How often do you use fresh herbs in your cooking?

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I made a lovely meal today (orzo with fish and tomatoes) and it needed fresh parsley at the end but I didn’t have any. Dried herbs are not the same. I always think it would be wasteful to buy them and then only use them for a one-off meal. It’s only me and a teenager at home so it is easy not to eat things up.

Anyway do you use a lot of fresh herbs in your cooking and doesn’t make a difference?

I keep pots of thyme, coriander, oregano, rosemary and mint at my back door, so I can just step out and snip some. Some of them were supermarket ones that I potted up and they are still going strong. I love them fresh, especially thyme.

Basil thrives on the windowsill in summer so I use that too, but not so much in winter. Coriander dies within seconds of paying for it in the supermarket so I only use it when it's worth buying specially.

I use thyme, rosemary, basil and coriander most weeks, and parsley, sage and dill occasionally. I’ll either pick from the garden if I have them or pick up at the market (France) or add to the Waitrose order each week. Little gets wasted, but if there’s something I haven’t used il freeze it if it’s still okay. And then throw it away 4 or 6 weeks later as I forget about it and pick up fresh 😂

I've just bought a hydroponic system to grow my own. Spend a lot of money and some gets wasted so I've decided to grow my own in my dark house.

Rosemary, bay and thyme fresh out of the garden year round. Chives and mint in summer. For basil and parsley I buy the supermarket pots and keep them going for a few weeks.

I love using fresh herbs but often find I don't get through a bunch and it seems wasteful. I'm terrible at growing anything, I really would love to have a herb garden but I've killed many a plant.
I've bought Jux herbs online recently, they popped up as an Instagram as. They're freeze dried so taste a lot fresher than the typical dried herbs you get in the supermarket.

I love adding fresh parsley to a pasta dish, fresh corriander to salads, fresh dill to soups and fresh rosemary to stews and pies 😊😊 it was only a couple of years ago I discovered just how amazing fresh herbs are and use as often as possible. Fresh herbs a In savoury pancakes is also amazing!

We have herb planters outside the back door . Because I live near the Scottish borders the more tender ones don't get through the winter but have thyme , mint , and rosemary currently , and then I replant in the spring.

I use them all the year round from the garden. Not the full range at this time of year but there's still things like sage, bay and rosemary to pick. I freeze the summer herbs for the winter, and dry things like chamomile and lavender. Growing them is easy once they get established, in fact you'll end up with too much of things like mint and lemon balm and have to use it in everything, its definitely the cheapest and easiest way of eating herbs. It's really worthwhile because not only do herbs make food taste better they have a lot of nutritional benefits too. You can buy seeds online to get varieties that are best suited to British weather and don't flower too quickly (bolt resistant) such as for Coriander like someone mentioned. Or you can buy plants online too from nurseries that will be much stronger and healthier than the supermarket ones.

I have a herb bed near the kitchen door - rosemary thyme mint verbena oregano and wild garlic. In the summer I buy a supermarket pot of basil, take the tops of the leaves off and keep the rest in the plastic on a sunny windowsill. About a week later they'll have started to regrow and a week after that I can plant out in a sunny trough (underneath the tomato plants).

Daily. There's almost nothing I cook without it.

Daily, we have a herb garden, pots on the windowsill, and a bay tree. We also buy in if something isn't growing/in season, and there's a community allotment that gives away all sorts. Love going for a wander down there and picking some nice fresh bits of a weekend.

I don't like dried herbs at all, I think they've got a weird flavour.

I will have to get organised and do some pots myself! Thanks for all the tips!

We have thyme, rosemary and bay in garden. I buy fresh parsley and coriander. The stuff we don't use goes to the guinea pigs.

I have rosemary, mint, marjoram and chives growing in the garden, and I buy fresh coriander and basil fairly often. Can't grow them outside as the slugs would have a field day.

Warning to others though - marjoram and mint are both very invasive so plant with caution...