Last year, just before Christmas, I caught a cold, it lasted a number of weeks. One of things that helps me when I have a cold is ginger shots, there’s something about the ginger that helps my throat and stops me coughing.

I think I must have spent about £50 on ginger shots over the course of two and a half weeks and thought that it probably would have been cheaper to make them myself, so I bought a juicer.

‘Will it juice?’ Is now a legitimate question in my house. And it turns out the answer is usually yes.

Persimon came out like a smoothie. Lemon is better if you peel it first and apple, lemon and ginger shots are my thing! I tend to use 6/7 apples with two lemons and 250g ginger.

I put them in these bottles and if i think, I’m not going to get through them, throw them in the freezer for another time.

As we turn to darker days and I try to get my life slightly more structured, I’ve been using the juicer a bit more to make sure I’m using all up all the veg in the house. Having ginger shots in the freezer, is one of those useful things if I feel I’m getting a bit run down.