Welcome to Checkout, our weekly guide to local, seasonal and speciality food and drink. This week Checkout welcomes to new participants – Sillfield farm shop at Endmoor and Airey’s farm shop at Ayside, just off the A590.

To Endmoor first (open Friday, Saturday and Sunday) where local food champion Peter Gott is selling pork leg steaks – from his own-reared pork – at only £2.50 per lb.

And if it’s good enough for Jamie Oliver then it should be good enough for you!

Peter and the ‘Naked Chef’ have been chums for several years and every week Peter delivers two of his pigs to Jamie’s famous London training restaurant Fifteen.

As part of their culinary studies, each year’s intake of students also come to the Lake District to visit Peter’s farm.

“We’ll be hosting the seventh batch of students next week,” said Peter, who is backing Oliver’s forthcoming television campaign promoting British pork (Channel 4, January 29, 9pm).

Jamie is hoping to ‘save our bacon’ by investigating how the greater cost to UK farmers of meeting higher welfare standards has left them open to competition from some mass producers from the EU, who minimise costs, but may have questionable levels of animal welfare compared to British standards.

Over to Ayside and just off the A590 is Airey’s where this week’s special offer is sirloin steaks at £6.85 per 500g. The beef is Hereford beef from Langdale farmer Eric Taylforth.

Airey’s, who have been in business for more than 175 years, have a state-of-the-art EEC standard abattoir which is used by many local farmers, which means that all the meat which is sold through the shop comes from within approximately a 12-mile radius and has full traceability.

Meanwhile, Burton in Lonsdale village stores are selling Grandma Singleton’s Extra Tasty Lancashire cheese (£2.50/250g); and Ella’s Kitchen organic baby food – Very Very Tasty Vegetable Bake, and Super Scrummy Strawberries & Cream Rice Pudding (both £1.39/140g).

Country Harvest, at Ingleton, stocks the Glebe Farm organic gluten-free range of flours – new in store is white stoneground spelt flour, for bread and cakes, either in a bread machine or hand-baking (£4.30/1 kilo).

This week’s recommendation from The Honeypot, Hawkshead, are Silver & Green’s Fitz Firecrackers, pitted green olives marinated in oil with double chilli, pepper and crushed garlic (£1.50/100g).

For those of you who don’t want to try making your own marmalade, then new in at Lucy’s of Ambleside is Yummy Mummy Marmalade made by shop manager Amy Nicholson’s grandma Diana Quinney (£2.99 a jar).

Perfect to go with the marmalade would be a slice of ‘large white farmhouse’ loaf from Oak Street Bakery in Windermere which also has a special offer on white barmcakes – eight for £1.60.

Furness Fish & Game at Flookburgh (open Tues–Fri) has something for all those of you looking to improve your diet – wild Lakeland venison steaks, which are high in protein and low in cholesterol, at £7.50 for two steaks.

And finally, for your Chinese new year celebrations (January 26), we have two stir-fries from butcher Mark Duckworth of Dales in Kirkby Lonsdale - pork teriyaki stir-fry with fine green beans, red onion, and organic Zesame Teriyaki sauce; and beef Hong Kong curry with white onion, red & green peppers, mangetout & Zesame Hong Kong stir-fry sauce. Both £5 per 500g.