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Switching to Fully Recyclable Inflated Tube Packaging! At Tomato Free, we’re excited to announce a major upgrade in our commitment to sustainability. Starting tomorrow, we will be transitioning from traditional polystyrene packaging to an eco-friendly inflated tube packaging system. This change not only reduces waste but also ensures that our packaging is 100% recyclable!

Why We’re Making the Switch

Polystyrene has been widely used due to its durability and protective qualities. However, it’s a non-recyclable material that contributes to environmental pollution. By switching to Fully Recyclable Inflated Tube Packaging, we aim to:

• Reduce plastic waste in landfills
• Support a circular economy with recyclable materials
• Provide our customers with an easy and environmentally conscious way to dispose of packaging

The Benefits of Inflated Tube Packaging

Our new inflated tube system is designed with both the environment and our customers in mind. Here’s why we believe this is a better option:

1. 100% Recyclable: These air-filled tubes are made from recyclable materials, so they can be easily disposed of in your regular recycling bin.
2. Lightweight and Efficient: Air-filled packaging is lightweight, which means lower shipping costs and reduced carbon emissions during transportation.
3. Superior Protection: Despite being lighter, these inflated tubes offer exceptional cushioning, ensuring your products arrive in perfect condition.
4. Space-Saving: Our tubes take up minimal space when deflated, allowing us to store and ship packaging more efficiently.

Join Us in Making a Difference

At Tomato Free, we believe that small changes can lead to big impacts. By adopting this eco-friendly packaging solution, we’re taking another step towards reducing our carbon footprint and promoting a greener planet.

We invite you to join us on this journey by recycling the packaging and choosing sustainable options whenever possible. Together, we can make a positive difference for the environment.

Stay tuned for more updates on our sustainability efforts, and thank you for supporting Tomato Free in our mission to replace tomatoes for allergy sufferers and help protect the planet!

We have had some really valuable time off over the Christmas holidays and are now ready to get the sauces back into action! The online shop is now open 🙂

 

Have a happy and tomato free 2015! x

We received this wonderful e-mail today via the contact form:

“Thank you so much for making this sauce and the recipes too. Pretty much the only vegetable my daughter was eating before we discovered her tomato allergy was baked beans! Now I can make baked beans for her and know that she’s also getting to eat other veg too. She says they taste like ‘restaurant beans’!
Her favourite pasta dish was spaghetti bolognaise so she is over the moon that this is back on her menu again!
Really hope that you will one day get this to a nationwide retail outlet so that we can save on the postage.
On a side note, for those people looking for an alternative to tomato sauce based pizza and don’t want to open a whole jar of your sauce, Asda stores with a pizza counter can make pizzas with a garlic and herb spread instead of tomato sauce. A 14″ pizza is only £3 at our store.

Thank you again.

Christina”

Thank you SO much Christina!  It’s lovely to have such great feedback and I’m really glad your daughter enjoys the sauce and the freedom to eat all her favorite foods again!  I hope you don’t mind me posting your e-mail here for everyone to see, but it is your feedback and word-of-mouth that is making Ally’s No Tomato sauce such a success!

Another great little tip for making your own pizza is to use our tomato free ketchup as the pizza sauce (you only need a few table-spoons spread over the base and it tastes superb). My girls love making their own pizzas, which usually end up looking like big smiley faces with pepperoni eyes, mushroom ears, pineapple teeth. I’ll post up some pics next time we make them, and will put some new recipes up too (we have recently discovered a fantastic meat-ball and spaghetti dish which I can’t wait to share with you!)  Please let us know if you have any other great tomato-free recipe ideas (with OR without Ally’s No Tomato Sauce), and I’ll happily share them on tomatofree.co.uk

 

 

Following the destruction of our main server in a recent electrical storm, the replacement is finally installed and systems are now fully restored. We are back to business as usual.  There is a little catching up to do over the next couple of days, and we are sincerely sorry for any delays experienced in getting your orders out.

Any back orders will be delivered early next week.

 

To all our wonderful and loyal customers.  We are extremely sorry for the recent delays in deliveries.  We have had a severe technical breakdown with the server (caused by lightning strike!).  All back-orders over the last two and a half weeks have been recovered and will be processed as soon as possible.

On a lighter note, our 3rd child was born on Friday morning!  Say hi to little Sebastian 🙂 (His early arrival has also delayed the orders, so please accept our sincere apologies).

 

At last! The Tomato Free Ketchup is now available!  We use this fantastic tasting ketchup almost on a daily basis and the kids love it! We have been planning to get it on the website for many months now, but we just keep eating all the stock! Lol.  Seriously though, we are VERY proud to announce Ally’s Tomato-Free Ketchup is now available to order.  It is made from our great tasting Ally’s No Tomato Sauce, and has a truly authentic classic ketchup taste we know you will love.

Visit the online shop to order yours now!

 

We are off to a cracking start for 2012!  With January being a record month for online sales, and February promising to be the same 😀

We hope to soon bring you some fabulous new Tomato Free recipes and more great allergy advice and freebies.

But for now, here is a little joke that I heard on the radio the other day and it give me a little chuckle:

What is red and invisible?     – No Tomatoes!

Hehehe… Anyway, if you are looking for the red stuff, go get some!

Wishing all our customers and visitors a safe and very merry Christmas and happy new year!

Best wishes,

Conrad, Uzma, Alicia, Yasmin, and tiny bump! 😉

x

 

Hi All.  It has been a busy week, and due to the high number of hits we have been receiving, we have had to move the TomatoFree website to a new host today.  Sorry for any disruption during this process, but everything should now be back to normal.

I will be giving the site a good workout tonight to make sure everything is working as it should, but if you spot anything out of place, or have any problems with the site then please let me know (as I may need to get a few settings tweaked).

We can now handle lots more visitors!  Yay!

We are very pleased to announce a new, less expensive, delivery charge on all of our 4 jar packs of tomato replacement, and Yazz’s Sweet-Chilli-Tastic relish.  Previously you were charged £8.22 (the old Royal Mail First Class rate) for delivery.  However, since they increased their fees to £8.90, we simply couldn’t pass that increase on to our customers as we already felt £8.22 to be excessive.  Therefore, we are very happy to say that we have negotiated and secured a new courier company to handle all the packs of 4, giving a saving to our customers of £2.22 per box of 4!  This is great news for our new and regular customers alike.

We have had some excellent feedback on their service, but we want to make sure we are giving the very best possible service to you, and we can only do that with your feedback.  Any orders on 4 or more jars will be dispatched with our new courier, and we would really appreciate it if you could let us know how they perform. Please leave a comment with your experience (good or bad).  Thank you!