. You need about ten cheap staples that overlap and the knowledge to turn them into dinner, night after night, without the 5pm panic.

I'm a professional chef turned stay-at-home dad, and this is the system I wish someone had handed me: ten things to keep in, and thirty real family dinners that spin off them. One small shop quietly becomes a month of meals.

What's inside: • The ten-staple system - the cheap, overlapping shopping list everything's built on

• 30 family dinners, grouped by staple so you can see how ten things become thirty meals

• A fussy-eater tweak on every single dinner — the chef tricks for hiding veg, changing the shape, and winning the picky ones over

• A batch-and-freeze guide, so a knackered Tuesday is just "defrost and done"

• A one-shop list so you can actually go and buy it

Most dinners take under 30 minutes. Everything's built around tired parents, fussy kids, and a freezer.

A beautifully designed PDF, yours to keep and print — instant download.

— Made by a chef who's also a knackered dad.