23/09/2026
OOhhhh!!
Hi everyone, I've been pondering whether to share this with you and have decided I should! Could be a long one so you might need a brownie ;)
After Mr JB's was escorted out of a local Aldi supermarket a few weeks ago (for buying some of our ingredients) and told he wasn't welcome again, we have had to change our shopping and suppliers.
Said supermarket HO has said that the manager of each branch can decide who he serves and who he doesn't and this one in particular has banned all businesses from the area shopping in his supermarket!
Initially this left me in a panic and a mini break down and giving up brownies and getting a 'proper' job, but I had a word with myself and went about sorting the problem out.
A little history - when the brownies were born I tried a LOT of different chocolate in them and we were told by you and we thought so too that one chocolate stood out. We have used this chocolate up until last month.
So although we were told we could shop at the same supermarket elsewhere, I was a little annoyed and if you know me then you'll know ;) and we decided to give our hard earned money to someone else. So we have gradually swapped our chocolate over.
When we tried the first batch I was nervous but blimey, I couldn't stop eating them!!! I couldn't understand how this could be after our experiments in the beginning of brownie time, but I realised that over the last twelve years the said supermarket has changed it's chocolate ingredients a few times.
So after a few tries and more yummy experiments we have changed chocolate and our baking technique to match this (who knew!!) and what has emerged is IMO a better brownie and blondie!!
We have also changed some of our other ingredients but generally they are all the same but just a different name. The chocolate was the big thing.
The initial mini breakdown has actually been to our advantage (taste not money wise) but I'm happy to bring even better brownies out the other side of it!
So let me know what you think when you try them :)