I buy my ingredients from organic and local suppliers because I believe it's more ethical and ensures better quality. The end result is wholesome, nutritious food that also supports local businesses.
I've chosen to list my main suppliers because they have been so supportive of The Children’s Food Company and I am proud to use their produce. I'm especially pleased to say that two of them, The Organic Pantry and Roneys butchers, were featured in the recent Guardian Food Directory.
Fruit and vegetables
come from The Organic Pantry, a wholesale organic farm at Newton Kyme near YorkMeat
I use Roneys traditional and free range butchers on Sharrowvale Road, who supply the excellent Orkney Island Gold free range beef mince and the locally farmed lambStore cupboard and dairy ingredients
come from Lembas in Heeley, who are certified organic by the UK Organic Food Federation.
'Everything you eat contributes to you being happy, or fit, or lethargic, or full of energy, or susceptible to colds and flu, or being able to think better and hold your concentration. Your hair, your fingernails, your height, your skin, everything you are is made from the food you eat.'
Jamie Oliver, jamie's dinners, 2004