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Home » Crafty Corner » Shooting Photos for Lazy Day Foods

Shooting Photos for Lazy Day Foods

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Food makes me happy. Always has, always will.

Some flavours, smells or recipes bring back memories of past holidays, precious moments or ordinary ones that I would not want to forget. I have flash backs of happy moments whenever I have nectarines (holidays in the South of France), bilberries (picking them in the Alps), pain perdu (we would have French toast once a week when I was little), fondue Savoyarde & raclette (skiing holidays) or crêpes (my whole childhood!).

More recently, some square chocolaty bites have made it to my foodie memory bank. It was when I had reached a low point. Jumpy’s eczema was at its worst. The angry rashes on her face a constant feature and no matter how many ingredients I excluded from her diet, nothing worked. By that time, I had it in my head that she was allergic to water…

My friend Cé came over one evening and proudly offered a packet of cakes I had never heard about for Jumpy. The Lazy Day Foods treats looked way too nice and moreish to be allowed. I checked and rechecked the ingredients, and they were safe (ignoring the ‘Do not guarantee nut free’ warning since they were made in a nut-free factory.)

I am so grateful to Lazy Day Foods for creating those delicious treats for people on exclusion diets. I actually love the rocky road myself, and it is vegan too! I am normally a ‘free from nothing’ kind of person (full fat, full of sugar, full of nuts, full of free-range eggs is normally what I love best).

They did it. I am not sure how but Lazy Day Foods managed to make ‘free from’ taste good. I have written about them a few times already, and no doubt will I write about them again in the future!

When they asked me to do some product photography for them, I was honoured (here come the bright red cheeks, and the beaming smile, quickly followed by a phone call to my mum!). A lot of slices were consumed during the photo shoots. It would be rude to leave crumbs on the plate, wouldn’t it?

Lazy Day Foods were happy for me to share a few of the photos I took for them, so here goes…

Fruit Cake Slice

Fruit Cake Slice

Chocolate Ginger Slice

Chocolate Ginger Slice

Shortbread

Shortbread

Belgian Dark Chocolate Tiffin

Belgian Dark Chocolate Tiffin - Lazy Day Foods

Millionaire’s Shortbread

Millionaire's Shortbread - Lazy day Foods

 

 

There you go, these are a few photos from my Lazy Day Foods shoot.

What’s your best memory to do with food?

23/03/2016 · 337 Comments

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  1. Harline says

    24/03/2016 at 3:55 am

    It’s got to be my mum showing me how to make a date and walnut cake with treacle I still make it today and everyone in my family love it I’ve passed the recipe to my daughter and she makes it for her children

    Reply
    • Mel says

      24/03/2016 at 12:23 pm

      I love recipes that are passed down from generation to generation. I’ve recently been given my great grandad’s brioche recipe and it’s so special to me.

      Reply
  2. tracyknixon says

    24/03/2016 at 6:23 am

    My best memory is eating freshly made paella on a beach in Menorca – the first holiday I had abroad! Delicious!

    Reply
    • Mel says

      24/03/2016 at 12:22 pm

      Nice!

      Reply
  3. emmav6 says

    24/03/2016 at 6:29 am

    i remember cooking quite a lot at school and practising my bread and cake dishes at home 🙂

    Reply
  4. Tania Atfield says

    24/03/2016 at 7:09 am

    Best food memory is having a curry in Indian restaurant on way home from sailing trips as s child. Best part was having lychees for pudding.

    Reply
  5. Tracey Peach says

    24/03/2016 at 9:59 am

    Eating Fish & Chips At The Local Seaside With My Family 🙂

    Reply
    • Mel says

      24/03/2016 at 12:15 pm

      We love a fish and chips on the beach. We’re quite good at avoiding the seagulls!

      Reply
  6. Elaine Savage says

    24/03/2016 at 9:25 am

    my best memory is the 1st Christmas cake I made as a newlywed, aah!!

    Reply
  7. Susan lloyd says

    24/03/2016 at 9:41 am

    Macaroni cheese every Friday night!

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  8. Katie h says

    24/03/2016 at 9:49 am

    Eating cookies in the park with my mum when I was young

    Reply
  9. Janet Humphrey says

    24/03/2016 at 9:50 am

    Best memory of food was our first seaside holiday as a family and fish and chips sat on the pier. Magic

    Reply
    • Mel says

      24/03/2016 at 12:21 pm

      Priceless!

      Reply
  10. iain maciver says

    24/03/2016 at 10:13 am

    my mothers homemade clootie dumpling it was yummy

    Reply
    • Mel says

      24/03/2016 at 12:04 pm

      What is it?

      Reply
      • iain maciver says

        24/03/2016 at 12:17 pm

        a fruit suet pudding ,,

        Reply
  11. laura banks says

    24/03/2016 at 10:54 am

    my mums sunday roasts with her yorkshire puddings that you could fix a wall with they were rock hard

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    • Mel says

      24/03/2016 at 12:03 pm

      Brilliant!

      Reply
  12. emilyy4444 says

    24/03/2016 at 12:15 pm

    wow delicious. my fav memory was my brother daring me to eat spaghetti hoops with ice cream, was disgusting!

    Reply
  13. Abigail Cullen says

    24/03/2016 at 11:44 am

    Great giveaway, thank you for the opportunity.

    Reply
  14. kim neville (@kimneville2) says

    24/03/2016 at 1:27 pm

    My mum cooking delicious puddings at the weekends. We didn’t have them during week. One of our favourites was cooked apple with meringue on top

    Reply
  15. ElizM says

    24/03/2016 at 12:43 pm

    On Sundays as a child – my Spanish father would ban everyone from the kitchen and cook a huge paella. Occasionally, as his eldest daughter, I would be allowed in to watch him cook!

    Reply
  16. clair downham says

    24/03/2016 at 1:14 pm

    my grandmas cheese and onion pie

    Reply
  17. Frances Sunshine Hopkins says

    24/03/2016 at 3:48 pm

    Schools dinners!! the butterscotch tart yum!

    Reply
  18. Susan Laing says

    24/03/2016 at 2:51 pm

    My Dads homemade rice pudding complete with sultanas yumm!

    Reply
  19. Kathryn Joyce says

    24/03/2016 at 3:35 pm

    My late Grandmas roast dinners – with proper home made Yorkshire puddings x

    Reply
  20. Isabel O says

    24/03/2016 at 4:50 pm

    Helping my daddy make carrot cake when I was very small. My favourite part was when he let me lick in the bowl (this was before everyone became terrified of raw eggs!) My dad died when I was 14 but I still think of him when I make cakes. It’s a happy thing for me to do. 🙂

    Reply
    • Mel says

      03/04/2016 at 5:12 pm

      Those memories are priceless, aren’t they? Life is too short not to lick the bowl!

      Reply
  21. gouldie7 says

    24/03/2016 at 4:57 pm

    Cooking and baking with my Mum and Gran when I was a kid stood me in good stead when I left home and went to college. I still enjoy licking out the bowls! lol

    Reply
  22. Samantha Loughlin says

    24/03/2016 at 5:21 pm

    Being taken to a fish restaurant on my 13th birthday I felt so grown up we stayed out late and the food was delicious xx

    Reply
  23. Rachel Craig says

    24/03/2016 at 5:25 pm

    I can recall being treated to a knickerbocker glory. My best friend was with me, and we were sitting outside in the sunshine at Nardini’s in Largs. We all really enjoyed the treat, and the weather.

