Monthly Clubs in the Mail Today
September’s monthly club orders of vegan brownies, cookies and fudge are in the mail today and will be arriving on club members’ doorsteps later in the week. If you’re reading this and wishing that vegan brownies were going to be arriving on your doorstep this week, a monthly club could be in your future. Quick and easy to sign up for, our monthly clubs automatically deliver delicious vegan sweets to you or someone you love, every month, hassle-free. Check it out!
Confection Affection: Vegan Toffee and Peanut Brittle
Clients often ask what our most popular product is. We have so many great products for such a wide range of tastes that this question is always hard to answer. 
However, there are some products that do stand out as worthy of special praise. Crunchy and crispy, sweet and salty, our vegan toffee and peanut brittle are two of our best-selling confections. Whether you prefer almonds or peanuts, classic, chocolate covered or spiced, these treats are sure to win your heart are first bite. 
With so many varieties to choose from, sold individually or in sets, our vegan toffee and peanut brittle make excellent gifts, and are especially tolerant of being shipped in the summer heat. Our classic toffee, as well as our classic and spiced peanut brittle, won’t melt or get stale even when shipped over weekends.
As you can probably tell, we’re having quite a love affair with these scrumptious confections and we bet, when you try them, you will too!
Unique and Delicious Fudge Flavors
I’m always a little sad when, around this time of year, I start to feel Autumn in the air. I’m a summertime kind of girl, and the transition to Fall means that cold, dark winter is just around the corner. One of the things that makes the coming change in the seasons bearable, however, is that Butterscotch Pecan fudge is September’s fudge flavor. 
Words don’t really do it justice, but let me just say that creamy, Butterscotch-flavored white fudge, with an intoxicating scent of caramel and vanilla, perfectly paired with toasted pecans is just the thing to make the idea of coming winter seem like not such a bad thing. You may be surprised that my favorite fudge flavor isn’t a chocolate one, but its uniqueness is part of its charm. Our friends at VegNews like it so much that it has become their preferred corporate food gift whenever we have it available.
If you have a monthly club fudge membership, look for this white fudge delicacy in your mailbox around September 10th. Or, for a memorable and inspiring birthday, holiday, or corporate food gift for compassionate, dessert-loving friends and colleagues all year long, consider a monthly club gift membership.
August’s Flavors: More Wheat-Free Options
August will be here next week, and it’s bringing with it some new and exciting wheat-free options to our brownie and cookie line-up. 
Sugar dusted (Wheat-Free) Cinnamon Snickerdoodle Cookies, and gorgeous (Wheat-Free) Toasted Coconut Brownies are sure to be the highlights of your summer. They’re not, however, our only wheat-free flavors. (Wheat-Free) Peanut Butter and (Wheat-Free) Chocolate Chip Pecan Cookies also make our favorites list, as well as (Wheat-Free) Mocha and (Wheat-Free) Half Original/Half Pecan Brownies.
Interested in trying all of these flavors and more? Our Cookie and Brownie Samplers make great treats for the entire family and excellent corporate food gifts for environmentally-friendly and health-conscious businesses. For more compassionate corporate food gift ideas, check out our Gift Baskets and Gift Sets.
Simple Chocolate Bliss
We’re going back to basics for our vegan fudge flavor coming up in August. Simple flavors can often be the most delicious, and we think our simply elegant Original Fudge is the best thing this side of heaven. Plus, it makes a great chocolate gift for someone you love. 
All our vegan fudge is gluten-free by nature, as are many of our other chocolates, including vegan peanut butter cups, peppermint bark, and peppermint creme patties.
For summer-safe chocolate gifts we recommend double chocolate chunk cookies, classic and peppermint flavors of drinking chocolate, and individually-wrapped chocolate caramels for decadent chocolate flavor without the melt-ability factor.
Gift Baskets: Super-Deluxe Samplers in Pretty Packaging
Check out the gorgeous new packaging we finally have for our vegan gift baskets! Instead of different flavors of one kind of product, as you get with our Organic Tea or Just Cookies Samplers, our vegan gift baskets offer an elegant sampling of many of our products and are perfect for larger groups or for those who want to try a wide variety of our products. 
