Allyson’s IVF miracles FOOD IN A MINUTE MADE ME A MUM!
It was the potato pom poms on a cottage pie that did it. It was 1996 and a new face on the telly, Allyson Gofton, was performing the somewhat miraculous task of producing a meal for dinner in the minute before the six o’clock news.
Food in a Minute would take New Zealand by storm and 25 years later, it remains a big presence in our lives through its website and social media channels.
Talking to the Weekly during level 4 lockdown from her home in the Waikato, Allyson, 61, has not lost any of the fun and vibrancy which made her so appealing on the TV every night.
She has her two children, Jean-Luc, 18, and Olive-Rose, 14, in lockdown with her and her husband, Warwick Kiely, as well as three more teenagers who are friends of her eldest.
“We’re having so much fun!” she exclaims before detailing the kitchen she is trying to
