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Jalapeno & Ginger Dipping Sauce
25% off! Normal Price: £3.00 - Now only £2.25!
Jalapeno chillis, yellow peppers and ginger. Perfect as a sweet compliment to Chinese dishes.
Offer ends: 22 Jan 2010
Ecuador Dark Chocolate Drink
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A full bodied rich dark chocolate with a heady and seductive aroma! With a hint of redcurrant fruitiness characteristic of South American cocoas.It makes a lovely rich chocolate drink and can be used in your cooking too!
Half a Middle White pig
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Traditionally reared, rare breed Middle White pork. 'Middle White pork has the crispiest skin and best-flavoured fat,' says Michel Roux Jr of the Le Gavroche restaurant. (Pig butchered to your personal needs)
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Offer ends: 02 Feb 2010
Cinnamon Coffee Wholebeans
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Offer ends: 01 Feb 2010
Half a Saddleback pig
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Traditionally reared, rare breed British Saddleback pork. (Pig butchered to your personal needs)
In this issue: Happy New Year and Crop For The Shop.
Happy New Year
A very prosperous money saving year to all.
To get your finances in order, or start the New Year saving some money for the next celebration, switch from the supermarket to buying locally. Seasonal and local is cheaper and you will not be tempted by the BOGOFs and cheap DVD movies that will be on telly very soon.
You may already have noticed our "cheaper than the supermarket" flags on many icons on the BigBarn map, meaning that the producer or retailer is cheaper, normally on the products they produce. That's not difficult when on average only 9p in every pound spent on food in the supermarket goes to the farmer.
All you have to do is find your local supplier and ask questions about price, quality and what is in season. Change to shopping locally every week, and if you have to, visit the supermarket once a month for the tins, washing powders, etc.
Crop For The Shop
How about joining the Food Industry by cropping for your local shop!
This month at BigBarn we are launching our Crop For the Shop project to help more people find and buy great local food. The idea is to encourage local food outlets to act as the market place for local people’s produce and become a local food Community Champion. The project encourages local food production and increases the range of fresh produce available in small local shops.
BigBarn already displays 6,700 local food outlets on the BigBarn.co.uk website as icons on maps accessed by typing in a post code, it will flag those icons who have opted in to the project with a champion ‘Rosette’. This will be done by the BigBarn team or by each producer using their password.
We have phoned quite a few farm shops already and been amazed by how many embrace ‘crop for the shop’ as a great way to increase their range of fresh produce and gain the trust and support of local people.
In time Crop for the Shop will help keep prices low and meet the need of convenience. Consumers will be able to buy a wide range of produce, or even crop and add to the range. Like many who have already realised local food is cheaper and better, many more consumers will switch to shopping for food locally every week and leave the rest of their shopping list for a big shop once a month, or a delivery.
So if you are a keen grower keep an eye on Bigbarn.co.uk to find a Champion near you to market your produce, or a small retailer interested in becoming a Community Champion and selling local produce on sale and return contact us at BigBarn to sign up on 01480 890970.
Your Local News
Young and Wild Catering
young and wild, Respecting Mother Nature
After many years in the events industry, wildly talented chef and entrepreneur Aubrey Thomson has started up a new style of catering company which designs innovative menus and supplies all elements for corporate and private parties that utilise local products and services from suppliers who are part of, or follow the Slow Food ethos, with creative flair and a huge dash of love for food that tastes great and respects mother nature.Slow food members (over 80,000 of them world wide), offer ethically raised and fairly produced foods from smaller, often family run and sometimes organic producers who care for their employees, local agricultural conditions and any global impacts made by their manufacturing processes.
Back to Nature Farm Produce
Farmers Market
A "Child friendly" Farmers Market with "real" Farmers situated in a Farm Yard. Lots of fresh vegetables, cheeses, bread, chutney, cakes, fish and shell fish, plants and flowers. Meat fresh and direct from Shabden Park Farm, speciality home made Farmhouse sausages, dry cured bacon honey roast ham.A wide selection of wild and farmed Game.Always Farm animals to view including baby piglets, Pigs, Geese, Turkeys, Chickens, Cows, and Sheep. Calves and Lambs at certain times of the year.Come and meet Farmer Mark and ask questions (it's your right to know!) Shabden Park Farm has an "open book" policy
Hazeldene Organic Farm
Independent 21st Nov
Hazeldene Organic Farm has been listed as one of best 50 food shops
Thought For Food (Budgens)
Website Launch
We hope that the new Sawbridgeworth Budgens website will prove to be another useful addition to the existing ways you can find out information about our store.Most importantly though, we hope you get to see how our values are able being practically translated to bring you a rich variety of highest quality, locally produced food on the Our Food pages. Please take a look at our website.
See some of our passionate producers and link straight to their shops.
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