The Real Food Company

20/06/2026

Do you dream about a really great cooked Full-English breakfast?
We are happy to help….

Our fridge is home to some of the very best bacon in the UK. According to Hugh Fearnly Whittingstall, the best artisan bacon is made in mid Wales by James and his team from the best ethically sourced pork that has been dry cured, lightly smoked in beech wood and air dried.
The natural process of bacon making this way, with the addition of care and time, means the initial minimal addition of nititre to the bacon is proven by testing to not be present in the finished bacon.
This results in a rich, flavoursome and healthy bacon that barely shrinks in the pan. Such a quality of bacon is hard to find.

Great bacon is only the beginning… depending on your particular tastes… we have the only black pudding in the country that is made from fresh blood and is also gluten free – and yes, you can taste the difference 😊

Our eggs are freshly laid by hens in the lake District and in Cheshire. All the eggs are produced to full organic standards and the hens are truly free-ranging outside as a hen should be.

What else do you need?

You may want to include tasty organic tomatoes cooked gently to melting perfection, organic chestnut mushrooms sauteed in our organic butter, sauerkrauts, pickles and not forgetting we now also can supply you with gut healthy fermented sauces – both ketchup and brown sauce to top-off your pleasure!

Come to visit soon :-)

20/06/2026

I thought this worthy of a re-share. Fermented red onions are so easy to prep and so delicious to eat 😋
We also have some really lovely organic red onions for sale at the moment, too..

10/06/2026

If you would like to eat great bread but are wondering how to avoid loaves that have been 'fortified' with synthetic vitamins, we can supply you with lovely loaves made with unadulterated freshly milled, organic spelt flour.
Spelt is a grain in the same family as wheat, so the bread is similar to a standard wholemeal or white loaf......... Just delicious with some of our really good butter 😋

Organic & Sourdough Bread We have fresh organic bread delivered every week. This is really good bread made with care from quality ingredients, with the added extra quality of the time taken by the bakers. Many people are aware of the government intervention forcing additives into white and whole...

30/05/2026

We highly recommend you book your tickets for this event in August :-)

https://ancestralhealthfestival.com/

We will again be there with a stall filled with interesting goodies, so...... shall we see you there? I do hope so 😊

– Red Pill Sangha podcast episode – and meet Sara at the Ancestral Health Festival!

Dr. Sara Pugh is one of my absolute favourite people and so incredibly knowledgeable in so many fields, so I couldn’t resist re-uploading this podcast I did with her a couple of years ago – link in the comments. If you think health was all about diet, prepare to be blown away. You can also meet Sara and the other amazing speakers at the UK Ancestral Health Festival in August, so click the link, also in the comments, to get more info and book your tickets!

01/05/2026

With all the recent talk about the quality of eggs in supermarkets, we thought we should mention the wonderful eggs we supply.

They are high quality really fresh eggs that are truly free range.
Our eggs and are produced to the highest standard of care for both the hens and the land the hens forage on.

Soil Association Certified Organic. The Soil Association demands the highest welfare standards for egg production.

This level of organic certification ensures the hens are free to roam on organic pasture with a low stocking density and access the shelter when they want it. They are out in the fresh air wandering around and searching for insects and fresh grasses to eat and any supplementary feed is certified organic with no genetically modified grain and absolutely no glyphosate included.
aThis level of certification also ensures the pastures the hens roam on has not been treated with pesticides and chemical fertilizers (and no Round-Up!).

We choose to buy our eggs from small family farms located in the North West of England.

01/05/2026

"Enliven" Your Meals
Live fermented foods are now discussed in mainstream magazines and are all over social media. They are not just the preserve of the traditional food enthusiasts from The Weston A Price Foundation.

When we began offering really live, fermented foods in our Cheshire shop way back in 2005, we could not find a UK producer and we imported a range from the USA. Wow - hard to believe as, 20 years later, there are now fermenters busily producing various vegetable concoctions all over the UK!

Ever on the lookout for interesting live foods, we discovered a super-exciting range from Wild & Cultured that sits in a niche that is not occupied by many producers at all - live and really tasty sauces. Sauces to add zest, not forgetting live probiotics to your plate.

These are bottles packed with concentrated flavour and goodness and of course offer another way to incorporate gut-friendly organisms into your daily diet.

Maybe some of those people who would love to be eating live foods, but just don't get on with sauerkraut and kimchi should give them a try. My favourite of the moment is the Lemon Harissa and so far in the shop it is the Ploughman's Pickle that is selling the fastest, closely followed by the Brown Sauce.

They are, of course, more expensive than a commercial sauce - but that is because of the care and the quality of these condiments. They are so tasty, a little goes a long way.

https://therealfoodcompany.org.uk/search?type=article%2Cpage%2Cproduct&q=Wild*+%26*+Cultured*+Probiotic*+Foods*

30/04/2026

It sometimes blows my mind when I think about how long we have been in business as The Real Food Company. We opened our doors for the first time in the summer of 1990!
From that very first day we have supplied organic oats from Mornflake, just down the road in Crewe. People love them as they taste so good! I was reminded of what a wonderful a company they are the other day when I was following one of their delivery lorries - written on the side it said they have been milling oats in Cheshire since 1675. That is quite something, and they are still a family run business. That is over 350 years!

28/04/2026

You may have noticed more interest in an odd and ancient traditional fermented food from Japan - natto. Joe Rogan was even discussing its benefits on a recent podcast.
What is it about natto that has caught peoples' attention?
Recently published research (especially 2025–2026) supports natto as a functional food with multi-system benefits, particularly for:

*bones,
*heart health,
*gut micro-biome

Cardiovascular Health.
Nattokinase, a key natto enzyme, is being shown in ongoing research to help break down blood clots and may also reduce blood pressure and improves lipid profiles.
(https://www.nutritioninsight.com/news/natto-health-benefits-food-research-fermentation-soybean.html?utm_source=chatgpt.com)

Regular natto intake is associated with higher vitamin K2 (MK-7) levels and improved bone metabolism markers
Why it matters:
MK-7 helps activate proteins involved in bone mineralisation
and may support osteoporosis prevention, especially in older adults
(https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/nutrition/articles/10.3389/fnut.2025.1713726/full?utm_source=chatgpt.com)

We have a regular supply of UK made, fresh natto. Only organic soya beans are used to make this artisan food.
We sell this from our fridge in our Alsager shop and also on our web shop here: https://therealfoodcompany.org.uk/collections/tempeh/products/live-natto-150g

02/04/2026