Jamie Oliver webchat, Thursday 29 August, 2.45pm

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We're chuffed that Jamie Oliver is paying a return visit to Mumsnet this Thursday. His first MN webchat was back in 2010.

Jamie has a new book out, Save with Jamie: Shop Smart, Cook Clever, Waste Less (all subjects dear to MNers' hearts). It has 100 brand-new recipes designed to be accessible, reliable and, above all, affordable.

This is what Jamie says about his new book: "For years I have been telling people that if you look back through history, the best food in the world has always come from communities under massive financial pressure. But the proviso is that you MUST be able to cook! If you can't, and have no money, that is where the trouble starts. This is a cook book which, from start to finish has tasty recipes, all dedicated to great value, is a brilliant weapon to have on the shelf, and is relevant to every household. If you use this book the way it's intended, you should end up saving a wodge of cash from your wallet."

And to tie in with the book, he has a new six-part series on Channel 4 starting on Monday 2 Sept at 8pm.

Please post your question and join Jamie for a chat at 2.45pm on Thurs.

@ApocalypseCheeseToastie

What is your favourite cheese ??

That's a toughie. For the last week and a half, a cheese that became extinct and came back about two years ago, made by a lovely family. It's a fresh cow's milk cheese, yoghurty for first few days and then develops more depth and firmness, and then after that you can grate and use on pasta and salads. Made in a little farm in Nottingham, it's called Colwick.

the issue of what we choose to feed our kids will always be a source of debate
Never creates any debate on here?? We are all in total agreement. Fruit shoot any one?

So, do you and your wife meal plan each week? Well am assuming its your wife who does the majority of the cooking to be honest.

And what are your children's favourite meals and are any of them fussy?

Pom Bear anyone?

Ooh, would the melon/freezer/sorbet thing work with the mango that is currently in my fridge?

What's your favourite

what junk food do you secretly eat?

Here's a hard one for you but you might want to answer it: what's your favourite colour?

I feel we need to know Jamie's views on a) biscuits and b) ham, naice and otherwise. Don't you?

My pre-schooler requires a packed lunch but doesn't like sandwiches. What foods would you include in a packed lunch that would provide enough energy excluding a sandwich?

What do you grab to eat at the end of a long hard day of cheffing? Is it beans on toast like the rest of us?

I'm off to the village of Colwick... :)

What's your favourite cheese Jesus wept. One Direction fans come up with more hard hitting and relevant questions than that.

@Empress77

Jamie, id never watched any of your shows or bought any of your books before these mad threads came up on MN so it has at least shown me the excellent work you do. Fifteen in Cornwall is excellent. (Although has perhaps done to Watergate Bay what Rick Stein has done to Padstow and massively increased the traffic jammage by increasing the profile of such a small place!)

I have bookmarked your webpage of vegetarian recipes and will enjoy giving some of those a go. Id like to ask if you can do a vegetarian book or show please?

Top question. Actually i've done one, it's secretly locked in a vault, hoping to come out next year. It was going to be this year and i was ever so happy with it and it really focussed myself and my team on taking meat completely out of the equation and having clarity and using cooking methods to develop amazing dishes, but we felt that money saving was very relevant to right now - certainly people online were demanding tasty food that didn't cost an arm and a leg.

I'm really proud of the veggie book and really hope you'll like it, fingers crossed it'll be out next year! And I promise if i do it, I'll back it up with a series.

Agreed BoffinMum. Ham, biscuits, pombears and fruit shoots?

I asked a question about BBQ sauce

Do you like One Direction?

...What makes your new Cook Book offering any different from other Chefs that have published under the "Eat Cheap" theme ??

I bet Jamie secretly loves Turkey Ham Boffin

Any cheaper alternatives to Olive oil?

And a healthy homemade flapjack

Can you twerk?

seasicksal three threads of you getting close to heart failure over this whole thing. chill out

Awesome news, i will look out for it :)