Created by up-and-coming textile design talent, undergraduate Rachel Pitman, the range of individually numbered limited edition print sparkling pressé bottles will be making their debut at parties and other celebration occasions this winter.

Marmite Cereal Bars. How bonkers is that? They are made with oats, wheat and rice, much like any other of those cereal bars you eat as an easier way of consuming a hair shirt. Ordinary cereal bars add fruit to make the horror more palatable, this mob have added Marmite.

A number of new Linda McCartney products have been introduced recently, these include: Thai Green Curry; Cottage Pie; Toad in the Hole and Farmhouse Pies. We decided to try these new products with some vegetarian friends….

Like chocolate? Then you’ll love this, the Artisan du Chocolat have a feast of events during Chocolate week so why not dive in and float away on a sea of cocoa love?

All the beers were good, except for the Sol which as far as I am concerned still reeks horribly of the 1980s and prats like me standing around wearing white socks and drinking from the bottle. Thank God there were no camera phones then and thus no pictorial evidence to haunt me.

The Senseo looks stylish, works efficiently and has lights that tell you when to run the cleaning cycle, descale and wash out plus other helpful automated features. So easy is it to use, and so fast, that I keep making myself cups of coffee every ten minutes and then jabbering wildly at people whilst rushing around the office finding unnecessary things to do. I think it’s the caffeine overload causing it, but you never know.

British Cheese Week runs from until the 4th October and what better way to mark this than enjoy some lovely cheesy meals!

It’s that peculiar vinegary tang that does it for me, the sharpness of the flavour and the way it’s the halfway point between vinaigrette and a mayonnaise. Best of all it is ours! As British as Marmite and losing resignedly at sport.

A new type of coffee which contains high levels of naturally occurring polyphenol antioxidants has been launched in the UK by NESCAFÉ. Made from a blend of roasted beans and unroasted green coffee beans, NESCAFÉ Green Blend has been specially created by their coffee experts to deliver on flavour and aroma, as well as health benefits.

Worth considering as a healthy and convenient filler for sandwiches, pitta bread and wraps with fresh greens or raw veggies, as well as being sufficiently versatile to use as an ingredient for lunchbox salads for kids and adults.