The state of food education in the UK is a bit of a joke – a complete lack of compulsory cooking lessons in schools for almost 20 years has left millions of young people without the skills they need to cook for themselves.

It’s something we first noticed when we went off to uni a few years ago and realised none of us could cook! Fortunately for us, Ben was on hand to give out a few easy recipes and get us cooking some real food again.

We started filming Ben’s recipes so we could help more of our friends, and in a little over 2 years our friends have grown from 8 to 100,000 of us. We’re now getting so many requests for recipes that we’re going to have to step up our game.

Which is why we’re starting to do 1 recipe per day.

That’s 7 recipes a week

That’s 365 recipes a year

And yes, we’re scared!

But we’re also really excited – we now have an opportunity to make a real difference to what we eat on a daily basis.

By doing a recipe a day, it means we can solve specific problems. For instance, you’ll start to see our weekly “meal plan” - this is a set of recipes that help tackle issues around food, whether that be cutting down on wastage, saving money, getting healthy etc. Each week will have a different theme, and we’d love to hear some of the issues you want us to get SORTED, so comment below with any suggestions!

We’re massively excited for the next step of our journey… Add to this a brand new book being published by Penguin in the Summer, and 2012 is likely to be a real cracker of a year.

We’d love for you to join us as a crew member on this journey of great food and lots of laughs, so make sure you sign up and jump on board… It’s going to be one hell of a ride!!

Jamie :)