Shake Up Your Wake Up With Mitchells

Are you one of the 50% of people who skip breakfast at some point during the week? Or one of the 21% of people who do so purely to spend longer in bed? If so, this week is the time to change - as it is Farmhouse Breakfast Week!

Organised on behalf of UK cereal farmers and producers who grow crops such as wheat, barley, oats and oilseed rape, Farmhouse Breakfast Week and the Shake Up Your Wake Up campaign encourages more people to enjoy a healthy and tasty breakfast.

The purpose of the campaign is to raise awareness of the benefits of eating a healthy breakfast and demonstrate the wealth of wonderful breakfast produce available around the country - and we will be doing our bit to support the campaign at Mitchells Dairy.

Running from Monday 27th January to Saturday 1st February, we will be offering our great selection of tasty breakfast options from 7.30am - 5.30pm - and regardless or whether you sit in or take away your breakfast as food on the mooove, there is no better way to start your day.

Breakfast options include hot filled rolls (bacon/sausage/egg or a combination), cereal, toast, croissants, butteries, fresh homemade scones, porridge and eggs/omelettes.

If you are looking for healthy breakfast options, you can purchase wholegrains, rapeseed oil and oats from our Grocery Shop, or if you want to forget about your diet for just one day, why not indulge in our all day breakfast - a plate brimming with hearty home-cooked, locally produced eggs and sausages and a whole lot more?

Whatever type of breakfast you choose, we look forward to welcoming you throughout Farmhouse Breakfast Week and helping to Shake Up Your Wake Up!

You can see Mitchells’ promotion on the Farmhouse Breakfast Week site HERE, as well as any other local events at the Events and Promotions page, and if you do visit us, remember to pick up a complimentary Easy and Tasty Recipe booklet.

If you want to help support Breakfast Week, why not send us in your photos of your Mitchells Dairy breakfasts from the Dairy Tearoom, or ones that you have cooked at home using our delicious ingredients from the Grocery Shop?

Simply upload your breakfast photos to the Mitchells' Facebook page, or upload them to Twitter or Instagram. If you do so, use the hashtag #BreakfastWeek, as you could be in with a chance of winning a UK seaside break courtesy of Shake Up Your Wake Up!

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Celebrate Burns Night with Mitchells Dairy

If you are planning on beating the winter blues and having a Burns Night celebration this weekend, you will be glad to know that you can find everything you need at Mitchells Dairy.

From locally grown neeps and tatties, to a range of haggis from the likes of Macsween of Edinburgh, Scotts of Huntly (a Scottish Haggis championship winner no less!) and Presly of Oldmeldrum, we can guarantee you won’t need to look elsewhere for your traditional Burns Supper ingredients.

Of course, a delicious dessert is a fitting ending to any Burns Supper, so to complete your meal in style, how about a mouthwatering combination of Mitchells Crannachan ice cream made by Rizza’s of Huntly, raspberries from Barra Berries, and toasted Aberdeenshire oats to give a true taste of Scotland?

If you fancy yourself as something of an amateur baker, you may even want to try your hand at Paul Hollywood’s Cranachan Cheesecake, which featured on Paul Hollywood’s Pies & Puds, and which imaginatively used Mitchells’ handmade oatcakes as the base of the dessert.

If you aren’t quite full by then, we also have a wide selection of Scottish shortbread and cheeses, which are absolutely delicious with our aforementioned handmade oatcakes.

Of course, no Burns Supper is complete without whisky, and you will be glad to know that we have a great range of whisky at very competitive prices to toast the Bard.

To ensure you have your ingredients in time for Burns Night, simply ask in-store at the deli counter. If you would like any haggis or Burns Night items sent to family or friends anywhere in the UK, please contact us on info@mitchells-scotland.com and we will be happy to help.

We hope you all have a fantastic Burns Night, and from everyone at Mitchells Dairy - to the immortal memory of Robert Burns!

If you are having a Burns Night celebration, please share your pictures with us on Facebook and Twitter, and feel free to share your recipes with us too - we would love to tell our community about them.

 

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Festive Foodie Fundraiser

Our Festive Foodie Fundraiser on Thursday 21st November will see us team up with the Charlie House Appeal charity as well as some of our suppliers to host a fantastic evening of food and fun!

We have committed ourselves to help raise awareness and funds for Charlie House Appeal, a local charity helping families right here in OUR community, which 'engages in activities and projects to support children with complex disabilities and life limiting conditions'.

Tickets are available in advance, and on the night you will receive a welcoming glass of mulled wine, after which you will get a chance to mingle around the shop and tearoom trying different delicious samples from some of our suppliers:

Cocoa Ooze Chocolates
'Cocoa Ooze Chocolate was set up in October 2008 by award winning chocolatier Jamie Hutcheon to bring a new fresh offering to the local and national marketplace. The team at Cocoa Ooze create a array of mouth watering and scrumptious chocolate delights made in our production faculty in Peterculter, Aberdeen.'

Downies Fish
'As well as top quality fresh Scottish fish, Downies supply frozen fish, naturally smoked fish such as Finnan haddock, hot-smoked mackerel hot-smoked salmon as well as naturally smoked cod, haddock and mackerel fillets.'

   

Glen Garioch Whisky

'Shielded from the world’s prying eyes, deep in the fertile ‘Granary of Aberdeenshire’, and only ever produced in small, precious batches, Glen Garioch is a rare find indeed, but warmly appreciated by those who like a hearty Highland malt, non chill-filtered as nature intended, with a wholesome maltiness, honeyed sweetness and delicious creamy texture to savour.'

Cairn O’Mohr Wine

'Cairn O'Mohr is a Scottish business promoting local produce with locally sourced ingredients. Owners Ron and Judith strive to make a quality product and are proud of the wines that they produce. Cairn O'Mohr has won several accolades including gold ‘Taste’ awards; the delicious Sparkling Strawberry won the highest prize of a 3 star gold award, one of only 83 awarded from 5000 entrants.'

Haigs

'Haigs is a small family owned business established in 2007 by James and Julie Haig. They are a specialist food hall situated in the heart of Aberdeen city centre, specialising in fresh meat, fresh fish, fresh fruit and veg, bakery and pies.'

Cambus o May cheese
All of Cambus O'May's cheeses are handcrafted using unpasteurised milk from traditional recipes. Unlike mass-produced cheese that is standard in consistency and often unexciting in taste, cheese made with raw milk boasts a wealth of interesting flavours and textures. Part of the charm of producing raw milk cheeses is the difference in flavour that comes with different seasons so expect subtle changes in the cheese as the year goes on.'

JG Ross Bakers
'JG Ross Bakers provides an extensive range of high quality bakery, sandwiches and meat goods to satisfy even the most discerning customer. Because JG Ross source ingredients of the highest quality, and many of its products are made during the night, they can provide customers with the assurance that they will receive products which are continuously full of flavour and of an excellent standard.'

As well as these samples, representatives from Charlie House will be attending to host a raffle as well as sell their Charlie beanie bears to raise money for the charity.

There will also of course be an opportunity to browse our range of Christmas hampers; which can be a bespoke creation of your choice, or you can pick from our already designed range!

With every hamper bought or ordered on the night, a donation will be made to Charlie House from us at Mitchells!

Tickets can be purchased in person, by phone (01467 621389) or via email (judy@mitchells-scotland.com) in exchange for a suggested donation price of just £5 to the Charlie House Appeal - we hope to see you all there!

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#LunchOnMitchells

After a long, enjoyable (and even sometimes sunny) summer, it is finally time for the children of Inverurie and Aberdeenshire to go back to school - and to celebrate, we are going to run a fun, little competition for them to win some #LunchOnMitchells.

We know some parents will be looking forward to getting some peace and quiet, but we must admit, we are looking forward to welcoming our lunch customers back, and seeing some new and familiar faces!

In the Dairy Tearoom, we do an exclusive sit in or takeaway 'school kids special' for £2 – where there's always a bowl of chips with cheese or gravy and a can of juice, or a bowl of salad and a can of juice available for school kids.

Additionally, there will be another daily special depending on the day’s menu (eg macaroni, chicken nuggets, pie, pizza or sausage roll) and a can of juice for £2 and at the deli counter in the shop, we also do a popular lunch offer of a takeaway 'Homemade Soup and Quiche' or 'Homemade Soup and Sandwich' for just £2!

