Pana Chocolate

Pana Chocolate has to be one of the very best raw, vegan chocolate I have every tried. It is handmade, organic, contains no dairy or any other animal products and is low GI and gluten free. Oh, and it is DELICIOUS!

There are several varieties available:  Mint, Orange, Rose, Nuts, Cinnamon, Coconut and Goji, Raw Cacao, 80% Cacao and the new Sour Cherry and Vanilla - which I just tried and loved!

If you tend to shy away from dark chocolate because of bitterness, you have nothing to worry about here. This chocolate is neither bitter or sickly sweet. It has just the right balance. Also, it is so very smooth in texture.

The bars are small and quite expensive, so I just treat myself to a square at a time - the way it should be, really. Pop a square into your mouth and savour it!

Pana Chocolate is available in several healthfood shops, cafes and organics stores.
Their website has an extensive list of suppliers in Perth. Just pop in your postcode.

Product: Moo Free vegan chocolates

If you don't like dark chocolate, there are other vegan alternatives to dairy milk chocolate. Here is one that I found at PAWS.
Moo Free are a UK company that produces a range of chocolates that are vegan and gluten free. No wheat, no lactose and no cruelty.

I tried their Organic Rice Milk Chocolate Bar which turned out to be very tasty indeed, with a full flavour and just the right amount of sweetness.

Their website lists other products, such as pralines (I LOVE pralines!) and various different fruit and nut bars. I would love to see these on the store shelves here. I guess I will have to keep my eyes peeled.

As just mentioned, this product is available at PAWS, but there are a few other stockists in Perth, as listed on their website.

Oh, and don't you just love their packaging designs? So cute!

Go Max Go Foods - Vegan chocolate bars

Being vegan doesn't mean it is all carrot and celery sticks. Although we like those with some yummy hummus, we also like to indulge, every now and then, in some naughty vegan chocolate treats.

A while back I posted about Buccaneer bars which were like a vegan version of a Milky Way bar. Well, since then, I have tried a few of Go Max Go's  other products. 

There is their Twilight Bar which is a vegan version of a Mars bar, Snap! which is a crunchy rice and chocolate bar that reminds me of Kit Kats, and the Mahalo bar which tastes like a Bounty and is my favourite. Mmmmmmmmm.....! 

There are two products that I have not tried, as they contain peanuts, which my body is not too keen on: Jokerz bars, which I am told taste like Snickers bars and Cleos which are vegan peanut butter cups.

There is palm oil in these products, and if you are concerned about the environmental aspects of this ingredient, the company does provide information on where and how their source this.

These products are not marked as being gluten free, and although they do not contain gluten containing ingredients, they are made in a shared facility so there may be trace amounts of gluten in them. If, like me, you have a gluten intolerance rather than an all out allergy, you should be safe to eat these products...in moderation of course!

If you are in Perth, these beauties are available at both PAWS stores - city and Tuart Hill.