NOMO a seriously good rice based chocolate

Nomo, a dairy free, gluten free and nut free chocolate brand.

It has been around for quite a while now and it’s so good that the NOMO caramel bar was voted 2020’s Best Vegan Chocolate by Vegan Food UK and 25,000 vegan consumers!

I finally tried these Nomo bars at the Just V Show.

To be honest, I was really impressed and you wouldn't suspect it was vegan or nut free.

The chocolate caramel filled with gooey caramel was amazing and moreish while the sweetness was just right.

Their chocolates are rice based and they got the taste right compared to other rice based chocolate which are too sweet.

To my surprise, they are made by Kinnerton which manufactures affordable chocolates that can be found in Poundland.

Anyway, at the Just V Show, they had this huge NOMO chocolate bar which definitely got my attention.

UK's first naturally flavoured nutritional yeast flakes by Notorious nooch

Discovered these Vegan, Dairy Free and Gluten Free naturally flavoured nutritional yeast flakes by Notorious nooch at the Just V Show.

Overall, I like the way they are nutritious and tasty that you can add it to crisps or pasta for flavours.

The flavours they offer are cheese and smokey bacon which are both very tasty.

Tried them on plain crisps and they were amazing.

My Sweet Chickpea

There are so many sweet coated chickpeas around these days that I am trying to keep up with them.

This time I tried the brand called My Sweet Chickpea which comes in so many flavours.

As you can imagine, they are similar to coated nuts but with a harder crunch.

Overall, the dark chocolate is my favourite.

Rude Health coconut date & nut bar

I can't remember where I got this from but I am not really a fan of sugary dates and coconut.

Anyway, ate this one morning as a quick snack and it was much better than anticipated.

The sweetness was just right as well as the coconut which was not too over powering.

oppo brothers ice cream

oppo brothers ice cream is a relatively newish brand of ice cream, I found out about them because they were doing a giveaway on instagram as well as their website which gave people the chance of winning the £1,000 every week to do good for themselves or others. 

Just for fun, I submitted a proposal to help the food businesses by blogging about them.

It just so happens that they were giving away ice cream at Eccleston Yards so I finally got to try them.

The flavours I tried that day were double salted caramel, cookie caramel and cookies and cream.

All of them were really nice and the main thing was that they were not too sweet on the palate.

Coop Bakery Milk chocolate ball doughnuts

I love doughnuts so when I spotted the chocolate ball doughnuts by coop I was really keen to try them because it was a chocolate based doughnut.

There were not many good reviews on them so far so I didn't have any expectations and according to the staff they were previously frozen which explains the dryness.

The store I bought it from was a busy one so the doughnuts seemed better because of the fast turnover rate that they sell so I chose a pack which was nice and soft.

The chocolate doughnut was not as bad as I anticipated but the chocolate filling didn't really match the doughnut itself as it was too sweet.

Perhaps cherry jam would have been nicer and the doughnuts are best eaten within the first day of purchase as they seriously taste dry and lifeless the next day even after reheating in the microwave for a few seconds.

Tesco Finest hazelnut praline cookies

After having some really nice cookies from other supermarkets, I decided to try Tesco as they had a limited edition hazelnut praline cookies as well as a Salted caramel pecan one.

Unfortunately I was really disappointed as the texture was not quite right.

It was a bit embarassing as it was like half English and American in the sense that it was crunchy, hard and soft so I felt that it might have been left out for too long and dehydrated.

In terms of taste, it was too sweet that you couldn't really taste the chocolate or hazelnuts.

Salted caramel pecan: