Five More Fantastic Granolas
Choosing a granola is becoming a time-consuming project with the selections growing daily. Along with Early Bird Foods, Purely Elizabeth, Bola, Our Daily Eats, and Granola Lab, all of whom make fabulous granola, there are five more fantastic granolas worth trying. Each is made with an eye on nutrition, texture, and taste with no artificial flavors, colors, sweeteners, or preservatives. What they all have in common is deliciousness. Oats, nuts, seeds, fruit…..the combinations are endless. Read more 
Salty Oats
There are few things better than a homemade cookie.
Salty Oats are handcrafted cookies with a subtly sweet and curiously salty taste. Weighing nearly 4 ounces each, Salty Oats are made by Kayak Cookies of Hyannis, Massachusetts. The Original Salty Oats – a hearty oat and raisin cookie – is sprinkled with salt and has just the right amount of sweetness. Made of organic oats, unbleached unbromated wheat flour, organic raisins, butter, cane sugar, organic eggs, vanilla, sea salt, baking powder and baking soda, the Original Salty Oat is everything an oatmeal cookie should be: slightly crunchy on the outside, chewy on the inside, and completely delicious. Read more
The Ultimate Peanut Butter Cup
Man cannot live by bread alone. He must have chocolate and peanut butter.
Nearly one hundred years ago, a former dairy farmer and shipping foreman for Hershey named H.B. Reese invented the Peanut Butter Cup. Decades passed and until recently there hasn’t been much innovation in the peanut butter cup industry. Chocolate maker extraordinaire – Theo Chocolate – and master peanut butter maker, CB’s Nuts – have joined forces to make one very extraordinary Peanut Butter Cup: ground fresh peanuts covered in creamy milk or rich dark chocolate. Read more
barkTHINS
Who doesn’t love chocolate bark – thick slabs of chocolate blended with nearly anything edible – fruit, nuts, candy, and more? The combination of flavors – sweet and salty – and textures – creamy, crunchy, and chewy make chocolate bark irresistible. By it’s very nature, chocolate bark is chunky making the confection a bit tricky to eat unless the choice is barkTHINS – perfectly portioned, thin slivers of fair-trade certified chocolate crammed full of wholesome non-GMO project verified snack ingredients like almonds, pumpkin seeds, pretzels, blueberries, quinoa, coconut, and peppermint. Read more
Maya Kaimal Chickpea Chips
Chickpeas – also known as garbanzo beans – are loaded with protein and fiber. Easily made into a flour, chickpeas can be used to make a variety of products including chips that are crispy and savory. Maya Kaimal Fine Indian Foods combines flour made from chickpeas with rice flour, sunflower and canola oil, dehydrated potatoes, rice starch, sesame seeds and spices to make a flavorful and delicious chip. Similar to murukku – savory and crunchy twists made from rice and bean flour in India – Maya Kaimal Chickpea Chips are a great alternative to traditional chips. Read more
ChocAlive Truffles
There are four basic food groups: milk chocolate, dark chocolate, white chocolate, and chocolate truffles. A Chocolate Enthusiast
The chocolate truffle: rich, decadent, creamy, and fresh. Leave it to the French to invent a confectionary that contains obscene amounts of cream and chocolate but credit a few Americans at ChocAlive for making an exquisite vegan, dairy-free raw chocolate truffle that is as gratifying to your taste buds as it is satisfying to your body. ChocAlive truffles contain only the highest quality plant-based raw and organic ingredients including Medjool dates, cacao, coconut, agave nectar, and almonds. Read more
Hamantashen
A Hamantashen is a three-cornered pastry pocket stuffed with a sweet filling. Soft and chewy, Hamantashen is similar to a cookie and typically eaten during Purim – a holiday in which the Jews celebrate being saved from persecution in ancient Persia. Purim is usually celebrated in March (as determined by the Hebrew calendar) but through the years, Hamantashen has become very popular so the cookie is often served year-round and consumed by both Jews and non-Jews alike. Read more
Jade Pearl Rice
Jade Pearl Rice is the trademarked name for an organic pearled short-grain rice infused with a bamboo extract. Grown in the forests of South Central Chin, Jade Pearl Rice has a pale jade color, an aroma of a bamboo forest, and a very faint vanilla taste.
Moist and delicious, Jade Pearl Rice by Lotus Foods cooks in less than 20 minutes and makes an especially pretty presentation on the table. Although the rice is touted as the perfect rice for a dessert pudding (and it is ideal for rice pudding), Jade Pearl Rice is also excellent as part of a main course for lunch or dinner. Read more
Move Over Nutella, Make Room for Barefoot and Chocolate!
Fifty years ago, an Italian company (Ferrero) introduced Nutella, the brand name of a hazelnut chocolate spread whose two main ingredients are sugar and palm oil. For decades, there were few choices in the chocolate nut butter market until Barefoot and Chocolate came along in 2013 and created a Hazelnut Chocolate Spread that still relies on sugar (albeit, organic and fair-trade certified) but uses a heavier hand when it comes to hazelnuts and cocoa, the two main flavor ingredients that give Barefoot and Chocolate’s Hazelnut Chocolate Spread its rich, satisfying taste. Read more
The Baobab
Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it. ~Akan Proverb
The word “superfruit” has been thrown around a lot to describe the nutritional strengths of various fruits: blueberries, acaí berries, avocados, bananas, blackberries and more, but there is one superfruit that most people outside of Africa haven’t heard of: the Baobab, one of the most nutrient rich fruits on the planet. Read more
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