So if you’re like me then you will be an appreciator of ‘easy cooking’. I’m not talking Pop Tarts or Supa Noodles (although I have been known to indulge – shhh, don’t tell my husband who thinks they’re the devil), I just mean a bit of microwave action… Not everything you cook in the quick friend is awful for you; it can steam vegetables with the bad boys of bamboo and my husband swears blind it does a mean bacon buttie (seriously, I married a guy who microwaves bacon because it’s healthier!) and even if you just use it to do your Birds Eye veggies in a pot of water because boiling a pan is just too much, it’s definitely one gadget most of us don’t want to be without!
And now you can win one! Haaaa! On my blog! Haaaa! And a Samsung all singing, all dancing one at that!
So… If you want to be in with the chance of winning a Samsung MS23F301EAK SOLO Microwave (AND a holiday with Birds Eye – I’ll tell you about that too), see the bits below and take part!
Visit the Birds Eye Facebook page where you can enter their competition to win a holiday – how cool! A foodie escape into the countryside to celebrate their new steamfresh range and find out all about how yummy it all sounds! Microwave cooking at its best!
And enter my Rafflecopter comp so that you can have a brand new microwave to cook all the lovely yummy new range!
And that’s it… Good luck and happy microwave cooking!
Birds Eye have offered the prize.
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everything!
You cant have everything haha
scrambled eggs
Chocolate muffin in a cup!! It’s actually amazing!!
mmmmm sounds lovely
got the recipe, sounds yum x
Jacket potatoes! Then finish them off in the oven!
My eggs 🙂
Jacket Potatoes (finsihed in oven).
Porridge to start my day!
I do scrambled eggs in the microwave, they always come out perfect!
I make my own crisps
id cook my beans for my beans on toast 🙂
Jacket Potatoes
Soups and muffins 😀 which take only couple minutes in a microwave! Such a time saver! x
Jacket potatoes, and I heat up leftovers
corn on the cob as snacks
i cook jacket potatoes, rice and ready meals
great when you want something quickly
Porridge for my little ones!
I am all about my steamed veggies and the odd jacket potatoe
mainly super noodles
I often have to reheat my mug of tea…
Jacket potatoes and scrambled egg
Baby food and baked beans!
Jacket Potatoes, scrambled eggs, steamed veg
Jacket spuds.
This would come in very handy as mine blew up a few weeks ago!!
jacket Potatoes ,then ‘crisp’ off in the oven,custard and porridge!!
Lots of things, but the family favourite is Steamed puddings. They come out lovely and fluffy and are so quick.
Jacket potatoes
everything I can
Scrambled Eggs are amazing in the microwave
Pasties
nice bowl of porridge in the mornings. especially as it’s getting colder now
Heating the kids Weetabix and porridge, baked potatoes and reheating cooked foods.
i cook scramble egg in the microwave lol 🙂
Whatever I can.
I use it mainly for sterilising my sons bottles, heating up baby food and cooking the occasional ready meal – oh and nutella hot chocolate in the microwave is divine! x
Scrambled eggs
Sterilising bottles, warming up baby food, baked beans, soup, frozen peas and lots more!
I cook jacket potatoes and beans
Baked potatoes
spaghetti hoops
Chocolate Brownies
Jacket Potatoes with beans – LUSH!
Baked beans
Scrambled Egg
Popcorn, jacket potatoes and general warming up. But it’s a good way of making a bechamel sauce for a lasagne – a lot less mess and effort than on the stove.
Peas!
Reheating leftovers mostly.
bacon
winter is a approaching – soup
love porridge made in the microwave
Scrambled eggs and baked potatoes
Scrambled eggs
Jacket potatoe
My morning porridge
Scrambled egg. Mmmmmmm. Xx
Ready meals!
soup, porridge, scrambled eggs…
Leftovers and soup
Haggis and Jacket taters
I cook rice in the microwave 🙂
Mostly bakers, but if I am in a rush I cook meat too.
