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[ClaireG]

I didn't watch the programme but we try to buy and eat the best we can. We're lucky that we have a mobile butchers van visit twice a week here. His meat is a bit more expensive but isn't pumped full of water so i can buy less and still get the same amount as i would have if i had bought a larger pack of cheaper stuff.

I also think cooking should be brought back to schools. I was taught to cook by watching my Mum from a young age and am lucky that Adam enjoys cooking.

[Guest]

I was terrible, I always ended up forgetting my ingredients for 'Domestic Science' as they called it, and having to borrow other people's. Once the teacher told me I'd have to clean the ovens out for forgetting my ingredients, I think I refused if I remember rightly

 

I learnt to cook from my mum, I still have to phone her now and again and ask her how to do something

 

The internet is brilliant though if you're stuck for ideas.

[Valkyrie]

I probably learnt more from my grandmothers - my mum was hopeless in the kitchen (soggy cauli etc), but she did make very good cakes. My dad was a dab hand in the kitchen too. Mum would insist on using her "Patsy" war time recipes on several occasions - bleh! So I probably thought I can do better. Since I left home, mum started experimenting more - and she seems to do really nice things now - why couldn't she have done that when I was younger?

On the other hand, OH's mum was always entertaining and used to experiment with her fancy dinners on her children. As a result, OH yearned for the simple things like burgers and fish and chips. But then he can cook very well too, and after going down the yukky food route for a while, he saw the light (well, Geoff Hamilton really) and has been eating healthily ever since (although we do have treats now and again).

DD loves cooking, and DS does actually now know how to turn on the oven - then forgets to turn it off! Yet he used to love watching the cooking shows when he was little - he just had to watch Ainsley!

[chickencam]

I learnt how to cook basic thrifty meals from my mum and then OH and I have learned to cook more adventurous stuff together over the years. All of out children love good food so I am hoping that they will after going through a junk phase when they leave home will cook for themselves too.

[Mrs Webmuppet]

My Mother is hopeless cook. OH says she should be 'done' for crimes against food.

 

I taught myself to cook mostly . My cookery classes in school were very little help ( well apart from the how to make a Christmas cake series of lessons) mainly because I had to learn to cook things I would never normally eat..........one particularly nasty teacher tried to make me eat the scrambled egg on toast I had made knowing full well it would make me very ill ( I can't eat eggs unless they are heavily disguised in cake or pancakes).

 

Little Miss Webmuppet loves cooking and can prepare a simple meal (at the age of 8 ). She can follow a recipe without any trouble. She loves her Sam Stern cook book which is designed for teenagers because its so easy to follow.

 

LMW loves cookery programmes on TV- her favs are Ace of Cakes, Rachel Allens Bake and the Hairy Bikers.

[chickencam]

All of my children love to cook, mainly cakes etc, but that's not so bad