It’s official. Tinned meat is the new rock and roll. Or at least that’s what Delia thinks. She used tinned lamb (looked rough as boots) last week, and now this week she used tinned beef for a Spaghetti Bolognese (looked like dog food). Will a nation currently having the organic, fresh and seasonal approach to food rammed down their throats fall in love with a product that was popular 50-odd years ago when rationing was commonplace? Perhaps.

What is clear is that Delia is all about stuff you buy at supermarkets. Stuff in tins, stuff in jars and stuff in tubs. Oh how these supermarkets must love Delia Smith. But, just as the British cooking TV mafia are getting into a murderous flap, there were – shock, horror – fresh ingredients on the show last night. Yes, meat and vegetables and stuff.

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Delia Smith. Let’s be having you. The woman whose cookery shows provoke more people to dash out and buy things from supermarkets is back with a new series, her first for six years. What Delia says goes, but this something a bit different – this series sees the matriarch of food TV telling people how to cheat at cooking. This means using tinned things, ready-made things and general stuff from the supermarket shelves in order to make good-looking dishes. In an age where Jamie Oliver cooks fresh food in his garden and we’re told that organic is best, how will this approach go down with viewers?

We’re also promised some behind-the-scenes footage from Delia’s life away from the chopping board.