In the event that you were lacking an excuse to eat chocolate or drink coffee, we’re here to help: it’s Fairtrade Coffee & Choc Week from 3-9 August. Here’s how you can support small-scale farmers while getting your caffeine and cocoa fix.

1. Order a coffee from Mugg & Bean

The well-known chain is launching its Fairtrade coffee this week. The beans in question hail from a single origin in Uganda, and are organic. It’s also bottomless…

A coffee and chocolate by Fairtrade coffee.

2. Try out Cadbury’s new chocolate bar

Cadbury’s new chocolate bar, Dairy Milk Silk, is a smoother, silkier Dairy Milk bar, and will be on shelf from this week. Cadbury has been working with Fairtrade for their Dairy Milk slabs since 2011.

Cadbury’s new chocolate bar.

3. Shop for Fairtrade coffee at Checkers

Fairtrade instant coffee is available at Checkers stores countrywide. Look out for the Antigua Fairtrade freeze-dried coffees, which are exclusive to Checkers and Checkers Hyper stores.

Fairtrade coffee fudge brownies

4. Bake coffee and chocolate fudge brownies

Chef, food stylist and Fairtrade ambassador Zola Nene shares her recipe for gooey chocolate brownies. She advises buying coffee in small quantities, so that you’re drinking coffee at its best (and not letting it go stale in your pantry cupboard), and being careful to never over-heat chocolate.

5. Enter to win a Fairtrade hamper worth R1100

We’re giving away a hamper of Fairtrade coffee, tea and chocolate to one lucky Eat Out reader. Enter here.

Follow @FairtradeSA on Twitter or like the Fairtrade page on Facebook to find out more about how coffee and cocoa beans are grown and meet the farmers behind the stories.