So you love British food and want to put together the most wonderful Christmas dinner reflecting the glorious range of food that our country produces. Where to start? In the build-up to this year's British Food Fortnight we asked the public to choose their favourite slogan for promoting British food. ‘Grown here, not flown here’ was top of the pops so let that be the motto for your Christmas feast.

If you want a slow-grown, quality British turkey for Christmas, order early.  The harsh economy has driven consumers to favour cheaper birds and producers have responded by hatching fewer premium turkey chicks.  KellyBronze turkeys in Essex produce some of the best turkeys in Britain.  They live the sort of life they would in the wild spending their days foraging in woodland and parading in open pasture. They shelter from the rain under bushes and fly into trees to roost at night.  When they are processed, they are dry plucked then hung for at least 14 days to develop the characteristic KellyBronze flavour. They are delivered with full cooking instructions, recipes and even a meat thermometer to make Christmas dinner as easy as possible.

If turkey bores you, make your Christmas a wild one with British game. Grab some small game birds such as woodcock, partridge, pheasant, wild duck, pigeon or snipe from your local butcher and place them in the middle of the table alongside cranberry jelly, bread sauce and all the usual trimmings.  Cooked in approximately 40 minutes and requiring miniscule preparation time, try a roast partridge with cranberry and port gravy.  Or a roasted pheasant with a simple chestnut stuffing or a loin of venison rolled in walnut with a redcurrant sauce.  Buying direct from a local estate is hugely satisfying but if you do not live near one blackface.co.uk will bring the wild countryside to your doorstep well in time for Christmas.

Vegetables.  Think rich, deep wintry colours.  British winter vegetables are some of the most exciting in the world so pile your plates high with British winter veg - it contains all the nutrients that our bodies need at this chilly time of year.  Vegetables to look out for in December:  beetroot, brussels sprouts, cauliflower, celeriac, celery, chicory, Jerusalem artichoke, kale, leeks, parsnips, pumpkin, salsify, swede, and turnips. Most farm shops offer special Christmas vegetable boxes or you can order online from primrosevale.com, holtsgreengrocers.com or many others.

Cheese is easy; there is such a plethora of British cheese to choose from.  Stilton is the king of Christmas cheeses and so by rights deserves to be centre stage though you could choose another blue cheese such as a Shropshire Blue.  Don't ignore cheddar.  It is so prolific it is easy to take for granted, but having been produced in Britain for 900 years is now under threat with more foreign cheddar than ever before being imported.  And for a bit of colour, Appleby's Red, one of the oldest cheeses made in Britain - crumbly with a fresh tangy flavour.  The smells in a specialist cheese shop are so heavenly I am reluctant to recommend a mail order alternative but teddingtoncheese.co.uk will provide everything you need this Christmas.

If time is tight and you end up doing a last minute supermarket dash, click on the ‘Want to buy British’ logo on our home page.  All the British products available in the supermarkets are listed.  You can search by product or by supermarket and print off shopping lists as aide memoires.  [ Click here ]

Alternatively, you could do what a friend of ours did when a family drama meant she completely forgot to do anything about the Christmas meal.  On Christmas Eve, she telephoned her local butcher and greengrocer, explained her predicament and said “Deliver everything I need - you decide; I just want the perfect Christmas meal”.  We hear it all turned out wonderfully.

Share your favourite recipes for a fabulous British Christmas.  We will publish the best on Love British Food.  Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it and write ‘Christmas recipe’ in the subject box.