Speaking of emails we got lots of them from lots of lovely people recently who said that we were helping them beat chocolate which was good timing with Easter! All the same we hope if you did indulge in an egg or two or three - you thoroughly enjoyed them. Just don’t go and buy the ones that are left over in the shops even though they are less than half price- tempting as it is!

So to cause a bit of a healthy distraction: We’ve got the most delicious cherries coming this year after lots of snow this winter (snowy winter = good cherry conditions).  We’re going to get lots more pictures of the harvest this year so you can see how lovely and natural all of our fruits are made..there’s Moorish Kent mangos, juicy gold pineapples and of course our banoffee-like bananas keep getting better -there did that help get chocolate off the brain?

“‘The whole reason we started the business was because we are passionate about health and fitness and this drives us, which I think is why we are doing well,’ she says.
‘Also, there is a growing awareness of the need to eat healthily combined with the fact that people are so busy. Dried fruit is a convenient, healthy snack and it’s not expensive.’ ”

You can read the full Daily Mail article about Urban Fresh Fruit by clicking here.

Just a quick note to let you know about a couple of exhibitions we will be attending with lots of tasty fruit to give out to all you good people.

IFE -  March 15th -18th March 2009,  Excel London
The Vitality Show - Earls Court Exhibition Centre,  26th-29th March.

Hopefully see you there!

And then on an ashamedly belated note…We hope you have a happy healthy and totally out there 2009!

We’ve got some really exciting new stuff planned this year - tasty new nibbles and fun days out….but that’s still top secret right now and all will be revealed soon!!!

My mantra for 2009:

It reads…
MY BUTT is big
And round like the letter C
And ten thousand lunges
Have made it rounder
but not smaller
and that’s just fine.
It’s a space heater for my side of the bed
It’s my ambassador
To those who walk behind me
It’s a border collie
That herds skinny women
Away from the best deals
At clothing sales
MY BUTT IS BIG
And that is just fine
And those who might scorn it
Are invited to Kiss it.
JUST DO IT.

Thighs - this one reads…

I have
thunder thighs
and that’s a compliment
because they are strong
and toned
and muscular
and though they are unwelcome
in the petite section
they are cheered on in marathons
fifty years from now
I’ll bounce a grandchild on my thunder thighs
and then I’ll go out for a run

Just do it

Bye for now!

We let Mark off because he’s all the way down in Truro and Alison because she was on holiday but everybody else got roped in to some good countryside fun, or madness maybe?

About 1200 people a few dogs and kids showed up in skimpy shorts and woolly hats. The race was four and three quarter miles through the rivers and over fields in the Derbyshire peak district. The start was delayed by 15 minutes which probably was the scariest bit as we all began to wonder if we didn’t get hypothermia would the really competitive sorts trample us into the mud once the start whistle blew?

But somehow we were off and dashing downhill towards the river like people possessed. Hayley landed upside down in the mud within the first 30 secs and Andrew managed to lose a shoe in the bog just a little after that.
We then had to wade thigh high through the river and run on in squelching shoes. Nice.
But once you’re wet and muddy it all seemed like good clean exhausting fun. 

It was really awesome (ok, and a little disheartening) to see how many fit kids were out taking part and beating us round the course. The last uphill climb to the finish line was like running up a water slide but we made it and finished up 324, 360, 705, 706 out of 1200 so we were quite happy with that for a first dash attempt. So we’re really sorry we don’t have muddy photos of us all to prove we did it because Janny forgot the camera but here’s what the race looks like….

We’re thinking of doing another one this weekend ‘leg it round Lathkil’ so if you’re round our way come and join in.  If you have an event you think we should try tell us about it!

We will be attending the BBC Good Food Show 2008 at the NEC Birmingham from the 26th to the 30th of November.

Come along and meet us! we would love to have a chat with you and let you have a taste of all our juicy fruits you’ve been wanting to try.
We are bringing along our new Golden Kiwi which is super healthy for you. By the way did you know that the golden Kiwi has smooth skins that you can eat? That’s why we dry them with their skins on so you get even more vitamins and a ‘nice crunch’ to help you dodge the biscuit tin.

Hope to see you there!

Just a quick note to let you know that Urban Fresh Fruit will be attending the Lunch Festival 2008 on the 26th and 27th of September.

The event takes place at Old Billingsgate, London.

We will be there with a variety of tasty fruit treats and we look forward to seeing you then!

Weather aside it was a really cool weekend filled with some slightly crazy events like welly wanging, knitting, ferret racing, duck herding and morris dancing. All of these lovely English pursuits left our Aouth African Andrew looking a bit baffled but he entered the spirit in day 2 by declaring he was going into the 5pm welly wanging heat with a mission to win. He even decided he was going to have an early morning practice with our wellies before the start of the fete. Unfortunately, so many of you came to taste our fruit that he missed out on his moment of glory. Never mind there’s always next year.

There was a nice tea tent which is a must for any English fete and some really cool other stuff like a literary tent that we really wish we’d got to spend some time in too.

It was really nice to meet you all and if you bought some of our tasty fruit we hope you love it as much as we do. If you went to the fete, how about sending us your photos to put on this blog? and if you didn’t you need to think about putting it in your diary for next year.
Thanks to all the folks at innocent for a lovely English fete!

You can see more photos from the day by clicking here and visiting our Facebook page!

so after being asked by various people whether we have or not,  we’ve decided to join the ever burgeoning world of social networking and we’ve made ourselves a Facebook page.

You can become our friend on Facebook by clicking here.

By clicking on that link you can get a sneak peek at the design feel of our brand new big bag packaging, which is all very exciting.

Hope you’re well and thanks in advance.