Spotted!

I had heard the news that Waitrose had started selling Speculoos spread. Sadly we do not have a Waitrose in Manchester. Well, we do but it is Little Waitrose and therefore never has any of the elusive accidentally vegan things that I want to get such as Dorset Cereals gingerbread porridge!



However, we do have plenty of the fantastic chain of discount stores known as B and M Bargains. B and M's regularly come up with the vegan goods and along with my other favourite Quality Save/ Home Bargains they are great for picking up goodies for the UK Vegan Food Swap. Well, it looks like B and M's get Waitrose's overstocks as the gingerbread porridge turned up a few months ago and this weekend in the Ashton Store I spotted the Speculoos spread in both the sweet and crunchy versions. Result!

Comments

  1. Maria25 February 2013 at 22:29

    What is Speculos spread? Does it taste like the little coffee biscuits? Maria x

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  2. Tea and Sympatico25 February 2013 at 22:54

    Hi Maria, yes it's made by the same people who make the little individually wrapped biscuits you often get with coffee and tastes just like them.

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  3. VeganFire26 February 2013 at 06:59

    HomeBargains now has Mornflake Gingerbread porridge in stock (labelled as vegan on the box)

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  4. Anonymous26 February 2013 at 10:46

    I've had the smooth one from waitrose before. And at the weekend i randomly wandered into B+M bargain shop (I think they are all over the country - you never know if you might find a bargain so i go every 6 months just for a look) and i found a jar of the crunchy one for £1.49. Yum!

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  5. Joey3 March 2013 at 22:21

    I made the same Waitrose discovery too recently! I went to Holland not so long ago and bought a load back with me, then discovered I could get it over here anyway!

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  6. vegan.in.brighton8 March 2013 at 16:19

    Yay for Speculoos! I've heard so much good stuff about your awesome northern bargain stores!

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  7. Anonymous24 March 2013 at 17:56

    I bought my first jar of Specaloos yesterday (crunchy, of course) and have scoffed half the jar - spoon to face! SO GOOD!

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