Jonathan Ross helps out at a tea party...

Our buddies at Contact the Elderly , who run tea parties for lonely elderly people across the country, were recently featured on the telly. You can watch a video here , with Jonathan Ross helping out with one of their group's meetings.

I think that the work Contact the Elderly do is great. So great actually that we're working together right now to figure out how SuperJam can do something about loneliness among the elderly. They'll certainly be needing some good jam at their tea parties if they're entertaining the likes of Mr Ross!

To the keepers of wee shops...

I get lots of emails every week from the lovely people who run independent stores up and down the country. Delicatessens, farm shops, department stores and garden centers. Until now, we've struggled to supply SuperJam to you guys in small quantities.

Thankfully, all of the SuperJam products are now available from some of the leading distributors to the independent trade, including Hider Foods and Tree of Life . If you have a wee shop, get in touch with them and pile your shelves high with the best jam there is. If you want any posters, press clippings or advice on how best to sell the products, feel free to get in touch with me and I'll do everything I can to help you out.

Let me know if you start selling the products or are already stocking them. We're going to put a search function on the site very shortly, so that people can find out who in their area is stocking SuperJam. If you are particularly quirky or do a really good job of displaying the products, send me a picture and I'll write about you on the blog.....

SuperJam's First Birthday!

Hip Hip....

SuperJam launched in Waitrose on the 19th march 2007, so we're now one year old. How exciting. What an amazing first year it has been too; launching in over five hundred shops, going on a big tour around the country (rock 'n roll!), going on the news all over the world, winning seven or eight awards, being eaten by celebrities, receiving a wall covered in love letters from adoring fans....

I wonder where the next year will take SuperJam....

SuperJam on Ocado...

A lot of folks have been emailing for a while asking me why Ocado wasn't stocking SuperJam. Well, like lots of other wonderful retailers (such as Budgens), they have recently starting stocking the products on their site.

Ocado is a smashing online-only supermarket and they are part owned by Waitrose, so they sell most of the goodies you can buy in the Waitrose shops.

We're doing a 2 jars for £2.50 offer in Waitrose and Ocado at the moment so fill up your cupboards!

Tea Party

The other week, I was invited to a tea party held by our friends at Today Was Fun . They are a very cool and ethical tea company based in London and donate a lot of money to Contact The Elderly .

Anyway, the idea was to invite elderly people from the local area, who perhaps couldn't get out of the house much and were maybe quite lonely, round to their office for a tea party. We all ate lots of lovely cakes, drank pots of 'Friendship Tea' and had a good old chat and a laugh. Everyone went home with a 'goody bag' with a bag of tea, an Innocent smoothie and a jar of SuperJam.

I think Today Was Fun are a very good tea company and the work of Contact the Elderly is wonderful. Loneliness among the elderly of this country is an often forgotten problem and one that is close to my heart. I think tea parties like this are a great idea.

Porridge!

Real men eat porridge for breakfast. I do anyway. Of course, porridge tastes great with a generous blob of SuperJam. Here's a wee video about how best to make porridge, courtesy of Jaqueline O'Donnell, chef at the award winning restaurant 'The Sisters'.

Porridge oats are also a 'super food' and you might have seen on telly recently that they help lower cholesterol. Porridge sets you up for the day. I have a chum called Tony who runs a really good organic porridge company called Stoats . Of course, he uses really good jam when he serves his bowls of hot porridge....

In fact, my buddy Pete has a business called Foodie Boxes - you can get a gift box with Stoats porridge and SuperJam in it.

The Queen of Morning Telly Eats SuperJam!

Lorraine Kelly wrote in her dieting blog on The Sun website today: "I had some wholemeal toast today with that new 'SuperJam' created by a teenage entrepreneur in Scotland.  He has made a range of healthy jam with no added sugar that tastes brilliant.  My favourite is the rhubarb".  Mine too.  

Thanks Lorraine!