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The food and drink online retailers at thesiteguide.com offer excellent online ordering and delivery services. With the supermarkets you can specify exactly when you want your goods delivered - this service is a must for all those heavy bulk items such as fizzy drinks and loo rolls. You can save time and energy and have most of your shopping delivered to your door and create that extra time for yourself.

From the specialty food websites you can find the best products available online, whether you're looking for something for a gift or for a dinner party, you'll find it all here, from cheese to smoked salmon, or that irresistable chocolate cake you'll wish we never told you about!

Betty's By Post

Beautifully decorated Christmas cakes, luscious puddings, biscuits and chocolates are all lovingly made by hand at Betty's Craft Bakery. There's a Christmas Cake decorated with soft sugar icing and finished with delicate piping and 'brush embroidery' holly leaves, Nut Rochers made with slivers of roasted almond and chocolate covered orange peel and 'shorter shelf life' cakes from their fresh from the oven service. You'll also find lovely stocking fillers for children and preserves for the Christmas larder. Definitely a site not to be missed!

Meg Rivers

An extremely tempting site offering 'home made' beautifully decorated cakes, biscuits and traybakes (flapjacks, chocolate brownies and the like). Their traditional fruit cake is extremely good and is made well in advance. If you can't be bothered to bake yourself definitely shop here. Having done so myself I can assure you that everyone who tastes their products will be delighted. Who wants to waste time making cakes, after all, when you could be shopping? Overseas delivery by request.

The Christmas Cake

Pandora, Portia and Scarlett Edmiston have created their own unique celebration fruit cake from a secret family recipe, perfected over three generations. Using personally selected fruits soaked in cognac the cakes are slowly and carefully baked and matured, ensuring a shelf life of at least a year. This is not the place to seek your Christmas cake for less, nor for anyone who wants to keep out of temptation’s way this year but for Christmas cake addicts, it’s a must.

Kelly Turkeys

You can order your traditionally farmed KellyBronze turkey directly from this highly recommended website. Select your turkey by weight on their order form and it will be delivered to you, close to Christmas, in their insulated cool boxes. There are lots of recipes and advice on storing, preparing and cooking your turkey plus delicious suggestions on how to use it afterwards. Last order date is December 16th.

The Carved Angel

At thecarvedangel.com you'll find their famous Christmas pud, which you can order in three sizes to feed up to a dozen people. All the puddings are traditionally presented in a re-usable earthenware bowl that is dishwater and microwave safe and then hand tied with a muslin cloth and ribbon with cooking instructions attached. You can buy your brandy butter here as well. Allow at least 14 days for delivery

Georgie Porgie's Puddings

These traditional Christmas puddings are made with all the ingredients you'd expect from the home-made variety, including currants, sultanas, raisins and orange peel, brandy, rum and spices. They're available in a choice of sizes, from a tiny one person pudding to one large enough to feed fifteen. Other puddings and deserts on offer are Cider and Apple, Orange and Cointreau, Lemon and Pimms, treacle sponge and Spotted Dick. Definitely not good for the diet.

Food Full Stop

If you’d like to have the time to do all your shopping from farmer’s markets but you just can’t get there then this would be a great place for you to shop, where they’ve done it for you. Here you can find rare breed meats, organic fruit and veg, artisan cheeses and much more, and you can see immediately which supplier your produce is coming from, whether it’s Isle of Lewis smoked salmon or Pied Blue mushrooms. You place your order with FoodFullStop and your deliveries will arrive from your chosen suppliers.

Donald Russell

This is a superb website from an excellent butcher, beautifully photographed and laid out and extremely tempting. You can buy just about every type of meat here, from free range goose and game (in season) to pork, beef and lamb plus natural fish and seafood. Most of the pictures show the products as you’d like them to arrive on your plate and you can either buy from their ready prepared dishes such as Salmon en Croute, Smoked Salmon Pate or Bolognese sauce or you can follow their excellent receipes. Don't expect it to be cheap, but if you're looking for top quality, here it is.

London Fine Foods

This is an extremely tempting website, where you can order the highest quality olive oil and balsamic vinegar, British and French cheese, caviar, Foie Gras, black and white truffles and truffle oil, spices, mushrooms and champagne. Everything is beautifully photographed with lots of information about every product - where it comes from and what makes it special. The prices here are good, particularly when you consider the quality of what you're buying. They offer gift vouchers as well.

