Ready, Steady Cook

The show that goes and goes and goes. Two contestants each with £5 to spend on food. They bring a bag and get assigned to a chef. Each chef has 30 minutes or so to prepare a range of dishes from the ingredients. Then they each taste the dishes their chef prepared and gush over the probably half-cooked results. The audience votes on the best selection of dishes. The winner gets a lame prize and so does the loser. Then the chefs are presented with another "quickie" bag and each says what he'd cook. The audience votes on which dish they want. That chef then has 10 minutes to cook it. Then they all taste it and coo a lot more.

It's entertaining to watch and you get some interesting recipe ideas but I really can't imagine that chicken is always cooked or rice or whatnot. And they do an awful lot of "cheesecakes" from soft cheese and biscuits in the fridge. It's entertaining if you've got nothing else to do.