Griffins: New Zealand’s favorite biscuits are now available in the Philippines

Attention Chocolate fans, you have all the reasons to rejoice and be happy!  Griffin’s, New Zealand’s favorite biscuit bakers, have finally reached the Philippine shore. Universal Robina Corporation (URC), makers of Jack 'N Jill and is the country's leading food and beverage company brings us the Kiwi's premium chocolate biscuits for every Filipinos to enjoy. 

I'm no fan of chocolates but there are exceptions to that. I recently received a huge bag filled with Griffin's chocolate biscuits in the bloggermail. Being diabetic, my endocrinologist says I should avoid sweets but she says i'm allowed to have 'cheat days' (which means, I can eat in sample portions) provided I take my medicines. Anyway, I was delighted to try Griffin's chocolate biscuits. I was surprised to find out that Griffin's chocolate biscuits are simply deliciously divine! I was able to indulge in the honest-to-goodness milk chocolate in every bite. 

There are four unique flavors of Griffin's chocolate biscuits to choose from: Griffin's Toffee Delights, Chit Chat, and Squiggles are all made and baked with real New Zealand milk chocolate. 

Griffin's Toffee Delights Chocolate Coated Cookies with Caramel center

Toffee Delights offers layers of rich flavours, with a sweet biscuit base topped with yummy caramel and smothered in real milk or dark chocolate.

Jack ‘n Jill Big Bang offers explosive fun with two new flavors

Our favorite chocolate snack as a kid has two new exciting flavors out in the market today. Remember Big Bang Chocolate bars from Jack n' Jill? There are two new flavors to choose from inspired by all-time popular desserts, Jack ‘n Jill’s Big Bang puts-in a distinctive fruity twist to its well-loved chocolate snack as it offers two new variants –Big Bang Banana Split and Big Bang Blueberry & Cheese.

 

Big Bang Banana Split delights the palate as it combines yummy banana split-flavored nougat with crunchy choco cookie balls, wrapped with creamy milk chocolate.

 

Big Bang Blueberry & Cheese, on the other hand, tempts the taste buds with its delicious blend of lush blueberry and cheese-flavored nougat and crispy rice puffs all enrobed in silky smooth chocolate. Both variants are now available at leading supermarkets, groceries, and convenience stores nationwide.

 

GOYA CHOCOLATES: MADE BY DELFI, LOVED AND TRUSTED BY FILIPINOS

Yummy Goya chocolates in different shapes sizes and flavors.

We all love chocolates, that's a given fact. But contrary to previous reports, did you guys know why chocolates are good? Because chocolates are processed with perfection in mind and thus, there is no room for error. Everyone wants to eat chocolate so it has to be of excellent quality to be truly outstanding.

This is what Delfi, a top chocolate confectionery brand, always bears in mind in the manufacture of their world class-quality chocolates. Through meticulous research, including time-perfected recipes plus safe handling and processing of top-quality raw materials, Delfi is now able to make chocolates as perfect as possible to meet consumers’ discriminating demands.

To make everything perfect, Delfi, brought here in the Philippines by Delfi Foods, Inc., makes sure that the quality of each product that comes out of their factory is really top of the line. All necessary ingredients are infused on its products, like Goya and Knick Knacks, for example, and carefully handled to make them perfect in taste. “Aside from being an art, chocolate making is also a science. Precise timing and temperature of the cocoa is always carefully observed to make that signature Delfi taste in every Goya chocolate,” explains Nilo Chincuanco, General Manager of Delfi Foods, Inc.

The scientific side in making Goya involves putting up a dedicated team of product experts to oversee all chocolate-making activities and at the same time, rigorous safety and quality standards are met or even surpassed to make the perfect chocolate.

With the Delfi Quality Management System in place, plus globally recognized manufacturing standards like ISO 22000, HALAL certification, Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP), and Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) as set by the Société Générale de Surveillance (SGS), all products that roll out of its factory are of more-than-adequate quality and free from other food safety hazards in order to protect the consumer.

“The credibility of the brand is at stake here so we cannot let our guards down. We continually find ways, through painstaking research and development efforts, on how to make our chocolates perfectly delicious and yet absolutely safe,” says Chincuanco.

Surely, with the breadth of food quality certification standards they put in place, Delfi is still able to make their Goya products affordable for every Pinoy. “Though affordable, it is no excuse to sacrifice quality and food safety. These two are always on top of our minds and are always in place in the entire manufacturing process,” Chincuanco adds further.

