Cut your food’s carbon footprint and help UK farms with Mrs Crunch’s recipes and supermarket deals

MAKE a meal of British Food Fortnight – and give a helping hand to UK producers.

It’s a chance to support our farmers and shops and cut the carbon footprint of the food on your plate.

The annual celebration of British food and drink runs until October 6.

Today, we show how you can enjoy the best of it with these great buys on the shelves this week.

And cook up some classics from morrisons.com, using the best of British seasonal food and the recipes below.

Cheese

THERE are around 700 named cheeses made in the UK – so go crackers for this selection.

• Get 20 per cent off Waitrose Duchy Organic soft cheese, usually £1.85, now £1.48.
• Cathedral City mild Cheddar, 550g, is half price at Tesco, now £2.75.
• Munch on Wensleydale with apricots, 200g, or double Gloucester with onion and chives, £2 each or two for £3.50 at Waitrose.
• Save 50p on Clawson Blue Shropshire cheese, now £2 at Morrisons.

Fruit and vegetables

NOW is the time to dig up the best of the British harvest.

• British leeks, 500g, are £1 at Morrisons, along with large flat mushrooms, 250g, also £1.
• Save 60p on Sainsbury’s Best of British apples, six-pack, down to £1.
• Morrisons seasonal British veg box is £5.
• Sainsbury’s blackberries, 150g, are reduced from £1.50 to £1.20.
• Make a meal for less than £2 with Iceland British Jacket Potatoes, £1.65 for 2kg.
• Fresh meat and fish
• To get meat that has been produced responsibly, look out for the Red Tractor mark.
• You can get three £3.50 packs of British meat for £9 at Morrisons, including British pork chops, 700g.
• Why not tuck into Tesco eight British Cumberland sausages, 454g, £1.70? Or buy any two for £3.
• You can get three for £10 on Waitrose meats including Aberdeen Angus rump steak, 200g, £4.

Brilliantly British

TUCK into some of the stand-out names that hail from our isles.

• Save a third on Colman’s mustard, 170g, which is reduced from £1.40 to 93p at Waitrose.
• Also save a third on Green & Blacks organic chocolate, 90g, now down from £2 to £1.33.
• Save £5 on Chapel Down English rose wine at Morrisons, down from £14 to £9.
• Buy two for £8 on 4 x 500ml Ruddles County English ale for £4.75 at Waitrose wine.
• Branston sweet chilli pickle is down from £1.60 to £1.25 at Morrisons.
• Save £1.35 on 160 Yorkshire Tea Bags, which is now £4 at Morrisons.
• Save 45p on tins of Baxters Favourites soups, including cream of tomato, now 75p at Sainsbury’s.
• Selected Covent Garden soups are half price at Waitrose, now £1.05.

Baked stuffed apples

Serves four

You need: 

• 4 apples (Cox’s when they are in season)
• ½ lemon, juice only
• 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
• 100g goat’s cheese, with the rind on
• 2 tbsp red onion, peeled and finely diced
• 75g chunky fresh breadcrumbs
• 1 tbsp hazelnuts, roughly chopped

Method: Preheat the oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Cut the top off four apples and use a spoon to scoop out the core, leaving the apple whole.

Take a small slice off the bottom of each apple so it will sit securely. Rub all the cut apple pieces with the juice of half a lemon. Prick the apples a few times with a fork, then rub over 1 tbsp extra virgin olive oil.

In a bowl, mix together the rinded goat’s cheese and red onion and season.

Stuff this into each apple and stand them in a baking dish.

Place the chunky fresh breadcrumbs in a bowl with 1 tbsp extra virgin olive oil and the hazelnuts.

Season and mix, then press this over each apple.

Replace the apple tops and roast for 25 minutes until golden. After 15 minutes, take the tops off so the breadcrumbs can brown. Serve with mixed salad.

Chestnut, mushroom and leek pies

Makes six

You need:

• 2 tbsp sunflower oil
• 200g chestnut mushrooms, wiped and finely chopped
• 2 cloves garlic
• 1 tsp dried tarragon
• 3 tbsp creme fraiche
• 450g puff pastry
• 1 egg, beaten, for glaze
• 300g leeks, trimmed and thinly sliced

Prepare ahead:

Roll out the pastry on a lightly floured surface and stamp out 12 x 9cm discs.

Dampen the edges of six pastry discs with a little beaten egg then spoon equal amounts of the filling on to each one.

Method: Preheat oven to 200/180C fan oven/gas 6. Heat oil in a pan, add mushrooms and leeks. Fry gently until soft. Add garlic and tarragon and mix well.

Press a disc of pastry (the lid) over the top of each filled “base” to create six pies – press the edges down well to seal. Cook for two minutes then remove from the heat and mix in the creme fraiche and season.

Using a knife, make a pattern around each top and lift the pies on to a baking sheet. Brush with beaten egg and bake for 30 minutes until the pastry is risen and golden.

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