Eating locally and using British products in my cooking is incredibly important to me.

This weekend, a long-standing dream of mine has come true and I am now the proud owner of chickens! So farm-fresh eggs will be used daily here in my kitchen.

Our homegrown produce is also ready to start harvesting – so apples, potatoes, carrots, tomatoes, beetroots and peppers.

We still have lots of home-reared pork in the freezer, along with lots of other British meat from the butchers. I also love the fact that we have milk from our local milkman!

It’s a long process that I keep tweaking but we are slowly, as a family, becoming more sustainable with our meals.