Jacket potatoes with melted cheese
Vegetables
Love scramble eggs
I make a mean scrambled egg!
i only really heat beans
I always end up eating just half my dinner as my partner makes humongous ones and putting the rest in the microwave to heat up later !
jacket potatoes!
Cake in a mug!
Jacket potatoes and beans.
I cook all sorts of things in my microwave, vegetables, meats and probably most often Jacket potatoes.
i make scrambled egg and warm soups up in there,
Tin Items and Scrambled Eggs 🙂 thank you for the giveaway x
I will try to cook as much as possible in the microwave as I a a lazy and bad cook
Mainly jacket potatoes and vegetables.
Anything except beans or spaghetti hoops, they tend to lose all their flavour! Mainly for defrosting meat though, so much faster! x
scrambled eggs x
Ready Meals. Sometimes I don’t have the time to cook ‘real’ food.
Being a veggie, I am always cooking ready meals like vegetable lasagne and baked potato 🙂
Christmas Tree – I just love having an organic, xmas tree smell in the house 🙂
I love to use it for scrambled eggs and porridge no horrible messy pans to clean afterwards!
Everything….lol
baked beans!
I kept seeing recipes for cake in a cup… I gave it a go nut was a bit of a disaster so now its just back to being reused for heating up!!!!!
jacket potatoes
I make extra portions of food, such as curry and chilli, then reheat them in the microwave.
i like to do scrambled egg in the microwave
porridge , scrammbled eggs, baked potatoes and soups !
Baked beans for my jacket spud 🙂
quick method for cooking rice
I make scrambled eggs and when I’m in a hurry I warm up soup.
Scrambled eggs, baked beans, soup & peas.
All the veg every day
French toast in a cup!! Unusual but yummy!!
I heat up soup and baked beans and the odd microwave meal.
porridge 🙂
we love to do baked potatoes in there
I use my microwave to steam my veggies – healthy and quick!
baked potatoes
usually just for heating up puddings etc
Jacket potatoes 🙂
Jacket potatoes, and then finish off in oven with sea salt and olive oil
i mostly reheat my meals in the microwave, but i do know how to make a lovely 40 second chocolate cup cake in one.
PM me for recipe!
porridge
jacket potatoes
cake in a mug
I like scrambled eggs done in the microwave
Porridge
Mine is a combi, so I cook everything, from “frying” onions, to Sunday roasts, pizzas, bread and caramel
Jacket Spuds
Potato Wedges
Jacket potatoes
Baked potatoes
Steamed veggies
Popcorn 🙂
CUSTARD , SCRAMBLED EGGS AND PORRIDGE are my favourite makes
scrambled eggs
Microwave sausages
Jacket potatoes, porridge, rice, all sorts!
scramble egg.
Peas & sweetcorn, bu porridge every morning
Nothing – I haven’t got one.
I scramble eggs in mine
Porridge and baked beans!
my steamfresh bags
porrige
Rice and baked beans are the two big ones!
Everything!
yummy jacket potatoes
Lots of things – porridge every morning!
I reheat coffee. I love coffee.
Scrambled eggs
Porridge
I usually use it to heat milk or sauces.
Jacket potatoes
Porridge in the morning
hi i love chocolate sponge pudding in a cup very quick and easy
i also cook chicken which is nice a juicy but looks anaemic so before cooking i use herbs and spices to coat it and give it colour x
Porridge regularly! Also stuff like microwavable rice or noodles for quick midweek meals.
Porridge
Porridge, scrambled egg, I use the defrost on it quite a lot too
Porridge!
Low-carb cake
my dogs carrots get steamed every morning
Usually the vegetables to accompany the meal
Iceland microwaveable curries. So cheap, so nasty, so tasty.
Scrambled eggs
Scrambled egg 🙂
Left overs quick 7 less soggy eg. pasta
I use it to melt chocolate for cake pops
I use it to heat my porridge every morning
Hardly anything because I haven’t got one – I want one to micro popcorn and reheat things. xx
porridge & popcorn!
jacket potatoes
Scrambled Eggs
Porridge
Nothing because we don’t have one.