There is no denying that the perfect chocolate is made out of thorough and careful research, the best ingredients available, and proper food manufacturing processes—and Delfi makes sure that their Goya and Knick Knacks products has them all to make perfectly delectable chocolates.

I grew up with Goya chocolates. I even had this dream of one day visiting their factory just like what they had in their popular commercial in the 80's--the Goya Fun Factory. It seemed to be a scene straight out of Willy Wonka's, but this is a brand that Filipinos had grown to love and trusted all throughout the years.  

Wanting for that ideal and faultless chocolate? The next time you crave for superb-tasting and extraordinary chocolates, try Goya Chocolates that come in bars, bite sizes, panned, wafers and other products that are a perfect fit to the Filipino chocolate palate and of course, Knick Knacks. These premium-quality and affordable brands are what every chocolate-loving Filipino rightfully deserves—and should not miss.

So head off to the nearest major supermarkets, leading groceries and convenience stores nationwide—and even pharmacies, too, and heartily share those delightfully-tasting Goya and Knick Knacks chocolates with your family and friends. It’s the best way to spend any chocolate day.

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Chocolatic and Flavoron: Both Uniquely Delicious!

Flavoron's Pastillas Balls may look simple from the outside, but inside is an honest-to-goodness pastillas heaven!

The “Ber” month has officially started this September. Thoughts of Christmas will come to mind. Carols will be played in public places and décor will be sold. Gifts will also be considered. A list, maybe a long one, will have to be prepared.

Food is perhaps the most practical thing to give. Many will depend on ordering food as gifts, especially those who do not want to be bothered with tedious preparation. Lately, we discovered a home-based chocolate guy who produces exquisite personalized chocolates and delicious sweet goodies.

Chocolates are said to be love elixir. But this wasn’t what made Rex S. Romero Jr. interested in them. Although he had admitted on using his own business once as a present to his ladylove, his interest in chocolates was simply a fortunate stroke of serendipity.  

24-year-old young businessman, Chocolatic and Flavoron owner/creator, Rex S. Romero Jr.

For starters, Rex doesn’t really have any culinary/pastry background. He’s course was computer related—which means, he should be facing computers than melting pots and working in the kitchen. But as luck would have it, he found himself in a food bazaar where incidentally, a chef was demonstrating how to mold chocolates. He had listened well yet he had no inkling that it would be the start of something big for him.

What started as a plain hobby soon transformed into a passion. Rex later found himself researching on chocolates and tries his best to further improve his craft. He has even developed 24 different flavors for his other brand, Flavoron. He also makes yummy polvoron.  He thought of Flavoron in 10 minutes flat as part of the challenge in the nationwide search for Talk & Text and Go Negosyo contest where he emerged 2^nd runner up.

Rex Romero Jr. during the time he won as 2nd Runner up in Go Negosyante ng Bayan Nationwide contest.

Chocolatic personalizes your chocolate lollipops.

What makes his chocolates different from the rest? Well, it is uniquely personalized—he’s selling personalized photographic chocolates. Yes, you can have your face painted on each of his decadent chocolates. He personally painted the likes of President Noynoy Aquino, the late president Corazon Aquino, celebrities Kris Aquino, Pokwang, Rafael Rossel, Denise Laurel, Melai Cantiveros, Jason, and many others on his website. Aside from its uniqueness, it will surely delight anyone with a sweet tooth. His chocolate is indeed a perfect gift and giveaways for wedding, debut, birthdays, and anniversaries. Delivery can be requested but charges will depend on distance.

Yes, this President Noynoy chocolate photo is edible.

I personally liked his Flavoron Pastillas Balls in Strawberry flavor. At first sight, it looked like an ordinary pastillas, only made in small balls. Yet after a few bite, one would notice it does have the yummy chewiness of any regular pastillas, but it had the goodness of real strawberry flavor. If you’re a strawberry lover, you’ll get hooked on this one. Flavoron has a lot of other flavors that would surely satisfy any discriminating palate. For the more adventurous foodies, there’s even a wasabi-flavored polvoron from Flavoron. I see no other reason why you shouldn’t try Rex Chocolatic and Flavoron this coming Yuletide season. After all, his products are too cute to look at, you might want to frame them, so sad you can only eat them. 

Visit his website to see his wonderfully designed chocolates at www.chocolatic.webs.com and order a sample of his Flavoron at 

www.theflavoron.webs.com. 

You could also email Rex at jerges2004@yahoo.com or call him at 0919-7183629. 

Disclaimer: I am not paid for this blog post. My opinions are 100% my own. 

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