The No Moo Cow Blog Has Moved

This blog is now part of the Moo Free Chocolates website. You will find all new posts at:


http://www.moofreechocolates.com/blog

Easter Eggs

We are in full flow making our scrummy Easter eggs now.  The first batch has just been sent out to wholesalers, so you should start seeing these in shops over the next few weeks.  As usual they will be available direct from www.alotofchocolates.co.uk as from 7th February.

Full Steam Ahead

It is all go at Moo Free Chocolates.  We have just finished production of our Advent Calendar and are now making some more pralines.  Next month we will be starting on Easters eggs, yes I know it sounds early but we have to produce them to get them in the wholesalers catalogues.

We are running out of space in our chocolate room and need to build a bigger chocolate room in the warehouse. We are getting new stockists everyday, so keep checking our stockings page for a shop near you.

Andrea

Competition Winner

The winner of the Moo Free competition to win six months supply of Chocolate is Dawn Irons, congratulations to Dawn.

We also have a runner up who will also get some chocolate and that was Brita Bevis.

Thank you to everyone who took the time to let us know what the cows are up to now we have set them free.  Look out for our next competition.  This will be a photo and we would like you to add a caption.  Check out our web site over the next couple of weeks.

Stockists of our chocolate

We had a meeting with Waitrose who love our packaging.  Things are looking very positive and they should be taking stock of some of our lines.

Holland and Barrett have also contacted us and samples have been sent to them.

Unfortunately we are without a Business Development person at the moment and are doing our best to contact new potential retailers and wholesalers.  There is a list on the Moo Free website of current stockist.  If you have any suggestions for shops where you would like to see our Moo Free Chocolates, please let us know. email info @ moofreechocolates.com.

Thank you.

Speciality Fine Food Show

We have been at the Speciality Fine Food Show for three days now and have lots of interest from retailers and wholesalers. Let's hope that our chocolate becomes available uk wide soon.

I think Kitty Cakes and Peetee Pig who are manning the show are very tired now.

Discount on our Chocolate

Hi

You can use discount code 081910 on www.alotofchocolates.co.uk and get 15% discount on Moo Free Chocolates.

Visit www.alotofchocolates.co.uk and enter the code using the Voucher Button on the Your Order page.  If you order £40 or more, after the discount has been applied you will also get free postage.

Andrea

Don't forget our competition to win a supply of Moo Free Chocolate

If you have a holiday planned before end of August you may be interested in entering the Moo Free Chocolate competition to win chocolate every month for six months.

When you are on holiday we would like you
to send a postcard to us on behalf of the cows, letting us know what they are doing.

For example: 

Dear Moo Free
Thanks for setting us free. We are currently sunning ourselves on the beach in Barbados and expect to be back in the UK in another 4 to 5 weeks.
Lots of love
The cows

Moo Free will be judging the competition on the originality of your message, the picture on the postcard (remember that you are a cow) and the location that the postcard is sent from. Although if you are outside of the UK, you do not have to post the card from the actual location you can bring the postcard back to the UK to post to Moo Free. 

Alternatively, if you have a funny photo of a cow or cows having fun or doing something unusual then post it to Moo Free at 55 Milford Road,
Reading, RG1 8LG or send a high quality scan in an email to competition @ moofreechocolates.com. The competition is open until 27th August and Moo Free will announce the winner on their website on 1st September. Moo Free will publish the best entries on their website. 

Competition Rules:

You must be resident in the UK to enter
Closing date is midnight 27th August 2010
You agree to your entry being posted on the Moo Free website
There is no cash alternative
There is no age limit
Your details will be used by Moo Free only and not passed to any third party

Try our Dairy Free Chocolate Bars for free

The first 20 people that send their name and address, providing it is in the UK, will receive a free chocolate bar to try.  Please send your name and address to andrea at  moofreechocolates.com.

Dairy Free Organic Chocolate Bars

Our chocolate bar packaging has arrived.  This means our scrummy dairy free chocolate bars are now on sale.  I am sure you will agree they have all the taste of milk chocolate, but without the milk.  They are available from www.alotofchocolates.co.uk and I am sure you will see them at some specialists shops throughout the country very soon.  We have a big list of stockist just waiting to stock these bars.

Our Organic Chocolate

Our organic chocolate will carry the new EU logo. This logo has to be displayed on any certified organic product throughout the EU. I think this is an excellent idea. In the UK for instance you have two organic certifying bodies, thus 2 different logos to recognise, then throughout the EU each country may have its own certifying body with their own logo. This one logo replaces all of those and will make it easier for shoppers to recognise an organic product that originates from the EU.

New Machine

We have just taken delivery of a new chocolate machine, which should help us produce products a lot quicker. Just having a new socket installed so we can actually plug it in and give it a try.

