Join the MyDish Easter Egg Hunt

Hop around the MyDish web site in the run up to Easter and you may just make springtime a little sweeter!

Join in the fun by hunting the site to find a total of 7 chocolate eggs by clicking on the egg when you find it. Fill your basket with all 7 eggs for your chance to win 1 of 5 prizes of personalised Thorntons Easter eggs for the whole family.  The luxury chocolate eggs from Thorntons will be personalised with your name or message in icing.

In addition to the luxury personalised Thorntons eggs on offer, every person that successfully finds all 7 eggs will receive a 10% discount off any Thorntons products bought through their site www.thorntons.co.uk.

MyDish Easter Egg Hunt closes on Tuesday 7th April.

Grab a £5 Marks and Spencers Voucher with MyDish

It’s dead easy to get your hands on a lovely £5 voucher you can spend at Marks and Sparks with MyDish.co.uk. Just invite two friends, family members or colleagues to join up and when they do we’ll despatch a shiny voucher for you to spend on what you like. It could be the easiest fiver you have ever earned. Find out more here.

Get a perfect Mother’s Day gift with MyDish

It might seem like it’s too early to start thinking about Mother’s Day on 22nd March but actually now’s a great time to get started on building your unique cookbook for mother dear. Rather than the usual flowers or chocolates, why not gather together your favourite family recipes, add some family photos and create a fabulous personalised cookbook? Find out all about out cookbook here.

Don’t worry if you don’t have lots of recipes, we can help. We’ve created some ready made books that you can tweak and amend or you can pick some other recipes from other people on MyDish to build your book.

To get your Mothering Sunday book ready in time, you need to have ordered it by the 4th March because they have to be printed individually. And if you need any help, don’t worry, the MyDish team are happy to help.

Carol Savage on Home Cooking and the Credit Crunch

New Features on Mydish.co.uk

You might have noticed that in the past month or so that we’ve been adding some new features to MyDish. If you want to find out more, read on.

At MyDish we’re passionate about food and cooking and we’re always looking out for new recipes to try. But MyDish is so much more than a recipe website. That would be boring. We’re much more interested in building and being nation’s favourite online food and cooking community. Sure the recipes are great. But we’re much more interested in people.

So, the new features we’ve been introducing of late are all about people. First of all, we’ve given MyDishers the ability to become friends. Just like on other social websites you can now add people on MyDish to your ‘friends’ list. Additionally, if you know someone who would love MyDish, or have someone in mind you would like to share your recipes with, you can invite them to join tooand build you network.

When you’re friends with someone, we’ll automatically let you know when add a new recipe, leave a comment or join a group. This means that you’ll be getting fresh idead every time you log into Mydish. And finally we’ve made it easier to communicate with each other. Using the new communication wall, you can publish a ‘shout’ addressed at your friends.

When is ‘British Pork’ not British?

When it’s not actually from Britain, really is the answer. A pig can be born and raised overseas, in Holland for instance, brought to Britain and slaughtered and be declared, quite legally, British. Who knew? It hardly seems accurate and it seems misleading to we the people. But does it much matter?

It actually makes rather a lot of difference. Britain has more stringent regulations promoting pig welfare during their short lives than most of Europe. Pigs that live their life on these islands have a better time of it. Of course, this means that genuinely British pigs can be more expensive to raise. But you wouldn’t know it. ‘Foreign British’ pork costs consumers much the same and ‘British British’ pork. Yes, you’ve guessed it. The supermarkets like it because they get to pocket the difference.

But fear not. Jamie Oliver is on the case. He’ll be looking into the issue and helping us all become more clued up consumers in a documentary on Thursday night: Jamie Saves our Bacon. Oink Oink.

Check out the MyDish Gallery on Flickr

We’re frightfully Web 2.0 here at MyDish.co.uk. We’ve just added a load of our pictures to Flickr.

Check them out at:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mydishcouk/

Personalised Cookbooks and Calendars for Xmas

For a perfect Christmas gift, why not make your own cookbook or calendar with your MyDish recipes.

CookBook

You can choose your own recipes from our collection or can add in your own photo’s and stories making this a really special personalised gift. Find out more.

Calendar

We have created a recipe calendar with 12 of our favourite recipes, one for each month only £10 plus P&P. You can add you own personal photos and if you want to swop any of the recipes you can do that too!

Welcome to the MyDish.co.uk Blog

Welcome to the new MyDish.co.uk blog. In the coming weeks and months we’ll be adding news related to food, cooking and helping you with great ideas in the run up to Christmas. In the meantime: welcome to our brand new blog.