 This is around the Northwest this Monday afternoon. Now there is a woman in Van Fahey who makes bed mixes and Has now got her bed mixes into Aldi stores around the country She is a champ McCann of Wild Cushia bakehouse and she's participating in the grow with Aldi programs That means that her produce is in the Aldi network of a hundred and fifty stores around Ireland And shan joins us now. Congratulations to you. Well done We're delighted I can hear me. All right. I can indeed. We've been a good delay, but that's no problem. Yeah, and When I mean, it's very recently that you got to use does this mean that your bed mixes now are in in Aldi's right around the country Yep, they are indeed the hundred and fifty stores. So we we popped in on Thursday We went live on the third Thursday 19th So we popped into letter Kenny and it was just lovely to see them in local stores. So yeah, they're around the country as well because you can You know work away really hard behind the scenes and perfecting your produce, but Sometimes I'm sure as a local producer and an independent producer. It gets frustrating when You can't reach bigger markets that they're for one reason or another. They're denied to you. Well, that's that's not the case Yeah, it's been an amazing opportunity and the Aldi grow program has been fantastic. They're very helpful and This is all new to us. So they've been helping us You know with from small things like building a pallet to You know, just how you get in social media and so they've been very helpful Now you make three award-winning bread mixers and there's there's two of those available in Aldi. Is that right? Yes, we put in the bread and the wheat and bread and they both have two stars from taste and then we also have a stout bread and which one is silver at blasts and a heron and we also have a Scone mix which we haven't actually entered into an award yet, but they're really good too and they're all very easy to make So we'll try baking. It's it's a nice way to start off Really easy instructions the back. You don't need too many ingredients and I'm even I even have a YouTube channel. Would you believe I never thought I would say that so you can log on to YouTube and And we show you how to make them So you're continuing to progress Yes, we have some ideas for other products that we'd like to do and find the line and But that's it's we're gonna I suppose mark it what we have at the minute and when we get We'll develop some more products But yeah, it's been it's been a roller coaster. It really has Because you've only been opening what? Although there's a couple of bad bad years there Yeah, we opened a bakery in Dunfany and which I loved it was great We made cakes and traybakes and breads and everything and it was actually our customers They're asking for our breads to take home to Scotland and England which inspired the bread mixes So when we got hit with COVID We were close for 15 months out of the eight ten and we just had to draw a line under the bakery So we used our time and I did a social media course with the TV and We started a website and We worked on developing the range of bread mixes because we only had to at the start So we really spent our time trying to help the bread mix side of the business. We just had to shift our focus Well making bread at home or going it's not the most complicated thing But this makes it even easier for somebody that there just might be a bit reluctant or a first-time baker This makes it even easier It does it we like to say there's no mess and there's no fuss So you like the scones you only need two ingredients And a neg and if you don't have buttermilk you can always use ordinary Milk and the soda bread just needs buttermilk and if you're vegan you can use plant-based alternatives They all taste very good But yeah, they're very very straight forward to make So if you do want to use plant alternatives for that that option is there there is that kind of Yeah, there is yeah, I like the soda bread in particular Because you can add other ingredients into it. So if you've mastered The wheat and bread, which is the easiest one you can move on to soda bread and you can add in Like black olives you can add in blue cheese. You can make it a sweet version with Sultanas and cinnamon So there's a whole range of things you can do with the soda bread to impress your friends and Just change it up a little bit Yeah, exactly exactly one of my favorite ones is to add in a wee bit of cooked bacon into the dough and Then you toast it and pop a wee poached egg on top and your whole breakfast there And you don't have all the dishes to worry about either Fantastic brilliant. Well, listen look out for them in all these stores now at nationwide Wild Pansy at the big house and the line just isn't the greatest chance. There's a wee bit of a delay as well But congratulations once again and and continued success. Thank you very much and thanks for having me today