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What’s your perfect COMFORT FOOD? • Every month, we ask you, our readers, for your best recipes, tips and tricks. We wanted to know which meals you turn to when you need some comfort

HAPPY DIWALI • Create an Indian feast to celebrate the Hindu Festival of Light

Follow our 7-DAY MEAL PLAN • We share some of the recipes we’re excited to cook from this issue and on bbcgoodfood.com

October’s veg box star CELERY • This versatile vegetable is more than just a base for sauces and soups

Grow for a good cause • Reading’s eco-friendly allotment spaces could help tackle food poverty

YOUR GOOD FOOD • What have you been cooking and discussing? This is where we hear from you, our wonderful community of readers

COULD THE TRADITIONAL SUNDAY ROAST BE AT RISK? • The rising cost of living has forced families to change their cooking habits, and our UK-wide Good Food Nation survey, of more than 3,000 adults and kids, reveals our beloved roast dinner is facing the chop

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SUBSCRIBERS GET MORE WITH THE GOOD FOOD SUBSCRIBER CLUB • Exclusive Eats Out subscriber-only dining events

easy • 38 simple recipes for busy days

one-pan winners • Cook wholesome, budget-friendly dinners without fuss using an all-in-one method

gf reader offer • Versatile Cooks Professional 30cm sauté pan

Get ahead for a magical Christmas • A special collection of 120 festive recipes from the team at BBC Good Food

love your leftovers • Use these handy recipes to make the most of any surplus ingredients from our midweek meals on page 28

Theo Randall’s easy Italian dinner • The Saturday Kitchen regular shares a dish to help you celebrate World Pasta Day (Tuesday 25 October)

MARIA BRADFORD’S RES KANYAH • A food writer from Sierra Leone, Maria specialises in Afro-fusion dishes. Here, she shares how the food of her youth shapes her cooking today, and the sweet-savoury snack that her grandmother would make for her

FIVE KEY SIERRA LEONEAN INGREDIENTS

happy halloween • Make the scary season a particularly spook-tacular one with these treats from Jane Dunn

KIDS’ KITCHEN • In the final part of this six-part series, we help you teach your children all they need to know about roasting

"They’re not just friends – they’re family" • Kat Reynolds opened her home to Valya Kandaurova, her son Daniel and sister Katya after they fled Ukraine in March, sparking a lifelong friendship

PERFECT PANEER • This Indian curd cheese is delicious when paired with strong flavours, and incredibly versatile, too, as Chetna Makan proves with these inspiring dishes

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