Shopping: It's time to hit the bottle

WHETHER IT'S hot and sunny or cool and cloudy, there's something hugely appealing about eating outside in the summer. If barbecues get your mouth watering, do more than just placing a few sausages on the grill this year and try some sauces to put with or on your drumsticks. Marlena Spieler's 101 Essential Barbecue Tips (Dorling Kindersley, pounds 4.99) has a whole cupboard-full of sauce recipes, such as the Indonesian Peanut Sauce with coriander and soy sauce, on page 64.

However, if all this sounds like too much effort, here are some ready- made sauces from the shop shelves to open and pour.

Malawi Gold Zulu Warrior Sauce pounds 4.95 Harvey Nichols (0171-235 5000 nationwide mail order)

Jethro's Hot Ginger and Lime Sauce pounds 1.97 Lakeland Limited (015394 88100)

Jalapeno Jelly pounds 5.95 Harvey Nichols (0171-235 5000 nationwide mail order)

Discovery Texan Marinade pounds 1.79 Sainsbury (0800 636262 for customer careline)

Fortnum and Mason Own-label Barbecue Sauce pounds 1.95 (0171-465 8668 for mail order)

Tracklements Red devill sauce pounds 1.99 Selfridges (0171-318 3895 for telephone orders)