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Time for your monthly update
Here, you'll find a breakdown of news for the month ahead, from crop reports to what you should avoid, what's good and in season, grower updates and even some special offers.
This page will be updated periodically so make sure you bookmark this page or subscribe to the mailing list below.
Take a look at what's incoming this month that you should be using - This section will be continually updated, there’s so much always available so why not alternatively use our seasonal planner.
Here is your monthly snapshot slide left or right to see
Apple Royal Gala
Apple Granny Smith
Fresh Fig
Corn On The Cob
Broccoli Tenderstem
Pumpkin Imported
Onion Roscoff
Mushroom Special Wild Mix
Melon Yellow
Great Value Produce
Save Your GP With These Items
Take a look at what's in stock that will save your GP this coming month.
These items are full of fantastic uses while being totally affordable. This section is not what's in season specialty-wise but more what could be utilised to save your GP from destruction.
Pak Choi
Tomatoes on the Vine
Celeriac
UK Courgettes
Large Pineapples
Sugarsnap Peas
UK Swede
Red and Green Chillis
UK Cauliflower
Watch out...
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Weather is the main driving force to seasonal change & fresh produce can unfortunately become quickly affected.
We understand that sometimes there's not much scope to change menus, but when Mother Nature strikes, sometimes items can become hugely affected quickly.
Keep your eyes peeled on this page to see what should be avoided.
Essential Cuisine
In 2020, Essentual Cuisine and Solina put sustainability at the core of its business model, building a team to ensure that sustainability is at the heart of everything they do.
The team have eliminated black plastic from their entire branded range, in doing this they've diverted waste from landfill as black plastic can be difficult to recycle. Since 2022, Essential have removed 110,000 black plastic pots from their Premier Jus line alone!
All poly propylene plastic pots, lids and clear PET jars are 100% recyclable. All tasting cups, cutlery, plates and bags used at shows and demos are either 100% compostible: bamboo, palm leaf, paper based, or starch alternatives, eliminating any single use plastic - since 2020, over 6000 plastic forks have been prevented from ending up in landfill. All Premium Instant and Frozen ranges were also launched in FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) approved cardboard boxes and Signature Jus cartons, amazing!
Development chefs at Essential consistently work to develop recipes reducing food waste, with products that are designed to have a long shelf life, with easy to use application and versatility. With the help of Love British Food, the team strive to promote local, in-season ingredients in all recipe inspiration and applications, with over 450 different ideas available on www.essentialcuisine.com
We can see the team are working on solutions to reduce single use plastic further in their hunt for alternatives to packaging such as box tape, bubble wrap and reconfiguring palletisation to reduce the number of pallets sent out, in turn reducing emissions. As well as reducing printed materials, converting flyers and brochures to digital formatting. To top it off, the electricity supplied to Essential is sourced entirely from green energy!
Since 2018, Essential Cuisine have donated over £20,000 to charities such as Crisis, St Luke's Hospice and Hospitality Action, as well as regularly volunteering for various local and national charities.
The Majority of their products already meet 2024 salt responsibility targets - how fantastic is that?
