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BBQ Chips are a staple for potato chip lovers and these are way up on the list of amazing BBQ potato chips. Aside from being really good chips, they benefit the National Wildlife Foundation. Kettle is always doing good by giving back to the community and the environment around them.
Equal Exchange offers a lot of fair trade products such as coffee, tea and chocolate. I recently sampled the Organic Milk Chocolate with Hazelnuts and the Organic Dark Chocolate with Almonds.
Both chocolate bars are wonderful. The smooth chocolate blends really well with the other flavors. The hazelnut bar is not overly full of hazelnut. It is actually just a hint of hazelnut for a super chocolately flavor. The almonds are abundant and tasty, that’s for sure. The crunchy, gluten-free chocolate bar is a keeper!
Equal Exchange redesigned their website’s store and made it more web friendly, so go check it out.
Organic and raw peanuts deep from the Ecuadorian Jungle have a strong resemblance to our peanuts, but taste much different. These nuts are woodsier and heartier. They take some time to get used to, but I do like them. They are heart healthy too and help to support a local tribe of farmers whose lands are being destroyed to mine for oil.
Bumblebar’s organic energy bars come in so many flavors that I will need at least three separate reviews for all of them. However, here is some background history first. Bumblebar has been around for more than 10 years and today there are over 10 flavors to choose from. Bumblebars are designed to be energetic, as well as vegan, gluten-free and ethically sourced.
Go visit BumbleBar.com for more information on the company. Now, let’s get down to the flavors.
Chai with almonds is up first. It’s full of almond slivers and mildly flavored with the usual chai ingredients; ginger, vanilla, cardamam, cinnamon, and tumeric. I really liked this and I’m glad it was my first choice. Good source of protein too.
Chocolate Crisp was an even better second choice. It was like a healthy chocolate bar but with sesame seeds and brown rice for that crispy pop.
Original Mixed Nut contained lots of nuts. Both roasted almonds and cashews, as well as sesame and flax seeds. It contains lots of fiber and is high in fat due of the nuts. I liked this bar, but it was very nutty, maybe a drop too nutty. You have to expect that, though, it is called Mixed Nut after all.
Original Almond was very good as well, and I enjoyed it more than the Mixed Nut. I like cashews, but without the cashews in the mix, the roasted almonds flavor really comes out making this a really good bar.
The Cherry I did not care for. It was too chewy and gooey. It seemed like it was melting. The use of organic cherries did not work so well for me.
Overall, I’m enjoying Bumblebar’s energy bars. I’m eating them for lunch and it’s keeping my hunger down and giving me some extra energy. Bumblebar does not dd caffeine or synthetic chemicals, but rather takes advantage of the Earth and what she has to offer.
Check back for a few more reviews of the rest of their line.
Unlike other hot sauces that we have reviewed previously, Sweet Sunshine’s Hot Sauce is really hot. It’s not like traditional hot sauce, but more like barbeque sauce. The sauce works really well on veggie burgers, with fries or potatoes or any other way you want.
I would not recommend using this sauce if you don’t like hot foods, because it is really hot. I am a fan of hot sauces, but this is very hot for a barbecue sauce. What will happen when it comes time to test out the Atomic Sauce from Sweet Sunshine? We may just disintegrate or something.
I guess you will have to find out soon.
Wannabe Hot Pockets, but much healthier. The spinach, zucchini and onion filling blend really well in this dough shell. They microwave quickly, but I bet you could toast them if you want. I liked the Feta and Spinach better, but with less fat and more veggies, the Spinach, Zucchini and Onion Sensation are tasty too.
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A good combination of veggies, eggplant, asparagus, peppers and zucchini are on top of this organic pizza. I did not think it was anything special. The vegetables are grilled, but in need of more sauce. The pizza is a good size, organic and vegetarian, but other than that, nothing great.
Rising Moon has other products as well, so click back soon for more reviews.
Soy flakes sound odd and justifiably so. These are not really meant to be eaten plain, rather used as an additive in other products. I decided to try them alone. They are very dry and plain, sort of nutty and sweet. Either way, they are low in fat and have an average amount of protein.
MicroSoy Flakes are sold to other companies for use as bulk ingredients, so don’t eat them by their lonesome. Yuck!
Maftoul or pearl couscous is a larger couscous than what I am used. Ziyad Brand offers a few different varieties of imported all natural Middle Eastern grains such as the Maftoul Baladi that I used in this dish.
They are easy to cook either by microwaving or boiling the couscous in the bag it comes in. I added Dave’s Gourmet Wild Mushroom pasta sauce over the top of the maftoul and then mixed in Trader Joe’s eggplant and Del Monte Organic Green Beans.
This dish was outstanding! The pasta sauce was the best tomato sauce I have had in my life. That’s not a joke. Dave knows what’s up because the sauce is undeniably sensational! I loved what I made for dinner. All of the ingredients mixed together harmoniously.
These canned green beans are organic, so no chemical preservatives are added.
Can’t wait to make this again, but in the meantime, I’ll see what other products I can try from Dave and The Ziyad Brothers.