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As part of Live Longer Wales - the season of programmes from 麻豆官网首页入口 Cymru Wales inspiring us to change our lives - on Friday, October 25, food writer and restaurateur Simon Wright will be inviting 麻豆官网首页入口 Radio Wales listeners to 鈥渃ookalong鈥� throughout the day with top chefs, nutrition experts and ordinary people who love cooking.

Cookalong with us!

We want you to Cook along with us from听wherever you are听on Friday October 25, as we bring our chefs' recipes to life in the 麻豆官网首页入口 kitchens. Print off the recipes below and let us know how you get on!

Links to the recipes are further down on this page.

You'll be able to get in touch with us through the day by phone, text, email and social media - and we'd love to hear about your progress on-air.

Call 03700 100 110 or text 81012 on the day, or tweet us -

Live Video of the Cookalong

You'll be able to follow the cookalong on screen as well as on the radio: for the first time on 麻豆官网首页入口 Radio Wales we'll be streaming live video of all the action in the kitchen to your desktop, mobile or tablet. From the first scrambled egg to the last scrap of supper, you'll be able to watch all the day's cooking live as-it-happens and听video highlights听afterwards听on our website.

What we're cooking - Info & Recipes

Simon will oversee four meals spread through the day鈥檚 programmes: breakfast with the Good Morning Wales team; lunch with Jason Mohammad; afternoon tea with Wynne Evans; and dinner with the presenters of Good Evening Wales. Each meal will illustrate a healthy eating theme.

鈥淲e wanted to do something that was fun and could really get people cooking,鈥� Simon Wright says, 鈥渂ecause I think that鈥檚 essential to eating well. If you don鈥檛 have the ability to cook then it鈥檚 very difficult to eat well. There鈥檒l be lots of things going on during the day and lots of opportunities for people to cook along!鈥�

The Cookalong Meals

• Breakfast听 - on Good Morning Wales from 6 AM

The theme: food as fuel, and how it's important for children in particular to start the day with a proper breakfast.

Our Cook : Simon Wright and his wife Maryann.

The Recipe: The Perfect Scrambled Egg (with variations)

• Lunch - on the Jason Mohammad show - on air from 10 AM

The theme: healthy food on a budget, and how it can actually be cheaper to eat nutritionally balanced food.

Our听Studio Cook: 听Scott Davis, the Carmarthenshire chef and founder of food company Cnwd, who has worked with Marco Pierre White and Gary Rhodes.

• Afternoon Tea on Wynne Evans鈥� Big Welsh Weekend from 1pm

The theme:听food that's social, fun, and can bring families together; why eating together connects us and is good for our psychological well-being.

We'll talk about听how听we鈥檙e more likely to make more effort to cook from scratch when we want to treat our friends and family.

We will be doing听all of this through听The Power of Cake

Our听Studio Cook: Zoe Caines-Leonard of Brynamman鈥檚 The Little Velvet Cakery. Zoe, who runs cake courses and recently presented Prince Charles with a cake for grand-son George, puts a healthy twist on a traditional carrot cake recipe.

• Dinner - on Good Evening Wales from 4pm

The theme听for听dinner will be听sourcing healthy local food, looking at why it's important听to know where our food comes from -听and why living in Wales gives us perfect access to the best non-processed food.

Our听Studio Cook: top chef Stephen Terry - of award-winning restaurant The Hardwick and The Great British Menu fame - takes up the challenge of making a family supper using Welsh lamb on a tight budget.

Joining us for the Cookalong

Some 'Cookalongers' in various parts of Wales have already agreed to provide updates on their progress throughout the day, including keen amateur chef Bill King and his 鈥減upils鈥� - Bill teaches community cookery classes in Torfaen; Rebecca Boffy, who cooks for her women鈥檚 rugby team in Barry; farmer鈥檚 wife and cake maker Victoria Davies in Llanybydder; and various Cookalongers in north Wales arranged by chef Elwen Roberts.

Simon Wright: Why I Want to get Wales cooking

"It鈥檚 my belief (and there is plenty of research to back this up) that if people have the ability to cook they eat better and healthier as a matter of course. Cooking brings us closer to the food we eat, it helps us to understand it, to appreciate the diversity and endless magic of what nature provides for us in nourishment. It helps us to respect the things we eat, to treasure them and to resist wasting them."

"It鈥檚 also a wonderfully generous and creative thing to do - we cook for ourselves and others and in doing so, we make ourselves and others happy - what could be more rewarding than that?

"If we can鈥檛 cook it seriously limits our eating options, leaving us at the mercy of processed meals that often, in my opinion, are packed with the kinds of things that are making the major contribution to the crisis in obesity and diet related illnesses. So the ability to cook is liberating, it gives us greater freedom of choice in what we eat and above all it鈥檚 a lot of fun."

"So that鈥檚 what we aim to do on Friday 25th October for the 麻豆官网首页入口 Radio Wales live cookalong. From breakfast until dinner we will be featuring star chefs, expert nutritional advice, Welsh food producers and of course contributions from you the Radio Wales audience. Most of all we want to get everyone cooking and letting us know about the results."

We Can't Go On Eating Like This...

Following the cookalong at 6 PM, Simon will host a discussion programme exploring Wales鈥檚 relationship with food - 'We Can鈥檛 Go On Eating Like This'.

In the programme, Simon and his guests 鈥� Food Minister Alun Davies, author of 'The Obesity Epidemic' Zoe Harcombe and NHS dietician Sioned Quirke - will be discussing how to ensure Wales can be fed in a healthy and sustainable way.