For a few months now I have been reading Bev’s Foodie Penpal Posts and eyeing up with envy ,the lovely food parcels she receives from all over Europe! Bev who blogs over at Confuzzledom
joins in with Rock Salt’s Foodie Penpals parcel swap.The idea is every month you are assigned two different penpals ( You can opt out at any time,)one to send a parcel of edible goodies to..and the other to do the same for you.:) Sounds fun right! Who doesn’t love receiving surprise packages in the post. This month I signed up myself. 🙂
It turns out the parcel I was to send would be winging its way to Turkey. Melike doesn’t have a blog and says she can’t do any social media at the moment, so I do hope she received it. Melike is a Vegan which made shopping for her a bit of a challenge!
Luckily after a little online research and scouting round my local supermarkets, I found the above treats for her. She said she has a sweet tooth so hopefully there is enough here to satisfy any sugar cravings she might have. If anyone is interested I found the Tiffin and Salted Caramel Nibbles in Sainsburys and all the rest ( apart from the tea) in Booths. Although I found out that there are quite a few unintentionally vegan friendly foods out there such as Jammy dodgers and Green and Black’s Dark chocolate I was unsure whether to buy them. The smallprint on the packaging often warned that traces of egg,dairy etc might have ended up in the products. What do vegans do in this situation? Do they still buy them or stick to ‘proper’ Vegan foods? I have mostly bought snacks which say that they are vegan on them for Melike.Just to be sure.I might just have to try some Moo Free Orange Chocolate for myself.:)
As well as selecting foodie stuff to send off, I recieved a wonderful parcel in the post too.Mine came from an English blogger called Laura who writes and vlogs about all things tasty at Foodie Laura.com 🙂
When you are allocated your penpals you are encouraged to email them your foodie likes and dislikes etc. I let Laura know that I have just purchased a slow cooker.So she obligeingly sent me lots of stew inspired ingredients! My other half made a slow cooked Chicken Casserole for his teas last week and I’m looking forward to making us both the beef and ale stew….with yorkshire puds of course.;)
Laura also sent me some delicious chocolate coated coconut macaroons.I immediately helped myself to a couple , sat outside in the September sun with a cup of salted caramel green tea. Thank you Laura!
If you are interested in European Foodie Penpals ( you don’t have to have a blog) take a look here. And if you are in the States check out the Lean Green Bean American Foodie Penpal Parcel swap.
Looking forward to October’s one now. 🙂
sunshine and celandines 
Salted caramel green tea! That sounds right up my alley. Must look out for it when I’m in the UK!
Its a Twinnings one so should be easy to find.:)
So glad you liked your box. I love the slow cooker for autumn/winter meals.
Thanks Laura. It was the perfect box for me. 🙂
What a lovely idea!
What a good ideas! Definitely looking that up. I like that you mentioned Booths – I’d never heard of them til I met my fella. Northern shopping!
Yes we have one here…and just about every other supermarket.lol.:)
Also, check your links – think you’re missing an ‘is’ !
Oh thanks i will. 😦 x
What a wonderful idea, will be signing up myself!
🙂 X
Oh that sounds so fun!
You should join in!
That’s an interesting idea for a swap! What was the salted caramel green tea like? I’m very into salted caramel but can’t get on board with green tea – maybe I’ll be able to drink a caramel version, haha!
What an awesome idea! The macaroons look lovely! xx
They were good! It was exciting receiving my parcel.X
What a fun idea. >>>Races to the US website<<<< Thanks Sharon!