Rice in a bag!
Porridge
Mostly my quorn mince, chicken and meatballs before adding to sauces etc on the hob
eggs
Chicken noodles♥
i love putting my sweet potatoes in the microwave, fast and healthy
My porridge, every day
Peas!!
I use mine to to cook peas and sweetcorn
mainly for heating stuff up like baked beans and peas
We love to make fresh popcorn for movie nights
Nothing, I don’t have one sine mine broke so I would really love to win 🙂
Rustlers burgers 🙂 and reheating my precooked meals 🙂
Veg. It cooks really quickly. I also start jacket potatoes off in the microwave before transferring them to the oven to crisp up.
Last nights chinese takeaway
I heat up soup
I usually cook rice & baked beans.
Milky coffee x
Only baked beans really! I mostly use it to warm things up
I cheat and buy bags of new potatoes with butter and herbs … 6 minutes in the microwave and they’re delicious! x
Mainly vegetables – so quick and easy (and less clean up too *g*)
Most frequently I cook porridge for breakfast every day and often microwave rice to go with stir fry, curry or chilli!
scrambled eggs in glass as it is easy to wash off compare to saucepan
My favourite thing to cook in the microwave is jacket potatoes. When they’re done, I take them out, wrap them in foil and put them in the oven for half an hour – perfect, fluffy potatoes!
steamed vegetables for my 7 month old
Porridge…everyday for me brekkie xx
Jacket potatoes then pop them in the oven to crisp up!
Porridge every morning
Ready meals
mostly beans and soup but i do like to start my jacket potatoes off in the microwave then crisp them up in the oven 🙂
jacket potatoes and vegetables. Heating up soup and baked beans.
I commented on the “Our Plum Premium Wooden Playhouse” post.
Everything!
Porridge!
Popcorn – its been years!!
As much as humanly possible, lol, I hate cooking 😀
jacket potatoes
mainly warm up milk or the rice that comes in the packets
Porridge is our winter morning fave made in the microwave
Sponge pudding
scrambled egg
Jacket pots and heating up leftovers
mostly soup and rice
Warm up porridge every morning
Hmmm, new baby on the way – it would be nice to be able to heat things without having to guess the time like our current one.
Popcorn, soups, porridge, beans just to name a few.
I cook porridge in mine (well I did before it broke!)
Mainly jacket potatoes for microwaves and veg.
jacket potatoes!
Scrambled eggs, no better way to cook them z
BACON! – Bacon tastes the best cooked in the microwave ! and jacket potatoes !
Everything! (Mainly ready meals).
veg, soup, baked beans, warm up my pitta bread, and lots more
Popcorn!
Vegetables mostly but I also use it to defrost meat and vegetables
Thank you for the opportunity to win a great prize and be in a wonderful competition – Thanks again 🙂
Usually just heating up & defrosting
Christmas pudding – always used to take hours!!
Scrambled egg!
Rice when im in a rush
Cheese and tomato in Staffordshire oatcakes.
if i get a sweet tooth then i love whipping up a microwave cake yum!!!
I like to cook express rice!
I cook scrambled eggs for a very quick lunch as I work from home ( this is most days as I usually realise I’m hungry and it’s lunchtime and I need to eat pronto!). I have a microwave rice cooker which makes perfect rice- I just can’t get rice right cooking it on the hob!
I love to cook a sweet potato in the microwave, then fill it with tuna mayo & cheese & give it a further blast in the microwave to melt the cheese! Yummy!!
re- heating meals for husband when he finally arrives home from work or college x x
Sticky toffee pudding
Rice & Peas!
We steam veg in ours, very quick and easy.
‘Baked Potato’ x
TV dinners!
Sponge Puddings Yummy
Jacket tatties
A lot of things but I think my son uses it the most with his obsession of super-noodles.
