Renu Bhardwaj
Renu Bhardwaj shares budget-friendly recipes as @hey_renu from Glasgow, with a focus on veggie meals, reducing food waste and celebrating her Indian heritage.
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AldiOverview
- Based in
- Glasgow, Scotland
- From
- Manchester
- Work
- Recipe creator and author
- Breakout
- Budget cooking and reducing food waste on @hey_renu
- First book
- Celebrate Diwali, published in August 2024
Mini bio
How it started.
Renu is a British-Indian recipe creator from Manchester, now based in Glasgow. She told Women Who Win that appearing with her family in an Aldi TV campaign encouraged her to start a food page. In Woman & Home, she described taking content creation more seriously after being made redundant in 2020, teaching herself food photography and finding an audience for affordable cooking and using up leftovers.
Food, family and Diwali.
Her mother’s homemade Indian food helped shape her cooking. Wanting to share Diwali with her own children, she struggled to find a suitable family guide and wrote Celebrate Diwali. Published in 2024, her first book brings recipes and craft activities together. She also created a spice collection with Spice Kitchen, including her own chaat masala blend.
A new chapter.
Renu built her food work alongside a job in higher education. In August 2025 she announced that she had left the University of the West of Scotland to become a full-time content creator, offering brand content, social media services and team cook-alongs.
Creditschronological, newest first
Books
- 2025Celebrate Diwali: Recipes, Activities, and Crafts for the Entire FamilyAuthor, Andrews McMeel edition
- 2024Celebrate Diwali: Recipes, activities and crafts to do with your kidsAuthor, Pop Press
Collaborations
- 2024Indian Spice Tin by Hey_RenuSpice collection collaborator, including her chaat masala blend
- 2020Aldi Back to School advertOn-screen appearance with the Bhardwaj family
Awards
Quotes
So focus on what you love, and let that shine!Renu Bhardwaj, Honest Mum
In an October 2024 interview, she offered this advice to aspiring recipe creators and authors.
Trivia
- An Aldi TV campaign with her family helped give her the confidence to start a food page.
- She told Woman & Home that a 15-second reel could take four hours to create.
- Her Spice Kitchen collaboration includes her own chaat masala blend.
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