Brennand Foodhall, Kendal: Now available, sausages made fresh on site, eg: pork & wild mushroom....£2.15 per half kilo.

Plumgarths farm shop: Gold award-winning sausage eg: Old English, & pork, apple, & cranberry....£2.36 per half kilo.

Richardsons, Bowness: Fresh locally caught wild pheasant oven ready....£3.50 each.

Greenbanks, Kendal: chestnuts....£1.20 per lb.

A Taste of Lakeland, Ambleside: Own-make mulled spiced apple punch, mince pies and Christmas cake for Saturday’s Ambleside Lantern Festival.

Cartmel Village Shop: Two new winter warmers - fresh soups from the Yorkshire Soup Company - root vegetable & pearl barley, also field mushroom with tarragon & juniper....£1.75 per 500g tub.

Steadmans, Sedbergh: 2.5 kilos Dales Quality lamb chops £20.95 (= £4.19 per half kilo - approx saving 40p per kilo).

Oddbins, Kendal: Etoile Filante - cabernet sauvignon from France. Usual price £6.99 - special offer: 2 for £10 - luscious blackcurrant and red berry fruits, sweet smoky oak and a hint of mint.

Kendal Fisheries: Fresh herrings....£2.10 per half kilo. Fresh Cornish mackerel....£2.15 per half kilo.

Hutchinsons, Coniston: Top quality local stewing beef....10lbs for £16.