Wheat free & gluten free chocolate, sweets & confectionery
With the current economic climate what's cheap and guaranteed to make your day? Why chocolate of course!
It seems that people need reminding that chocolate raises the spirits, ok so it also raises the weight, but everything in moderation as they say. Bernard Callebaut just announced that he's stretching the normal 2 week shutdown at his manufacturing plant in Calgary, Alberta to 7 weeks because people just aren't eating enough chocolate. Not eating enough chocolate? It's just too horrible to contemplate. So go on, buy a little chocolate indulgence for yourself now, you know you want to.
Hotel Chocolat
used to have a very limited selection of wheat & gluten free chocolates on their website, however they very kindly relaunched their old gluten free page as a 'Gluten & Wheat free' page after feedback from
wheat-free.org (see news item), adding a lot more exciting products to the selection available.
Unfortunately, in this increasingly litigious society manufacturers are covering themselves by putting "may contain traces of..." just about every allergen that there currently is, putting the onus on consumers to read the wrapper and make the decision. So it makes sense to buy chocolates that you know are safe to eat.
Order your chocolate gifts online and save yourself all that chasing around shops, and then of course you can self-gift a chocolate treat to yourself too.
Hotel Chocolat
Checkout Hotel Chocolat wheat & gluten free chocolate treats that will delight everyone from the kids to aunties, from mothers to grandmothers, from husbands to lovers, in fact anyone who can't eat wheat or gluten.
They also now have a US Hotel Chocolat
website too, so if you're outside the UK you don't need to miss out on all those luscious chocolates. The site doesn't have a specific
gluten free section, so just type "gluten free" in the search box and the website will display what they have in that category.
Wheat & gluten free chocolates, as well as a huge selection for people without food allergies, can all be found at:
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 The Purist's Library |
 Triple Chocolate Wham Bam |
 Classic Chocolate Discovery Box |
So why not pay them a visit today and indulge yourself...
The Chocolate Trading Company
Booja Booja
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This is the place to go if you want to purchase the Booja Booja brand of wheat & gluten free truffles, with their additional benefits of being 100% organic and non-GMO. They also list a few gluten free chocolate bars, but once again no Easter eggs.
The site has a varied selection of other chocolates, which sadly are not wheat & gluten free, but would be a great present for people without food allergies.
Buy Booja Booja wheat & gluten free truffles and many more high quality chocolates online at the Chocolate Trading Company
Other allergy specific chocolates
endangered species chocolate
Buy this chocolate and help to save the planet. 10% of net profits are donated to help support species, habitat and humanity.
Their unique looking packaging doesn't state "gluten free", however according to their website their products are certified gluten free. Each bar is made with all-natural ingredients and ethically traded and grown cacao by farmers earning a fair wage in humane working conditions.
Doesn't that make you feel good about a little indulgence?
Green & Black's organic chocolate range
Not all of the Green & Black's organic chocolate range is wheat free and gluten free, but they do provide clear
nutritional information on their website
For a full list of Green & Black's organic range of chocolate products together with nutritional information
visit their website.
Nestlé
Nestlé provide a comprehensive list of their gluten free products, not just chocolate and sweets. Click here for the latest Free From list produced by Nestlé.
Please take careful note however that items marked with an asterisk are products containing small quantities of gluten which evidently are considered safe for the gluten free diet, this is not the same as a wheat allergy. We would exercise caution here as allergies are not generally tolerant of even minute quantities of allergen.
Cadbury
If you wish to see nutrition details for their products then click here.
Please note:
Manufacturers do change their recipes, so please check the ingredients carefully
before eating, or refer to the manufacturers website, if they have one.