The baker and TV presenter on life after Bake Off, her husband’s awful cooking and family fun in the ‘flounge’

Sleep I get five hours. Once the kids – Musa, 12, Dawud, 11, and Maryam, eight – go to bed, I start working again, which means I’ve no time for my husband, Abdal. I go to bed about midnight and, as soon as my head hits the pillow, I’m gone. There have been times when I haven’t even heard the end of a sentence.

Eat It’s taken me three years to learn that just because I work in the food industry, it doesn’t mean that I have to eat every minute of every day. After Bake Off I put on a stone. Now, if I am hungry I’ll eat, and if I’m not, I won’t. Once a month we have dessert for dinner and my kids don’t have to have anything savoury if they don’t want to. They can have custard on top, or cream – whatever they want.

Work In an average week I’ll be testing recipes, doing a voice-over, filming and writing. I cram everything in Monday to Friday because I refuse to give up the weekend. I am not the kind of person who narrates every aspect of my life on social media; it’s about posting things that are important to me. One recent post was about the fact that I suffer from panic disorder; I know sharing that fact helped a lot of people.

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Family I am away for days at a time but Abdal is still an awful cook. He makes up for it by helping me clear the kitchen when I’m recipe-testing, and doing the laundry and the vacuuming. I always say to my kids, “It’s not a restaurant, I’m not your maid, the house is a shared responsibility.” They help with the cooking and clean the toilet.

Fun We always go on a bike ride early on a Saturday morning. We have two lounges and the “flounge” is our fun lounge, where we have a PlayStation and Wii and play board games on a Friday night. It sounds a bit Playboy mansion, but I have just ordered a beautiful purple velvet sofa for the flounge. In autumn and winter, I always watch Strictly with my daughter; every Thursday I sit down to EastEnders with a crisp sandwich. Give me buttered white bread with Marmite crisps and salad cream and I’m a happy girl.

• Nadiya Hussain’s homeware range is available at nadiyahussain.com