• 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.

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.