The Lake House target customers are those professional couples among us. Those who don’t want to spend an eternity in the kitchen once they’ve got home from a possibly stressful day at work, yet want to put something on the table for their loved one that they at least have had a hand in cooking.

As we all know flowers and chocolates are the obvious Mother’s Day gift idea and we all rely on them year after year. But this year Asda have combined both of these traditional fall back options many of us buy for our mums into one product, their three dimensional Chocolate Flower Pot Cake.

There’s something about revisiting those treats you had as a child that inevitably takes you back to the times you used to eat them regularly and voraciously. The Milkybar Giant Buttons are no exception.

You don’t have to be Jewish to enjoy Tracklements Beetroot & Horseradish, which is just as well as Nadia Alkahzrajie definitely isn’t. She finds thouhg this vibrant kosher relish goes well with all kinds of food, so don’t just save it for high days and Jweish holidays

WB&CO juices aren’t thick and gloopy like some healthy drinks, they are smooth and light, each with a clean and fresh distinctive finish. The colours are natural and the aromas of the vegetables greet you as you raise the drinks to your lips.

Nielsen-Massey are best known for producing vanilla extract; a bakers’ kitchen staple and the antithesis of that nasty synthetic stuff, vanilla ‘essence’. Now they’ve come up with another ‘alternative to vanilla pods:’ Vanilla Bean Paste.

Hard to believe that Thorntons chocolate is 100 years old but they are celebrating their centenary of creating great choccy treats with the launch of Centenary boxes, bars and bags.

The Ghillie and Glen range is smoked in Scotland by expert salmon smokers who have spent years perfecting the art. Established over 30 years ago, Ghillie & Glen has a rich heritage and is named after one of Scotland’s oldest type of smokehouses. Thoroughly embedded in Scotland’s history, smoking was once used as a food preservation method. Traditionally Scottish estates had their own smokehouse, smoking a wide range of food from both land and sea and the Ghillie looked after the estate and its lochs.

Charbrew teas contain some interesting ingredients including, among other things, lemongrass, coconut rasps, fruits, cardamom, beetroot and carrot, as well as whole leaves and flowers, in bringing together their range. These little bags of promise deliver some very bold vibrant flavours, that lingered on the palate after drinking.

The Chilli Chutney Man and Perfect Sweet (a natural sugar alternative) have come up with a range of chutneys which aim to ease the guilt, all year round. It was time to road test a mango chutney and a marinade from the range.’Bolivian Rainbow Chilli’.