    Reply
  24. Carolynn Woodland says

    24/03/2016 at 5:41 pm

    The meals my mother used to make.

    Reply
  25. ashleigh allan says

    24/03/2016 at 6:02 pm

    We went to a really good restaurant for my 30th so that is my best memory!

    Reply
  26. Beky Austerberry says

    24/03/2016 at 6:42 pm

    Has to be learning to bake with my mum & grandma

    Reply
  27. Paula Readings says

    24/03/2016 at 6:45 pm

    Going to my grandparents on the weekend and wondering which fruit pie should would make that weekend (Rhubarb was my Fav)

    Reply
  28. michelle smith says

    24/03/2016 at 7:32 pm

    My late nan buying me honeycomb from the local corner shop

    Reply
  29. Kim M says

    24/03/2016 at 7:35 pm

    My Grandads Scottish Breakfast

    Reply
  30. Andrea Fletcher says

    24/03/2016 at 7:41 pm

    Baking with my nan as a child.

    Reply
  31. alan burrows says

    24/03/2016 at 7:46 pm

    Mums Christmas dinner

    Reply
  32. mick proctor says

    24/03/2016 at 7:47 pm

    Eating fresh crab in a chalet in Cornwall

    Reply
  33. Joanne Hutchings says

    24/03/2016 at 7:59 pm

    Sharing a meal with a local family when travelling in Egypt. The food was delicious and the setting and atmosphere were unique.

    Reply
  34. sarah rees says

    24/03/2016 at 8:08 pm

    sunday roast dinners with all the family as a child

    Reply
  35. melissa crowe says

    24/03/2016 at 9:04 pm

    Sitting with family at christmas

    Reply
  36. Mark George says

    24/03/2016 at 9:43 pm

    My best memory has to be the day my Wife and I finally mastered the perfect Egg free Chocolate Sponge cake recipe. It tasted absolutely delicious

    Reply
  37. Irene Wright says

    24/03/2016 at 10:16 pm

    Like you food brings back many happy memories. My husband & I have been to many countries over the past 20 years and have eaten all sorts of strange meals. The latest being Poland last September. The food we had there was wonderful – so different to what I thought it would be. Soup with polish sausage, herbs & a boiled egg in it. I believe it is usually served up at Easter. It was delicious.
    Good food is very important in our house – we both love to cook.

    Reply
  38. Martina Pichova says

    24/03/2016 at 10:31 pm

    I remember making and flipping pancakes with my friend when I was 14. We were having so much fun and made a lot of mess.

    Reply
  39. April says

    24/03/2016 at 11:00 pm

    Recovering from an eating disorder and discovering new foods!! Fab competition

    Reply
  40. david cavender says

    24/03/2016 at 11:21 pm

    my grandmother making suet pudding

    Reply
  41. Natalie Crossan says

    24/03/2016 at 11:58 pm

    Sunday roasts 🙂

    Reply
  42. Olivia m says

    25/03/2016 at 1:47 am

    The amazing meals I’ve had w my family

    Reply
  43. Matthew Cobb says

    25/03/2016 at 7:10 am

    Mum and I tried to make a cheesecake when I was little but it went wrong, so we ended up calling it flapjack surprise as we ended up cooking it many times throughout my childhood with different fillings, happy memories!

    Reply
  44. Eva says

    25/03/2016 at 8:32 am

    Des très belles photos Mel ! Je te souhaite un bon weekend des Pâques ! Bisous

    Reply
  45. laura stewart says

    25/03/2016 at 8:46 am

    baking with my grandma, now i bake with my daughter x

    Reply
  46. Kelly (@KellyL_85) says

    25/03/2016 at 10:47 am

    Making sausage rolls and Jam tarts with my nanny!

    Reply
  47. Ruth Harwood says

    25/03/2016 at 9:59 am

    Eating out for my 16th birthday and steak with stilton sauce!

    Reply
  48. Ray Dodds says

    25/03/2016 at 1:27 pm

    Having Sunday dinner with my gran all cooked on an open fire don’t know how she did it

    Reply
  49. Alica says

    25/03/2016 at 3:27 pm

    All my Mum’s cooking! She made some delicious meals out of practically nothing! We were always full and content 🙂

    Reply
  50. cheryl hadfield says

    25/03/2016 at 3:33 pm

    eating my grandmas homemade shortbread when i was little, i wish she had given me the recipe

    Reply
  51. William Triscott says

    25/03/2016 at 5:08 pm

    In my beach hut called Lazy Dayz at Frinton on sea as a child and now grown up with my wife who had the beach hut next to mine as kids. special times

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  52. Sarah Rees says

    25/03/2016 at 5:39 pm

    Being quite young and sat in our living room on a coffee table surrounded by Easter eggs and toys. It was awesome.

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  53. Emma says

    25/03/2016 at 4:50 pm

    Ooh, well done you. That’s brilliant. I love lazy day foods as well. They don’t taste free from anything! My best food memory is probably my mum’s home made birthday cakes as a child.

    Reply
  54. Meg Dunne says

    25/03/2016 at 4:51 pm

    Baking with my grandparents! Great memories!

    Reply
  55. Tammy Westrup says

    25/03/2016 at 4:52 pm

    An amazing my little pony birthday cake mum made me 25 years ago!!!

    Reply
  56. Rebecca Williams says

    25/03/2016 at 5:06 pm

    I’ve recently started making my own bread and its delicious I wish I started sooner. 🙂

    Reply
  57. Claire Thorpe says

    25/03/2016 at 6:06 pm

    making cakes with my grandma – I used to love watching and trying to help her!

    Reply
  58. Carole says

    25/03/2016 at 5:22 pm

    My son eating chocolate cake at my brothers wedding when he was a toddler. It was all over his face!

    Reply
  59. Zoe G says

    25/03/2016 at 5:34 pm

    I used to love Sundays when my mum was baking, the house would smell amazing and she always let me scrape the bowl after

    Reply
  60. Heather Swain says

    25/03/2016 at 5:39 pm

    My grandma’s apple pie!

    Reply
  61. Mark Palmer says

    25/03/2016 at 5:40 pm

    My dad’s sausage stew on a Saturday

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  62. Emma says

    25/03/2016 at 5:54 pm

    My first time cooking and trying traditional Indian food at my best friends house with her Indian mum when I was 15 🙂

    Reply
  63. daniel baugh says

    25/03/2016 at 6:05 pm

    Going to my Grans and putting a whole pack of Chewits into a bowl of ice cream, making them go very hard

    Reply
  64. Sam McKean says

    25/03/2016 at 7:07 pm

    Making homemade pizza with the kids!

    Reply
  65. Emily says

    25/03/2016 at 6:11 pm

    Finding gluten free fish and chip shops is always a great time for me ?

    Reply
  66. han24 says

    25/03/2016 at 6:22 pm

    Eating freshly made noodles in Thailand the other summer!

