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Yep, we've been awarded a Great Taste award for our Butter Chicken Curry!! We're absolutely over the moon as you'd imagine. Mrs CheshireFoodCompany suggested a recipe in 2019, which was a belter, and whilst we've tinkered with it over the years to make it work for cooking in larger batches (which started out as 12 at a time and is now normally around 90), if you walked in to the kitchen as we're making it you'd see us cooking it in pretty much the same way you might cook a cu

When I first had the idea to write a blog about our growth journey, it was easy. I worked alone, had a tiny business, some time on my hands and an exciting future to plan and look forward to. Now that we've made a positive start along the journey there's suddenly no time for blogging. One of the rules to effective blogging is to be consistent - so the good news at least is I've been consistent in my inconsistency! So where are we up to? Lets have a little update. On the 4th A

You may have noticed we've not been blogging much recently. At all actually. And that's because we've been stupidly busy! The arrangement we secured at Marple Golf Club which I told you about in [checks diary] July 25!! went from something really good to something really, really good and frankly I haven't had time. To bring you up to speed, in June last year we came to an agreement with Rachel at Marple Golf Club to be their sole supplier for event catering, effective from th

….one significant leap for The Cheshire Food Co. If you’ve been paying attention you’ll know we’ve been working hard to grow this tiny...

It's been too long since my last blog. Many apologies. Things have been a bit topsy turvy since I last engaged my brain with this....

One of the joys of being self employed is the ability to be really flexible when wanting to take time off. The flip side to that of...

If you've been following our journey of taking a tiny business and trying to make it less tiny, you'll know that I offered a job to...

#5 It looks like we might have created a beast. Remember those Scotch Egg samples I was making for Littlewoods Butchers ? Well they sold...

Oooh, I do like a scotch egg. #4 Here we go again. The weeks are flying by - whether that’s because I’m increasingly busy, or it’s...

Thanks for joining us again on this growth journey. We’re taking our tiny businesses – The Cheshire Food Co. and Marple Catering - and...

The Cheshire Food Co is just over 5 years old and is mainly just me (Dan) with a team of willing, talented and enthusiastic casual...

The Cheshire Food Co. is actually my second business rodeo. Back in 2006, my wife and I opened a deli, coffee shop, and restaurant. From...

It's an interesting time for my business, The Cheshire Food Co. It's changing from the classic sole trader lifestyle business to one...