I’m sure that by now many of you will have heard that many of our local supermarkets are selling out of scallops and other ingredients needed to participate in Gordon Ramsay’s Cookalong Live, FAST!

Well yesterday Gordon himself (well almost!) invaded supermarkets across the UK, armed with recipe guides and ingredient lists or anyone who wanted to join in with his cookalong tonight.

After the show, make sure to check back with us on our forum and let us know how you got on. Even better, email us pictures of your cookalong dinner and we’ll publish them on our site next week!

We know that many of you are planning to cook along live with Gordon Ramsay live this Friday night, so we have brought you this video clip which will help you get prepared for cooking the starter, pan roasted scallops with tomato salsa.

The video shows Gordon laying out which ingredients you will need along with what preparations you should make before the show starts!

After the show make sure to visit our forum and let us know what you thought…better still send us pictures of your cookalong dinner and we’ll publish them on the site!

We know that many of you are planning to cook along live with Gordon Ramsay live this Friday night, so we have brought you this video clip which will help you get prepared for the main course. The main course is of course steak and chips with salad.

The video shows Gordon laying out which ingredients you will need along with what preparations you should make before the show starts!

Happy Cooking, and make sure to join us on our forumafter the show. Leave your comments below or even better email us the pictures of your Cook Along dinner!

Britain is the most obese nation in Europe, and we’re continuing to pile on the pounds. Many of us believe it’s not our fault, choosing to blame our genes, age or metabolism. Others find their weight gain a complete mystery. This investigation examines the excuses we make for our increased girth and debunks the myths that mask our calorie consumption. Journalist Jane Moore examines how much food we’re really eating and puts the spotlight on the food industry to reveal what effect our increased dining-out habit is having on our health.

She takes a group of children undercover to find out just how much fat is on the menu for kids in Britain’s favourite family restaurants. Moore meets a family who insist that despite eating healthily and exercising they seem unable to shift their excess weight. With the help of a fridge-cam and a little secret surveillance, Dispatches attempts to unearth the root cause of their problem. Read more & comment »

As millions of Britons recover from their Christmas excess and make resolutions to eat more healthily, Jamie Oliver reveals what is really in the Great British diet, and how it could be killing us. Using a series of dramatic demonstrations - including the autopsy of a 25-stone man who literally ate himself to death - Jamie, fitness expert Dr Catherine Spencer-Smith and anatomist Dr Gunther von Hagens show 18 volunteers exactly what harm their terrible diets are doing to them and, most importantly, what they can do to change their ways and get healthy.

The programme is part of Channel 4’s The Big Food Fight , a season of programming which aims to raise awareness and encourage debate about food production, animal welfare and healthy eating. With the worst diet in Europe, two thirds of Britons are overweight, and treating obesity-related diseases costs the NHS more than £3 billion a year. Experts fear that today’s children could be the first generation to die younger than their parents if nothing is done. Read more & comment »

Fast Food Junkies Go Native , as part of The Big Food Fight , a season of programming which aims to raise awareness and encourage debate about food production, animal welfare and healthy eating, follows four self-confessed fast food fans as they trade processed food and sugar-laden treats for the diet of one of the healthiest communities in the world.

For the Shimshal people food is seasonal, fresh and at the heart of family life. The four junk food lovers spend a month in this remote corner of Northern Pakistan living with Shimshal villagers to gain a new perspective on their own diets, and the approach to food that the West has, where meals are frequently full of saturated fats and artificial additives. And in return Roze, Steven, Martin and Nicola share their favourite foods with their Shimshal hosts. Read more & comment »

Britain is a nation obsessed with celebrity chefs but all that gourmet cooking is making us fat. Our favourite chefs have seduced us with their glossy recipes and deliciously indulgent dishes, using bucket loads of butter, cheese, sugar and oil. They taste great but make us look enormous.

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Never again will the nation swallow these recipes with quite as much innocent gusto. Celebrity chefs beware - the Cook Yourself Thin girls have tested your recipes and the results are pretty shocking. Tonight, Harry and Sophie come to the rescue of Lisa, a size 16 foodie who loves her celebrity chefs. Read more & comment »

We have had a massive amount of emails from people who are planning to take part in this Friday night’s Cookalong Live show with Gordon Ramsay.

Most of you wanted to know what ingredients you would need and also what preparations need to be made in advance.

We have managed to get our hands on some great video clips in which Gordon talks you through the ingredients and preparations needed for both courses to be cooked.

Click here to view the main course (steak and chips) video and here for the starter (pan roasted scallops with a tomato salsa).

After the show make sure to join us on our forum and let us know how you got on. Even better send us in some pictures of your cookalong dinner and we will publish them on our site next week.

Jamie Oliver has backed Channel 4’s decision to show the autopsy of a 25 stone dead man, as part of his new TV show, Eat To Save Your Life.

Speakign to The Sun, Jamie said:

“Some parts of the programme will be gross.

“But it might make people change their eating habits. We’re looking at the effects a lifetime of junk has on your body.”

In the show Jamie will watch Dr Gunther von Hagens dissect a man who died as a result of a life of eating junk food. Read more & comment »