SHOPPING LIST: Cooking Skills: Knife Skills 1, Chapter 5 (Fruit, Peppers and Awkward Shapes)

Ripe mangoes and avocados (they should give slightly when pressed). Melon and pineapple: a quarter of each is enough for one fruit salad. Extra tomatoes for the tomato experiments.

Pepper strips with hummus (2 portions)
[ ] 2 peppers (red, yellow or orange)
[ ] 100 g hummus
[ ] 1 tsp olive oil
[ ] 1 pinch paprika

Avocado on toast (1 portion)
[ ] 1 ripe avocado
[ ] 2 slices of wholemeal bread
[ ] ½ lemon, juice
[ ] 1 pinch chilli flakes, salt and pepper

Tomato, mango and avocado salsa (3 to 4 portions)
[ ] 2 ripe tomatoes
[ ] 1 ripe mango
[ ] 1 ripe avocado
[ ] ½ small red onion, finely diced
[ ] 1 lime, juice
[ ] 2 tbsp chopped coriander
[ ] 1 pinch chilli (fresh or flakes) and salt

Mixed fruit salad (4 portions)
[ ] ¼ small melon (cantaloupe or honeydew)
[ ] ¼ pineapple
[ ] 1 crisp apple
[ ] 1 ripe mango
[ ] 150 g grapes
[ ] ½ lime, juice
[ ] 4 mint leaves, cut into ribbons

For the experiments
[ ] 2 more tomatoes, 1 avocado, 1 mango
[ ] Cling film