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The Team
I started thinking
about Pure Flavour in Summer 2005,
when I was pregnant with my twins. After years of health
problems, omitting wheat and dairy has made an incredible
difference to my life. Trying to stick to a ‘free
from’ and healthy diet when you
are busy at work, at home, with children & with
all that life throws at you is tough though.
It was shocking how limited the choice of good tasting,
‘free from’
food there was on the market, particularly with so many
people choosing or needing to keep to special diets
these days. I started to cook myself and was thrilled
to discover I could create delicious, health conscious
alternatives; the business grew from there. Now, Pure
Flavour offers a range of over twenty different products,
which all taste delicious. My aim is to make real tasting
‘free from’
produce, while still being health conscious meaning
that they are not laden with saturated fats, excess
sugar or nasty preservatives. |
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A little bit about my former life…
I worked in sales and marketing for 7 years. I was based in
the UK at first and then Singapore and Hong Kong. Having lived
abroad, where foods vary so much, I know how difficult it
can be to always stick to a ‘free
from’ diet. The arrival of my boys meant
finding something I could do from home, so I took this opportunity
to develop my tinkerings in the kitchen into a business for
the boys & I.
Emma x
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Clare
Vernon FCCA Dip ION FdSc mBANT NTC Registered Practitioner
Clare and I were introduced by Clare's sister; she
thought we would have a lot in common! In fact our passion
and ideas are so similar it is scary, I was therefore
really excited that she was keen to join us at Pure
Flavour. Clare has fantastic experience and is very
dedicated to health & vitality through food. |
Having suffered from the effects of stress,
yeast infection, food intolerances and Irritable Bowel Syndrome,
she really understands the importance of healthy free from
foods.
Clare is fully involved in our recipes to
ensure they are fully endorsed by her as a professional nutritionist
You can find Clare at the following website
www.verticalhealth.co.uk
Tel: 07528 333813
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Nicci, Julian & Daisy
Gurr, produce our delicious range of home-grown, home-made
ready meals. I met Nicci, at our local Farmers Market,
Cranbrook in Kent – we had lots in common, from
our insatiable interest in delicious, honest food to our
gorgeous kids. We soon realised that we could start a
great business relationship & our Ready Meals are
going from strength to strength. See ‘About Ready
Meals’ for more great information. |
| Tina
Wakefield
Tina is another wonderful addition to our talented team
of ladies. Having been introduced through a mutual friend,
I have been very impressed with Tina’s artistic
eye, she is definitely a perfectionist! Tina is a lady
of many talents; she juggles her teenage children with
teaching Sugar Craft in a local college to being a governor
to a local school. Tina has already created a cake that
was taken all the way to Norway to see the Northern lights
for a 40th Birthday! |
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| Karen and Tricia
of Bonnie
Shortie Karen and Tricia, have been friends
with Nicci (our Pure Flavour ready meal chef) at Warehorne
farmers market. When Nicci knew that I needed help with
producing more of our delicious Gluten, Wheat and Dairy
free cakes — she immediately recommended Karen and
Tricia. After a few phone calls, coffees, sampling cakes,
I am so pleased that they have come on board to help produce
our fabulous range of cakes. Both ladies who have changed
direction from their careers and found themselves cooking
delicious cupcakes and squeezing in running a business
around their children and family — more ladies to
join our lovely Pure Flavour clan. Look out for those
monthly specials! |
Cakes for the Queen's party
A CAKE-MAKER has been told her treats are
fit for a queen.
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Emma Slinn's gluten and
dairy free goodies have been so successful since she launched
them a year ago that she received a call with an order
from Buckingham Palace.
Guests at the Queen's summer garden parties last month
were treated to two specialities made by the 33-year-old,
from Brede, near Hastings. |
She has been told her mini lemon drizzle
and coffee sponge cakes went down a storm, although she has
not yet found out whether any passed Her Majesty's lips.
Emma, who runs the company PUre Flavour,
said "I've been told the Queen checks on all the food
being served to I have a nice image of her walking beside
a long table and when she gets to the cakes one of the staff
stops her to point out they are a new addition. Of course,
she then tastes one and thinks it is delicious."
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The palace's caterers
were looking for a supplier of cakes suitable for people
intolerant of gluten and dairy products. Emma, herself
gluten intolerant, said they had discovered her website,
www.pureflavour.co.uk,
and asked for samples. They placed an order for hundreds
within hours.
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Article by Andy
Chiles
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