Liven Up Your Spuds for National Chip Week
National Chip Week, 21st-27th February, is run by Potato Council. Potato Council supports the potato industry, and is funded by potato growers, purchasers, processors and is part of the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (www.ahdb.org.uk).
Did you know.....
A quarter of all the potatoes that are grown in Britain are made into chips – that’s around 1.7 million tonnes each year.
It would take an area the size of 56,000 Wembley Stadium football pitches to grow all the potatoes needed for the chips eaten in Great Britain each year.
10% of the entire British potato crop is needed to supply our 10,500 chip shops – that’s about 680,000 tonnes.
Laid end to end, all the British potatoes that are turned into chips every year would stretch around the world a staggering 76 times.
Fish suppers remain the nation’s favourite takeaway meal, outselling Indian food at a rate of 2:1
Eight out of 10 UK households buy frozen oven chips each year.
On average 16 medium-sized potatoes go into making a 1kg bag of oven chips.
Check back for exciting competitions, great recipes and more during the run up to National Chip Week.
From the 21st to the 27th February we will be celebrating this humble vegetable with ideas for livening up your spuds...
www.lovechips.co.uk