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

A Taste of Lakeland, Ambleside: Cumbrian Pasties made in Kendal by the Natural Health Company - organic cheese & tomato; goats cheese; minced soya - suitable for coeliacs, vegetarians, & wheat-free diets - £3.25 each.

Growing with Grace, organic market garden, Clapham: Own-grown organic pumpkins £1.20/kilo Salad leaves with nasturtiums - average £1 per bag.

Cartmel Village Shop: Lewis & Cooper (N Yorks)

traditional hand-made plum puddings with Moroccan Ale from Levens Hall - £4.95 (450g).

Greenbanks, Kendal: New season English Brussel sprouts - 40p per lb.

Hazelmere Bakery, Grange-over-Sands: Frozen ready meal (oven cook) Stalker's Casserole with Cartmel Valley Game venison braised in red wine with fresh mushrooms, bacon, cranberries & spices; wheat-free, single portion (280g - £3.20.

Hutchinsons, Coniston: Special offer 10lbs local beef stewing steak - £16.

Richardsons, Bowness: Fresh roasted whole spit-roasted chickens (Penrith - from £3.95 each.

Plumgarths farm shop: 10lbs Low Foulshaw silverside beef roasting joint - £26.90.

Bowland Bridge Stores: Eden Organic Red Grape Juice, fresh cold-pressed - £1.85 (75cls).

Kendal Fisheries: Whole black bream - £2.99 each, Oak-smoked haddock (no added colour) - £4.20 per lb.

Steadmans, Sedbergh: Frozen chicken drumsticks - 2.5 kilo bag for £3.90