    Reply
  67. Tracey Belcher says

    25/03/2016 at 6:32 pm

    Making Mrs Beetons Bread pudding and squishing the bread with my fingers! Will never forget that

    Reply
  68. Julie Booth says

    25/03/2016 at 6:46 pm

    My grandma baking bakewell tart on a Sunday afternoon and me licking the bowl

    Reply
  69. Fiona K says

    25/03/2016 at 6:58 pm

    My best memory to do with food was having a special wine pairing dinner at Michelin star restaurant with my mother

    Reply
  70. geow480geow480 says

    25/03/2016 at 8:05 pm

    THE FIRST TIME I HAD SHOP BOUGHT FISH AND CHIPS…WONDERFUL

    Reply
  71. tracey ryder says

    25/03/2016 at 7:14 pm

    always love trying different local dishes when abroad, think my fav so far is turkish food

    Reply
  72. Iris W says

    25/03/2016 at 7:46 pm

    My dad cooking his special spaghetti when we used to stay in the holiday hut high up in the Swiss mountains. We loved them and because my dad never cooked otherwise they always seemed extra special

    Reply
  73. Betony Bennett says

    25/03/2016 at 9:02 pm

    I used to be in hospital a lot when I was a kid, and my favourite meal when I came out was always mini kievs, smash and peas with tomato sauce and mayo mixed together 😮

    Reply
  74. Sue C says

    25/03/2016 at 8:10 pm

    Probably all the things I used to make often as part of food and nutrition lessons at school! Sautéing onions, chopping oranges…certain things make me think of school.

    Reply
  75. Paul Robson says

    25/03/2016 at 8:17 pm

    Eating ice cream at the seaside 🙂

    Reply
  76. Louise Comb says

    25/03/2016 at 8:25 pm

    Walking back from the pub with my future in-laws for our first Christmas dinner together, with me still trying to make that good impression. We started saying, “Can anyone smell burning?” It was, what was left of, my handbag. I’d flicked a bit of smouldering cigarette on or in my bag, and it had smouldered away half the bag. Not quite the good impression I was hoping for 😀

    Reply
  77. Anthony Harrington says

    25/03/2016 at 9:53 pm

    I can remember sitting in my high-chair and not wanting a banana pudding of some sort!

    Reply
  78. JB says

    25/03/2016 at 9:03 pm

    Eating sweaty cheese sandwiches in the car at the beach with my family, while the rained poured down around us!

    Reply
  79. Angela Fitzjohn says

    25/03/2016 at 9:42 pm

    My mum baking cakes, the whole house would smell yummy, and she would let me help even though I would have probably messed it all up.

    Reply
  80. Abigail Cullen says

    25/03/2016 at 9:43 pm

    Best memory would be watching my mum cooking yeast buns, the lovely smell straight out off the oven, and the butter oozing from them when warm. Yummy!

    Reply
  81. Julie Henderson says

    25/03/2016 at 9:50 pm

    my cousin putting milk on ther potatoes

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  82. Kristy Leanne Brown says

    25/03/2016 at 10:53 pm

    Suet crust on steak pies!! I wish I had been taught how to make it!

    Reply
  83. Claire Blaney says

    25/03/2016 at 9:57 pm

    My best is the first time i tried steak over in america & omg it did thing to me that food has never done before. i wasnt a huge meat lover until i tried that & now im a massive fan of steak but it no where near as good as there steak

    Reply
  84. bob clark says

    25/03/2016 at 10:23 pm

    enjoying cornish cream teas as a child on holiday in Cornwall

    Reply
  85. Stephanie Tsang says

    25/03/2016 at 10:24 pm

    My favourite memory to do with food was my parents letting us go to the local chip shop for fish and chips. It was a rare treat!

    Reply
  86. Lori McKillop says

    25/03/2016 at 10:27 pm

    My favourite memory of food is getting a chinese after the saturday disco when i was lickle 🙂 Thanks for the giveaway 🙂

    Reply
  87. Sharon Jackson says

    26/03/2016 at 12:30 am

    My neapolitan ice cream cone that I used to get from the ice cream van as a kid & everytime I’d go back to my house to open the gate the ice cream would fall off the cone & land on the pavement haha, I don’t think i ever tasted it without the grit 🙁

    Reply
  88. Underwater-girl says

    26/03/2016 at 12:49 am

    Eating Pad Thai for the first time in Thailand

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  89. Charlene P says

    26/03/2016 at 7:59 am

    All the Maltese food my mum and grandmother would cook for me growing up. 🙂

    Reply
  90. JODIE BEAUMONT says

    26/03/2016 at 8:16 am

    fish and chips at the seaside as a child!

    Reply
  91. Lorraine Bell says

    26/03/2016 at 9:48 am

    Family Sunday dinners

    Reply
  92. Kathleen Bell says

    26/03/2016 at 10:00 am

    My best memory is having an enormous hotdog at DisneyLand when I was young!

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  93. lynn heath says

    26/03/2016 at 10:59 am

    My mums yorkshire puddings straight out the oven all light and fluffy

    Reply
  94. Leila Benhamida says

    26/03/2016 at 11:13 am

    My mum’s cooking. I grow up in the South of France and everything there is so delicious. My mum is a fabulous cook.

    Reply
  95. Karen R says

    26/03/2016 at 1:08 pm

    I used to make Gingerbread Queens with my mum sometimes when I was a kid 🙂

    Reply
  96. Bex Jones says

    26/03/2016 at 3:05 pm

    Best Memory is definitely cooking with my Mum when I was a child and being allowed to lick the spoon and bowl after cake making !!

    Reply
  97. Heather T says

    26/03/2016 at 2:08 pm

    My Grandad used to make use cocoa and sugar mixed in an egg cup, we would lick our fingers and eat it!

    Reply
  98. buntyw says

    26/03/2016 at 2:20 pm

    My mum’s apple pie! Mine never taste as good!

    Reply
  99. Denise Cross says

    26/03/2016 at 2:24 pm

    I love roast dinners and proper puds, which my mum inlaw always makes

    Reply
  100. leanne weir says

    26/03/2016 at 3:18 pm

    cream sodas in the summer holidays when little

    Reply
  101. Gillian McClelland says

    26/03/2016 at 6:00 pm

    Spending time together as a family each day

    Reply
  102. Laura Jeffs says

    26/03/2016 at 5:35 pm

    Making (and eating!!) gorgeous and tasty pumpkin tortelloni..such an achievement!

    Reply
  103. Amanda noble says

    26/03/2016 at 6:41 pm

    My nannas cooking when i was a kid! She cooked everything from scratch and her food was delicious as was her baking x

    Reply
  104. Selina F says

    26/03/2016 at 6:57 pm

    Sunday roasts with all the family together

    Reply
  105. Sandra Bald says

    26/03/2016 at 8:08 pm

    Visiting my Grandma & Grandad is my best memory to do with food. Grandma always did loads of baking when we came to visit as children & she made the best chocolate cake ever.
    Such great memories from a wonderful lady

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  106. Tony Metcalf says

    26/03/2016 at 7:11 pm

    Any time I get to eat fish and chips at the seaside, even better if they’re from newspapers and in the open air!

    Reply
  107. Rie Tetley says

    26/03/2016 at 7:19 pm

    I remember a birthday when I was a child, where I had a cake in the shape of an owl (I absolutely loved them back then!)

    Reply
  108. abrammag says

    26/03/2016 at 9:01 pm

    Making cakes with my mum and her letting me lick the spoon!

    Reply
  109. Sarah Cooper says

    26/03/2016 at 8:24 pm

    I used to love it when my mum used to try out new recipes from books – so many delicious ones that we found.

    Reply
  110. Robyn Logan Clarke says

    26/03/2016 at 9:24 pm

    My parents used to have a restaurant when I was a child, I loved every moment of it, mum used to fetch us from school and we would go to the restaurant, have lunch and do our homework. Then we would go home.

