The Links below may well be useful to you in learning more about healthy eating and purchasing ingredients locally as we do. The Fun Food Chef values its suppliers as friends knowing the importance of using the finest ingredients you can afford. To find out more about our non food suppliers use the tab at the top of the page.
Fruit, veg & much more
Vineyard Farm - F.E. Willis & Sons
This is a fruit & vegetable shop based in Vineyard farm, Poulton Road, Bebington, Wirral. (Phone 0151 334 1713). They supply many of the hotels in their area with fresh produce. Some of the products are grown at the farm including potatoes, cabbages and sprouts. They also stock other local products including Honey.
Northern Harvest
A Farmers Market to your home - they deliver fresh, tasty foods direct from producers in the North West straight to your door. This site helps you make use of seasonal produce and reduce road miles.
The Meat
Derek Massey & Sons, Heswall
All the meat that will be used for presentations will be purchased from Derek Massey & Sons the Heswall Butchers. Their lamb is Suffolk (pictured left) and usually from the Burton marshes, Wirral or North Wales.
The beef they sell is the Welsh Black breed (pictured left) from North Wales.
All the chicken is free range from a farm in Malpas, Cheshire and the breed of pig is the Gloucester Old Spot again pictured left. Tel: 0151 3425646 - 182d Telegraph Road, Heswall, Wirral, Merseyside, CH60 0AJ
Free Range Eggs on the Wirral
All the eggs used in presentations will be free range from Appleby's Free Range Eggs, Green house farm, Greasby, Wirral, Tel 0151 677 1615. You can buy these in many shops on the Wirral including Derek Massey & Sons and T.S.Hughes The West Kirby fishmongers below.
Added Spice to your cooking
The seasonings and spices from Seasoned Pioneers come highly recommended not only by The Fun Food Chef but also by top food writers, Delia Smith, Rick Stein, Nigel Slater and Nigella Lawson.
- GOURMET COOKING SAUCES: innovative range of nine sauces, including Chinese Sichuan Plum and Moroccan Fennel & Apricot Tagine.
Click on the logo above to visit their website.
The Fabulous Quality Flour
The Walk Mill is a fantastic place to visit and great fun for your children to see good old fashioned milling in progress. All our flour is now supplied by the Walk Mill. Please visit their web site for more details. If you want to participate in the circular walks from the mill don't forget your wellies!
The children will get as much enjoyment from seeing the water wheel in action as the adults and there is plenty of open spaces to run around keeping to the footpaths. After all that activity you can enjoy wonderful service in the Walk Mill coffee shop. please check it out.
Fresh Sustainable Fish
All our fish comes from T.S. Hughes of Westkirby (52 Grange Road, west Kirby 0151 625 6531) and is from sustainable stocks. Smoked salmon is from Loch Duart. please visit their website for more details.
Bread Products
Born and Bread - Units 4 Peninsular Business Park, Reeds Lane, Moreton CH46 1DW. They have been trading for six years supplying hotels, restaurants and catering outlets throughout Wirral and Liverpool. They pride themselves on supplying quality products using quality ingredients. Their products include speciality breads and cakes. Tel: 0151 606 8496 or 07834 611 986 Email Andrea.hollywood@btinternet.com
The Live Yoghurt System
The Most Economical and Easy Yogurt Making System Available
Processed yogurt by its very nature, can never be as fresh. Some yogurt you buy from a store may not have any live lactic cultures left in them by the time it is consumed (they have a limited lifetime of days rather than weeks)
Chocolate
I believe in using the finest chocolate in my recipes for those special occasions. The Chocolate Cellar not only uses fine chocolate but is found here on Wirral. This award winning shop is found in Brandon Street, Birkenhead, CH41 5HN (opening hours are Weds to Sat 11:30am to 2:30pm.) 0151 200 2202 http://www.thechocolatecellar.co.uk/our_shop.htm
Reference Pages
The Food Standards Agency eatwell plate.
Five a day (NHS)
You can get some great tips from this site on ways to eat healthier.
This is a fruit & vegetable shop based in Vineyard farm, Poulton Road, Bebington, Wirral. (Phone 0151 334 1713). They supply many of the hotels in their area with fresh produce. Some of the products are grown at the farm including potatoes, cabbages and sprouts. They also stock other local products including Honey. 
All the meat that will be used for presentations will be purchased from Derek Massey & Sons the Heswall Butchers. Their lamb is Suffolk (pictured left) and usually from the Burton marshes, Wirral or North Wales. 
The beef they sell is the Welsh Black breed (pictured left) from North Wales. 
All the chicken is free range from a farm in Malpas, Cheshire and the breed of pig is the Gloucester Old Spot again pictured left. 
The children will get as much enjoyment from seeing the water wheel in action as the adults and there is plenty of open spaces to run around keeping to the footpaths. After all that activity you can enjoy wonderful service in the Walk Mill coffee shop. please check it out. 
