Honestly you search for years to find some loose cocoa and then two come along at once!

Visited Weigh To Save and yes they did loose cocoa. This stall has just recently opened at

1 Metropollian Centre May Day Green, Barnsley S70 1SX
Closes 4:30PM
01226 772239

“Unique Market Stall selling a range of dried products, choose your amount & weigh to save.Products include, Nuts, Dried Fruit, Cereals, Rice, flours, sugars, other baking products, washing powder, herbs and spices all at reasonable prices.
Helping to save the planet with no unnecessary packaging, you can even bring your own reusable containers. see for yourself in Barnsley’s inside market, Unit 13 Market parade(old semi open market under multi storey car park).”

Photos diary of my visit here

More cocoa…
An old favourite in Leeds Market, the Nut Shop has expanded its range of loose foods and it now includes cocoa.

Barmouth Weigh & Save

Saves the day – loose cocoa in my own bag

This now means that all my hot drinks are plastic free. Check out my hot drinks index HERE

A History

Morrisons used to do freetrade, plastic-free, cardboard-packaged cocoa The cocoa came in a box lined with paper. Supergreen. Ok, the paper was possibly (probably) lined with plastic, but it was the best I could do.
For a while life was good then yesterday I took a special trip to Morrisons to buy some more and there was none to be had. They hadn’t just run out but there was no space for it on the shelves

So do Morrison’s still do Fairtrade cocoa? Well according to the Fairtrade website yes they do.Is it just the Huddersfield store that has decided not to stock it? Was I just unlucky in cocoa that day?

The Joker Box Of Shame

Then Mother got involved. She burst into the house flushed with pride.“I dont know what all the fuss is about”, she carrolled handing me a box of cocoa from Sainsburys. How many times have I told her “Squeeze and listen!” for the tell tale crackling of the plastic bag inside. Sure enough the cocoa was further packed in a plastic bag – and not even one we can recycle. You can find other other sneaky plastics here.

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Drinking Chocolate

I found this on Todmorden Market . The deli stall sells real drinking chocolate wrapped in paper and foil. You buy it in bars, bash it into bits and melt it in hot water or milk, (or my personal fave half / half mix), to make drinking chocolate. Or you can chuck a chunk in a shot of espresso in to make a funky, monkey mocha. It tastes good but there is a downside – it is not cheap and you can’t use it to make chocolate cake!

Another downside. the deli has stopped doing it. all I can tell you is that it does exist.

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