Sue Butler walked into a Brighton butcher's shop six months ago, and now she cooks for royalty.

Sue began chatting to Terry Murrell after visiting his store, Choice Cuts in Preston Drove, and they hatched the idea of setting up an organic food business.

The store, Organic Oasis in South Road, Haywards Heath, is now flourishing - and Sue has been honoured with an invitation to cook for Prince Charles when he visits Sussex on Tuesday.

When the Prince takes a break in his hectic tour of the county at Fletching Village Hall, Sue's raised cold meat pie and meat fricadelles, or meat rissoles, will be there to tempt him. As the name of her business suggests, Sue shares the Princes's enthusiasm for organically produced food.

Farmers Diana and Jim Murray, of Little Warren Farm, Fletching Common, near Fletching, who are registered with the Soil Association that monitors organic farms, asked Sue to provide the food for the visit.

Diana said: "I asked her because I am very good at breeding meat, but I am not much good at cooking it. Sue is excellent".

Sue, 50, said: "I am always nervous when I cook for someone because something can always go wrong, but at the same time we are all terribly excited. It's a great honour. We are proud of the fact that we like to use and sell really good local produce.

"I came into the business with a passion to help people enjoy good food. There is too much of a negative attitude about food in England and too many people buy on price. I'd like more people to buy on quality."

For the technically minded, a raised pie is made by pouring hot water instead of cold on to the flour to produce a ball of hot pastry which is then pulled up the side of the pie dish instead of being rolled.

Cooking for the Prince will cap a great start to the business, which opened only last November. Sue said: "The reaction has been beyond our wildest dreams. People have come in and said they will tell their friends about us."