    Reply
  111. Gillian Brown says

    26/03/2016 at 8:50 pm

    My best memory with food is cooking lessons at school and learning to make and decorate a Christmas cake and have made one every year since

    Reply
  112. Jo Carroll says

    26/03/2016 at 9:17 pm

    My favourite food memory is watching my best friend nearly burn the school down in our first home economics lesson 😉

    Reply
  113. tracy sinclair says

    26/03/2016 at 9:28 pm

    On one of my birthdays, my mum put a large tressel table outside, covered in a table cloth and a mountain of food, absolutely loads, I had a fab birthday that year, one I’ve never forgotten x

    Reply
  114. Emma says

    26/03/2016 at 9:52 pm

    Ice cream dates with my then boyfriend, now husband!

    Reply
  115. Gemma Holland says

    26/03/2016 at 10:26 pm

    Eating seafood from a van in Cornwall when I was young

    Reply
  116. melanie stirling says

    26/03/2016 at 11:14 pm

    A really hot day in the Algarve and eating chicken piri piri cooked on a barbecue.It was years ago but it’s still a very vivid memory.

    Reply
  117. Helen M says

    27/03/2016 at 12:15 am

    Tomatoes from my Grandad’s greenhouse. Just the smell of tomatoes in a warm greenhouse makes me nostalgic and a bit teary.

    Reply
  118. Spencer Broadley says

    27/03/2016 at 4:38 am

    A Sunday roast when I don’t have to cook

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  119. Lucy I says

    27/03/2016 at 7:12 am

    My mum’s roast dinners every Sunday

    Reply
  120. C Kennedy says

    27/03/2016 at 11:29 am

    Eating ice cream on the beach with my grandad when i was a kid <3

    Reply
  121. M Allen says

    27/03/2016 at 2:00 pm

    Eating a cheese and onion sandwich in a pub on the way to South Wales for a holiday. It was a taste sensation, simple, and my first introduction to a humble pub being the perfect place to sustain a long journey and not for just getting drunk in. It felt like a wayside tavern from medieval times, but was probably just a boozer near Newport.

    Reply
  122. Dawn Wilkinson says

    27/03/2016 at 1:30 pm

    Baking day at home when I was a child lovely smells, licking the spoon and wonderful things to eat after tea.

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  123. Kim Styles says

    27/03/2016 at 3:05 pm

    Toasting crumpets on a open fire whilst watching The Clangers

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  124. fozia Akhtar says

    27/03/2016 at 2:20 pm

    My mum’s baked birthday cakes

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  125. Katie skeoch says

    27/03/2016 at 3:20 pm

    The first time my parents took us for an Indian meal. Sizzling chicken tandoori! I’ve loved spicy food ever since

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  126. Simon tutthill says

    27/03/2016 at 4:38 pm

    It has to be eggs and soldiers as a child

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  127. Karen S says

    27/03/2016 at 6:02 pm

    Eating meals on holidays and finding new foods

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  128. MANDY DOHERTY says

    27/03/2016 at 7:55 pm

    Sitting on the beach eating vinegar soaked chips

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  129. chloe brill says

    27/03/2016 at 6:57 pm

    Roast dinners

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  130. Amanda Walsh (@mandymoo2014) says

    27/03/2016 at 8:21 pm

    Making apple crumble with my Nan, in her really old fashioned kitchen

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  131. Emily Clark says

    27/03/2016 at 9:22 pm

    Planting tomatoes with my mum in the summer!

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  132. Max Power says

    27/03/2016 at 11:06 pm

    The roast lamb dinner I just had for my dinner.

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  133. angela sandhu (@angiesandhu) says

    28/03/2016 at 10:01 am

    A massive bbq picnic my parents had for me when i graduated

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  134. Anthony G says

    28/03/2016 at 12:39 pm

    The first time I tried sticky toffee pudding… *drools*

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  135. helen tovell says

    28/03/2016 at 3:31 pm

    The first birthday cake I made that came out perfect

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  136. Solange says

    29/03/2016 at 3:50 am

    Helping my mum to bake cakes and being allowed to eat the left over batter from the bowl.

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  137. Vee says

    29/03/2016 at 10:32 am

    no matter what I made or how it turned out my dad always ate it with a smile. Now he’s gone I miss my best ‘taster’

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  138. Rebecca Whelan says

    29/03/2016 at 4:29 pm

    I have lovely childhood memories of living in a tiny village in the middle of nowhere. I remember looking forward so much to hearing the music from the fish & chip van visiting on a Friday night to let us know they had arrived. The smell was amazing.x

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  139. Michelle Ferguson says

    29/03/2016 at 7:35 pm

    Having a fondue as a kid

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  140. corinne peat (@corinne555) says

    30/03/2016 at 4:06 am

    Backing chocolate cake with my mum when I was little. She didn’t let me do it too often because I made such a mess. I use the same recipe with my children and they make just as much mess!

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  141. Emily Knight says

    30/03/2016 at 7:22 am

    Picking ripe figs from the tree in my grandfather’s garden – felt like such a treat!

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  142. Liam Bishop says

    30/03/2016 at 9:24 am

    Eating popcorn on the sofa having movie night with the family when I was a boy.

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  143. Jo Hutchinson says

    30/03/2016 at 6:24 pm

    When I was little we went to Italy and I tried pistachio nut ice cream for the first time and it was absolutely amazing.

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  144. Victoria Prince says

    30/03/2016 at 6:23 pm

    My best food memory is being in my grandparents kitchen making rock cakes with my grandmother 🙂 I can’t have been very old but it’s a memory that’s always stuck with me so vividly!

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  145. Julie Ward says

    30/03/2016 at 7:15 pm

    My grandmas corned beef hash, I still make it but its not the same

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  146. FreeFromFairy says

    30/03/2016 at 7:32 pm

    You’re a clever lady! These photos are beautiful. I’m not entering the competition though because I don’t want the temptation in the house!!!

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    • Mel says

      03/04/2016 at 4:45 pm

      Thanks sweetie, it was lots of fun trying to take decent shots for Lazy Day Foods. I wish we could enter… Jumpy loves those treats so much!

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  147. nhood19 says

    31/03/2016 at 12:22 pm

    Baking with my granddad in his bakery

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  148. Ema J Lowe says

    01/04/2016 at 10:00 am

    I always remember cooking with my great nan, its the only person I did baking with. I remember once we made toffee, it was great fun walking round the kitchen stretching it. my great nan was a great cook, there was never any scales in sight.

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  149. Steph says

    01/04/2016 at 4:24 pm

    My grandmas broth as a child, I didn’t like vegetables except the ones in it!

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  150. Joy B says

    01/04/2016 at 6:49 pm

    Childhood food memories always include sitting near the beach eating cones of chips while trying to avoid greedy seagulls.

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  151. bex allum says

    02/04/2016 at 7:48 am

    Afternoon tea with my family 🙂

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  152. Kat Lucas says

    02/04/2016 at 9:30 am

    Thanksgivings with the family in Texas before moving to the UK

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  153. Candyfloss says

    02/04/2016 at 10:48 am

    Sitting on the Parisian pavement, eating croissants and French bread…

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  154. linda curtis says

    02/04/2016 at 2:24 pm

    eating in a field while camping the whole family was lovely

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  155. lia sturman says

    03/04/2016 at 8:08 am

    sunday roast as all the family would be there

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  156. joanne torrance says

    03/04/2016 at 2:31 pm

    my best memories are of sunday dinners at my Grans and her wonderful yorkshire puddings

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  157. CAROLINE WATSON says

    03/04/2016 at 4:28 pm

    The first meal i cooked my new husband he flushed it down the toilet! And the dumplings took ages to flush away! I have improved since then and 35 years later have still got the same husband!

