Christmas Puddings Christmas Puddings have been a family favourite for generations but it isn’t a pudding that everyone likes. With this in mind, serving an alternative Christmas dessert alongside your traditional pud will be sure to be please everyone! See below our 5 favourite alternative Christmas dessert recipes which we hope you’ll have a go…
Christmas Dinner on a budget Serves 4 877 kcals per serving Christmas dinner on a budget may seem impossible but with some clever planning, meal preparation and thinking beyond Christmas day, you can serve up a tasty Christmas lunch with plenty of leftovers for a meal on boxing day. Roast Chicken Let’s start with…
Slow cooker veg lasagne – Eat Healthy For Less Time: 3 hours Serves 4 Make this low-calorie veggie lasagne as a lighter alternative to the traditional bake. It’s layered with pasta, ratatouille and sliced aubergine, and packs in all of your five-a-day 325 calories per serving Ingredients 1 tbsp rapeseed oil 2 onions sliced 2…
Christmas shortbread biscuits Time: 45 mins Serves 20 Decorate these gorgeous Christmas biscuits with candied orange peel, flaked almonds or freeze-dried raspberries. Star- or tree-shaped cutters also work well Ingredients 275g plain flour 100g caster sugar 1 tsp ground mixed spice, ground cinnamon or ground cardamom (optional) 150g salted butter, cut into cubes 2 egg…
Retro Christmas Treats “As a child there are some key things I remember from our family Christmas’ (and some that can stay back in the 70s and 80s!). I remember finishing school and racing into the kitchen to make sweets, biscuits and cakes to give to friends (okay we ate most of them) packaging them…
A Happy Heritage Countdown to Christmas We’re now just under 4 weeks away from Christmas – where has the year gone? We’ve put together some information about what we are offering this year as well as some ideas to inspire and help you with Christmas preparations. Heritage Christmas Product Focus…Shop and support local Get your…
The Gift of Food at Christmas Christmas is a time to spend with family and friends and a great time to celebrate amazing food. Christmas lunches, boxing day leftovers and tucking into an edible gift on Christmas afternoon whilst watching a classic Christmas film or playing some board games. We have some delicious recipes perfect…
What to make with your box contents w/c 2 December Be creative and adapt recipes to suit what you have in your fridge and store cupboard. Don’t forget to check out our last few blogs here on box contents use. Loaded Baked Potatoes with Bacon and Cheddar Prep time: 15 mins Cooks: 1 hr 20…
Creative Projects for Repurposing Packaging As you know at Heritage we work hard to reduce, reuse, repurpose or recycle as much as we can (read about our sustainability steps here). We do sometimes need to use packaging and of course, our customers love our Grapevine and Heritage Bites magazine but after you’ve filed away the…
Nuts About Nuts! When we think about the origin of our food, nuts aren’t really thought about, but when you look into where certain nuts come from, you fall down a fascinating hole which is absolutely nuts! We have collated information about the world’s most popular nut, the 3 edible nuts that grow in the…