SENSATIONAL SPREADS

Toast with honey, jam, or nut butter is still one of the easiest and most satisfying breakfast options, or enjoyed as a snack any time of the day. Whether you like your spreads on fresh bread, scones, or spooned straight out of the jar, we’re blessed to have some excellent locally made products to choose from.

Happy Valley – a squeeze of happiness

A morning routine is said to boost happiness. And that is exactly what Happy Valley have set out to do since 1975, creating happiness that you can taste, straight from the hive. The family owned and operated company has evolved their offering since the beginning of the COVID pandemic.

Marketing Manager Narissa Harvey explains: “There has been a significant change in the dynamics of the honey category post-COVID and our borders have been shut. Without the steady stream of tourists and visiting family and friends taking back home their favourite Kiwi products, there has been a shift away from the premium high UMF level Manuka honey products to more of the everyday value options that Kiwi families love and can afford. That is why Happy Valley launched their Upside Down 100% Pure Liquid Honey range, a convenient squeezy bottle that the whole family can use. “Alongside squeezing straight onto toast, into smoothies and drizzling over yoghurt for that healthy morning routine, many families are looking to reduce sugar in cooking, baking, and cooking – and honey is a fabulous way to achieve this. One cup of sugar simply substituted with ½ a cup of honey is reducing the calorie intake by half, not to mention hat honey can add to flavour and not just sweeten. Now that’s happiness.”

Comvita’s most popular Mānuka Honey now in NZ grocery

Comvita’s UMF5+ Mānuka Honey is now available in grocery stores for Kiwi families. UMF™ 5+ is Comvita’s most versatile and popular grade of authentic UMF™ certified Mānuka Honey, and shoppers can now include this family favourite in their regular grocery basket.

UMF™ 5+ Mānuka Honey has a slightly milder flavour than it’s highgrade UMF™ counterparts, which makes it ideal for sweetening teas, tonics and smoothies naturally. It’s also the recommended UMF™ grade for snacking and incorporating into favourite recipes. With Comvita’s UMF5+ Manuka Honey now in grocery, it’s easier to get more manuka goodness into every day!

TIP: A heaped dessert spoon full of Comvita UMF5+ Mānuka Honey makes a great natural pre-workout energy boost! For more information and tips for using Mānuka Honey, visit www.comvita.co.nz.

Comvita UMF™5+ Mānuka Honey 500g and 250g size is now distributed exclusively for New Zealand grocery by Wilsons Consumer Products. For trade inquiries, please contact 0800 651 044.

WARNING: Honey is not suitable for children under one year of age.

Nut Brothers – New Zealand owned

Nut Brothers is a 100% New Zealand owned and operated business. “We don’t just grind our nut butters right here in New Zealand, but we roast all our nuts right here in our dedicated nut roastery,” explains Co-founder Jono Wood.

“The surprising fact is that few premium nut butter brands actually roast their nuts here in New Zealand, many choose to use nuts roasted overseas - often close to four months old before they are finally milled or ground in NZ.

“Hence our claim to be the freshest nut butters in New Zealand. Rather than cranking up a big 5 tonne roast, we’re just constantly roasting 100kg at a time and then grinding them the very same day.

“Roasting fresh is like roasting coffee, it’s about the look, the feel, the cracking sound, the aroma and most importantly the great taste,” explains Wood.

“Why? Because we’re all about keeping it Kiwi, keeping it local, keeping it clean, keeping it fresh and keeping it free of GMO, with no added oils, emulsifiers, sugars or additives.

“We have a great wide range of options, big 500g jars for the more popular flavours and smaller 300g jars for the more indulgent options.

“Kiwis actually want good, healthy and honest NZ made products and at Nut Brothers we go out of our way to make that possible at great value for New Zealanders,” says Wood.

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Pic’s Peanut & Chocolate Butter – the every way, every day spread

The most-asked question about the new Pic’s Peanut & Chocolate Butter is “how do you eat it?”.

The answer is: every day in every way – because it’s full of goodness and lower in sugar compared to other spreads that contain chocolate.

The mainstay of Pic’s Peanut & Chocolate Butter are the very same Pic’s signature Hi Oleic peanuts (76%) found in every jar of Pic’s Peanut Butter. That means you can eat Pic’s Peanut & Chocolate Butter in many of the same ways you might eat Pic’s Peanut Butter – the only limit is people’s imagination. The team at Pic’s has come up with a few

suggestions to get people’s creative and culinary juices flowing: Try Pic’s Peanut & Chocolate Butter with fruit; on your favourite granola; straight from the spoon; swirled into a banana loaf; or on top of a cake as icing. Spread it on pancakes or toast; use it as a celery filling; or dollop it on your favourite ice cream. The possibilities are endless!

Packed full of protein for energy, Pic’s Peanut & Chocolate Butter, as owner and founder of Pic’s Peanut Butter Pic Picot likes to say, contains “no weird stuff”. Even better, it’s crafted with New Zealand’s favourite Whittaker’s Five Roll Refined Creamy Milk and Dark Ghana 72% chocolate.

Pic’s Peanut & Chocolate Butter combines the goodness of two iconic Kiwi brands that care about quality and insist on using only the best ingredients. You could say it’s a match made in Aotearoa, and just like a Peanut Slab in a jar! Dedication to quality has helped to make products made by Pic’s and Whittaker’s firm household favourites, and Pic’s Peanut & Chocolate Butter is no exception.

Pic’s Peanut & Chocolate Butter is available in supermarkets nationwide.

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For sales enquiries please contact Lisa-Jane Kerr: lisa-jane@picspeanutbutter.com