Hi everyone! It’s now been just over 6 months since my commitment to ethically produced/Fairtrade chocolate and chocolate products (influenced by my reading of BITTER CHOCOLATE by Carol Off). Guess what? It’s been almost the easiest thing ever! Yes, there’s the odd occasion where, like one week and three weeks into my commitment, you find yourself at dinner parties where everyone is eating freshly baked brownies and homemade chocolate chip ice cream (I thought whyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!) but once you get into the swing of things, you can be the one taking chocolatey goodness to any party.

Turns out, once you start looking for ethically produced products, you realise they’ve been under your nose the whole time! After my first blog post, my old housemate told me there’s Fairtrade Cadbury’s Dairy Milk from South Africa in lots of stores here. I live in Malawi so no one outside of Africa should have any trouble! It’s amazing what you can do with a bar of Dairy Milk.

You can imagine how excited we are about Fairtrade Fortnight 2013, and how even more excited that our favourite fairtrade chocolate brand, DIVINE, is entering the mix. This could not come any sooner, after a previous post on the bitter reality of the chocolate industry, we are glad to show that there is some good in this sweet morsel. As a result, we are advertising this event as part of The Conscience Collective's list of events and activities we will be taking part in. [Check out our Facebook Events Page for updates on other events and let us know if you will be joining us].