The Honeypot, Hawkshead: Eden Valley Meat (from Saddleback Foods, Penrith) chicken breast stuffed with pheasant £2.75 each (oven for 40 mins).

Country Harvest, Ingleton: Cornish Blue cheese hand-made semi-hard cheese from Bodmin Moor ..........................................................£1.35 per 100g.

Low Sizergh Barn Farm Shop: Lancashire-grown curly kale - delicious steamed; shred & add to stir-fries & soups; or stir cooked kale into mashed spuds & serve with sausages..................72p per 300g bag.

Peter Hutchinson, Greenodd: 5lbs pork & apple sausage for only £10.

Dales butchers, Kirkby Lonsdale: Corn-fed chicken from Aughton Hall, near Carnforth £1.90 per half kilo (family-sized birds approx 8lbs).

Lunesdale Fruiterers, Kirkby Lonsdale: Spring cabbage................65p each .

Watson & Woollard, Kendal: Oxtail....£4.25 per kilo.

Higginsons, Grange-over-Sands: Pork & apple turnovers - succulent pork loin steak filled with apple forcemeat & dressed with fresh own-make stewed apple........£2.99 each (foil cover & oven for 25 mins).

Lucy's of Ambleside: Thai or Premium fishcakes from Bleikers Smokehouse - £3.75 each. Serve on rocket with Vin Cotto Lemon Balsamic.............£6.50.

Howbarrow organic farm, Cartmel: Seville oranges ...£1.78 per kilo.

Oddbins, Kendal: Deakin Estate easy drinking chardonnay & cab sauv - 2 for £10 (mix & match).