We have two gourmet coffee gift baskets which include either a four-flavor organic coffee sampler or a 12 oz bag of our superlative Peruvian Femenino coffee beans, as well as several flavors of cookies, brownies, fudge and confections all in one beautiful basket. These gourmet coffee gift baskets are the ideal way to spice up a social event or get an idea about your family’s favorite delicacies before birthdays and holidays come around.
Fair-Trade Refreshment, All Day Long
We all know that it’s important to stay hydrated in the summer. One of the best ways I’ve found to do this is to drink hot and iced teas and tisane (herbal teas). They’re more interesting than water, delicious and flavorful, without being too sweet. 
Our Organic Tea Samplers are a great way to have a variety of teas and tisanes on hand for all day tea sipping.
8am: Wake up gently with a warm cup of Organic Rooibos Earl Grey Tisane. This refreshing herbal tea offers sweet citrus notes and is caffeine-free.
10am: In India, people drink chai all day long, and you can too! Our Organic Rooibos Chai Tisane is a delicious caffeine-free treat hot or iced, any time of day.
1pm: Although we call it After Dinner Mint, this refreshing herbal tea is the perfect finish to any meal. End your lunch and start your afternoon with a tall, cold glass of our refreshing organic mint tisane.
3pm: Beat the afternoon yawns with a caffeinated wake-up. Organic Mango Ceylon Tea will do just that with it’s combination of earthy and delightfully fruity notes.
Fair-trade teas and tisanes, whether in tins or sampler pouches, also make perfect fair-trade gifts. So, whether it’s for yourself or someone else, give a fair-trade gift of delicious all day refreshment to someone you love this summer.
Tips for Shipping in the Summer Heat
Ordering perishable items in the summer can be a bit of a pain. You either have to order chill packs and faster shipping, which means more money, or you risk receiving melted and/or spoiled products. 
However, you can minimize this hassle for yourself by ordering products that are less perishable and more hearty when it comes to heat exposure. Our Classic and Spiced Peanut Brittle, Classic Almond Toffee, and individually-wrapped Caramels, for example, will ship well without being adversely effected by the summer heat. Our fresh-baked cookies and brownies, are actually surprisingly good at enduring high temperatures as well. Sealed in their plastic bags they won’t go stale or spoil even with our slowest shipping method (which is only 3-4 days). Ordering flavors without chocolate chips also makes your life easier, although the chips and the cookies are no worse for some melted chocolate, just perhaps a bit messier. Coffee, Tea and Drinking Chocolate are other obvious choices for summer shipping, although you may need to remind your recipient that these drinks are as delicious served iced as they are hot.
For heat-friendly gift combos, look no further than our Classic Vanilla Lover’s and Spice Lover’s Gift Sets which include Toffee, Caramels and Peanut Brittle, or our Cookie, Brownie, and Beverage Samplers.
If you do decide to order a more perishable item, especially one containing chocolate, we strongly encourage you to include the recommended chill pack in your order as well as choosing FedEx 2-day air shipping, as our chill packs only remain cold for 2 days.
PS. For those of you wondering about your monthly club orders, today is a shipping holiday, so we will be shipping all the monthly clubs tomorrow, for delivery later in the week. 
Gift Ideas for Chocolate Lovers
Looking for the perfect gift for a true chocolate lover in your life? Let me recommend our outrageously decadent Peppermint Bark and Cherry Almond Bark. 
Made from the highest quality organic, fair-trade chocolate, these rich dark barks will wow any chocolate lover.
When ordering chocolate barks, or any of our other premium fair-trade chocolate products, we highly recommend that you include the suggested chill pack, especially in these warmer months, to insure that your chocolates arrive in perfect condition.
Winner: Father’s Day Giveaway!
Congratulations to Lori, the lucky winner of our Father’s Day Giveaway! 
She’s won a scrumptious Peanut Brittle Duo which she is giving to her dad, Ron, to support him taking steps towards becoming vegan. Way to go!
If you’re still wanting to send a classic Father’s Day gift to your classic Dad, it’s not quite too late. Order now, and choose FedEx Overnight or 2-day Air with Saturday Delivery to insure your goodies make it there before Sunday.