Eating out can be an expensive business and sometimes when your food arrives at a restaurant it can be a real disappointment – especially if it’s an expensive place. Yet, if it’s been a part of your life for a long time, it can feel a little dull staying in at home instead.
What you could do, though, is get into cooking again and start inviting friends round for dinner. If you’ve got friends with kids the same age as yours, invite all the family and have a fun night in together. The more you do it, the better your cooking will become.
Start off with something you know how to make and is relatively easy. You might be a bit worried about getting everything right – so it’s good to start off with recipes that you are familiar with. In fact, you should never serve up a first time recipe for guests – it’s always best to test a recipe out on your own family first.
Sites like Super Savvy Me have a whole range of recipe ideas, and you might get inspired to try something new. We can all be guilty of getting into a cooking rut – where we produce the same four or five recipes every week. Ring the changes and try a new style of cuisine – have a go at making Indian or Thai food, for example.
You could start a trend with different couples you know – and probably you’ll all become more imaginative with your cooking against the backdrop of a little healthy competition. Each host will want to outdo the previous evening! And when it’s time to do the washing up, you can pass the non-cooks the Fairy Liquid, so they feel they’ve made a contribution to the evening as well!