Majestic

You’ve definitely heard of Majestic, but have you tried their online ordering service, which takes away all the hassle of having to go there, load up and then carry everything from your car when you get home. Not only do they make ordering really easy and offer the best prices on bulk orders but your nearest branch will give you a call once you’ve placed your order and bring it to you exactly when you want it. You can order right up to Christmas too.

Botham's of Whitby

Click straight through to the shop here on this simply designed website to get straight to the products and choose from the categories on offer. Because they’re so busy with their Christmas products during autumn they take some of their selections away so keep coming back to see what’s on offer. When I visited last there were decorated cakes, Christmas puddings and hampers containing their famous Yorkshire Brack, teabreads and home made chutneys. They also offer a ‘last minute’ birthday cake service.

Forman and Field

Forman & Field is a luxury delicatessen specialising in traditional British produce from small independent producers. You’ll find a delicious selection of luxury cakes and puddings, smoked salmon, ham and cheeses all beautifully photographed and extremely hard to resist. Don't miss their home made, award winning fish pates and pies, perfect for the next time you're entertaining. They offer speedy delivery to UK, Ireland and the Channel Isles.

Galloway Smokehouse

Nestling on the banks of Wigtown Bay is the Galloway Smokehouse, home of prize winning smoked salmon, trout, seafood and game all waiting for you to order online. From the simple kipper to the grand salmon a huge variety of hot and cold smoked food is on offer to make your life easier this Christmas. Delivery is by next day carrier unless otherwise specified (with the exception of weekends).

Heal Farm

You won't find a lot of pretty pictures here on this simple site offering a wide choice of beef, lamb, pork, poultry, sausages and burgers at reasonable prices; just an excellent choice and very good service. You can order your Bronze and ready stuffed turkeys here and specify the size by the kilo. You'll also find lots of recipes, advice on roasting and Aga cookery information. They'll deliver any day from Tuesday to Friday and you can specify which day you want.

Lakeland

Well known for their innovative range of homeware and clever things for the kitchen Lakeland have also included for Christmas Nativity sets, Advent trees, cascading candles, bauble hangers (essential) Christmas tea lights, garlands, golden berries and wreaths. You'll also find all the essential Christmas goodies such as spiced peanuts, crystalised ginger and marrons glace, ribbon and wrap and gift ideas as well. Their service is always excellent with speedy delivery.

Mrs Huddleston

Christine Huddleston makes unique home-made preserves each season from high quality fresh ingredients and is frequently adding new products to her excellent list. Here you’ll find a wide range from Hot Chilli with Cider and Vodka Jelly, and Strawberry and Rose Petal Conserve to Pink Grapefruit Marmalade, Chocolate and Almond Nougat and Cranberry and Almond Cherry Cake. This is the place to stock up your pantry before Christmas begins.

Savoir Design

Alongside the wonderful wedding cakes you can order from Savoir Design, for Christmas you can order their traditional fruit cake, either finished with fruit, nuts and gold leaf, or alternatively iced and piped with Merry Christmas. You can also order gift packaged mini mince pies, chocolate truffles and chocolate dipped orange slices.

The Christmas Dinner Company

If you really don't have the time to order all your Christmas ingredients online and prepare your feast then let The Christmas Dinner Company do everything for you. They'll select the best ingredients - a Kelly Bronze turkey, Duchy Originals stuffings and cocktail sausages, Joubere gravy and cranberry sauce and Mrs Ray's Christmas pudding and pack them off to you with ready peeled spuds, brandy butter and mince pies. Cooking guidelines, a suggested time plan and recipe leftover ideas are included too.

The Gift of Oil

At The Gift of Oil you can order the highest quality olive oils and balsamic vinegars, to use for yourself and, of course, to give away to wannabee chefs. The range includes both single varietal and single estate olive oils from the Catalan region of Spain, Crete and the Puglian and Sicilian regions of Italy and you can buy them infused with basil, mandarin, garlic, chilli and more. Cherry, chocolate and truffle flavoured balsamic glazes are available as well.