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This London-crafted gin comes courtesy of wine & spirit merchant, Berry Bros. & Rudd. Made to their own closely-guarded recipes, No.3 has been created by distillers with over 3 centuries of expertise. A whole lot of experience has been poured into creating this gin, with the recipes taking a year to perfect. The result is something that gin-lovers are likely to love swilling around in a glass, before they start swilling it around their taste buds.
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Everyone loves a kitchen gadget that looks good, but this collapsible funnel from Danish designers, Normann Copenhagen wins on the practical front too. If your kitchen is shy on space, this concertina-style funnel won’t give you any added headaches when it comes to finding room for it. Once you’re finished with the funnel, simply wash it, dry it and literally squash it down to size. It squishes down to a height of 2cm and is made from flexible material that makes using the funnel a breeze.
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A Fairtrade smoothie range has hit the shelves that contains no concentrates, preservatives or added sugar. The fruit in OKÉ smoothies is sourced from small farmers and co-operatives in Ecuador, Costa Rica, Brazil and Peru, whilst OKÉ’s parent company AgroFair, is 50% owned by its Fairtrade farmer members and runs 100% for their benefit. OKÉ smoothies come in two flavours: Raspberry, Blackberry & Banana, and Mango, Orange & Pink Guava. They’re also the UK’s first Fairtrade smoothies not to be made from concentrate.
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Oatly have come up with a new edition for their soya and dairy free product range of oat-based drinks.
Following on from Oatly's oat milk drink range is Oatly Chocolate - a mix of oat milk, cocoa and a little added sugar. The result is a very natural tasting chocolate drink that tastes very milky and clean without an overbearing sweetness. The company's concerted effort not to add too much sugar has paid off and makes this chocolate offering from Oatly taste reassuringly of chocolate and not sugar.
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Oatly have come up with an alternative drink for people who would rather bypass dairy and soya-based milk drink options. Oatly Enriched is made from oats and water and fortified with vitamins.
The drink has a slightly oily taste to it (which probably stems from the rape seed oil which is added to it). This might take a bit of getting used to for dairy milk drinkers, but Oatly has a natural sweetness to it which is very appealing.
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Dorset based company, Olives et Al have a passion for (maybe even an obsession with) olives. Pitted olives, stuffed olives, marinated olives, olive oil, olive wood, olive tapenade, red olives, green olives, black olives… they’re not called Olives at Al for nothing!
We tried their Sunshine Olives: “*A Greek recipes of mixed olives marinated in Rosemary infused Extra Virgin Olive Oil with Garlic and Sun-Dried Tomatoes. Fantastic with white wine or a G & T.
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Organic Meltdown have teamed up with the World Land Trust to create the first chocolate bar to help combat global warming and preserve valuable wildlife habitats. With each purchase of chocolate, a tree will be saved in the rainforests of Equador. You can even track down your individual tree with a unique number printed on the chocolate wrappers.
The chocolates are made using carefully selected Fairtrade ingredients from Ecuador, Madagascar and Peru.
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Steak lovers out there will be delighted to know that naturally reared, grass-fed Argentine beef is available to purchase online from the people at Pampas Plains. If you fancy some heart of rump (that delectable cut of steak not always so readily available in supermarkets), a few beef ribs or a hunk of sirloin roast, this is the place to go.
We tried out a selection of Pampas Plains steaks including the often elusive heart of rump, which was full of flavour and looked beautiful in its glistening deep red, raw form.
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Classic healthy snack brand Panda Licorice has grown it’s range further with the launch of a new Cherry flavour. Made with real fruit puree and containing no preservatives, artificial colours or flavours, cherry licorice is suitable for vegetarians and is also fat free, making it ideal for children’s lunch boxes or as a post-school snack. The texture is moreishly chewy and the cherry flavour is pleasant and natural, not so sweet that it becomes sickly.
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