February 23rd, 2018   |  
Author: Neil Shaefer   |  
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Categories: SK Foods News

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 […]

January 19th, 2018   |  
Author: Neil Shaefer   |  
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Categories: Chefs' Blog

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 […]

January 12th, 2018   |  
Author: Neil Shaefer   |  
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SK Chilled Foods has just experienced the busiest Christmas period in its 30-year history. In 2017, we produced over 50 separate Christmas party food products for supermarkets, covering Oriental, Indian, Med, Tex-Mex and traditional cuisines. In total, 3.3 million cases of chilled food were delivered to supermarkets in the 12 weeks leading up to the […]

January 5th, 2018   |  
Author: Neil Shaefer   |  
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Categories: Chefs' Blog

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 […]

December 22nd, 2017   |  
Author: Sean Flint   |  
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Categories: Chefs' Blog

No doubt, even though Christmas is a still a few days away, many of you will have already sat down to eat a Christmas lunch. Whether it was a work’s party or just a trip to the pub, you may already be sick of the sight of turkey, roast potatoes and brussel sprouts, although if […]

December 1st, 2017   |  
Author: Sean Flint   |  
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Categories: Chefs' Blog

As were are creatures of habit (with a little bit of OCD thrown in) we like to blog on Fridays, so this comes 24 hours after St Andrew’s Day, but I am sure when you see the recipe you will forgive us. Scottish food often comes in for a bit of stick, mainly because if […]

November 17th, 2017   |  
Author: Neil Shaefer   |  
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Categories: SK Foods News

Four New Product Development Technologists recently started working for SK Chilled Foods. They are Katherine Lenderyou, Michael Thackeray, Lydia Akrami and Juliet Watson. The quartet have each been assigned their own supermarket customers and will be involved in every aspect of developing new food products from the idea stage to the shop floor.

November 10th, 2017   |  
Author: Neil Shaefer   |  
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Categories: Chefs' Blog

When I discovered that Monday (13th November) was the start of National School Meals Week it made me chuckle. The thought of having such a week when I was at school, which granted was a while ago, would have had everyone in hysterics. When I was a kid, school meals were not something to look […]

November 3rd, 2017   |  
Author: Neil Shaefer   |  
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Categories: SK Foods News

SK Chilled Foods has been named Food Manufacturer of the Year. We also scooped the title of Chilled Manufacturing of the Year in the Food Manufacture Excellence Awards, which were held in London this week. The two awards, regarded as the Oscars of the food manufacturing world, recognised the technical innovation that resulted in SK making record […]

October 26th, 2017   |  
Author: Neil Shaefer   |  
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Categories: Chefs' Blog

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 […]