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    • Mel says

      03/04/2016 at 4:38 pm

      Ha ha, you made me laugh with your anecdote. He could have blocked the toilet with the dumplings!

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  158. S Bufton says

    03/04/2016 at 8:22 pm

    Baking cakes with my mother as a child which gave me a skill that has stayed with me.

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  159. Louise Fairweather says

    03/04/2016 at 8:32 pm

    Eating a snail for the first time. It tasted great but I couldn’t get over it was a snail!

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  160. Lynne O'Connor says

    04/04/2016 at 12:53 am

    Sitting in the garden aged about two, eating custard cream biscuits

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  161. Emily Hutchinson says

    04/04/2016 at 9:59 am

    A birthday cake my mum made in the shape of the house, It was so smothered in icing it was virtually inedible

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  162. Rachel Butterworth says

    04/04/2016 at 7:32 pm

    Trying my Grandma’s gooseberry pie for the first time. I loved it and haven’t had it since she passed away.

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  163. lyndsey says

    05/04/2016 at 11:07 am

    my grandmas toffee apples

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  164. mynellie says

    05/04/2016 at 12:36 pm

    making my first dinner for the whole family i was about 11 and was very proud of myself

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  165. mummyfever says

    05/04/2016 at 3:52 pm

    That is so hard! fab pics BTW!
    Perhaps a BBQ on the beach involving lots of prawns 🙂

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    • Mel says

      05/04/2016 at 7:33 pm

      I love a barbecue on the beach… well, a barbecue anywhere to be honest!

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  166. Lynn Nelson says

    06/04/2016 at 3:50 am

    I am now making my grandchildren the meals my gran made for me. The memories evoked are priceless

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  167. Danielle Cresswell says

    06/04/2016 at 9:55 pm

    Baking apple and rhubarb crumble with my mum when I was little and she dropped it on the floor smashing the dish. It went everywhere but we did laugh about it. X

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  168. Lisa Jones says

    06/04/2016 at 10:05 pm

    I remember making my first Victoria Sponge at school when I was about 12. I was very proud !

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  169. Smithster says

    07/04/2016 at 6:17 am

    Eating my mums lasagne and getting to have garlic bread which was a massive treat and felt SO sophisticated back then!

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  170. Ani Costa says

    07/04/2016 at 7:54 am

    I love cooking with my dad in the great outdoors!

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  171. Kerry Miller says

    07/04/2016 at 5:21 pm

    Cooking with my Mom is a good memory but an even better one is that I am now teaching my Son and eldest Daughter to cook. I love watching them in the kitchen

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  172. Carole Mitchell Paton says

    07/04/2016 at 5:55 pm

    My Grandfather was a baker and confectioner and used to make amazing, cakes, scones etc. As a child not only did he make my birthday cakes but he made smaller ones for my dolls and teddy bears. His sultana cake was legendary!

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  173. Helen W says

    07/04/2016 at 9:51 pm

    When I was 8 I sneakily opened the back of my advent calendar and ate all the chocolates in one go. My mum eventually found out, and I got told off, but it was worth it!

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    • Mel says

      07/04/2016 at 9:52 pm

      Ha ha, you’re a genius!

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  174. Mary Baldwin says

    07/04/2016 at 10:11 pm

    Baking my first ever simnel cake and being so proud of it.

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  175. Tuesday says

    07/04/2016 at 11:28 pm

    Curled up with my mum eating chocolate ice cream straight out the tub!

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  176. EJ Dunn says

    08/04/2016 at 5:59 pm

    I have 2:

    Making banana bread with my mum and dad (they both cooked it with me when I was little)

    Having my nan mash up all my veggies etc when I was really little for my roast dinner. She did amazing roasts!

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  177. Sarah Philpotts says

    09/04/2016 at 5:26 am

    Boiled dippy eggs with soliders

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  178. Kelly cooper says

    09/04/2016 at 12:39 pm

    Coming home from school and as I was walking down the street towards my house smelling my mums cooking, my favourite was the sausage casserole she used to cook loved sitting down as a family and eating.

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  179. Natasha R-M says

    09/04/2016 at 1:42 pm

    Watching my Polish Grandmother make Pierogi and then eating them with my family.

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  180. Toria says

    09/04/2016 at 2:06 pm

    We have a secret family recipe for mince pies passed on by my great aunt. She never had much money and, when we were kids, would always make us the mince pies for Christmas and apologise that it wasn’t much. The thing is, even as present-greedy kids, the mince pies were our favourite gifts… they were delicious, and every year we looked forward to the chance of getting them. My brother and I would panic if there wasn’t a cake tin under the tree!

    She’s passed now, but every year I make those same mince pies and smile thinking of her. It’s a Christmas tradition for the family to eat them and talk about her – they’re the best mince pies I’ve ever tasted and even now people always comment on them when trying them.

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    • Mel says

      10/04/2016 at 10:19 pm

      It’s such a lovely tradition, inspired by a truly heart-warming memory. I love things like that!

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      • Toria says

        11/04/2016 at 7:53 am

        Yes! I think everybody has those dishes that remind them of other people, and cooking them and teaching the next generation to cook them is a nice way of keeping the family memories alive. 🙂

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  181. Rich Tyler says

    09/04/2016 at 2:42 pm

    Birthday Cake When I Was 5 🙂

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  182. carole n says

    09/04/2016 at 4:02 pm

    open air picnics with my mum and dad when I was little, eating egg and cress sandwiches

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  183. Judith Allen (@JudeVFR400) says

    09/04/2016 at 4:41 pm

    Taking the train from Rannoch to Mallaig and sharing prawns looking over the sea. I don’t remember how long ago it was. But a lovely day.

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  184. Jean Vaughan says

    09/04/2016 at 5:23 pm

    Every time we went to visit my great aunt she would have a big pan of Scotch broth on her stove and would bake her own bread. This year she will turn 100 and still makes her broth. No matter how I’ve tried I could never replicate her end result but say Scotch broth and Auntie Jean is in on my mind

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    • Mel says

      10/04/2016 at 10:18 pm

      Oh that’s such a nice one! Happy birthday to your Auntie Jean when she turns 100!

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  185. Al says

    09/04/2016 at 6:24 pm

    Banana fritters made by a Chinese friend

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  186. Patricia Avery says

    09/04/2016 at 7:01 pm

    My best food memories are all connected with learning to bake with Grandma and my late Mum. I still use their recipes and have passed them on to my children and now my grandchildren 🙂

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  187. Angela Williams says

    09/04/2016 at 9:21 pm

    going to cookery classes as a teenager and loving it

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  188. Paula Phillips says

    09/04/2016 at 10:16 pm

    Making custard slices with my mother when I was a child, they were quite messy but tasted delicious.

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  189. Lauren Old says

    10/04/2016 at 8:42 am

    Trying my first ever Krispy Kreme doughnut at a service station on the way home from a trip away, heavenly!

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  190. spuddy11 says

    10/04/2016 at 11:59 am

    my mum making jam tarts

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  191. modzy78 says

    10/04/2016 at 2:28 pm

    Making pumpkin pies every Thanksgiving.

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  192. Dawn Hull says

    10/04/2016 at 5:03 pm

    My mam teaching me how to bake cakes and scones when I was young.

