Obviously we’ll all be putting out a carrot out for Rudolf on Christmas Eve, but what will you leave for Father Christmas? 

Perfect your pâté spread with a few carefully-considered extras; they make all the difference!

Easy Canapes ideas for festive parties or fancy sofa snacking!

Newly created for Christmas 2026, our Made By Us Soups are perfect when you need to save time without compromising on taste or quality. The only tricky bit is choosing which flavour!

Give your Christmas cocktails an extra flourish with a gorgeous garnish. Why not try one of the following - or combine as many as you like!

We all have our favourite tried-and-tested ways to roast a Christmas turkey – this guide is intended as a starting point, to be adjusted to suit your personal preferences.

If you’re shopping for shellfish, make us your first port of call! At Greendale Farm Shop, there’s always a great selection of fresh, locally-caught shellfish available on our fish counter and on our website.

We pride ourselves on having a good choice of crab at the Farm Shop fish counter, but we appreciate that it can be hard to know where to start if you’re new to buying it. Read on to learn how to choose the best type of crab for you.

You’ll find a good choice of lobster at the Greendale Farm Shop fish counter, from whole live animals to dressed meat and even freshly-prepared Lobster Thermidor. That’s largely thanks to the fact that our own potting vessels regularly works the west country waters, keeping us supplied with super-fresh, super-local lobster; our talented fishmongers do the rest!

Although octopus has long been eaten and enjoyed around the mediterranean, it’s taken a while to catch on here in the UK. Here's our quick guide on how to prepare and cook West Country Octopus.

Found in abundance along the Devon and Cornwall coast, Whelks are a little-known traditional seafood currently enjoying a deserved resurgence in popularity. Our helpful guide provides tips and advice on how to prepare and cook whelks. 

Porridge is the perfect ‘fuel’ for cold days, and a great choice for a healthy start to the day. Home-made oat porridge is packed with a soluble fibre, beta-glucan, which can help to lower cholesterol levels when 3g or more is consumed each day; beta-glucan also staves off hunger pangs until lunchtime, and - because oats have a low glycaemic index, helping to prevent blood sugar spikes - cravings for a mid-morning snack become less likely. 

The humble potato actually does a lot of the heavy lifting when it comes to Christmas dinner – however your guests might feel about sprouts, peas, carrots or other veg, we’re pretty sure they’ll all be happy to see roast potatoes on the table! While everyone has their own special way of making roasties (and we wouldn’t dream of messing with much-loved family methods), we thought it might be handy to offer a basic guide to cooking them, for anyone who’s looking to refresh their skills or having their first go at cooking Christmas dinner this year.

We've teamed up with the butchers, fishmongers, deli and bakery, and pulled together a list of some of your favourite products that featured in your baskets in 2025. If you're new to shopping at Greendale, it's a great place to start!

At Greendale, we love creating recipes to share our favourite ways to make the best of our own produce, as well as ingredients from our top local suppliers. We've loved finding out which recipes were the most popular with customers throughout the year; our recipe 'top ten' may surprise you - one of our other top ten lists even made the cut!

While we’re great fans of a traditional turkey at Christmas, there’s definitely something about a whole roast goose that feels special and out of the ordinary – we think it’s perfect for a celebratory meal with friends and family.

If you’ve gone to the trouble of roasting your own turkey and cooking all the trimmings, it seems a shame not to make your own gravy, too. It’s fairly straightforward (just be careful when straining off hot fat from the roasting tin); to get ahead, you can make the stock in advance and keep it in the fridge until needed. Makes just over 1L (about 2 pints).

There’s nothing quite like a traditional beef roast with all the trimmings, and here at Greendale we offer a great selection of beef roasting joints in a range of weights and sizes. If you’re cooking roast beef for the first time, it can be tricky to know what to buy; if you’re local to Greendale, why not pop in and ask our friendly butchers (they’re brilliant on all things beef-related!). If you live a little farther afield, don’t worry - this quick guide is a great place to get started!

Not keen on sprouts? Let us change your mind! Available loose or still on their stalks, ours are fresh and full of flavour. For the best-dressed Brussels Sprouts this Christmas, our delicious recipe ideas include pairing sprouts with double cream and chestnuts, port and pancetta and buttery almonds and hazelnuts. View our top 5 Brussels Sprout recipes below.

Did you know that an estimated 20 to 40% of UK fruit and vegetables are rejected before they even reach the shops! At Greendale Farm Shop we don't believe there is anything wrong with wonky fruit and vegetables and stock all shapes and sizes. So take some imperfectly perfect fruit and veggies home (in one of our reusable organic net bags) and simply peel or chop the parts you don't want to eat but use the rest and keep food waste to a minimum.

In the UK, bread tops the list of most-wasted household food items; we waste nearly 900,000 tonnes of bread each year (about 24 million slices every single day). Trying to act in the face of such huge numbers might seem futile, but by starting in your own kitchen you can play a part in reducing this waste. Click here to read our suggestions on using up stale bread. 

The ultimate ‘convenience food’, sandwiches were supposedly invented in the eighteenth century when the fourth Earl of Sandwich – too involved in a game of cards to leave his gaming table – ordered servants to bring him a meal of cooked meat between slices of bread. Whether the story is true or not, sandwiches have been hugely popular ever since, and no wonder; made with fresh bread and a perfectly-judged filling, there’s nothing quite like a sarnie! Just for fun, we’ve taken our cue from the Earl and compiled our own ‘Top Five’ meat-filled sandwiches:

Lobster – there’s nothing quite like it, especially when it’s freshly caught by our boats off the Devon coastline. Supplied cooked and whole, so no flavour is lost, it’s ready to be cracked, picked and dressed. Delicious! Watch an extract from our recent Facebook live event where Ethan, our fishmonger, shows you how we crack a Greendale lobster.

Here's our guide to our favourite vegetarian-friendly cheeses sold at the Greendale Farm Shop deli.