What's in the shops this weekend, with the emphasis, where possible, on locally-produced, seasonal and specialty foods.

Kendal Fisheries: Windermere char........£5.46 per 1/2 kilo also, NEW LINE: own-smoked Greenland prawns

........£1.99 per pint.

Steadmans, Sedbergh: Cumbrian spring lamb freezer offer - whole lamb, cut and prepared to customer

requirement...........£1.09 per 1lb.

Low Sizergh Barn Farm Shop: Aubergine & pepper

bread spread from the Bay Tree Food Company, excellent on baked ciabatta................................£4 per 190g jar.

Watson & Woollard, Kendal: Award-winning pies from Garth Steadman of Sedbergh - pork 65p:

.meat & potato or cheese & onion 75p.

Cartmel Village Shop: Oak-smoked roast salmon from the Cartmel Valley Game company, ready to serve, delicious with salad.......£1.30 per 100g.

Oddbins, Kendal: Chateau Courteillac 97 - bin end

white Bordeaux - crisp, herbaceous, zingy, dry white ....normally £9.99 now down to £ 6.99.

Higginsons, Grange-over-Sands: Texas rib-eye steaks

thick juicy steaks of Cumbrian rib-eye beef marinated in a light pepper sauce, ideal for BBQ, grill or pan-fry

.....£ 4.39 per lb.

also, 6oz Texas steakettes, minced Cumbrian beef seasoned with pepper sauce.................................90p each.

Greenbanks, Kendal: Class 1 English tomatoes .....39p per 1/2 kilo.

Richardsons, Bowness: Legs of Cumbrian Fellbred lamb .......£2.85 per 1/2 kilo.

Bowland Bridge Stores: California Columbard from Estate Cellars.....£3.89

Kendal Foodhall: Morbier, washed-rind cheese with a charcoal streak - from Alsace..........£1.10 per 100g.

Hutchinsons, Coniston: 10lbs best steak mince..........£14.

Country Harvest, Ingleton: Macadamia nuts, unusual nut grown in Australia, roasted and salted..£1.99 per 75g.

Booths: New organic range of bread from Bells of Lazonby.

Cranstons, Kendal: Lamb burgers for the BBQ....39p each.

Taste of Lakeland, Ambleside: Special reserve Wensleydale cheese made in Hawes, ripened longer for a fuller flavour...£ 4.18 per 500g.