If you watch my instagram stories, you know I LOVE heading to the local farmers market every Saturday morning. I love walking around and meeting all the small shop owners + farmers with each and every purchase.
I find it super important to shop local. WHY?
- Improve local economy
- Supporting another entrepreneurs hard work
- Supporting your community (money also stays within your community)
- Better customer service + personalized service
- Shopping local helps environment; less food miles reduces fossil fuels + emissions
So typically when I head to the market I stock up on veggies for the week, some Griggstown eggs + turkey burgers and I satisfy those pregnancy cravings with Mishti Chocolate, an organic + local small shop. They have the most delicious lavender chocolate bars – you must try them!
Check out my interview below with the owner of Mishti Chocolate, Puneet Girdhar.
So what does MISHTI stand for?
Puneet: Mishti is our elder daughter’s name. It means sweet in one of the Indian languages.
So sweet! Why did you decide to create Mishti chocolate?
Puneet: Mishti was created after our Mishti was born. Mishti our elder daughter was born with a lot of allergies and dairy was one of the biggest of all. I wanted to share my passion and taste for chocolate with her and create something that is not just good to taste but also has fine quality ingredients.
I love that! Every child deserves to eat chocolate haha. What do you currently sell?
Puneet: So far we sell 14 different types of chocolate bars (ranging from vegan milk to 100% dark chocolate) and hot chocolate mix.
Flavors include moon light, coffee, toffee, dark night, dark moon, cocktail, lavender, mango, pineapple, ginger + more!
Puneet: Organic means restricting use of harmful chemicals and promoting ecological balance. It is really important for us to make sure that the chocolate we make and sell is of the highest quality and environment friendly.
Puneet: We sell online, at different farmer markets around NJ and at some stores. You can find the complete list at
Puneet: This is a tough one to answer because the top seller changes almost every week but out of all the flavors we have, I would say the sales for Gingerony and Bitter Sweet Toffee have been most consistent.
To snag your own MISHTI CHOCOLATES, you can find them on
Erica, thanks for the article post.Really thank you! Great.
Ohh this looks so yummy! I love to shop local!!
I love going to the farmers market! bitter sweet toffee sounds amazing!
i am a chocoholic and always looking for one’s with better ingredients. Thank you for always sharing your top picks!