And if you're not quite full enough or if you need some dessert to wash down your lunch, we also have lots of delicious fruit and ice cream available in the Grocery Shop.

COMPETITION

To celebrate the kids going back to school, we are running a competition for them to win some #LunchOnMitchells.

All you have do to, whether you're a parent or pupil, is post photos of either your first day at school or your first day back at school on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram using the hashtag #LunchOnMitchells - and you could win some free vouchers and get your (yes, you guessed it) lunch on Mitchells!

If you're a parent or an older pupil, why not join in the fun and upload your old pictures of your first day back at school? If you win, you can treat your son, daugher, niece or nephew to school lunch and gain some brownie points in the family!

We will give away 5 x £2 vouchers as a prize - which could be lunch for a week for one person, or the winner could even use them to treat their friends to lunch at 'The Dairy'.

The competition will run until Friday 23rd August and the winner will be chosen at random by the Mitchells Dairy team.

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Mitchells' Souper Potato Recipe

Although most of the snow has shifted, it still feels like the icy cold winds could carry on much longer, so we thought it'd be a nice idea to give you a recipe to help heat you up.

We'd like to share with you our very own Tattie Soup recipe – an economical and hearty meal for those cold, winter days.

All of the ingredients used in our delicious Tattie Soup are available in our shop, The Dairy, and if you are looking for something to go along with it, we think it is very well complemented by our own Mitchell's oatcakes.

PS. If you are going to make the Tattie Soup, you might as well make a big pot, because let's face it, second day soup is always better!

Ingredients

• 2kg Potatoes 
• 4 Large Carrots 
• ½ Small Turnip 
• 1 Large Onion 
• 8oz Boiling Beef 
• 2 Stock Cubes – Beef or Vegetable 
• 1 Finely Chopped Leek
• Seasoning

Method

• Peel all vegetables. Place in a large pan and add beef and stock. Fill the pan with water. 
• Bring it to the boil. 
• Simmer for approximately 1.5 hrs 
• Take the beef out. 
• Blend the vegetables with stock to a consistency of your liking. 
• Chop the beef into pieces before putting them back in the pan. 
• Add leeks and simmer for a further 5–10 minutes. 
• Season to taste

What do you think of our Tattie Soup recipe? Would you do anything different? Let us know if you try it out on the Mitchells Dairy Facebook and Twitter pages.

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Join The Mitchells' Mooo-vement

At Mitchells Dairy, we pride ourselves on our attention to customer needs and personal service - and there is a rare opportunity available to join our friendly, customer-orientated team.

One of our most valued and popular members of staff is going off on maternity leave, and we are looking for a Shop Assistant to cover for her in our multi-award winning Grocery shop.

Based in Inverurie in the heart of Garioch, our shop is packed with the best of Mitchells' own label and other local produce as well as everyday groceries, home-made ready meals, a delicatessen counter offering cheeses and cooked meats and a selection of beer, wine and spirits from around the globe.

The role will initially be for maternity cover and will be 28 hours per week, between 7am-4pm Monday to Friday, although occasional Saturdays may be required.

If you are interested in this position, please phone us on 01467 621389 or email info@mitchells-scotland.com for an application form.

Vacancy Details

Shop Assistant
Initially for maternity cover
28 hours per week
Hours between 7am – 4pm Monday to Friday
Occasional Saturdays may be required

Where are we?

20-22 Market Place

Inverurie
Aberdeenshire
AB51 3XN

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Mitchell's prevail at the Scottish Grocer Awards!!

At Mitchell's we take pride our wide range of fruit and vegetables, locally grown seasonal produce when available and fresh locally landed fish on the Downies of Whitehills counter within the shop. And thanks to our team's hard work, it had paid off, as Mitchell's WON the award for Health Promoting Retailer of the Year !!

We always try to encourage healthy eating the best we can, with impulse fruit packs often available at the till. Mitchell's fruit baskets have always been a popular gift choice and we also have contracts to supply a number of schools and workplaces in the area with weekly fruit baskets, helping pupils and staff respectively to get their 5 a day.

With a range of ingredients available in store from oatmeals, cereals, pulses, vegetables, local fish, meat, cheeses to healthy local cold pressed rapeseed oils and much much more, Mitchell's has it all to for you to prepare healthy, wholesome, nutritious home-cooked meals.

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