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  193. Vicki Hill says

    10/04/2016 at 5:04 pm

    My best memory of food is the delicious smell of cheese and potato pie that would fill the house whenever I was ill. My mum knows it’s my favourite and even at 32, and I’m ill, she’ll still make it for me and bring it over

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  194. Lyla says

    10/04/2016 at 7:39 pm

    Christmas dinner with some French friends. There must have been about 18 courses and I have never felt so stuffed in all my life

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  195. sheridarby says

    10/04/2016 at 9:19 pm

    My grandmother’s chocolate mousse cake

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  196. Paul von der Fecht says

    10/04/2016 at 8:45 pm

    Hot homemade soup on cold, wet night.

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  197. Kat Allinson says

    10/04/2016 at 9:02 pm

    Eating a massive sharing platter with my husband on our first anniversary trip to Rome, it was amazing!

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  198. Kate Knight says

    10/04/2016 at 9:38 pm

    I remember having a family picnic with the best cheese and ham sandwiches ever. I think they taste so good because I was hungry

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  199. Joe says

    11/04/2016 at 1:08 am

    Lovely

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  200. jo liddement says

    11/04/2016 at 6:21 am

    My favourite memory is sitting eating some amazing homemade cakes and tea in a café on a beautiful day on St Mary’s on the Isle of Scilly.Would love to go back there as the cakes were the best I have ever tasted.

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  201. Sally Collingwood says

    11/04/2016 at 6:20 am

    My wedding cake, it was very special to me and made with love.

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  202. Caroline Bourne says

    11/04/2016 at 10:10 am

    Making my first cake

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  203. Kristina says

    11/04/2016 at 10:21 am

    My nan Black forest gateau! Yummy!

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  204. clare davies says

    11/04/2016 at 10:36 am

    My mum was a chef so her teaching me to cook and bake growing up! thats my favourite memories i now try to pass on my little boy! x

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  205. carol boffey says

    11/04/2016 at 10:57 am

    Roast dinners

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  206. Alison MacDonald says

    11/04/2016 at 11:01 am

    Eating Sunday Roast as a kid it was a big family dinner and always so tasty and on Sundays we had dessert too 🙂

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  207. olivia280177 says

    11/04/2016 at 11:04 am

    Staying at my grandparents’ house, Grandad was constantly baking something for us, we had to be rolled out the door when it was time to leave!

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  208. IRENE MURDOCH says

    11/04/2016 at 11:25 am

    My Dad cooking on a calor stove when we were camping – he never went near the kitchen when we were at home!

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  209. Christine Hobbs says

    11/04/2016 at 11:30 am

    my mum making roulade she got in a right mess

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  210. Ian Campbell says

    11/04/2016 at 12:44 pm

    Eating a luxurious outdoor picnic in the middle of a glorious summer, whilst quaffing on fine alcohol, the sunlight glinting on the drinks glasses!

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  211. MichelleD says

    11/04/2016 at 11:47 am

    A lovely family picnic last year, me and my little girl made lots of cakes for it!

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  212. katie w says

    11/04/2016 at 12:14 pm

    Roast dinners around my grandmas loved those dinners

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  213. Vicky loveday says

    11/04/2016 at 12:18 pm

    Its got to be my Nan’s Sunday dinners. Pork belly, roasters veg, gravy. Followed by pie with ice cream, cream and custard!!

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  214. Helen Humphries says

    11/04/2016 at 12:55 pm

    The sound of the ice cream van growing up, just a local family concern, they used to make their own and it tasted delicious to me back then!

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  215. Elspeth McMillan says

    11/04/2016 at 1:08 pm

    I have a lasting memory of my Mum’s home made tablet just delicious

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  216. Helen A says

    11/04/2016 at 1:18 pm

    Mine is making the Christmas cake every year with my mum when I was a child. We still do it now and the smell and taste always takes me back to childhood Christmases.

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  217. jessica cook says

    11/04/2016 at 1:28 pm

    I fremember making pizza at school and my dad saying it was the best pizza he had ever tasted, he still talks about it now 23 years later!

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  218. sharon martin says

    11/04/2016 at 1:44 pm

    picking blackberries as a kid with my late gran then watching her make blackberry jelly jam

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  219. Simon Keeping says

    11/04/2016 at 1:45 pm

    It would have to be eating freshly caught mackerel on a bbq in the South of France on my first holiday abroad when I was 10 I can remember it like it was yesterday.

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  220. ✿ Kate Sabin-Burns ✿ (@KateDSB) says

    11/04/2016 at 2:46 pm

    When I was a kid, I hated, HATED spag bol, so I would hide it on the bookshelves behing my dads records when he wasn’t looking!!

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  221. Rebecca Powell says

    11/04/2016 at 2:25 pm

    My favourite memory of a meal was our wedding breakfast

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  222. carys thorp says

    11/04/2016 at 2:43 pm

    Making scones with my grandma 🙂

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  223. Pam Francis Gregory says

    11/04/2016 at 2:57 pm

    I used to love my nan’s breakfasts – They were perfect.

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  224. lindsey stuart says

    11/04/2016 at 3:08 pm

    I used to love making homemade toffee with my granny! I used to get to lick the spoon oh it was lovely, Her toffee was the best 🙂

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  225. Lisa Pond says

    11/04/2016 at 3:26 pm

    Making Bruce Bogtrotters Chocolate Cake from.Matilda after having the Roald Dahl cookbook as a birthday present when I was 8! I still remember how good it tasted! 🙂

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  226. garethevans0108 says

    11/04/2016 at 5:33 pm

    friends and I by the river with a scratch picnic from the corner shop dappled sunlight wasps and all

    wonderful

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  227. Karen B says

    11/04/2016 at 4:50 pm

    Baking days with my mum and a kitchen full of cakes and pies by the afternoon!

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  228. Jane Adair says

    11/04/2016 at 5:42 pm

    Eating chocolate filled crepes in Paris at night taking in all the sights and the wonderful smells

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  229. Gwyn Sharps says

    11/04/2016 at 6:46 pm

    I used to have curry parties at a different friend’s house every fortnight and we’d all take a turn to cook.

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  230. Tracy Hanson says

    11/04/2016 at 7:48 pm

    Well there’s a couple so hope it’s OK to post. One’s more normal. I remember when I was younger and we used to go down to Cornwall for the summer holidays and it used to take ages to get there so we used to set off in the middle of the night (about 12 ish) and get there about dinner time lol – we always used to take egg mayo sandwiches and the smell of them still reminds me of the stops we used to have on the way. 🙂

    The second one is a funny one. When my sister and I were younger my sister wanted to decorate the trifle Mum had just made. Mum said “Ok, and the hundreds and thousands are in the cupboard”. Unfortunately so were the caraway seeds. Guess which ones ended up on the trifle lol.

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    • Mel says

      12/04/2016 at 9:36 pm

      Brilliant memories! Thanks for sharing them.

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  231. Claire Nelson says

    11/04/2016 at 7:02 pm

    The banana prawns that I had when we were in Nelson, New Zealand

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  232. Emma Price says

    11/04/2016 at 7:02 pm

    Trips to Lindesfarne visiting my grandparents and the first thing we’d have was bacon sandwiches made with stotty bread! Amazing memories 🙂

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  233. Donna W says

    11/04/2016 at 7:06 pm

    When I was 9 years old we got a dog. I could finally get rid of any dinner I didn’t like by sneakily feeding him under the table!

