Stand No EA7
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Mari’s with Love
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We’ve been making fudge since 2011.
At first, the idea was to just supplement our income and sell fudge in our biltong shop. With my grandmother’s recipe, buckets full of tears and many late nights we finally had a great product.
But why fudge?
I was six months pregnant, very discouraged and felt that we were not financially prepared for little Maya’s arrival. I can still remeber that one morning in my quiet time when I asked God for help and guidance.
That same week my housekeeper’s husband accidentally stepped on their 4 month old puppy causing a broken hip. Christene rushed to me and on the Friday morning we took the puppy “Ounooi” to the SPCA. After a long wait the vet told us that we had two options, an opertation costing R800 or put Ounooi to sleep. Christine was in tears…
That night I could not sleep. How will we manage to get the money in two days? The next morning I woke up and phoned Christine to tell her she’d better hurry, we are going to make fudge and sell it in town.
The Golf Club had a golf day and everybody told us we should try and sell our fudge there.
Andre, the captain of the club, was so kind. He told the whole sad story during the prize giving and had the brilliant idea to auction the fudge starting at R100! Some people were even willing to pay a R150! By the end of the day, we made R800!
What a wonderfully closed knit and caring community we have, I thought to myself. Everybody is always willing to help. They absolutely loved the fudge and it gave me the confidence to make this our new product line.
God gave me the guts to go out there and sell my product. The next week I got into my car starting at the Oumeul Bakery in town and went all the way down the N2…
I have to say, I think my big belly helped a lot because not many people would say “no” to a pregnant lady….
10 years later we had a team of four local ladies. We were making our own condensed milk and producing over two tonnes of fudge a month. We supplied close to 250 shops.
The feed back we get from our customers is very positive and they are always asking us what we are going to make next.
