Are you a foodie? Become a New Ice Age Field Operative

Want to see where your frozen food comes from?

Why not apply to join theNewIceAge.com volunteer Field Operatives?

It's a great opportunity to visit UK frozen food manufacturing sites, see who makes our frozen ready meals and witness and document the entire fresh-to-frozen process. Have you ever wondered where your frozen food comes from? Ever wondered what's inside your ready meal?

Indulge your interest in frozen food

And your spirit of adventure!

Our Writer Goes Fishing

Join us on board Dave Hurford's boat The Constant Friend catching Sardines, Sprats and Herring off the South Devon coast. Dave has fished off Brixham for many years and tells us all about catching fish for the frozen food market.   

Field Operative Suzannah Visits a Frozen Food Factory

Join us behind the scenes at Pinguin frozen food manufacturers in Lincolnshire. Our Field Operative Suzannah finds out about how our frozen foods are made.   

Suzannah

Suzannah wanted to see the 'field-to-frozen' process – how our food gets to our table, where is our frozen food from? Suzannah admits she's a freezer hoarder and secretly loves to eat from the packaging whilst standing beside the refrigerator!

• Discover why Suzannah's went behind the scenes of frozen vegetables
• Share Suzannah's discoveries behind the scenes of frozen food

Nick

Nick admits he's never really stopped and considered just how many people are involved in fish harvesting for it to reach him at his dinner table! We sent Nick to Five Star Fish and to Grimbsby Fish Market to find out all he needed to know.

• Read why Nick went behind the scenes of frozen fish
• Share Nick's discoveries behind the scenes of frozen fish

If you're passionate about food, if you've always wanted to see where your frozen food comes from, if you want to know what's in your frozen ready meal and if you'd like to play a personal role in documenting the process, then do let us know. If you're selected, you never know where you could be sent - a fishing boat or a pea farm are just two of the more obvious possibilities! And if you know of anyone else who might be interested, please tell them about this opportunity.

The perks of being a New Ice Age Field Operative

Your day as a Field Operative will give you these rewards...

We're sorry that we can't pay you for your time, but - if you're selected - your day will envolve

• Participants will receive a brand new Samsung digital camera - with our compliments
• You'll be accompanied by a member of our team and of course all your travel and food expenses will be covered - so it's a free day away with meals included!
• Your video and hand-written diary will be featured on the New Ice Age website. So this is your great chance to be a journalist for the day!
• Field Operatives get to see first hand where their frozen food comes from and what's inside our ready meals