Devon Food, Drink and Local Information - Blog

Awareness of the impact of our consumer choices upon the environment continues to gather pace and more people are choosing to become vegan or vegetarian. Making ethical choices doesn’t have to restrict or reduce enjoyment of food. There are plenty of recipes and alternative ingredients available to create delicious vegan or vegetarian food. Likewise with special dietary requirements such as gluten-free, lactose-free. or diabetic. With the wide variety of alternative ingredients available there is no reason why you can’t still enjoy a wonderful cream or afternoon tea. Vegetarian, Vegan, Gluten free, Lactose Free and Diabetic Scone Recipes Vegan and Lactose...

A Selection of Delicious New Savoury Hampers ready for the season ahead It’s been a busy few months here at Devon Heaven HQ. We’ve been carefully selecting, sourcing and trying new products ready for the season ahead. As well as sourcing new products, we’ve been creating a new range of hampers and adding some tasty new additions to our long term favourites too. We try our best to listen to your feedback and with this in mind, we have expanded our range of delicious savoury hampers. Each of our products is chosen for it’s traditional artisan origins, award-winning taste and...

Over the past three years we’ve operated as both purelydevonhampers.co.uk and devonheaven.co.uk but as the business has grown we’ve decided that it makes sense to run all orders through one website: devonheaven.co.uk. Historically, Devon Heaven hasn’t had an as big a range as Purely Devon but Devon Heaven has been expanded to stock a wider variety of products from around the West Country and to also offer Create Your Own Hampers. Purely Devon Hampers has been selling high quality hampers for over 10 years. In early 2018 the owner and founder of Purely Devon Hampers got in touch with us...

It’s such a treat enjoying an afternoon cream tea as an indulgent special treat for yourself, or to share with family and friends. There’s nothing like eating freshly baked warm scones, hearing the pop of the lid of a new jar of jam and delving your spoon into the crust of a new tub of clotted cream. We all prefer food as fresh as it can possibly be, but sometimes it’s not possible to enjoy a cream tea straight away and it has to be ordered, bought or baked in advance. When this happens, it’s really useful to know the...

Working from home, flexible working and hybrid working (some days in the office and some at home); the way we work has seen so many changes, some of which will come and go and some that are here to stay. In a recent poll on LinkedIn, the majority of people who voted stated their preferred choice of hybrid working would be 2 days a week in the office, closely followed by entirely working from home. With stats. like these it would indicate that the virtual meeting is here to stay. Say goodbye to stressful commutes, overnight stays and hours of...