A Busy Month

Hello

Justin decided to travel around Thailand for a month, and you might guess that we were all very jealous. Luckily he is now back, freezing cold like the rest of us!! He had a great time and has come back with loads of stories, although I am getting slightly bored of hearing how wonderful Thailand is.

So adding to the fact that we have been short staffed, we have also been incredibly busy, which is brilliant but also very tiring, especially when you put a couple of 14 hour days into the week.

You might have seen on our Facebook and Twitter pages that I have done a couple of sampling days; Salisbury Health Foods and Apple Tree Farm Shop. Both of which were greatly supported by our fantastic customers.

It is the 4th time I have sampled our products at Apple Tree, and once again we had a brilliant turnout. It was their 3rd Birthday, so there were lots of other suppliers sampling, including Lyme Bay Wines and a local Cider company- one opposite me and one next to me, I couldn’t believe my luck! Although, Cider brandy for breakfast has a bit more of a kick to it than Apple juice! Apparently Cider brandy is illegal at the moment, so lets hope that this ridiculous mistake/ law is amended!! Back to subject, a big thanks to Cath, Apple Tree manager, for once again giving our company fantastic promotion and organising a great day.

Our new products have been available for about a month now, and we can not make enough of the Lemon Drizzle. I predicted an instant hit, but I did not expect it to be this instant!! They are incredibly tasty and moist though, so if you have not tried one yet, be sure to get one…. or ten! The Raspberry cupcake is also going very nicely, and seems more popular than the cappuccino cupcake, so it looks like a good decision to replace it. We have had great feedback on our Butternut Squash Pie and the Scones, they are picking up nicely.

We are always getting great feedback on our products which we really appreciate, and makes all our hard work worth it. In what I may make a regular feature in my blog, here are a couple of compliments which we have received this month:

“I thought that I must pass on to you a comment from one of our regular customers. Last week she bought one of your cheese and onion quiches. She came in today and was in absolute raptures about this product. "Absolutely delicious and one of the nicest things I have ever eaten," was one of her complimentary comments. As someone who does not normally buy ready-made products, she stated that she will be trying the other G-Free products in this range on a regular basis. Keep up the good work!”
Best wishes. John Barber
Lantern Foods

This is a letter written to Crossed Grian and passed on to us, so hopefully this will also be published in their next magazine:

“After reading the article in your News and Reviews feature in the spring edition of Crossed Grain I feel I must let other coeliac sufferers know what they are missing if they haven't tried GFree's range of products. I had a selection of their pies and quiches which are all absolutely delicious with pastry that tasted good and melted in the mouth. The staff at GFree were extremely helpful and pleasant. It was good to have a successful ready made product and I shall certainly be trying other items from the range”.

Daphne Long.
Wem, Shropshire.

Remember to keep the compliments coming!!! And be sure to follow us on Facebook and Twitter.

I will be doing another sampling day at Prockters Farm Shop, 27th March, so if you are in the area it will be great if you can come and visit us. (Prockters Farm, West Monkton, Taunton, Somerset TA2 8QN)

Don’t forget about our Hot Cross Buns, they are available now and until Easter.

Adam