Things are moving along nicely and we are on track for releasing the bars and chocolate drops at the end of August.

Andrea

Organic Certification

My, my, my, this is a busy week. We had an inspection yesterday for organic certification. Looks like we are on track. Our chocolate has always been made with an organic and fair trade base, just that we cannot label it as organic. Once the certification is finalised it means we will be able to officially say our chocolate is organic. This means the milk tasting chocolate drops and the chocolate bars will be dairy free and organic.

Things just get better every day.

Andrea

Web Site

I am so excited about the packaging I forgot to mention that we have a new web site. Please take a moment to visit www.moofreechocolates.com. We still have some content to add but this will be added over the next few days. You will be able to meet our characters; Hammy Hamster, Mikey Bunny, Maisy Moo, Margery Mouse, Mungo Mouse, Petee Pig and Kitty Cakes.

I hope you like it.

Andrea

Packaging

We have just received the first draft of the designs for our chocolate bars and chocolate drops. The bar moulds arrived this morning as well. We are all very excited here, at long last everything seems to be coming together. The struggles of the past two years are finally fading away as it all becomes real. I really can't wait, but wait a bit longer we must. I think we are looking at the third week of August and then we will have dairy free chocolate bars and dairy free chocolate drops. Yeah, it is happening!

I am sorry I guess you can tell how happy we all are and we really hope you will like them. Roll on August.

Andrea

Competition to win some Moo Free Chocolates

Now that we have set the moo cows free, we would really love to know what they are up too.

If you have a holiday planned before end of August you may be interested in entering the Moo Free Chocolate competition to win chocolate every month for six months.

When you are on holiday we would like you
to send a postcard to us on behalf of the cows, letting us know what they are doing.

For example:

Dear Moo Free
Thanks for setting us free. We are currently sunning ourselves on the beach in Barbados and expect to be back in the UK in another 4 to 5 weeks.
Lots of love
The cows

Moo Free will be judging the competition on the originality of your message, the picture on the postcard (remember that you are a cow) and the location that the postcard is sent from. Although if you are outside of the UK, you do not have to post the card from the actual location you can bring the postcard back to the UK to post to Moo Free.

Alternatively, if you have a funny photo of a cow or cows having fun or doing something unusual then post it to Moo Free at 55 Milford Road,
Reading, RG1 8LG or send a high quality scan in an email to competition @ moofreechocolates.com. The competition is open until 27th August and Moo Free will announce the winner on their website on 1st September. Moo Free will publish the best entries on their website.

Competition Rules:

You must be resident in the UK to enter
Closing date is midnight 27th August 2010
You agree to your entry being posted on the Moo Free website
There is no cash alternative
There is no age limit
Your details will be used by Moo Free only and not passed to any third party

New Stockists

You will be please to hear that we have a few more stockists where you can purchased our scrummy pralines from. These are:

Green Valley Trading Company - www.gvtc.co.uk
Animal Aid Shop - www.animalaid.org.uk
Face of Flower - www.face-of-flowers.co.uk
GFF Direct - www.gffdirect.co.uk
Gluten Free Shop - www.gluten-freeshop.co.uk
Viva - www.viva.org.uk

Moo Free Chocolates Stockist

We are now if full production of our lovely dairy free milk alternative caramalised pralines. These are now available as a box of 8 or 12 on www.alotofchocolates.co.uk. We are looking at getting the box of 12 into shops and are actively contacting approporate potential stockist. If you shop in a particular shop that you think would be ideal for our pralines, please contact me and let me know. My direct email is andrea at moofreechocolates.com.

If anyone is interested in investing in a growing company we are looking for investment so that we can make bars and other exciting products. We can do this without investment over a longer time scale, but we would really love to get more products on to the market, now. Please email me or call me on 0845 094 6498. Thank you.

Andrea

Looking forward

We are about to invest in some more equipment to move forward with our milk alternative dairy free chocolate. We are trying are best to make this chocolate as cheaply as possible fo you, our customers, without compromising on taste and our ethics. All the base chocolate that we are using at the moment is organic and fair trade. This means that no-one has been exposed to chemicals, the growers have received a fair price and child labour is not an issue.

We are looking at making milk alternative chocolate calendars this year and are just starting to search for designs and box manufacturers.

We will also look into making chocolate bars of various flavours and will be experimenting with those shortly.

The chocolate hearts and squares are still selling well and these can be purchased from alotofchocolates.co.uk.

Post Easter

We have been recovering from the Easter rush. We made over 600 eggs this year and were very pleased with ourselves. We are improving every year. Next year we hope to be able to get the eggs in shops, so they will be easier for you to find and purchase.

Thank you for your support this year.