Kokova Magazine

Currently the UK's only industry awards for 'free from' food and drink, the Free From Food Awards were launched in 2008 to encourage innovation and celebrate excellence in the free-from industry.

When a new dessert bar opens in our local town, it would be remiss of us not to pop along and take a look. But once we found out it could cater to our free-from diet...

When it comes to free-from baking, we believe that the Incredible Bakery Company may just have found the perfect recipe for gluten-free bread. We are always on the hunt for good free-from products.

We absolutely love it when the postman brings us chocolate. I mean, real chocolate, on our doorstep, for us to try. So, super-excited to get not one, but four bars of Raw Halo to try.

Every so often a product pops up on the radar - again and again - and we love to see emerging companies still growing a few years on from the first meet and greet. Well, Spice Drops® has certainly grown since we first met them a few years ago and when you see what their range covers, it is easy to see why.

Last month Jo and I ventured up to the BBC Good Food Eat Well Show, in search of new and exciting products. We expected to find a lot of 'energy' balls, breakfast bars, dried fruit and free-from treats. What we didn't expect was to find, and try, a range of insect snacks, including crickets!