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Good Food Summer Festival

Yesterday I went down to the NEC in Birmingham to attend the Good Food Summer Festival. After attending the Good Food Show last November, my Mum and I decided to meet up in Birmingham and go to this one, which was combined with Gardeners World Live and Good Homes.

The layout was different to the one in London as the NEC doesn’t go onto 2 floors. In theory this made it appear that there were possibly more stands for the food section. Again, as with London, the hall is/was incredibly hot which did start to make it uncomfortable after a while. However we had a good look around, grabbed a free pot of luxury muller yoghurt on the way in, taste testing around the stalls, tried some English wine (not bad!) and I got to watch Gordon Ramsey cooking and also book signing. Unfortunately I didn’t have any book for him to sign so I never got to meet him :(

I did see the dicer that I’ve been wanting since I saw someone use it on the F-Word, however at the show they were selling it at £20 and I can pay that up the road in our local garden centre. Whilst I know it would be used a lot I still feel £20 is a lot of money for what it is.

The show was pretty busy, and with the garden show on a lot of people had purchased little pull along carriers to put their plants in. Great idea until you’re in a packed busy hall and you’re the poor sod who trips over them!

So what did we buy? Not too much really. I got Dave a couple of jars of hot chilli puree which he’s already started and seems very happy with. My conversation with the seller was “What’s the hottest you have, but I don’t want to try it”!! I also came across a Pago stand and picked up a few bottles of Strawberry juice. I used to drink this when I lived in Austria, goes great with sparkling water, but cannot find it here. So I have 3 bottles to savour, slowly! We also of course bought lunch, freshly cooked burger from one of the farm stands cooking their produce. Besides lacking butter on the roll (cannot stand dry rolls with burgers or sausages!) it was very nice :)

All in all a good day out. Whilst we may not have bought much, it’s still nice to wander around the stalls, taste the variety of samples on offer and pick up a variety of money off coupons.

The festival runs until Sunday, and booking tickets online will save you money :)

5 Responses to “Good Food Summer Festival”

  1. Sarah, on June 15th, 2007 at 22:30 Said:

    Following on from the Nicer Dicer, I just found and purchased one on Amazon for £7.99 brand new. It’s from the marketplace so that’s £5.95 in postage, however £14 is a bit more reasonable price. Of course, the seller won’t spend £5.95 on postage but I can’t do much about that!

    I’ll let you know how it goes once it arrives!

  2. Sarah, on June 16th, 2007 at 23:21 Said:

    Sounds like you had a good day out :) I was hoping to go too but I couldn’t get any time off. I’m planning on going to the London Taste Festival next week :)

    I hope your dicer arrives soon!

    Sarah

  3. Sarah, on June 17th, 2007 at 11:04 Said:

    Hey Sarah. The London Taste Festival sounds interesting. I’ll have to look at when and where that’s on as we’re off down south for 3 weeks from Tuesday.

  4. Stuff by Sarah » Roundup, on June 17th, 2007 at 21:11 Said:

    [...] Thursday my Mum and I met up in Birmingham for the Good Food Summer Festival at the NEC. A warm and crowded hall but we picked up a few things and sampled a fair few delights! [...]

  5. Sarah, on June 19th, 2007 at 21:31 Said:

    Wohoo the dicer came, how’s that for service. Now what can I find to dice up?? ;)

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