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  234. jenrhymer says

    11/04/2016 at 8:22 pm

    When I was little I remember going raspberry picking and my aunt made raspberry jam. I was so proud to have picked the raspberries used in the jam 🙂

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  235. Allison says

    11/04/2016 at 7:35 pm

    Having dinner at my nans on a Monday after school – we used to have spaghetti shapes on toast and she used to challenge us to find the ‘ladder’ every time.

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  236. Adrian Bold says

    11/04/2016 at 7:36 pm

    My Nanas Sunday Roasts were legendary. I don’t think I’ve ever had roast potatoes as good as the ones she made.

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  237. Debi Newman says

    11/04/2016 at 7:47 pm

    Baking some cakes with my dad for my mum when I was little x

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  238. Francesca Harrod says

    11/04/2016 at 7:49 pm

    Coming up the stairs at my Grandads block of flats and smelling one of his enormous Sunday roasts wafting down 🙂

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  239. ellie spider says

    11/04/2016 at 9:34 pm

    I love trying new food especially when I am on holidays abroad

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  240. Louise Evans says

    11/04/2016 at 8:44 pm

    My best friends mom taught me how to make my first apple pie, from the apples in her garden

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  241. Amanda Mattingley says

    11/04/2016 at 8:49 pm

    The day I finally tasted smoked salmon after my dad passed away and realising how yummy it is. I’d spent so many years saying…”Dad, that looks disgusting”…Sorry Dad 🙂 x

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  242. sarah fielding says

    11/04/2016 at 9:51 pm

    My best memories with food always involve picnics we used to have when I was younger in the sunshine!!

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  243. Emma says

    11/04/2016 at 9:00 pm

    Mum’s Xmas pudding every xmas

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  244. ELISHA says

    11/04/2016 at 9:07 pm

    When my uncle used to make jam tart from scratch

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  245. Caroline Signey says

    11/04/2016 at 10:17 pm

    Every time my Nan came to visit us she would bring a homemade cheesecake without fail!

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  246. Bridget Daley says

    11/04/2016 at 9:19 pm

    Chicken stew my mum made with giblets in the 50s when money was scarse

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  247. Kerry Smith says

    11/04/2016 at 9:23 pm

    Eating fruit bon-bons in bed with my granny when I was six. She sadly died less than six months later and had been so I’ll but just for those few moments life was perfect

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  248. Nancy Bradford says

    11/04/2016 at 9:30 pm

    Eating fresh gumbo in Louisiana whilst traveling with my grandmother when I was a child.

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  249. Dale Dow says

    11/04/2016 at 9:30 pm

    My grandad making his homemade rice pudding for us all

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  250. jamie millard says

    11/04/2016 at 9:31 pm

    the amazing teriyaki show cook in Cancun – great experience, great food.

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  251. Debbie Preston says

    11/04/2016 at 9:51 pm

    A few years ago I won a personal chef who cooked a 3 course meal for 8 of us in my home. The food was fantastic and worthy of a Michelin star!

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    • Mel says

      12/04/2016 at 10:05 pm

      Oh that’s the best thing to win!

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  252. Ali Thorpe says

    11/04/2016 at 9:59 pm

    Being given ice cream and cherries with my grandma 🙂

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  253. Jane Middleton says

    11/04/2016 at 10:08 pm

    my grandmother’s cakes she baked, she was the best baker in the family

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  254. Hayley Colburn says

    11/04/2016 at 10:31 pm

    When I was little I remember my mum bringing me out the best birthday cake I’ve ever had, I remember a picture of a unicorn, apparently I wouoldn’t let her cut it up for ages (which is surprising to hear as I’m a cake monster now)

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  255. caroline kelly says

    11/04/2016 at 10:47 pm

    making butterfly cakes with my mum

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  256. gilla01 says

    11/04/2016 at 10:54 pm

    Fish and chips at the seaside

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  257. claire little says

    11/04/2016 at 11:08 pm

    my grans home made soup 🙂

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  258. alice lightning says

    11/04/2016 at 11:17 pm

    there are so many lovely memories but one is watching my granny make her homemade pork cheese so yummy ,smashing giveaway indeed

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  259. cathyj says

    12/04/2016 at 5:35 am

    cooking with my grandma

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  260. suzanne sendell says

    12/04/2016 at 6:09 am

    My nan growing her own fruit and then making enormous amounts of jam with them

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  261. Erica Price says

    12/04/2016 at 7:14 am

    Smoked salmon and black pudding canapes – made me realise I do like black pudding.

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  262. Cecelia Allen says

    12/04/2016 at 7:03 am

    I remember trying a seafood platter in france. I expected something similar to a paella but it was massive and some of it had shells still on, I had to ask our host how to start & eat it.

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  263. Leslie Evans says

    12/04/2016 at 8:06 am

    When I was a young boy I would make myself a Thick White Jam Sandwich from an uncut loaf and sit in the house porch eating the sandwich by going round and round from the outside to in watching the “Rain” come down.

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  264. Louise Blackah says

    12/04/2016 at 7:35 am

    The smell of my Nan’s kitchen on a Thursday, which was baking day. She baked for the week, including treacle and bakewell tarts to be used as puddings, jam tarts, little buns and Victoria sponges. Very fond memories.

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  265. Jayne Kelsall says

    12/04/2016 at 8:29 am

    As a child, my mums homemade meat and potato pie was the best thing ever, I’m 45 now and still cannot make it like my mum used too 🙂

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  266. Eirinaki Nikos Tsolak says

    12/04/2016 at 8:51 am

    lots of food with family!!!!! of course all the foods were greek and we lone them all.my mom cooks great

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  267. rebecca roberts says

    12/04/2016 at 9:04 am

    white bread propper butter letticue sugar sandwiges with my amazing great gran when i was five then makeing apple and crumble pie yum!

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  268. steph lovatt says

    12/04/2016 at 10:05 am

    My nans apple pies, she always got them just right. Miss them

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  269. Anita Missen says

    12/04/2016 at 10:24 am

    Playing with the leftover pastry from making a gypsey tart. Also licking the bowl and spoon after. Xx

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  270. Meena Hindmarch says

    12/04/2016 at 9:24 am

    Picnics on the beach as a kid

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  271. ipswichmum says

    12/04/2016 at 10:26 am

    Most of my food memories are with my Nan. I remember visiting her for sunday lunch – a full roast (with cauliflower cheese grills for me) and then just a few hours later she’d do tea – cold meats, pickled beetroot, salad and ALWAYS dairylea triangles, and cucumber with the skin taken off.

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  272. elaine stokes says

    12/04/2016 at 9:27 am

    standing on a stool next to my mum baking cakes………… getting to lick the spoon or the bowl

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  273. Vickie Jackson says

    12/04/2016 at 9:57 am

    The best food memory I have is the first time I made a cake by myself and I got to lick the bowl by myself! Lol

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  274. Barbara Handley says

    12/04/2016 at 10:02 am

    My favourite meal was the first one my son cooked at Christmas.

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  275. Cat Jamison says

    12/04/2016 at 10:25 am

    Maltese peppered cheese and peppered sausage pizza in Malta, those memories will stay forever!

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  276. Eva Vida says

    12/04/2016 at 11:06 am

    My grandmother’s cooking.She made the best chicken soup and I loved it 🙂

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  277. nicola james says

    12/04/2016 at 11:19 am

    when i was about 10 making my first sunday lunch on my own,with me running back and forward to the sitting room asking my mam for instructions.