Jacket potatoes
Scrambled eggs 🙂
cheese sauce, and lots of things 🙂
Popcorn! 🙂
Baked Beans
Scrambled eggs
my diet ready meals lol
I tend to use mine to reheat stuff
Yummy jacket potatoes!
I always use mine to defrost and my teenagers use it for microwave pizzas lol
I cook chicken in the microwave
I cook everything in the microwave!
A soup or popcorn!
Practically everything!!
Porridge every morning, all of my veg, milk, salmon, and I use it for defrosting meat.
Soup, baked beans and anything that needs reheating!
Reheat cold tea plus various other items
My milk for breakfast in the morning,jacket potatoes,soups,maccain microwave fries.and sometimes chocolate for making rice crispy cakes.
Mostly vegetarian ready meals and porridge. 🙂
petis pois and sweetcorn
Porridge for breakfast!
bacon and sausages yummy
scrambled eggs are easiest in micro
Jacket Potatoes
Scrambled egg, heat beans through, pre cook jacket potato
Jacket potatoes
cheese on toast
I cook scrambled eggs! Scrambled eggs on toast is a favourite any time of year.
rice pudding semolina
Jacket potatoes
I cook fish and baked potatoes in the microwave as well as heating up things like tinned beans, tinned spaghetti and soups. I also sometimes make a cup of tea in the microwave and i use it to warm up muffins or coissants.
I mainly reheat an defrost in my microwave x
Melt chocolate in it and use it to cook all sorts of homemade meals. I also use it to cheat at lunch time with lunch pots.
Weight Watchers meal
I use my microwave to heat things like soup.
my morning porridge
I’m a bit of an instant user of microwaves so at the moment in this cold weather it’s all about porridge!
Baked beans! Also chocolate mug cake… yum!
Jacket potatoes – a nice quick and easy dinner 🙂
Jen xx
Lots of things: porridge, jacket and sweet potatoes, rice etc.
scrambled eggs
jacket potatoes
i make lovely jacket potatoes and soup. x
Sad to say the question should be what DON’T you cook in the microwave? 😉
It’s just so convenient and if it gets the job done I’m not too proud to use it…
although I love steamed food as it it seems to hold more flavour in.
baked beans!
Nothing! Because I haven’t got a microwave (yet – hint, hint)
oooh cake in a mug
fish, vegetables like sweetcorn, sprouts and brocolli, scrambled eggs and porridge for winter mornings.
As it’s nearly Christmas…I would cook a Gremlin!
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Scrambled egg lovely xxxx
porridge
porridge, poached eggs, and many more things
Pies
Jacket potato.. so quick!
Gammon steak and peaches
Jacket potato and rice usually
veg and popcorn
potatoes
Curry mmmm
Love making popcorn
Prob more then I should
cheese on toast
porridge.. faye
Jacket potatoes and steamed veg
Porridge
Heating up coffee I’ve forgotten about drinking, and it’s gone cold
Lots of things but Jacket Potatoes are my favourite
My eggs
My breakfast porridge, every day.
Innocent vegetable pots
Jacket potatoes
lots of different things but scrambled eggs would be the most for my little boy because he loves them.
Curries
When the kids are in i never have a chance to finish acup of tea, so am forever heating it up in the microwave x
Jacket potatoes
baked potatoes
I use it mostly for heating up leftovers.
Steamed puddings
I heat my plates in my microwave! I also make boiled eggs in my electric steamer – whatever works..!
Pretty much everything if I’m honest!
I especially love Sweet Jacket Potatoes though 🙂
Jacket potatoes and tinned things like beans
Life so easy with a microwave
Vegetables
Bacon 🙂
everything! I work long hours so dont have time to cook so tend to have a micromeal
I love making porridge in the microwave and it tastes just as good as done on the hob x
Jacked potatoes are the most frequently done
Porridge, soup and beans are the main things I cook in mine.
my sons cereal every morning
Linda McCartney sausages. They take just 60 seconds and, in my opinion, are better microwaved as they don’t ‘dry out’.
