The Competition
Before I forget! This is the Fairtrade Hamper you can win - just send me your comments, tips or challenges and your name will enter a draw.
Remember, if you post as Anonymous, I won't know who you are, so if you want a big basket of goodies, reveal thy self!
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posted by Eilis at
4:54 PM
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hmmm... do i really need all those calories?? :)
We're doing a project in school on how great Oxfam is:) Wouldn't a free hamper of Chockies really galvanise your awesomeness?!!!
keep up the good work. need some ideas for a fairtrade meal to impress my sister who's coming to visit this week. any suggestions?
Avoid Starbucks lol! And if you can't, always ask for the Fairtrade coffee, although they're not as 'fairtrade' as coffeeshops like Clements and Morning Star =)
Hey! good going!!! i'd love to do that!........it's kinda inspired me to go and make a fairtrade meal! thanx!!!-hamper would be nice too!
I really admire your determination to last the two weeks! Why don't you get your friends on board too and host a fair trade coffee morning complete with gorgeous coffee and biscuits. The FT Stem Ginger cookies are my weakness! You could even have FT cotton place mats!
My year 9s have been canvassing local businesses to find out the range of fairtrade produce available in our local area. At first they encountered some scepticism and hostility, but, in the case of one major supermarket, staff actually sought out our student to say that they had investigated at their head office and had found out about Fairtrade Fortnight and were pleased to tell us they would have displays and special offers in place. The year 9s are delighted with all the fairtrade items they have found online, but worried about the environmental costs of transport.
Hi I work with a Fair Trade Brazil Nut Cooperative in The Bolivian Amazon. The members have never tasted real chocolate, itd be fabulous to win the hamper!!!1
Cearbhuil
Thought I couldn't not comment - one Eilis to another . . . you're doing a great job, well done. Another comment about shops that stock fairtrade is that it's sometimes in pack sizes that don't suit - I personally wouldn't be able to get through an entire bunch of fairtrade bananas, although with your present diet they might suit you! Also glad to see that Tesco are doing fairtrade decaff teabags again. And have you tried Green & Black's Maya Gold chocolate - it's absolutely gorgeous - one of those and a bar of Divine dark chocolate go in my trolley every week! Anyway, best of luck with it all.
Hey, think what you're doing is really great, raising awareness and all,I fair trade tea is the best!!!
Fairtrade woman is such a good idea, its a really great way of bringing fairtrade produce into the limelight. I think its awesome. I envy fairtrade woman getting to eat all those goodies.
Keep up the good work!!
would it not be better to give the prise to people not attached to oxfam or on their mailing list - show them how good fair trade is, ethically and based on taste and quality
Hey I was just watching a programme about S D Bell's Coffee Shop in Belfast, on NVTV, very interesting, but does anyone know if they do Fairtrade? They never mentioned it! So what's their attitude? And should we drink their tea/coffee?
Ummm, that hamper looks absolutely jeany gorgeous! One for everybody in the audience??
Im not a chocolate person, but fair trade woman is a good marketing tool. I like the idea of chocolate being pushed during the archaic period called lent!
A litle scared of this prize but i'll feel the fear and enter anyway, a fairtrade chocolate party could be on the cards....Go fairtrade woman
Hi Eilis, it might interest you to know that there is a UK-based Fair Trade outlet for pork, detailed here. http://www.meatinfo.co.uk/articles/57986/Sausage-scheme-pays-off.aspx?categoryid=9016
I'm sure there must be other Fairtrade schemes operating in the UK for local veg and dairy, which might be useful to you and could also keep the food miles down. Obviously there are some products which can't be produced locally - tea, coffee, chocolate, pineapples or whatever - so the food miles are inevitably going to be high for those.
I would imagine that people who are interested in Fairtrade will also tend to be interested in keeping their food miles down.
There's also a Scottish firm producing fair trade ice cream (http://www.creamogalloway.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=69&Itemid=65).
Good luck!
Sorry, can I add that according to the website the ice cream is for sale at Soul Food on the Ormeau Road?
Great idea, we've been giving out ft cereal bars, chocolate, tea and coffee all week in ucd, hopefully getting students to switch to fairtrade!
I can barely handle the thought of all that chocolate.... needless to say there would be an apartment full of vegetarian, environmentally concious uni students known to advocate for social justice who would be quite happy to help take it off your hands....
Something I didn't know was that not only can you get fair trade wine but also beer! Asda is selling an ale which is made out of FT Chilean honey and FT sugar. Sounds yum! So if you get fed up with wine, you have other options for a wee tipple!
as a student nothing speaks more to us like free stuff and as president of the lit engsoc i have more influence that chocy would have a tasty impact on us and i think help to bring the issue of fair trade to the masses of the IT
Eilis ni chreidim é! Ricky Danger anseo, tá riomhphoist á seoladh chugam ó Oxfam gach cupla seachtain,chonaic mé d'ainm ach nior chuir mé le chéile gur tusa a bhi ann mar Fairtrade Woman! The staff room in Rathmines College would be such a happy place, please make our day!!
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