What's in the shops this weekend with the emphasis, where possible, on locally produced, seasonal and speciality food.

The Honeypot, Hawkshead: Saddleback Pates (Penrith) including duck liver with gin & lime, also salmon with honey & mustard - 114g from £1.95.

Dales butchers, Kirkby Lonsdale: New line - Cornish-style pasties made with locally-reared beef, carrot, onion, swede, & potato in delicious own-make pastry case - £1 each.

Peter Hutchinson, Greenodd: Special offer - whole shoulders of English pork, boned & rolled - £1 per lb.

Country Harvest, Ingleton: Scrumptious hand-fried parsnip chips from Tyrrells of Herefordshire - 98p per 50g bag.

Low Sizergh Barn Farm Shop: Dry-cured Gloucester Old Spot bacon from Mansergh Hall (KIrkby Lonsdale) - £2.33 per 250g

Bowland Bridge Stores: Mr Bean's low-fat, thick organic minestrone soup - 99p per 400g can.

Lucy's of Ambleside: Chocolate chip cookies - £2.99 per gift-wrapped 150g tin.

Higginsons, Grange-over-Sands: Special offer 3lbs Cumbrian-reared pork chops - £5.99.

Watson & Woollard, Kendal: Sirloin steaks cut from fell bred beef - £5.99 per half kilo.

February 13, 2003 09:30