Porridge, heat milk for coffee, part cook jacket potatoes when in a rush. I did have a recipe for “Picnic Bread” this was like a batter, it had cheese and herbs in it. Lost recipe and it was delicious!
Scrambled eggs.
Jacket potato
I steam my veg in there when I’m in a rush
Great for jacket potatoes and baked beans
I normally reheat the leftovers (or my husbands food if he is late home!)
Porridge, so quick and easy
lots of things, my fav is scrambled eggs
milk and jacket potaotoes
Soup or jacket spuds 🙂
sweet potatos 🙂
We use our microwave for jacket potatoes for heating up dinners and making Syrup sponge which is lovely!
Porridge and I make a lovely jam sponge pudding in the microwave (sadly mine has recently died so this would be a great thing to win!)
my sons porridge for breakfast
Just popcorn
Poached eggs hmmmmmm
Jacket potatoes, rice, porridge, also warm up cakes, bread rolls etc
reheat ready meals, or heat up milk, and cook jacket potatoes
Jacket potatoes!
Microwave dinners
I mainly use it for reheating leftovers and tinned food.
Jacket potatoes x
I use it mostly to reheat pre prepared meals
Baked potatoes
Fish…..cooks in no time and does not dry out.
I mainly cook alot of scrambled egg, or to warm milk up, jacket potatoes and beans
Baked beans
microwavable rice, noodles, beans
Hungarian Goulash and Casseroles are perfect meals for the microwave…. quick sponge puddings after tea is a treat too, only 3 minutes and you have perfect puds!
Porridge and Baked beans (not together) 😛
I don’t have one so nothing at the moment
Porridge 🙂
i mainly use mine for hoting up the custard/ soups dinners have tried a few cakes but was not succesful . Lost the information so it was quess work , but it is 12 years old
Jacket potatoes
Jacket potato’s
Scrambled eggs with a dash of Worcestershire Sauce..
jacket potatoes, scrambled eggs, cheese on toast, noodles and porriage mostly
Usually I make popcorn in it
scrambled eggs
Lots, but my favourite is porridge.. no messy saucepan 🙂
Baked potatoes for a nice easy dinner
I havent had a microwave for years since my last bust so its been a while I would love to cook porridge in it as it saves on time and doesnt burn any pans and also it would be nice to steam rice and veg in too
start jacket potatoes in microwave and finish them in oven
Jacket potatoes and mug cakes 🙂
Porridge
Baked spuds
I cook everything from meals to milk for hot drinks!
I mostly warm up bottles for my son or make jacket potatoes 🙂
chicken, stays nice and moist
Spuds!
Weight Watchers meals mainly, the children love the microwave popcorn
Sponge pudding in the microwave is fabulous
Steamed rice
Plenty of things, but I don’t have a microwave so I’ve yet to discover the delights of fast food
Beans!
a lot of veg, but my favourite is treacle sponge pudding, but don’t tell the kids………………………………
I cook rice in the microwave, in a fab little rice cooker I bought about 10 years ago!
I cook bacon in the microwave. mmm bacon butty!
Soup and beans mainly tinned items
Bananas with slivers of mars bar pushed inside. Once softened remove, add cream, sprinkles, little marshmallows and drizzle with melted chocolate.
beans and soups
Lots of jacket potatoes and baked beans. I have made a few fab mug cakes too 🙂
Jacket potato and cheese!
Lot’s of things from scrambled eggs, jacket spuds, sponge cake
i cook a lot of jacket potatoes
I use mine to defrost or reheat leftovers xx
porridge or scrambled eggs
steamed vegetables and egg omelettes
I mainly use mine to reheat leftover food, I hate wasting food.
