Food Ideas For January

Scroll down for ideas for growing, cooking and exploring seasonal foods in January.

First, enjoy this video of the January Book "Parsnip Meets A Snowman"

January Eating

Seasonal foods in January.

Grow your own, or buy local this month:

Apples (stored, eating and cooking types)

Beetroot (stored)

Brussels Sprouts

Cabbage

Carrots (stored)

Cauliflower

Chard

Chestnuts

Chicory

Garlic (stored)

Jerusalem artichokes

Kale

Leeks

Grow your own, or buy local (continued):

Mushrooms (cultivated)

Onions (stored)

Parsnips 

Pears (last few stored)

Potatoes (stored)

Pumpkins (stored)

Purple Sprouting Broccoli

Rhubarb (early forced pink types)

Shallots (stored)

Squashes (winter varieties, stored)

Swedes

Turnips (stored)

Winter salads (most grown indoors)

These can grow here, but most of the ones you will find in shops are imported:

Collard Greens

Cranberries

Lemons

These have to be imported :

Banana

Clementines

Dates

Grapefruit

Mango

Oranges

Plantain

Pomegranate

Sweet potato

January Growing

Jobs in the garden this month, things for children to grow and do.

January Cooking

Things to cook with children with seasonal foods in January.

Buy the book of the month - click the book image below

Cover image for The Foodies Books January Book of the Month - Parsnip Meets A Snowman. It is a colourful book cover for children in beige and sky blue showing a parsnip character. This is a lower res version for the web.