Babs Harris, 50,  business director at charity Threshold

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

My partner Dominic and I cook from scratch every day, using our own produce. We are not vegetarians, but only have meat once or twice a week. Our failsafe dish is pasta and pesto, preferably from our home-grown basil.

Where do you like to eat out? How often?

Our favourite restaurant is in Chippenham, the Raj on Station Hill. Superb Indian food. We probably eat out once a fortnight.

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

I always look for fresh, regional and seasonal food in general, so the chalk boards are scrutinised more often than the standard menu. However, in an Indian restaurant I look for Chicken Chat for starter and Lamb Biryani for mains. My favourite desert is cheesecake – any shape, any flavour (apart from chocolate).

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

Back home in Germany my mum used to cook very wholesome food for us, including green bean stew – I hated it! I do grow my own beans and nowadays love green bean stew; it makes me feel nostalgic!

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

I love cocktails, particularly Cosmopolitans. We make Elderflower Cordial in late spring and drink that all year round – taste of summer!

Marmite: yes or no?

Definitely yes.

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

Mayonnaise – devil incarnate!

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

Dried dates or nuts – I don’t have much of a sweet tooth and also rarely snack. It is endless cups of tea for me.

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

Ketchup... and of course, mayonnaise.