Hello,

I'm happy to announce that our delicious Dessert Bars are back and better than ever.  These delicious bars were originally made by Halleluia Bakers in a small farm house kitchen in rural Vermont. After making these bars, cakes and breads for over 10 years, Halleluia called it quits and passed on the recipes to a local baker friend, The Red Door Bakery.  It took Red Door a few months to perfect Halleluia's recipe and we couldn't be happier with the result. Enjoy these fantastic bars in flavors like Apricot Cobbler, Date and Raspberry Crumble, Chocolate Cheesecake Swirl, Mochachino, Mint Cheese Cake, German Chocolate Bar and many more.

Have a healthy summer!

Tim

Hello,

For those who have ordered our new healthy cereals and grains I wanted to include preparation instructions. We include these instructions in your order, but just in case you missed them here they are:

Water	Oats
One Cup	1/4 Cup
Two Cups	1/2 Cup
Three Cups	3/4 Cup
Four Cups	1 Cup

1. Bring water to a boil. You can substitute milk for creamier oats.
2. Slowly stir in the steel cut oats, add diced apricots, cherries or your favorite dried fruit or nuts for added flavor.
3. When oatmeal begins to thicken (in 5-10 minutes), reduce heat.
4. Simmer uncovered for about 30 minutes, stirring occasionally.
5. Sweeten with honey, maple syrup or preserves.

Water	Oats
One Cup	1/3 Cup
Two Cups	2/3 Cup
Three Cups	1 Cup

2. Slowly stir in the Nine Grain Cereal Mix. add diced apricots, cherries or your favorite dried fruit or nuts for added flavor.
3. Turn down the heat to simmer.
4. Cover and cook for about 10 minutes.
5. Sweeten with honey, maple syrup or preserves.

Water	Oats
One Cup	1/2 Cup
Two Cups	1 Cup

2. Slowly stir in Quinoa. add diced apricots, cherries or your favorite dried fruit or nuts for added flavor.
3. Turn down the heat to simmer.
4. Cover and cook for about 10 – 15 minutes.

Please let me know if you have any questions or suggestions.

Thank you.

Tim

Hello,

We are working day and night to develope new products for this year’s fall holiday season. We were very excited about the popularity of our new products last fall including the Peanut Brittle, Ribbon Candy and Licorice Allsorts.  Here are a few of the products we are working on:

• Homemade fudge in interesting flavors including Vanilla Ginger, Chocolate Red Tart Cherry and Peanut Brittle Peanut Butter
• Christmas cookies
• New chocolate items
• Dried Persimmon

And lots more. Please let me know if you have any suggestions. Please email me at tim@sweetenergy.com.

Hello,

If you have called Sweet Energy after 6pm during the week and on the weekends, you might have noticed that the usual working Moms don't answer. In an effort to provide you with the ability to order 24 hours a day, we have been working with an excellent call center. They are fully trained on our products and are familiar with the latest Sweet Energy catalog.  They may not have all the information we have to handle your customer service requests, and they will direct you to call us during normal business hours.

Please let me know if you have any feedback on our call center, you can email me at tim@sweetenergy.com.

Hello,

We have some bad news from Turkey. We will not receive any new crop figs this year. All of us here at Sweet Energy are shocked. We've been importing figs from Turkey for over 25 years and we've never experienced what happened this year.

The fig trees had a couple of late season frosts that damaged the fruit on the trees. At harvest, the pickers produced less than half of the usual crop.  This reality drove the fig market into a state of panic and the price for figs more than tripled. We've been watching the market and haven't been able to find our usual premium quality figs at the right price and will have to wait until this October when the 2008 crop comes in.

In the meantime, our 2006 crop of figs are still available and are still fantastic as ever, but will be available for only a few more months.

Please email me at tim@sweetenergy.com if you have any questions or comments.

Thank you,

Tim