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Once a month we have ‘dessert for dinner’ night. I’ll make four separate desserts. They’ll come home from school and eat as much cake and custard and ice cream as they can physically get in their guts. Because sometimes I think, let them just be children. Nadiya Hussain

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It’s taken me three years to learn that just because I work in the food industry, it doesn’t mean that I have to eat every minute of every day. Nadiya Hussain

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Cod and clementine is one of the things my grandmother cooked for my mum when she was a child. Never one for waste, she’d keep the peel whenever she had a clementine, and this dish puts it to work. Nadiya Hussain

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I was asked if I would do 'Dancing On Ice.' I thought it'd be the perfect way to get fit, lose a lot of weight and learn a new skill. I was actually quite excited, but my team said, 'Absolutely not.' They told me I was far too old and if I fell over I would break something - and then I thought they were probably right. Prue Leith

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The obesity problem among children is very serious. When advertising budgets are big and business can corrupt the way we live so that it becomes the norm to snack all day - and if you are never hungry you are never going to feel like eating a healthy meal - that can't be right. Prue Leith

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It was hugely helpful to me, being South African. I have never felt uncomfortable in posh society because I don't see what it is that I'm meant to be bowing the knee about. Prue Leith

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Aged six, I sailed from South Africa to England by steam ship with my family. It was a three-week journey. I remember crying on my birthday when I didn't get the enormous teddy bear that was for sale in the ship's shop but, aside from that, I had a wonderful time. Prue Leith

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I think the BBC likes to have Mary Berry and me around to rebut the charge of ageism. Prue Leith

Me Think I Think Berry Charge Mary Likes Around Ageism

I probably eat yogurt more than anything else. Prue Leith

Else Eat More More Than Anything Than Yogurt Anything Anything Else

I've been an entrepreneur, a writer, a food correspondent. I might have been an architect - but I'm bad at maths. Prue Leith

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People often ask what my favourite food is, but the answer depends on what I last ate. I love sausages and mash. But if I'd already eaten them for lunch, then you asked me at tea-time, I'd probably answer 'crab salad.' Prue Leith

I opened Leith's in Notting Hill in 1969 and it eventually worked its way into being awarded a Michelin star. At the time, there were a few women running small bistros - but I was the first woman to have a ‘serious,' expensive restaurant. Prue Leith

If you eat good ingredients, and moderately, it should not be a problem. If you look at the bakers over the years, how many obese bakers have there been? There have been a few - nobody's saying you can't join 'Bake Off' if you're obese - but by and large bakers, just like cooks, are not particularly overweight. Prue Leith

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I came through the Sixties so I was perfectly aware of drug-taking but I came from South Africa and we were brought up in quite an old-fashioned way. If I went to a rave or a party, I'd be behind the barbecue flipping the burgers. I wasn't out there partying. Prue Leith

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In my 40s: I had two children young enough to think their parents wonderful, my business was booming, I was happily married and living in the Cotswolds with a veg garden and ponies in the paddock. Who could not be happy? Prue Leith

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Nothing beats that sloppy kiss of a six-month-old grandchild. Prue Leith

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Modern cookbooks are marketing tools for chefs. They're in the bestseller lists but no one cooks from them. Prue Leith

Tools Marketing Bestseller No-One Chefs Modern Lists Them Cookbooks Cooks

With contemporary writers, I often buy books and then realise I've bought them before. Prue Leith

Buy Before Books Writers Bought Contemporary Often Realise Them Then

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