Cranstons Latest News
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We are grateful of the efforts our teams have put in over the past 10 or so weeks! We're taking today to thank our teams in the kitchens and deli at our production site. Last week was a particular test, you all worked your socks off in the summery weather last week, like producing coleslaw by the bucket load! So a big, big thank you to the whole team! Again, a lot of you were camera shy so here we have Marcus, and Fiona prepping sandwiches and baking pies earlier this week!
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🙌GOOD NEWS! 🙌 The lead time has changed and you can now place an order up to 12pm for next day collection online or over the phone! 🖱☎️ We've also moved our phone line opening times to 9am-11am Monday - Friday. Collection days: Tuesday - Saturday Visit: clickcollect.cranstons.net or call 01768 807148 to place your order.
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Hmmm... We wonder what’s going on here at the Cumbrian Food Hall? 🤔🤔🤔 Yes that’s right: Our very own takeaway hatch for the hot food counter is being built! 🙌🙌🙌 If it all goes to plan we will be opening the hatch next week, contactless payments only, with a select range of your hot counter favourites on offer along with drinks, crisps, traybakes and confectionery too 😋
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We've added some new stir fry dishes to our range! Brilliant for al fresco dining! 🥗🍗 Pictured is Sam, from our Cumbrian Food Hall, with the new Honey + BBQ Chicken Stir Fry! We can vouch that it's sooooo tasty! 😋 Did you know we now have a create your own stir fry range? Pick up some Stir Fry Veg and add: - Black Garlic Chicken Stir Fry Strips - Fajita and Jalapeno Chicken Stir Fry Strips - Rump steak Stir Fry strips
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We are so grateful to all our teams for their hard work during the lockdown. This week, we are thanking The Office! Huge, huge thank you to everyone for keeping the cogs turning behind the scenes! 👏⚙️ Pictured we have: Mel our Marketing Coordinator, who’s done more than just pose with a sign; 💁♀️ and Annabel, our buyer, who’s become a dab hand at telesales, answering your click and collect calls as well as her day to day role! ☎️ We also have (L-R) Joanne, Linda, Rachael + Mel of our head office team who’ve all been working hard to keep everything flowing through the shops, and looking after our teams throughout this pandemic! ☺️💕 A massive thank you to the camera shy ones: Jane, Sarah, Mary (Thanks for keeping the CFH team fed with your baking!) and Sam who’ve also been keeping the systems running throughout lockdown from home and the office! 🙌 Jane and Sarah, you worked long hours over a few weeks to ensure the click and collect service got up and running - it's really appreciated - You may have gotten away without a pic, but you’re not getting away without an honourable mention! 😉😆
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Have you ever wondered how far our meat travels from field to fork? 🐷🍴 We’ve created this little animation which shows you the journey of our pork from Orchard House Farm, at Newbiggin to our food halls and shops. Sourced from local farms, made by us _____________________________ The journey starts at Newbiggin before the pigs are taken to Blackbrow Abattoir at Wigton. We then collect the pigs from Wigton and bring them back to our HQ in Penrith where our butchers breakdown the meat for our in-house butchers to prepare for our counters, and for our sausage meat. From there it is distributed to our shops in Penrith, Carlisle, Orton Grange, Brampton & Hexham.
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As it is getting busier, a gentle reminder that there may be queues on entry to our food halls and shops, so please bear this in mind! ☀️ There are measures in place, so you can shop safely with us, and these include: ↔️ Social distancing markers throughout the shops ❌ Customer number restrictions inc. single shoppers only 1️⃣ One way systems in place where applicable 🧴 Regular sanitising of baskets and trolleys 🛒 Acrylic screens on our till stations 💳 Contactless + card payments preferred 🚗 Click + Car park collect service (Cumbrian Food Hall, Brampton & Orton
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It's National Barbecue Week! 🔥🍔 The timing of this is absolutely perfect, wouldn't you say? The Barbecue selection Connor is holding is available to buy through our Click and Collect service along with a wide range of kebabs, burgers, sausages, beverages, charcoal and bread rolls. Place your order on our website. (Link in bio) You can now order up until 12pm the day before, to collect the next day. ⏰ If you are planning a barbecue on Friday, this means you can order up until 12pm tomorrow (Thursday). 🙌
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Cranston’s Dry Cured Smoked Streaky Bacon works perfectly in this roasted butternut and feta salad! Ingredients: 8 rashers of Dry Cured Smoked Streaky Bacon 100g Feta Cheese 1 Whole Butternut Squash 1 Shallot 2 Sprigs of Rosemary 1-2 Bags of Mixed Baby Leaf 10g Pumpkin Seeds White Wine Vinegar Rapeseed Oil 2 tbsp of Granulated Sugar 1 tsp of Dijon Mustard 1) Prep your butternut into small pieces and place on a baking tray with some oil and some rosemary and pop your bacon on a separate tray and put into a 200°c preheated oven. 2) Remove bacon after 15 mins (or when crispy) and leave to cool. Once cool break into pieces. 3) Slice your shallot into rings. In a small pan, add around 100ml white wine vinegar and 2 tbsp of granulated sugar and bring to boil then add the shallot rings and take the pan off the heat, leave to lightly pickle and cool. 4) After 20-25 mins remove your butternut and leave to cool. 5) Whilst waiting for the butternut to cool, whisk up 1 tsp of Dijon mustard with 2tbsp of white wine vinegar and 3 to 4 tbsp of oil to make your salad dressing. 6) Assemble and mix in your leaves, bacon, butternut, shallot rings and dressing. Then top with crumbled feta and pumpkin seeds.