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

The Honeypot, Hawkshead: Cartmel Valley Game smoked sliced duck - £4.99 per 100g.

Smoked salmon - £2.99 per 100g pack.

Dales Butchers, Kirkby Lonsdale: North West Meat Excellence Awards 2002 - gold winners

traditional pork sausage; pork, apple & sage; and pork & pepper sausage - from £2 per 1/2k.

Lucy's On A Plate, Ambleside: Bleikers of Yorkshire - smoked prawns £1.88/100g, Thai or Cajun roast salmon £3.30/100g, Salmon Romanov smoked over applewood with dill & beetroot - £3.49 per 100g.

Higginsons, Grange: Pauline's Savoury Parcels puff pastry filled with Gruyere cheese, smoked bacon & tomato - £1.20 each - delicious hot or cold.

Low Sizergh Barn Farm Shop: Luxury Christmas pudding - made in a farmhouse kitchen to a traditional recipe by Lynne Mallinson at Dacre, £7.70 per 900g - (Also available, 450g pudding for £4.76).

Bowland Bridge Stores: Organic soya milk - 99p litre.

Kendal Fisheries: Own-make honey roast smoked salmon -£ 5.45 per half kilo.

Country Harvest, Ingleton: Damson chutney made by the Hawkshead Relish Company - £2.75 a jar.

Watson & Woollard, Kendal: Rump steak Scottish beef - special offer: £4.30 per half kilo.

Howbarrow Organic Farm, Cartmel: Fresh Howbarrow lamb - £37 per half lamb, cut, packed & labelled for the freezer - single cuts also available.

Peter Hutchinson, Greenodd: Whole shoulders of lamb from the Hutchinson family farm - cut and bagged to customer requirement - 99p per lb.