WHEN Better Homes and Gardens asked Grant Hackett to make some barbeque fitness food, he wasn’t exactly thrilled.

“Me and cooking have never associated much,” he admits.”It’s not something I’ve ever been too fussed about.”

With some reluctance, the swimming champ gave it a go and with the show’s resident chef, Fast Eddie by his side the blokes whipped up a storm.

“I actually quite enjoyed doing the segment a lot more than I thought I would,” Hackett confesses.

With the Olympic gold medalist’s strict healthy diet and his love of seafood in mind, the pair plated up some delicious seafood crepes and Eddie passed on a few handy culinary hints.

“There were a couple of interesting things he taught me like when cooking seafood you don’t actually have to use any oil because it creates its own,” he explains.

In fact, the Gold Coast resident says the call of the kitchen is even beginning to win him over.

“I’ve probably cooked a few more meals since I did that segment and my ability in the kitchen has probably increased ever so slightly.”

And he warns he may even be back to share one of his own recipes with Better Homes and Gardens’ viewers.

“I’m really enjoying my mum and dad’s fruit cake at the moment so I could perhaps disclose that one day as well,” he laughs.

But before he makes a return to the lifestyle program, he says he would prefer to experiment on the network’s travel show, The Great Outdoors.

“That’d be nice to do a segment on there, once I get on a break from my swimming, and maybe it could double as a holiday,” he says.

For now, though, the distance freestyle champ is content to focus on the pool and this weekend will be competing in the Telstra Australian Short Course Championships, in Tasmania.

Better Homes and Gardens is on Friday at 7.30pm on Seven

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