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  278. Robert Fulton says

    12/04/2016 at 11:34 am

    Always my mums Sunday roasts

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  279. Margaret Murray says

    12/04/2016 at 12:36 pm

    My Mother’s Rhubarb crumble

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  280. Ruth Wollerton says

    12/04/2016 at 12:01 pm

    Eating fish and chips at the seaside when I was little

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  281. liz ferguson says

    12/04/2016 at 12:26 pm

    Greenhouse tomatoes – nothing is better than the smell of a greenhouse with tomatoes x

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  282. Laura Harrison says

    12/04/2016 at 12:31 pm

    We used to eat our meals at the table, such a shame not many families do that anymore. It’s important as you get to chat about things and it’s a good way to teach children good table manners which is very important.

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  283. dawn f says

    12/04/2016 at 1:29 pm

    my great nan used to make a pudding called apple snow it was almost like an apple sauce but frothy and she would crumble a Cadbury flake on the top of it! it was so good and I always used to look forward to it when we would go and visit, wish I knew how to make it now but I bet it would never be the same

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  284. tammisreviews says

    12/04/2016 at 3:40 pm

    licking the mixer bits when my mum baked cakes

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  285. Tishist says

    12/04/2016 at 3:13 pm

    Helping my nan in the kitchen

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  286. Anita says

    12/04/2016 at 3:14 pm

    My mum was always experimenting with recipes and I was chief critic so I would always give her my honest opinion and she would navigate away from the instructions and make some wonderful culinary delights, one of which was a half chocolate half oaty cereal bar that was intended to be biscuits but it was sublime.

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  287. Michelle Sykes says

    12/04/2016 at 3:34 pm

    My best memory was my first picnic with my boyfriend – he provided it and the wine!

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  288. Jodie Harvey says

    12/04/2016 at 3:39 pm

    has to be sunday roasts when i lived at home <3

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  289. Lisa Mauchline says

    12/04/2016 at 3:46 pm

    When I was little every week when we went to the supermarket. I’d run and get some belly pork then ask the butcher to put some Chinese dressing on it. It tasted amazing

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  290. Jane Green says

    12/04/2016 at 4:48 pm

    Eating home made drop scones straight from the griddle

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  291. Alison says

    12/04/2016 at 5:03 pm

    As a child helping my Mum pick all the fresh home grown veg out of our garden 🙂

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  292. Anna Brown says

    12/04/2016 at 5:14 pm

    My nans cheese sandwich with proper butter and thick sliced fresh bread and thick slices of cheese. Yum

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  293. Champaklal Lad says

    12/04/2016 at 5:19 pm

    home made Indian Tandoori chicken

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  294. Julie Camm says

    12/04/2016 at 5:36 pm

    Walking home from the pub eating fish and chips with my friends……. happy times…….

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  295. Catherine Gregory says

    12/04/2016 at 7:00 pm

    Standing on a stool in the kitchen baking scones with my Mum and Nana to take to Brownies 🙂

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  296. julieledwards says

    12/04/2016 at 7:02 pm

    Baking with my Nan in her kitchen in Bakewell. Making everything except Bakewell Tarts or Puddings lol xx

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  297. Kayleigh Robinson says

    12/04/2016 at 6:11 pm

    My nans house on a Sunday when I was little. She always used to make her famous ham soup and dumplings and we’d have jelly and ice cream after ?

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  298. Laura Pritchard says

    12/04/2016 at 6:23 pm

    My mum making me (heating up!) tomato soup when I was ill.

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  299. Emma Rawlinson says

    12/04/2016 at 6:26 pm

    Making cupcakes with my mum when I was little

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  300. Cassie says

    12/04/2016 at 6:35 pm

    Making dinner with my lovely late gran 🙂

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  301. Beryl Drake says

    12/04/2016 at 6:41 pm

    Going on famiky picnics and my Aunties cheeese and inion pie , yummy

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  302. Philip Underwood says

    12/04/2016 at 6:51 pm

    My favourite foods when I was a child were frikadeller (a German food) and chips! They remind me a lot of my childhood.

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  303. Amanda Brett says

    12/04/2016 at 7:57 pm

    We had sandwiches and a cone of chips on the beach,i remember my brother digging a chip in the sand and then giving me it(all innocently lol) i didn’t know any better and ate it-i was about 5 or 6 haha

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  304. Erica field (@field_erica) says

    12/04/2016 at 8:15 pm

    Cheese and onion pie at my Grans on a Friday x yummy

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  305. Nikki Hayes says

    12/04/2016 at 8:30 pm

    My mum’s homemade chocolate mousse – can’t wait until we visit her later this year 😀

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  306. pauline black (@suff38) says

    12/04/2016 at 8:34 pm

    My grandma’s baking day once a week! The smells.. …and the table covered in cakes and fresh bread!

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  307. Karen Howden says

    12/04/2016 at 8:10 pm

    Fussel Milk Sandwiches and Banana Sandwiches

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  308. claire fawkner says

    12/04/2016 at 8:43 pm

    My mums homemade fruit cake

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  309. fionajk42 says

    12/04/2016 at 8:43 pm

    When I was a child I lived in a former French colony in Africa. On my way to school we always stopped at the boulangerie for their take on “pain au chocolat” which was a small bar of Milka chocolate (the one with the lilac wrapper) baked in a mini baguette. I still salivate over the memory of biting into hot crusty baguette filled with melted chocolate. According to my parents, the recipe came about because a consignment of chocolate had melted in the heat and could no longer be sold as chocolate bars, so the baker decided to use it up. He could not make traditional pain au chocolat (or any type of puff pastry) as it was too hot & humid, so just wrapped the chocolate in ordinary bread mix. It was so popular it became a regular bake. Whatever the origin, I’ve never had it anywhere since.

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    • Mel says

      12/04/2016 at 9:31 pm

      Oh that sounds like my kind of treat!

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  310. Sarah Archibald says

    12/04/2016 at 8:45 pm

    Cooking with my nana when I was younger 🙂

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  311. Joanna Kasznicki says

    12/04/2016 at 8:48 pm

    My mum is Polish and I remember her making pierogi every Saturday.

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  312. Charmaine Godolphin says

    12/04/2016 at 8:59 pm

    I think my granny’s cooking is amazing. She does this thing with spinach, onion, tomato and potato which I have been enjoying at every opportunity since I was a baby.

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  313. Tina glover says

    12/04/2016 at 9:13 pm

    My best memory of food is the first time I made homemade bread…..I was so impressed with myself and it smelt and tasted yummy xx

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  314. Laura Vitty says

    12/04/2016 at 9:37 pm

    Diving off a boat in Thailand, catching a squid and grilling it on board… along with some of the tastiest seafood I’ve ever had x

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  315. Karin Wistow says

    12/04/2016 at 9:51 pm

    Family sunday dinners are the best memory

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  316. Michael Knappett says

    12/04/2016 at 9:54 pm

    Eating Ginger and Mascarpone Cheesecake in a restaurant when I was younger.

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  317. Loraine Day says

    12/04/2016 at 9:56 pm

    Toffee apples on bonfire night made by my mum for all the neighbourhood kids

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  318. Nicola Phipps says

    12/04/2016 at 10:07 pm

    My best memory with food, has to be my mum teaching me to bake lots of different cakes 🙂
    As my Dad used to work away, we made cheesecakes, carrot cake and scones!… So now when my husband works away, I bake with my two young children 🙂 xx

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  319. George Worboys Wright says

    12/04/2016 at 10:53 pm

    Eating tapas on my first trip to Spain.

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