All Eggs articles – Page 58
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Indian food fantasy: a case of believe and you will see
In May I couldn't believe my ears when the Tesco Just Like Mummyji Mango Chicken was announced as the winner in the chilled foods category at The Grocer Own Label Excellence Awards. As glasses of Champagne clinked together over the table to...
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Waitrose aims high for chicken welfare
Waitrose has staked a claim for the highest welfare standards on supermarket chicken. From September, the stocking density of its Select Farm Chicken will be 10% lower than the industry standard in an effort to raise the bar in animal...
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Cranberry sauce for everyday use
Ocean Spray is out to prove that cranberry sauce is for every day, not just for Christmas, with a new recipe it hopes will have year-round appeal. The brand has teamed up with jam and sauce manufacturer Duerr's to make Just for Chicken -...
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Lidl fined for false meat label claims
Discount retailer Lidl has been fined nearly £50,000 for two separate breaches of labelling rules on meat. Tests by Trading Standards officers found the multiple's Maitre Special Chicken breast fillet contained less meat than the label...
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Third dish for Scottish range
Grampian Country Pork Halls has added a third dish to its range of ready-to-cook meals with a Scottish theme. Chicken Braemar, chicken breast stuffed with black pudding and with a creamy peppercorn sauce, comes in packs of two (rsp:...
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Rannoch Smokery cracks multiples
Rannoch Smokery has secured a listing with Tesco and a trial with Morrisons. Following a trial in selected stores, Rannoch Smokery's premium Smoked Barbary Duck Breast and Smoked Wild Scotch Venison are being rolled out to 180 Tesco...
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'Drumsters will boost coated turkey sector'
Unilever has thrown down the gauntlet to Bernard Matthews with what it claims is a healthier alternative to the latter company's Golden Drummers turkey drumsticks. Turkey Drumsters, which comes under the Captain Birds Eye brand, is being...
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Climbing the ladder
What was your first ever job? I worked as a waitress at Lakeside in Surrey, the home of the World Darts - chicken in a basket anyone?Give us a quick rundown on your career to dateI started working as a TV buyer at McCann...
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FSA withdraws snacks
The Food Standards Agency has withdrawn a number of snacks from sale after they were found to contain a potentially cancer-causing toxin.Certain batches of Quaker Caribbean Chicken Seasons, Sainsbury's 18 Chocolate & Toffee Crispie Bites and...
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Choice variety of snack bites
C-store owners looking to attract snackers are one of the targets for new products from Country Choice.The Bake & Bite savoury wraps in sweet chilli and Chinese vegetable, cheesy steak and chicken Korma need to be baked...
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Tesco chicken sales unruffled by bird flu demo
If the poultry sector was looking for more evidence that the public isn't put off chicken by bird flu outbreaks, it was to be found at a Tesco Metro in Norwich last week. The store - in the same county as two farms where the low...
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Zesty addition to Seasons' snack bites
Zesty lime & coriander is the latest addition to Quaker's Seasons range. The mini crispbread snacks, which contain less than 10% fat, join the other variants in the range - Caribbean chicken; cheese, onion & chive; and sun...
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Bird flu discovered in Norfolk
Bird flu has been discovered at a farm near Dereham, Norfolk.Preliminary tests carried out on a number of dead chickens at the farm found that they tested positive for the virus.However, the strain is thought to be the H7 strain of...
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Commodities Update
>>namibia back in the pilchard business...Spain feels impact of chinese strawberries...Good quality grapefruit from turkey...Details are awaited of this year's Namibian pilchard quota, expected to be just above last year's...
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Bid to raise global sourcing
Tesco is aiming to cut costs by increasing its international sourcing and looking at new supply markets such as Turkey.Richard Brasher, Tesco's commercial and trading director, has told analysts and investors that it was aiming to...
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Sparky goes down Devon way
The supermarket version of Sparky Brand’s Omega-3 rich whole chicken, news of which was broken by The Grocer (January 28, p62), will be produced by Devon farmer and processor Lloyd Maunder.The bird raised for the product will be Lloyd Maunder’s...
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Costs hit poultry farmers
Chicken farmers are emptying their sheds because soaring energy and feed costs are making production unprofitable.Charles Bourns, chairman of the NFU’s poultry committee, said he knew of one farm in Gloucestershire, which usually reared 600,000...
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Brain food breadwinner
Bread enriched with the healthy fat Omega-3 is the latest product to be launched in the Sparky Brand range.The loaf is the third in the Sparky stable, with Omega-3 enriched whole chickens and fruit juices already unveiled. Ues Yuor Laof...