About Us

Added Ingredients was founded in 2002 by Jill Carver to provide the kind of food, especially ingredients that she herself would have liked to be able to obtain to produce quick but complex meals on getting back from a long day's work, and for more careful preparation for her popular week-end dinner parties.

Jill was the director of customer services at Tetra software, now Sage-Tetra, and this meant long hours, allowing little week-night time for the preparation of the more interesting eating, and little shopping time for the ingredients she needed for her more sumptuous week-end dinner parties.

Added Ingredients was an idea conceived by Jill in the early 1990s and in 2002 she was able to fulfil her dream to create a shop which allows harassed business women (and men) to choose food for either preparation, cooking or just eating, in a relaxed atmosphere, with Jill herself always ready to offer advice on both the food itself, and accompanying wines if required.

Jill is a self-taught food and wine aficionado, obtaining the in-depth knowledge of the best way to put a meal together, such that her meal suggestions can hold their own with the best in the business, and her knowledge of wine is as good as any wine master.

Jill puts the same energy behind Added Ingredients as she did providing customer services to the many software clients she was responsible for, the skills she honed during those days (software users are tough customers who needed a lot of love and understanding) stand her in good stead to create the soothing, peaceful and friendly atmosphere now to be found at Added Ingredients.

Come along and sample the best coffee in Oxfordshire, before you leisurely peruse some of the more interesting foodstuff and wines, most of which you will not find in the larger stores.


To visit us in person, you can find us at 14 - 16 Stert Street, Abingdon OX14 3JP.
We are open from 9 - 6pm Monday - Saturday.

If you would like to speak to us on the telephone, call 01235 537405 or you can email us using our contact form. We will try and get back to you as soon as possible.
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