![]() Covid-19 has definitely played a huge part in our business. That is part of the reason we love doing it together – we face the tough situations together and enjoy the rewarding feeling of providing for people. We really enjoy catering for events, we found it challenging to begin with as it was new ground for both of us. We believe establishing a business in this time has worked in our favour as it gives us a chance to really find our feet and puts us in great stead for when the busy season returns in the foreseeable future. When we first started up, we were doubted by a few people due to the uncertain times. You’ve now expanded to catering for events – how have you found that and how challenging has business been during the changing times this year? We even try to grow as much of our fruit and vegetables as we can – we grow our own tomatoes, courgette, onions, potatoes, apples, raspberries, basil, and mint – just to name a few. During these testing times, it is so important that small and local business support each other rather than buying their produce from big supermarket chains. We source all of our ingredients locally as much as possible. What makes your produce different to anything else in the market at the moment? We wanted to make these visitors lives easier and more relaxing with our offering. We knew this was a great place to start as many holiday cottages had seen an influx of bookings all the way through to November. Due to Covid-19, we noticed an increase in staycation visitors, so we started out by catering specifically for holidaymakers. So we took it upon ourselves to provide this service. ![]() As we’re so rural, there’s no option for Meals on Wheels or other delivery services like Deliveroo or Uber Eats. With local restrictions not allowing dining out, we saw an opportunity to provide the same level of service but instead delivered straight to your door. Why did you want to create food for holidaymakers? We also offer high quality, locally-sourced food to cater for bespoke events and field sports. Our aim is to make the lives of people visiting the area more relaxing by taking the stress out of cooking. With Covid-19 turning our plans upside down, it seemed like the perfect opportunity to start our venture into catering.ĭelicious home-made food cooked by two young, enthusiastic and capable girls with the aim of giving back to the community and providing for holidaymakers. Having left school, we were both enthusiastic to do a cookery course, with the intentions of using these skills to cater for local shooting and fishing parties. We started off with a basic frozen food menu and have now had experience catering small weddings, birthday parties, photography shoots, and birthday cakes – we can’t wait to see where this journey takes us next.īoth of our mums are keen cooks so we have both grown up surrounded by home-made cooking and a love for good, fresh food. This was the start of Thyme 2 Eat as we saw an immediate interest in orders. Corinne Joicey (Owner of Wild Plum Escapes) is a great family friend and she offered for us to put some menus in her holiday cottages around North Northumberland. Our first day was a success and soon after we decided to step up our game. Our venture began with selling tray bakes on Holy Island outside of Katie’s grandmas door. We both travelled during our gap years - Katie to Australia and Annabel to New Zealand. Katie finished school and went on to complete the Orchards Cookery Course in the Cotswolds, while Annabel finished school and then went on to complete the Food of Course Cookery School in Somerset. Katie went to Durham School and Annabel to Sedbergh School. We attended Longridge Towers School together for five years, before going our separate ways prior to our GCSEs.
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