Benefit your health – and local wealth

Jul 25 2008 by Francesca Craggs, The Journal

BY buying local, organic food you can benefit your health, as well as supporting local businesses.

Deliciously tasty and wholesome, Look What We Found! gourmet ready meals are ideal store cupboard stand-bys. Available from Tanfield Foods in Consett, the dishes are made from totally traceable prime ingredients, from dedicated producers and farmers. Look What We Found! are all natural and need no fridge to stay as fresh as the day they were made for up to a year.

Individually packed in lightweight microwaveable pouches before being slow cooked in traditional steam pressure cookers, sealing in the aromatics and freshness, Look What We Found! complete meals, soups and sauces taste as good as homemade. And now there’s the new Slow Cooked Traditional Kitchen Range to savour. For example try Richard Walton’s Beef and Basil Meatballs in Tomato Sauce (RSP £2.49), or Home Reared Chilli con Carne (RSP £1.99) both available through Waitrose.

Visit www.lookwhatwefound.co.uk or contact Tanfield Foods, tel: (01207) 588783

Northumbrian Quality Meats is one of the regions best known Organic Meat producers. For those looking to source superb quality locally reared Aberdeen Angus Beef, Scottish Blackface Lamb and Berkshire Pork we are the obvious choice.

One of Rick Steins original food heroes and UKTV Foods Local Food Hero for the North East Region owner Steve Ramshaw has built the business on uncompromising quality standards, using traditional breeds of livestock and a commitment to supplying local people with local produce.

For the first time Northumbrian Quality Meats will be offering a full range of its meats on the website www.northumbrian-organic-meat.co.uk available as single items, from steaks to burgers, chops to sausages. Available from early August this shopping experience will include a Beef Connoisseurs option where we will offer minimum of 28 day extra matured beef. The site will also see the return of a secure payment area.

Hadrian Sweets in Haltwhistle, Northumberland, was launched by Sue Robinson in response to the increase in the number of people suffering from diabetes and food intolerance, coupled with the growing demand for sugar free and no added sugar products.

Sue started by manufacturing sugar and gluten-free products, supplying to her mother’s company Sweet Magic which was based in Lancashire. Sweet Magic, now in its seventh year, are a wholesale company specialising in sugar and gluten-free products and supplying shops and wholesalers in all parts of the UK.

In 2007 Sue expanded her business and created the company Hadrian Sweets supplying direct to the public and to local retailers in Northumberland.

Due to the continued growth of both companies Lynda West who owned Sweet Magic and daughter Sue decided that as from 2nd June 2008 Sweet Magic would relocate to Northumberland.

Hadrian Sweets offers a choice of 50 varieties of sugar free sweets. Many are also gluten free. There’s also a range gluten and sugar free cakes and puddings, biscuits, and chocolate bars.

www.hadriansweets.co.uk