Watson & Woollard, Kendal: Waste not want not! Oxtail £2.37/500g (Try it in a slow cooker with a tin of tomatoes, some diced carrot & swede. Melt in your mouth stuff!).

Oak Street Bakery, Windermere: Assorted slicing cakes eg: rich chocolate, apple & spice, carrot, lemon........from £1.95.

Also, hot cross buns at 25p each.

Howbarrow organic farm, Cartmel: UK purple-sprouting broccoli £2.34/450g.

Own-grown winter salad bags £1.65 (125g).

Dales butchers, Kirkby Lonsdale: Spring cabbage (from a Lancashire small-holding) 65p each.

Peter Hutchinson, Greenodd: From Peter's own farm, at Woodlands (Broughton in Furness), half Suffolk cross lambs, cut for your freezer £1.75 per lb (average weight 20lbs). Also, rib-eye steaks £4.50 per lb.

Higginsons, Grange-over-Sands: Own dry-cured mini gammon joints (approx 700g), ultra lean, £3.99 per 500g.

Low Sizergh Barn Farm Shop: New Yockenthwaite (nr Skipton) Farm Bakery Granolas eg: Nutty; Oat & Spelt £4.99/475g.

Burton Village Stores: Special offers on Echo Falls California wines - pinot grigio/cab sauv/zinfandel/chardonnay/merlot.

Country Harvest, Ingleton: Pure oak-smoked salmon from Mackenzie's Yorkshire Smokehouse £4.20 per 200g.

The Honeypot, Hawkshead: Olives Et Al Biggarosso, loose semi sun-dried tomatoes in sunflower oil £1.50 per 100g.

Bowland Bridge Stores: McWilliams Shiraz cabernet (Oz) £4.29.

Lucy's of Ambleside: Whittle away those Winter blues with warming Jeremy's Soups, including award-winning Pea & Ham £2.50 per 600g.