I cook all our meals from scratch, BBC Good Food is a favourite site for me so most of the food in my diary is from there. Feel free to add me as a friend is you want Judging by your username I don't live very far from you, I'm in West Sussex.

Every evening meal from scratch - feel free to add me anyone who cooks,

I generally cook from scratch. Feel free to add me if you want. I don't have recipes as such though - I just sort of make it up as I go along! :-) and I often cook extra too, but not to freeze - I just eat put it in the fridge and eat it for the next couple of days. I'm happy to have the same meal all week, and then a different one the following week.

I'm not of the opinion that all ready meals etc are bad as some of them (M&S range in particular) are pretty okay salt/sugar/fat/chemical wise and have their place in certain situations.

In saying that, I make 99.9% of my meals from scratch, the exceptions tend to be "pizza express" pizzas which my hubbie likes as I can't get them as crispy in my oven when I home make them.

I love baking and cooking (the bakings the thing that makes me put weight on!).

I cook all evening meals from scratch. My OH frequently microwaves lunches (yuk!).

I cook everything from scratch. Weekends and holidays we bake bread too (I'm on JUDDD and weekends are normal eating).

The only bought in things are certain pastes that are used when time is a bit tight, Patak's pastes, not sauces, usually as they are tasty and far less kcals than the sauces.

I'm happy to share recipes as I find the American non food foodthings quite scary - I mean what is yocheese and fluff? And the shiritake / miracle noodles seems to be a recipe for a certain type of discomfort and disaster.

I have quite a few normal meals that have been decaloried and would love to find more.

And I bake like a demon, again for my Up Days or, if I can't eat them I take cakes into the office.

OH got the Haory Biker's low fat cookery book this week and we were a bit dismayed, we already do much of the calorie lowering suggestions they have. But they had some nice ideas and with a bt of twiddling I can get a lot of them down a bit further so I can eat them on my Down Days (beow 300kcals per portion). So I might give some of them an outing over rhe next few weeks.

Sorry, I blathered on a bit

Please can you tell me what JUDDD is? Yikes those American things sound VERY weird I totally agree.

JUDDD is Johnson Up Day Down Day Diet
http://www.johnsonupdaydowndaydiet.com/html/how-to-do-the-diet.html

You restrict your calories quite a lot on alternate days, eating much more on the in-between days. It's one of the recently popular "fasting" diets. On some you only eat in a "window" of time each day, on others you fast (eat nothing) or eat very little (typically 400-600 calories) on some days.

I agree about the Americans' non-food foods! Some people's diaries are full of unrecognisable (to us, anyway) stuff. Scary!

Yep me too, i cook from scratch eveery night, i bake every couple of weeks and make enough for leftovers for work. I tend to live on the BBC good food website

I cook everything from scratch and anything extra I freeze. I get most recipes online and have recently got a slow cooker which I love. I like to make curries and can easily make creamy curries using fat free natural yogurt, just as tasty but much healthier. I like the good food website but I use many more. Love cooking and realised that cooking from scratch is definitely better, you know exactly what you are eating and I have got used to weighing and scanning all ingredients, actually find it really interesting. I have realised that my daily allowance is usually pretty spot on 9minus bad weekend days!) I would love to see some recipes for more inspiration.

I always cook from scratch, the only ready meal I buy is Sainsbury be good to yourself meal, I freeze them and when I forgot or no time to make lunch, I will fish them out, so I have them maybe once or twice a month. Most of my food is stir fried (being Chinese) and I also use Anna Richardson and Hairy Dieters cook book.

I cook a lot of meals from scratch - I do sometimes rely on frozen chips, but i also make what a lot of people refer to as slimming world chips. since being off work, i do a lot more cooking now and freeze any leftovers

I cook most of our meals from scratch and am always trawling the internet for new ideas!

I also always make extra as my hubby works away in the week and i wave him off on a monday morning with premade curries, casseroles, lasagnes etc etc. There is nearly always something random in there too that may not be easily identifiable!

I often make a big batch of Tarka Daal on a Monday and take that to work for lunches each day, or for a quick meal in the evening if i can't be bothered!

I am loving the Hairy Dieters program at the mo, tried the Skinny Beef Lasagne last week, and will be giving the sweet and sour a go tomorrow!

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