So I was thinking about this over coffee and oats yesterday morning:
French Press of Coffee and Oatmeal with Chia Seeds and PB
And then again over chocolate and wine last night:
I think it may be time to do another Vegan Care Package Swap– so if you would like to learn more about this and are blogger who is interested in participating please let me know. Over the years more and more people have participated and I think that it is a great way to connect with people as well as try new and fun things. So if you are interested please e-mail me or leave a comment. If I receive enough interest I will make a formal post about the start of the event.
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As many of you know I have hosted a Vegan Care Package Giveaway just as I did last year. I am so excited that this year I was able to have over 20 participants and one of them was Nora from Pride & Vegudice, my exchange partner. I was lucky enough to receive a variety of wonderful items many that I have never tried which is the best part about these giveaways.
Included in the Exchange was a variety of different teas, a Endangered Species Dark Chocolate with Blueberry bar, Reed’s Ginger Snacks (which I hate a bunch of to help my upset tumtum the other day), chocolate cocoa nibs, sprinkles, an Honest Foods bar – choco peanut butter and Chocolada Almond oatmeal as well as the items featured below:
Chreesy Mashed Potatoes with yummy (Vermont made) Road’s End Chreese. I love this stuff but never buy it so it’s a wonderful treat to have….makes me want to go buy some Road’s End Mac & Cheese yum.
How amazingly fun and I am so excited to eat it. I haven’t had maple cotton candy in years so this will be a yummy treat.
Chocolate Peanutbutter from Whole Foods- my husbands eyes light up when he saw this.
Chocolate Cream Wafters? Holy can’t wait to eat these up!
I love everything in this exchange it was wonderful. The best part of this is that many of the items I have never tried or never buy which is a great part of these exchanges. My husband and I loved the Chocolada Almond oatmeal and it was so good and I can’t wait to buy myself some more. I am really looking forward to seeing what other participants receive. Now I must be off to try some of this yummy looking cotton candy.
UPDATE: ALL PARTNERS HAVE BEEN PICKED AND E-MAILED OUT. PLEASE MAKE SURE TO CHECK YOUR E-MAIL AND CONTACT YOUR PARTNER IMMEDIATELY. IF YOU HAVE NOT HEARD FROM YOUR PARTNER BY MONDAY 11/2/09 PLEASE CONTACT ME.
It’s time to do another Vegan Care Package swap! Last year around this time I organized a swap and it went over really well. I am hoping that this year will bring on an even better turn out.
If you are abloggerand are interested please comment here and send me a note to Lindsay (at) cookingforaveganlover dot com with an e-mail address that you would like to be contacted by. Please in include the following in your note as well: Name, Location, blog URL, and whether you are will to ship internationally or not.
Please do not send me your address. I will match people together, give each other your e-mail addresses and then you can go on to exchange mailing addresses.
Please expect to spend around $20-25 on VEGAN goods, if you would like to spend more than do so, however, do not be disappointed if your partner does not do the same.
Please enter to participate by October 29th, 2009 Closed. I will match people up and let them know their pairs by October 30th, 2009. You will have one month to gather your items and mail them out- so all packages should be mailed by November 31st, 2009. Once you receive your package please photograph the contents and make a post to your blog detailing what is in your package, link to your partners blog and a link to this posting.
I am excited to see how many of you are interested out there. Like I said this went very well last year and it’s a great way to meet people and try new products.
My husband’s Vegan Care Package
from the care package swap of 2008
*Please note that this exchange is based on trust that whoever is participating will follow through, so if you don’t feel like you can participate to the full extent then please do not respond to this.
Please check your spam to see if you have messages from me. Keep an eye out for an e-mail on the 30th from Lindsay[at]cookingforaveganlover.com – i have heard that e-mails from me are going to some peoples spam for some reason. You may want to just add me to your contact list so it doesn’t go to spam. thanks!
Yay! For our 100th post! It only took forever considering the long period of blogging nothingness there was for almost a year.
Anyways I would just like to briefly note that I have received my Vegan Care Package from Bianca and will be posting a photo and more details tonight or tomorrow.
I also will be posting some photos of the Almond Toffee and Smokey Cheeze Ball I made for my work pot luck holiday party tomorrow. By the way the toffee (my first attempt ever) was fun to make however surprisingly dangerous however considering I almost set the kitchen on fire not once, not twice, but three times as bits of sugar fell to my burner causing a small fire (scary). Luckily my wonderful husband was there to help me juggle the hot sugary mixture and put the fire out with only a small fatality (the toffee burned a little but not all of it.)
As you all may remember, Lindsay organized a vegan care package swap through the blog not too long ago. Being a transplanted Canadian, I was lucky to be paired with Ricki from Vaughn (outside Toronto) in the great white north.
When I had arrived home from a long day of Christmas shopping I was excited to see what I had been anxiously awaiting, my care package from Ricki. I rushed inside to open my package. Inside was a great selection of vegan, Canadian produced products (all but one!).
Inside was:
Organic wild rice pasta
Hemp seed nuts
rice snacks (love these!)
roasted fava beans (these were really good)
oatmeal goldies (these cookies were soooooo good, they were the first thing lindsay and i tried)
Canadian glacial clay (love the pure clean smell it has)
Chakra bar
the simply bar (coffee/chocolate. one of my favourite combinations)
How Sweet bar (with a kamut puffs, this was really good too!)
White chocolate chips (excited to try these, Lindsay was actually going to order these off the vegan essentials website so I was really excited to get them!)
Fruit to go (I love these, can’t get this brand in Vermont and I used to get them all the time in NB)
Theobroma (really interesting sounding chocolate with chunks of pineapple)
Macadamia/Cashew nut butter (can’t wait to try this!)
a HUGE bar of President’s Choice dark chocolate with almonds which I’m ashamed to admit has a pretty substantial chunk out of it already!
cute reusable grocery bag from Planet Organic (an organic food grocery chain in canada)
Thanks so much Ricki for all of the great food and all of the thoughtful choices!
I hear that there have been some issues with my e-mail cookingforaveganlover@gmail.com if you are finding that it won’t let you send to this address please just leave me a comment with your e-mail contact and I will contact you through my e-mail. Thanks!
Drew’s Smoked Tomato Dressing
Suzanne’s Ricemellow Creme
Spicy Apple Ginger Chews
Rice Milk Bar
Pizza Sauce
Crispy Cat Bar
Quinoa Spaghetti
2 Chocolove Bars &
