It’s Spam Appreciation Week. Yes, it actually exists! In the days before Spam was a term for annoying emails, it was more synonymous as a brand name for canned cooked meat. Keeping the troops marching through the Second World War, Spam (or to give its correct styling, SPAM), was a name everyone knew.

Forget The Great British Menu; it was all about The Great SK Menu this week. Ahead of a visit from some VIPs, we transformed the meeting room in our northern head office into a ‘pop up’ restaurant, the very exclusive Wellington House. Like most of the fine dining establishments trying to make a booking was […]

Mention Christmas to anyone in February and you would get a funny look, but at this time of year John Parker is already full of festive spirit. That’s because in his role as a Commercial Manager at SK Chilled Foods, he is already planning for Christmas 2018. This month, for instance, he has already met […]

Next Thursday, Scotland will celebrate Burns Night and a large proportion of the population will sit down to a Burns Night supper to celebrate the birth of the country’s favourite poet, Robert (Rabbie) Burns. Given our propensity to piggyback on other country’s celebrations (I give you St Patrick’s Day as the perfect example) no doubt […]

The organisers of Veganuary were very clever when they set up this awareness month a few years ago. Granted, the only other option, if it was about fitting in with the name of the month, was to have it in February (Veganuly just doesn’t right does it?) but January really is the perfect time. After […]

Halloween 2017 is approaching and we were not surprised to discover this week that the average consumer in the UK will spend £23 on Halloween-related sweets, food, decorations and costumes. You only have to look in any supermarket to see how popular ‘All Hallows Eve’ has become in the UK in recent years. It has […]

If there’s anything you need to know about an onion bhaji, Chris Collins is your man. That’s because as part of his role as a Team Leader on the production line at our South Bank site, he is responsible for ensuring the bhaji lines run smoothly. When you consider we produce 200,000 bhajis a day, […]

Cherries are causing quite a stir on the internet. No one can deny cherries are tasty, sweet and good for you, but if you’re going to cook with them you have to face the issue of getting the pit (or stone) out as cleanly as possible. 

It’s World Chocolate Day, and while here at SK Foods we make a whole host of delicious savoury snacks, we just can’t resist a sweet treat! Chocolate is the ultimate comfort food and the first thing we reach for when we’re stressed, when life has taken a turn for the worse and or need cheering […]