...your guide to local, speciality and seasonal food & drink.

Dales butchers, Kirkby Lonsdale: Special offer 5lbs minced beef (from George Bell's Hereford beef herd at Holme Farm, Kirkby Lonsdale) - £6.50.

Lunesdale Fruiterers, Kirkby Lonsdale: Kirkby Lonsdale tomatoes - £1.29 per kilo.

Peter Hutchinson, Greenodd: Gloucester Old Spot cross - pork from John Hadwin at Altherside, Broughton-in-Furness. Joints - £1.50 per lb.

The Honeypot, Hawkshead: Fresh Morecambe Bay potted shrimps - £2.20 per 57g pot.

Lucy's of Ambleside: Chicken, pheasant & apricot pie (from Burbush's at Penrith) individual pies (from £1.25) or by the slice (95p per 100g).

Howbarrow organic farm, Cartmel: Howbarrow-grown organic blackcurrants £1.50 per 250g punnet.

Higginsons, Grange-over-Sands: Burger bonanza - 10 hamburgers for only £5.99.

Low Sizergh Barn Farm Shop: Yorkshire Feta a semi-soft & creamy ewe's milk cheese with a piquant flavour. Excellent for tossing in salads with olives from the deli counter - £2.08 per 125g.

Country Harvest, Ingleton: Womersley (near Pontefract) fruit & herb jellies eg: apple & geranium; apple, garlic & chilli. Perfect meat accompaniment or for flavouring and making sauces (210g) from £2.55.

Watson & Woollard, Kendal: Pork kebabs with green & yellow peppers - 89p each.

Oddbins, Kendal: Norman's Lone Gun unwooded chardonnay - usually £4.99 special offer £1 off.