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The venison for the new meals range is sourced from the Nisbets’ own farm near Dunkeld.

The family behind a Forfar-based food company has launched a new range of premium ready meals, produced with venison from their own farm.

Findowie Farmhouse is the latest brand to join the portfolio of

ready meal specialists Strathmore Foods, using sustainably-farmed

Scottish venison as the star ingredient of a new four-pack range.

Strathmore Foods managing director Julie Nisbet.

The new brand is named after Meikle Findowie, the picturesque SAI-accredited farm near Dunkeld where the venison will be sourced.

It is owned by Strathmore Foods founders the Nisbet family and home to over 200 Scottish deer and stags.

The family unveiled the new range to coincide with Scottish Food & Drink Fortnight, and they are on a mission to celebrate and promote the great taste, versatility and health credentials of Scottish venison for everyone to enjoy.

To create the range, Strathmore Foods’ team delved into the Nisbet family recipe book to produce four chilled venison ready meals for one - Lasagne, Chilli, Cottage Pie, and Chausseur.

Following a special on-sale period at Aldi for Scottish Food & Drink Fortnight in September, the new range will be available to order on the brand website’s online shop for home delivery. From early November the range will be listed with another major retailer ongoing across their Scottish stores.

Julie Nisbet, managing director and daughter of founder Colin Nisbet, said the launch is the culmination of a long-held dream for the family to put Scottish venison firmly on the menu in the supermarket chilled aisle.

She said: “At our Meikle Findowie farm we have a wonderful source of superb quality venison available, so it makes us very proud to see this meat turned into four delicious new meals for shoppers. It’s also very exciting to be pioneering a completely new ready meal range in the UK, at a time when research shows that there is a growing appetite amongst consumers to try venison as more of a staple in their diet.”

Founded in 1973, Strathmore Foods has over 40 years’ experience in the food industry.

It is one of the UK’s leading ready meal manufacturers, producing a wide range of chilled and frozen products for both retail and foodservice markets.