dairy free chocolate?

jessyclark

I picked Dark choclate with White Mint Drops at £1.5.

frugalelly

I love those buttons! I've only ever seen them in Waitrose though, never anywhere else. I'll have a look for them next time I go. Thanks!

cherrypies

Do you remember Fry's peppermint cream bars? These are still available in a lot of places, corner shops etc. Tesco do a 4 pack, I think for £2 ish. They are dairy free and vegan. I use them in cakes for my sons dairy allergic friend.

frugalelly

I couldn't find them anywhere so I assumed they didn't do them anymore. I'll have to have a look around and see if I can find them then! Thanks! I do love those XD

cherrypies

handy list I found :-)

Moo Free Chocolates: lovely praline 'milky' chocolates and solid 'milky' chocolate hearts.
Celtic chocolates: particularly the caramel 'milk' chocolates. Often in the free from section at the supermarket or in Holland and Barrett.
Go Max Go: the chocolate bars everyone's talking about at the moment - Jokerz, Twilight, Buccaneer, and Mahalo bars, which are very similar to the sort of nougat/caramel-type chocolate bars that a lot of vegans probably miss, but I'll probably get sued if I compare them to any particular brand names. Vegan Store and Ethical Wares sell them in the UK.
Plamil - chocolate bars, all products vegan, nut-free and gluten-free
Organica - chocolate bars, some products vegan (vegan ones are labelled)
Booja Booja - luxury chocolates, all products vegan and wheat-free
Montezuma's - all sorts of handmade, fairly traded chocolates, not all vegan but products are clearly labelled on the website
Dairy Free 'milky' chocolate bars, look for them in the free from section in supermarkets and in wholefoods stores. The Sainsbury's own brand 'free-from' soya chocolate appears to be the same product in different packaging. The tangerine one is the closest vegan equivalent I've found to Chocolate Orange. The company that makes these also do 'milk' chocolate buttons and chocolate spread. A nice change from dark chocolate!
Divine 70% dark chocolate and mint 70% dark chocolate is labelled as suitable for vegans and is available in some supermarkets
Lyme Regis Foods chocolate-covered marzipan bars

There are also a number of online shops selling vegan chocolate, including:
Animal Aid Shop, Alternative Stores, Vegan Store, Viva! shop - all products on their websites are vegan.
A lot of chocolate's vegan chocolate page
Aside from the specialist vegan products listed above, there are a few other chocolate products which are made with only vegan ingredients and available in mainstream shops. These include Fry's chocolate creams, Ritter Sport Marzipan and Fine Extra Dark chocolate, some varieties of Thornton's dark chocolate bars and some of the Tesco own-brand dark chocolate.

frugalelly

Thanks! I didn't realize how many brands there really are! I guess I've just never seen them all together or something. I've not tried some of them but I shall be doing so soon I think!

Heamol

The Plamil bars from Holland and Barrett are about £1.99 for a decent sized bar, about Green & Blacks size I think.

Edit: I just found this, which may be of use to you in a wider context although it doesn't come up with any dairy-free chocolate bars. It's the M &S list of all their products which are suitable for vegans (and therefore sufferers with dairy allergies, hopefully):
http://health.marksandspencer.com/uploads/pdfs/vegan.pdf

chesky369

Booja Booja are extremely wonderful - but pretty expensive so they're more of a Chirstmas or birthday treat.

frugalelly

Thanks Heamol, that link looks really useful!


Thanks Chesky369, I'll look out for it

Debt_free_soon_2

Hi,

My little boy (4) has a dairy allergy and I found a website, dietary needs direct.


They are great, I've got him Easter eggs, 'Choc' santas, 'Choc' Christmas tree decorations as well as general Choc buttons etc.


The woman makes them herself & whipped up another batch of choc Xmas tree decorations when I emailed asking if there would be more stock in b4 Xmas. You do pay for delivery so worth stocking up to make it worthwhile!