Leftovers, defrost bread and potatoes
I steam veg and also cook rice, scrambled egg & jacket potatoes. Use it lot for warming things like beans, soups & milk too x
I mainly use to reheat items like, soup, beans, microwave meals and veggies
I cook rice and steam my veggies
Rice and Custard
My weekabix in the morning 🙂 It only takes 60 seconds and I get a yummy warm breakfast
Jacket Potatoes to Custard and gravy always popping something in!!
jacket spuds
Scrambled Eggs as if I cook them in a pan I always burn them
Scrambled eggs
I do all sorts, hot chocolate from scratch (melting real choc and warm milk), scrambled eggs with fresh herbs and quick sponge cakes!
Morning porridge and other hot cereals. Baked potatoes at lunchtime, so quick, even tastier if you finish off in the oven for a few minutes. Sponge puddings for afters in only 5 minutes. A microwave is versatile and economical to run.
Much easier to clean thana traditional oven too:)
scrambled eggs
Scrambled eggs, quick and easy in the microwave.
I have never actually owned a microwave so would love to try some recipes out in one.
Jacket potatoes!
Usually just to reheat leftovers or stating off jacket potatoes
warming milk without burning it in a pan, and reheating leftovers
Jacket Potatoes
Porridge
Scrambled eggs or heat up the milk for a hot chocolate.
jacket potatoes
Homemade cookie in a mug,the best scrambled egg in the world,popcorn and Poppadums that instantly rise !
Porridge
I mainly cook porridge or baked spuds xx
Jacket potatoes, heat beans and soup
Everything that I possibly can!!
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Scrambled eggs!!!! and leftover stuff from the night before! 😉
Reheat homemade soup, baked beans, start of jacket potatoes, porridge
I heat a lot of things but not sure i’ve ever made anything other than scrabbled eggs. My sister in law cooked mushroom in hers once. Not sure that’s normal!
I heat up lots of things and recently discovered how to make microwave mug cakes which are genius
We haven’t got one but at mum’s I use it for soup, baked beans and peas x
Jacket potatoes if I can’t use anything else, I use it to defrost meals previously made and put in the freezer also
Jacket potatoes for a quick lunch x
Jacket potatoes.
I cook rice in the microwave and occassionally cheese on toast.
Rice, steamed veg, jacket potatoes, scrambled eggs, porridge, reheating leftovers, my sons baby food, pasta… Loads!
Chocolate surprise pudding, jacket potatoes and lots of vegetables
My favourite thing to cook in the microwave is scrambled eggs – they are light and fluffy and its a lot less messy than cooking them in a pan!!
I mainly use mine for micro meals, baked potatoes, scrambled eggs and reheating up leftover takeaways
Rice and vegetables.
beans and veg mainly 😀
Jacket potatoes
porridge
Lots of things, reheating meals, beans, steamed veg, starting off baked potatoes….
Potatoes mainly :/ And syrup sponge puddings.
Usually rice
Jacket potatoes
bagpuss the lavender smelling fat furry cat puss
I used to only use it to melt butter but now I have children it is used for everything
Lots of things, but hot chocolate has to be my favourite 😀
Steamed veg 🙂 love my microwave steamer
I just heat up leftovers
I don’t have one at the moment but if I had one I’d be cooking porridge. I hate cleaning the porridge pan when its cooked on the hob!
Scrambled eggs!
Rice, curries and anything that says you can microwave, my son hates waiting long for food!!
jacket pots
I heat tortillas all the time. My husband uses it for his porridge and to heat dinner if he works late.
Scrambled eggs, rice, jacket potatoes, baked beans, plum tomatoes, sweet corn, soup.
Golden syrup sponge
My hubby’s microwave meals on a Monday and Friday as we only get 20 mins to eat before he has to go out and teach after work
I cook my little cake in a cup. lovely for when the kid are at school and hubbys at work.
‘Baked’ apples with raisins, cooked fruits, sponges for puddings, spaghetti bolognese, noodles, scrambled eggs, Jackets,
Baked potatoes and also soup
you.ll be surprised what can be cooked in a microwave,, for so much quick cooking very handy with a big family and big meals,from rice pudding custard soups eggs treacle puddings to my milky Horlicks would be lost withouta microwave
I cook baked potatoes in the microwave and finish them off in the oven