Scratch Cooking

A scratch cook is someone who likes to cook from scratch most days of the week. Cooking from scratch is bringing together basic ingredients to produce delicious and nutritious meals.

In the era of supermarket ready meals and Uber eats why be a scratch cook?

It is health, it enables you to reduce your intake of hyper processed foods and to watch you salt and sugar consumption.  It can save you money. It can also be good for your mental health, it can be mindful to take time out each day to create something, to invest your time in nourishing your family.

There are different types of scratch cooks, there are inspirational cooks, who pop down to the local market or look in the fridge and conjure up meals based on what they can find to fit their mood and need. Then there are also planners, who need to plan in advance rather than rely on a flash of inspiration. I’m a planner.

I have created the Scratch application to help planners like me to simply their planning, to improve their recipe variety and reduce food waste.

The application has hundreds of recipes I have personally tested and use regularly.  It enables you to build a meal plan for the week ahead and then generate a shopping list. You can also add your own recipes and share these with the wider Scratch Cooking community.

Don’t worry, I’m not a purist, I’m happy to switch a homemade curry with a shop bought one.

There is a much longer blog post which details the process I want through as a scratch cook and how scratch.cooking came into being.