Cartmel Village Shop: Bay Tree caramelised onion gravy, serve as a pour-over sauce with sausages, beef or even a vegetable bake - £2.20 for a 300g pouch.

Steadmans, Sedbergh: Fresh Barbary duck breast 10-12oz, marinaded in either honey & ginger, Peking, orange, or char siu - £3.29 each (oven cook or pan fry).

Hutchinsons, Coniston: Two chickens (average weight, 3lbs each) from Penrith - £5.

Oddbins, Kendal: Yellow Tail shiraz & chardonnay - £5.99 or any two for £10.

Brennand Foodhall, Kendal: Own-make pork breakfast sausage - with gammon, beans, cheese & Worcester Sauce - £2 per lb.

Richardsons, Bowness: Pheasant - last fresh birds from this game season - £3.50 each.

Greenbanks, Kendal: English beetroot 55p per kilo try roasting in wedges instead of pickling.

A Taste of Lakeland, Ambleside: Local craft beers eg: Tag Lag, Coniston Bluebird, and Hawkshead Gold £2 each.

Plumgarths farm shop: Special offer - 10lbs Low Foulshaw silverside - £25.

Kendal Fisheries: Natural oak-smoked haddock - £4.08 per lb.