I challenge you...

..all I seemed to be able to find in the fridge come lunchtime was a piece of lemon, a hunk of parmesan cheese, and some lime pickle! Well milk, butter, all that sort of stuff... but basically this was it.

What could one do with that? Come on, Delia!

Mind you, maybe it is just being locked into conformity that makes it impossible for us to see what might be done? Think outside the box, and pay less attention to the "done thing"?

Life is all a variorum,
We regard not how it goes;
Let them cant about decorum,
Who have character to lose.

A fig for those by law protected,
Liberty's a glorious feast!
Courts for Cowards were erected,
Churches built to please the Priest.

Robert Burns 1785.