Dales butchers, Kirkby Lonsdale: Sausage bonanza for National Sausage Week 10 new varieties every day ... ALL £2.75 per 500g.

Higginsons, Grange-over-Sands: Buy one kilo pick & mix speciality sausage (£5.99) and receive a free tub of Pauline Higginson's .........own-make rich onion gravy.

Watson & Woollard, Kendal: Boerewors (S. Africa) sausage.............£5.95 per kilo.

Oak Street Bakery, Windermere: Pain Complete with wholemeal flour, rye, seeds & no bread fat, also Galette, a soft white Belgian bread...........both £1.25.

Peter Hutchinson, Greenodd: Peter's own traditional home-cured bacon £2.50 per lb, and sacks of potatoes from Sandgate at Flookburgh....£5.

Lunesdale Fruiterers, Kirkby Lonsdale: English pumpkins...............................from 89p each.

Lucy's of Ambleside: North West Fine Foods producer of the year' award-winner - carrot & passion fruit cake.......85p per 100g.

Low Sizergh Barn Farm Shop: Organic smoked salmon from the Inverawe Smokehouse, pale in colour with a delicate taste & texture £5.50 per 100g.

Country Harvest, Ingleton: Treacle toffee from the Toffee Shop, Penrith.............................90p per 100g.

The Honeypot, Hawkshead: Hand-made mint chocolate selection by Chocolart Cottage. Delight.......................................£8.25 a box.

Howbarrow organic farm, Cartmel: Organic own-grown Aloe Vera leaves............£1.65 per 100g pack.

Oddbins, Kendal: Perrier-Jouet 1998 Champagne .............................3 for the price of 2 (=£23.99 each).