This Month

Halloween falls on 31 October - it's the time to carve pumpkins and make soups, curries and more from the insides. We'll have Halloween events around the country, from pumpkin carving competitions to apple bobbing, where to buy pumpkins and trick or treat sweets and find out about British apples for bobbing...

WHERE TO BUY YOUR PUMPKINS...

Try Alder Tree's specially-created Pumpkin Pie ice cream...

Pure Flavour are selling mail-order gluten-, wheat- and dairy-free Halloween cupcakes for your party...

The Original Hat Box Cake Company are making Halloween cookies for trick or treaters...

Browse FoodFinds for places to buy your pumpkin for carving....

Visit our Online Sweet Shop for trick or treaters....

HALLOWEEN EVENTS AROUND THE UK

Soham Pumpkin Festival.. Spalding Pumpkin Festival... Luton Hoo Pumpkin & Apple Gala...

Spend Halloween at The Nightingale with their themed Fright Night extravaganza...

Take a Halloween cookery course at Brompton Cookery School - learn to carve pumpkins and make soup and pies...

Whole Foods in London are selling Bat Biscuits with proceeds going to www.bats.org.uk

For Damien Hirst-esque chocolate skulls, drop by Fortnum & Mason before Halloween

Or learn to carve your own pumpkin with these pumpkin carving patterns...

RECIPES TO COOK FOR HALLOWEEN

Dev-Mex Pumpkin Soup... Pumpkin Risotto... Pumpkin Chive Cornbread... Spiced Pumpkin Butter...

FOCUS ON... MORE FOODIE DATES FOR THE CALENDAR

Burns Night 25 January     Pancake Day Shrove Tuesday

Valentines Day 14 February St David's Day 1 March

Damson Day   3rd Saturday in April Easter

Mother's Day   March British Asparagus Spring Festival 23 April-21 June

Father's Day   3rd Sunday in June American Independence Day 4 July

Bastille Day 14 July    Michaelmas 29 September

Apple Day 21 October   Bonfire Night 5 November

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