Athenry-based business The Foods of Athenry, will feature on this Friday’s episode of RTE programme Nationwide.

The Foods of Athenry, owned by Siobhán and Paul Lawless will feature in an episode of the show entitled ‘Healthy eating and a healthy approach to life’. The show will be aired at 7pm on Friday evening on RTE 1.

For the second year running, The Foods of Athenry bears the Bridgestone Good Food symbol having been featured in John and Sally McKenna’s Bridgestone Irish Food Guide in 2007 and 2008.

Siobhán’s motto that she would never put anything into the baking that she wouldn’t give her own family has influenced the choice of natural raw ingredients used at ‘The Foods of Athenry’. Resulting from this, consumers have the benefit of home-baked style brown sodabread, spelt sodabread, apple tarts, scones etc and the convenience of finding them on their local shops shelves, delivered fresh each day throughout Galway city and county.

Friday evening’s Nationwide programme will introduce Siobhán and Paul Lawless who are based in Oldcastle, five miles from Athenry on the Loughrea road, along with their five children Aisling, Eoin, Gráinne, Meadhbh and Cian who are actively involved in the family business.

The camera crew follow them through the baking process, find out why they are so dedicated to the task of producing fresh bakery products and what else is happening down on the farm. The programme will feature the recently planted indigenous organic Irish apple orchard of 250 trees, so that home grown apples will be used fresh in the baking of The Foods of Athenry’s apple tarts. Their latest project is the arrival of new beehives for fresh local honey for the bakery.

The passion for wholesome fresh food stretches to the fact that no yeast, salt, preservatives, artificial colours/flavourings/sweeteners or hydrogenated fats are used in the baking and products are handmade in small batches giving that homemade taste.

For an artisan bakery, The Foods of Athenry has an extensive product range which includes brown soda bread, treacle soda bread, spelt soda bread, wholemeal bran scones, fruit scones and plain scones. For anyone with a sweet tooth, there are apple tarts and crumbles as well as rhubarb and bakewell tarts, gingerbread and fruit cake.

Because of the natural simple ingredients used, The Foods of Athenry has had very positive feedback from consumers with dietary limitations and they now run a range of products that are suitable for coeliacs, diabetic and vegans.

Watch out for the distinctive The Food of Athenry stands in large supermarkets as well as local shops throughout Galway city and county including Athenry, Oranmore, Galway city, Claregalway, Tuam, Mountbellew, Menlough, Gort, Kinvara, Clarinbridge, Kilcolgan, Labane, Loughrea, Bullaun, New Inn, Kiltullagh, Carnmore.

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