Hoping to help my friends and customers with ideas, inspiration and recipes to make life easier and more enjoyable on the culinary front.  Happy cooking x I am so lucky to have a kitchen "stocked to the gunnels" with Pampered Chef products.
In all honesty, if I had not had the good fortune to have discovered this job, I doubt if I would have realized what a difference good kitchen tools can make to one's work in the kitchen.  Considering that I spent a good proportion of my day for the past 35 years stuck in this room - I could deduce that I am a slow learner!!!  I am not the most enthusiastic of cooks, but having these gadgets and gizmos, make my life much easier, less stressful and far more fun.  I can see why so many "foodies" have joined my team - more out of interest in "stocking their own kitchens" than the desire to have "unlimited earnings" in a fun and flexible way.
I have the best of both worlds and thought it would be useful if I used these pages to pass on some labour saving gadgets and ideas that I don't normally have time to talk about at my cooking shows and Fundraising events.
These pages will also disciple me to try out new recipes.  It is sometimes so easy to fall into the pattern of cooking the same old thing.
If you have stumbled upon my pages and do not know what Pampered Chef is about or what Pampered Chef can do for you, I will attempt to give you a brief overview.

Pampered Chef was born in Chicago in 1980 through a home economist and teacher - Doris Christopher.  She invested $3,000 of her savings to buy some products that she  believed were helpful in the kitchen and set out to teach people how to prepare fast, nutritional meals in their homes.  Along the way, she met people who wanted to join her and so the company grew and grew.  It is now approaching annual sales of nearly the billion-dollar mark and is owned by Warren Buffet and the Berkshire Hathaway empire.  
Pampered Chef arrived in the UK at the end of 1999 and I nervously joined in August 2000.  I was not a trained chef - just mum to Heather and Allan and wife to Graham -  cooking family meals for them and occasionally entertaining family and friends.  I understood the concept of direct sales and liked the idea of having my own business - to work hours that suited me  and the chance to build my own multimillion turnover while learning and developing new skills on my adventure.
It was such a revelation for me to suddenly be cooking with the right tools - to have a good knife!!!!  Why had I not done so years beforehand!!!  Maybe it was the Aberdonian in me - not wanting to spend money on myself.  What a shame, as it might have saved me more time in the kitchen that I could have spent on the family.
The formula that Pampered Chef uses to market the products is by cooking demonstrations to groups of people, in their homes, workplaces, clubs etc.The guests can try out the products themselves as the recipe is being constructed and then taste the finished results at the end of the demonstration.  People will book a demonstration for lots of reasons: - sometimes to see a new recipe or new product - sometimes to raise money for charity - sometimes to get free products for themselves -  sometimes as an excuse to gather their friends and family together.