The Dinner Ladies are Sophie Gilliatt and Katherine Westwood. They got together at the school gate in 2007 and came up with the idea of preparing dinners for time-poor friends and family members so they would always have good, homemade food in their fridges and freezers (and, incidentally, so would they).
Between them, they have seven children of varying sizes, appetites and degrees of fussiness. So there’s not much they don’t know about pleasing a tricky crowd!
They started cooking in the shed in Katherine’s back yard on a converted trailer and two camp stoves. They had shop on a Monday, cook on a Tuesday and then one of them would do the delivery run while the other fed and bathed all the kids.
