Food and Drink

Whatever your reason for trying a plant-based diet for Veganuary, Co-op is here to help you.

Our Co-op continues to be the only retailer to have a 100% Fairtrade chocolate confectionery range, which means that all the Co-op chocolate you buy this Christmas supports Fairtrade producers. Find out what we have in store.

Finding vegan food conveniently can be a challenge so we’re continuously working on developing new vegan products.

Co-op is the first retailer to make all our own brand fresh soups completely gluten free. But that’s not all that’s free from gluten at the Co-op.

I am absolutely delighted to be able to say that from today Co-op will be the only major UK food retailer to stock 100% British fresh meat – something no other major UK retailer can say.  And when I say 100%, I mean 100%. From our pork pies, to our tikka chicken masala ready meals,…

In a first for UK retailers, from May 2017, all the cocoa we buy for our Co-op own brand products will be Fairtrade. It means that when you pick up a Co-op chocolate cake or a packet of biscuits you will know that the cocoa has been bought on Fairtrade terms. This is in addition to…

We know that finding vegan food conveniently can be a challenge, so to celebrate Veganuary we’ve pulled together some pointers on the options you can find in your local Co-op. It’s not just hummous and carrot sticks – you can also find vegan wines, new ready meals, doughnuts and dairy-free milk. On Co-op own brand products,…

The United Nations proclaims 2016 as International Year of Pulses, and as we know, an International Year of title provides us the opportunity to celebrate beans, chickpeas, lentils and other pulses (as if we needed an excuse). In this blog we’re talking pulses, at lunch. Chickpeas – this cheeky pulse is one of the earliest cultivated legumes with…