SIAN DE NORMANN, 54, a listening volunteer with the Swindon and District Samaritans, tells us about her life with food

Do you cook a lot yourself? What is your failsafe dish?

Yes, and my failsafe dish is chicken with flageolet beans, garlic and leeks.

Where do you like to eat out? How often?

We don’t eat out often, only birthdays and anniversaries.

What do you always hope to find on a menu? For starter? Main course? Dessert?

Unusual fish dishes. Starter: scallops. Main: bass or monkfish. Pudding: something light and fruity.

Which foods did you hate as a child? Do you eat them now?

Tomatoes, due to intolerance. I only eat them out of politeness.

What is your favourite drink? Alcoholic and non-alcoholic.

Vodka and tonic or homemade elderflower cordial with mineral water.

Marmite: yes or no?

Yes!

What is your guilty pleasure when it comes to food... something you know you shouldn’t eat, but do anyway?

Granary bread.

You are on your own at home watching a film. What is you snack of choice?

Sugar snap peas with humous.

You’re eating a bacon sandwich...ketchup, brown sauce or nothing at all?

Definitely NOTHING!