January 31st, 2019   |  
Author: Neil Shaefer   |  
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Categories: Chefs' Blog

Chinese New Year is upon us again and chances are that if you are in any of the main UK supermarkets this weekend looking to stock up in time for 5th February (the official start of the year of the pig), you will be buying food made by our own fair hands. Preparation for the […]

January 24th, 2019   |  
Author: Neil Shaefer   |  
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Categories: Chefs' Blog

Do you know that peanut butter has overtaken jam as Britain’s favourite breakfast spread? This is very apt given today (24th Jan) is National Peanut Butter Day. Granted, it’s an American event, which is not surprising given our cousins across the Pond eat 3 pounds of the stuff per person every year. That’s about 700 […]

January 18th, 2019   |  
Author: Neil Shaefer   |  
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Categories: SK Foods News Categories: SK People

Julie Knight describes herself as a Social Worker, Headmistress and friend to her colleagues at SK Foods. Or they are the roles she undertakes during any ‘typical’ day in her role as Head of HR for SK Chilled Foods, if indeed such a thing exists! She equates the workforce at SK to one big family […]

January 11th, 2019   |  
Author: SK Foods   |  
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Categories: Chefs' Blog

No doubt many of you are observing Dry January. Hands up though how many of you drank in the early hours of 1st January? I know I did, so let’s say, for the sake of argument that Dry January begins on 2nd January. Agreed? That leaves us all, at the time of writing, ten days […]

January 3rd, 2019   |  
Author: Neil Shaefer   |  
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Categories: Chefs' Blog

This week Greggs have launched a vegan sausage roll (available from today Thursday). McDonalds is following this with its first vegetarian happy meal, it’s safe to say that the meat-free trend is here to stay. More and more people are going vegetarian, vegan, or flexitarian if the thought of giving meat up forever is too […]