At Swindon Pulse we keep as many fairly traded and organic goods as possible. Whilst many of our products do not have the fair trade mark, many are bought from small growers, local suppliers and co-operatives. This helps to ensure that everyone gets a fair days wage for a fair day’s work and hopefully has some say in the running of the companies that we buy from - for example, Tyrell’s crisps are a small family run business in a rural area, and they make yummy crisps that even tell you which variety of potato they’re made from. We always try the products we sell, and we try not to stock products that supermarkets have, however, we won’t compromise on taste and quality just to be right on, pc and cool – if we don't like it, we don’t stock it!

In summer we buy as many of our fruit and vegetables as possible from Jubilee Gardens and T.W.I.G.S – local charity projects that provide work for adults with learning difficulties in Swindon, these are yumtastic locally grown organic veg nurtured with loving care by organisations which deserve everyones support.

We sell a wide range of dried wholefoods that we bag up from bulk sacks - which helps to keep costs down - 90% of them organic, and from all corners of the globe. We have a large selection of dried herbs and spices and some herbal remedies which we weigh up for you, from as little as 40p an ounce (30g), and because we sell so many of them they don’t sit on the shelf going stale like they do in supermarkets!

Of course, we also sell cruelty free and bio-degradable toiletries and cleaning products – come and have your Ecover bottles refilled – save money and generate less plastic waste! We also carry an extensive range of Alfred Vogels herbal remedies in tincture form, which can help with all sorts of ailments from coughs, colds and hay fever, to liver problems, menopause and sleeplessness….the list is endless.

We stock a few good cookbooks about beans and pulses, gluten free and vegan diets, because so many people ask ‘how do you cook it?’, and we have lots of info leaflets to pick up too, along with a notice board for local holistic therapists and groups to pin up a card or poster.

Sugar free sweets for the kids; delicious dairy free ice cream; soya, rice and nut milks; sprouting seeds and sprouters; essential oils; organic extra virgin olive oil direct from Spain; hemp oil and hemp seeds; Booja Booja, Montezumas, and other ‘proper’ chocolate; snacky things and energy bars; houmous and loads more chilled stuff; healthy frozen food – even organic chips!; real fruit juices; herbal teas, caffeine free fair-trade unbleached organic tea and coffee, normal tea and coffee, hand knitted muesli, yoghurt weaving……loads more stuff we cant even fit on the shelves……check us out, 100% vegetarian and nearly always smiling !!

Prices are correct as of January 2008, some will go up, some will come down.

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