Chocolate

[Anonymous]

Green and Blacks do a great range of dairy free chocolate that tastes like chocolate for once. :D

Check out their nutritional information at www.greenandblacks.com.

[Pam]

All the dark chocolate varieties (plain, mint and Maya Gold) are dairy free and you might still be able to find some at 99p from the recent promotion.

My favourite is Maya Gold which has a lovely orange and spice flavour. Green and Blacks also do Easter eggs which you might find in health food shops or larger Sainsbury stores if you are lucky.

Anyone who has a severe allergy should be aware that Green and Black also make milk and white chocolate so there may be a slight risk of cross contamination on the production line.

Other chocolate products which are suitable for vegans (and therefore do not contain milk ingredients, though not all are produced on a milk free production line) are

After Eight Mints (Original, UK produced only - others contain butterfat)
Fry's chocolate cream (plain, orange or mint)
Elizabeth Shaw dark chocolate products (check individual ingredients lists)
Booja Booja Truffles (all varieties)

But ALWAYS check the labels first, manufacturers have a horrible way of changing the ingredients.

[jill]

Sainsburys are doing a freefrom milk chocolate bar. Discovered 2 varieties yesterday: Roasted Almond Soya Choc bar and Soya Choc bar. 79p for a 50g bar. Have tried the almond one and it is quite good. :) Wouldn't say that it tastes exactly like milk chocolate but it was better than nothing. I've never been keen on dark chocolate so have been feeling quite deprived of a chocolate fix. Most other bars that i've seen have been quite big and knowing me I wouldn't be able to stop until I'd finished the whole bar. These 50g ones are just a nice size for a treat. :P

Jill

[Copper]

I guess that I am lucky as I have always liked plain chocolate.

Bournville plain chocolate is dairy free. Tesco have their own after dinner mints which are dairy free. I have become addicted to them :lol:

[Gazza]

Is normal dark chocolate dairy free then?

I've been using kennerton diary free chocolate- quite a good alternative- its at the larger supermarkets and Holland and Barrett.

However if i can eat normal stuff then that would be great- i'd always assumed it was not allowed.

[Pam]

Not all dark chocolate is dairy free, some of it contains butterfat. Tesco's bargain dark chocolate states that it contains milk but yet doesn't have milk in the ingredients list.

Green & Blacks plain chocolate and Maya Gold are ok, some varieties of Lindt are too. I think Bournville is now ok since they changed the recipe but most of the big names use butterfat which is a milk derivative. The Co-op are getting very good at labelling their foods so it might be worth checking out their own range.

I'm looking forward to a day when food is properly labelled and all the smaller ingredients are listed so that we know exactly what has gone into a product. I hope that day isn't too far away.

[Copper]

Bourneville used to be ok BUT they have moved production to France and it now contains butterfat. :bash:

[kelly]

Dairy Free Allergycare
Whizzers Chocolate Beans
No dairy, wheat, gluten or artifical colours or preservatives.

My almost-two-year-old son does not like dark chocolate but happily easts these chocolate beans because they taste like chocolate and look like real smarties.

My opinion is that they do look like smarties being the same shape and conept but are much harder, and the sugar shell is only in boring dull green, yellow, pink purple and brown, and I mean really boring shades of these colours!)

They do taste nicer than plain dark chocolate, but due to how hard they are I recommend keeping a close eye on any young kids eating them!

K.

[Pam]

Kelly, Whizzers also do some chocolate footballs (foil wrapped) which, although still round aren't quite as hard as the beans.

For alternatives to milk chocolate try Tesco's own dairy free chocolate - expensive at 69p for 45g but it is very good. Also Plamil do a few different bars (available in Tesco and some health food shops) which are less bitter than plain chocolate, once is supposed to be like milk chocolate but not as good as the Tesco one, prices range from around £1.29 - 1.59 for 100g.

[kelly]

Hi Pam,

Thanks for that information, my sister who lives in the UK recently came across these "Chocolate Footballs" and so I asked her to post me two dozen bags (I live in Gibraltar which is such a small country that we don't have much choice of specalist shops or foods).

Louis loves those chocolate footballs but I prefer to cut them in half before he eats them as they seems a dangerous size for toddlers. In fact, Louis has choked on the smartie-type beans on several occasions but not yet on the footballs!

I am currently preparing a dairy-free party for my son's 2nd birthday (in two weeks time so I shall let you all know how it goes).

Regards
Kelly.