When I lived in Adelaide, my favourite way to spend a Saturday morning was to hit up the farmer’s markets. Adelaide is all about fresh, local and quality food and produce so while you’re there, dedicate your time to eating, buying and seeing all the spoils South Australia has to offer.

So, first thing’s first: breakfast. Get up early and jump in the car for your drive to Angaston in the Barossa Valley. From North Adelaide, this drives takes just over an hour, so if you’re like me and get super hangry without adequate snack-age, pack something light to tide you over before eating one of the best market breakfast’s you might ever have. I totally ate a croissant on the way last time I went. That’s what I mean by ‘light’.

Once in Angaston you’ll l find the Barossa Farmer’s Market. Basically, they sell these breakfast rolls. Now I’m a vegetarian, however when my dad had cancer and I had glandular fever I was eating meat again because my body was so weak and stressed. During this period, I tried one of these breakfast rolls. Oh god, they were so good.

Essentially, they’re a really nice roll with things like delicious bacon, free-range egg, caramelised onion, baby spinach all on a delish bun, with all this produce local to the Barossa. You can also add various condiments like local relishes and sauces. It is seriously the best breakfast burger if you eat meat. If you don’t, they happen to have a vegan burger as well, which I haven’t tried but I bet it’s fab.

Alongside your burger you have to try a coffee from the same little kitchen doing the burgers. It’s just coffee right? How good can it be? Well, the beans are locally sourced and roasted by this company called Bean Addiction which is really nice quality coffee. But the best bit about these coffees is the local jersey milk they use for them. Get a full-cream latte or cappuccino and you won’t regret it. I don’t even drink that much coffee and I was struggling to put this down. It was so creamy and filling too that I was struggling to fit it all in with my breakfast roll. I felt genuinely torn about which one I needed to give more stomach space to (I chose the coffee).

After you’ve stuffed your face, you might want to just walk around the market, maybe buy a few snacks. If you’re visiting for the weekend and fancy getting your foodie friends back home a gift or two, this would be a good place to start. The market has bags of Bean Addiction coffee, local teas, fudge, rocky road and many condiments like relishes and oils for sale.

Once you’re a little less full you should most definitely get some ice cream from the Barossa Valley Ice Cream Company. The salty caramel is amazing and award-winning, but my favourite was the Belgian chocolate. It was so chocolate-y and rich and just so delicious that I didn’t even want to let Simon try it and I’m a big food sharer. And it’s made with the same jersey milk that was in your coffee. *mic drop*

After the farmer’s market, you’ll be wanting to take some time away from food, but that doesn’t mean time away from wine. The best things to do in the Barossa are eating and drinking, so let’s get on it.

My personal favourite Barossa wine was a viognier produced by Yalumba Winery in Angaston. So as it’s my favourite, you should probably go there. As for other wineries, Jacob’s Creek, Seppeltsfield and Penfolds are probably the best known wineries in the area, all with cellar doors open Saturdays. If you’re just lazy and don’t want to be bogged down with excess driving, then go to the Chateau Tanunda. They make and sell their own wine, but they also sell bottles from the Barossa’s smaller boutique wineries, so win-win, local wines without all the stops.

After a few hours exploring the vineyards/ that one place you stayed and drank too much at, you might be hungry for lunch. I reckon the best place for a meal in Tanunda is a place called 1918. It’s a modern Australian restaurant that serves locally-sourced and seasonally-inspired meals. I have loved everything I’ve eaten here from the ‘don’t-touch-my-food’ spicy corn fritters to the ‘I-need-to-be-alone-with-my-dessert’ gingerbread semifreddo, even their in-house made ciabatta is amazing, as it can be served with their own parmesan oil. You have to try this oil. You’ll want to buy a bottle and bathe in it. Luckily, they sell it so you can do this. I personally didn’t bathe in my own bottle as I was too busy spending an afternoon in bed with a loaf of bread and said oil, just going to town.

After what’s bound to be a delicious experience, you may want to check out the shops in Tanunda before your next stop, it’s food-based so you better do some squats and lunges to aid digestion. The Raven’s Parlour bookstore is great if you like reading/ pretending to read and if you like old people’s junk, like I do, there’s an antique store down the road where I bought a bitchin’ leather handbag for $12.

Once you’re ready to think about food again, take your lazy butts over to Maggie Beer’s farm in Nuriootpa. Here you can stroll around her farm, see the various wildlife and take in the beautiful surroundings. Then, if you’ve worked up an appetite again, you have to try either Maggie’s chocolate brownie, any of her ice creams or her sparkling apple juice, made with 100% local apples, and that’s it. No other ingredients. I don’t know how it tastes that good when it’s just apples but it does. This is another great place to pick up a gift or two as it’s part café, part shop so plenty of food, books and even more wine to stock up on.

This is the last stop on the foodie’s day out in the Barossa, however if you are in the mood for something a little unusual, make sure to check out Barossa Fruit Wines on your way back to Adelaide, for some truly unique and beautiful wines. They make quandong and quince wines. I mean, hello.

Anyway, that’s the end. If you’ve taken my advice, you’ll settle into your bed in a satisfied food coma ready to tackle the next day with even more eating, because South Australia is the king of food and if you deny it, the local’s will pelt you with plump organic tomatoes.