Until December 2007 Kathy's Cornucopia specialised in Gold award winning speciality home made chutneys.

Being in 3 of the Asda supermarkets, a stint in Harrods and many other speciality shops and with enquries from new potential customers regularly, the business was getting increasingly busy and it was getting more difficult to continue cooking from my own home kitchen.

The next step was to employ people to take the business forward. We were given planning permission to convert one of our existing buildings into a purpose built chutney kitchen but could not afford to fully fund this ourselves and despite approaching the Council, we were refused a grant for the works.

I had a major re-think of the whole business and decided that the actual way forward for me personally, was to close the business.

Giving 6 months notice to all my existing customers, I ceased chutney making in December 2007. I did not intend to sell the business or the recipes and declined the offers, as I had decided to write a book with the original award winning recipes and anecdotes from the 10 years of running the business, due out in June 2009.

I now have an easier life in going back to my original vocation (before chutney making) and started a small business making small websites. During this time, I also acquired a young rescue pup.

I had been making home made wheat free biscuits for the dog (as you do !) and it was suggested to me that perhaps I should start a business making them.

Despite my protestations and reservations (which were ignored) a very good friend of mine persuaded me to start making them to sell. She pointed out that biscuit making, unlike chutneys, would not be sticky, smelly or heavy to lift and if I didn't sell many, well the dog could eat the rest !

So now in September 2008, I have now put my skills from the very successful award winning chutneys to good use and started a tiny little business making home made WHEAT FREE biscuits for dogs.