July 2010

Product Review: Yumnuts – Try Them, Sweet or Salty

July 31, 2010

Have you seen packages of Yumnuts Naturals in your local supermarket or natural health foods store? I had been noticing packages of them for many months, and happily agreed to try them out. Cashews are easily my favorite nut, so I figured adding delicious flavors to them could only enhance them. Yumnuts Naturals was started by [...]

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Day Four: Lots of Wildlife and Sunset Sea Kayaking

July 30, 2010

Though entirely unrelated to the road trip, I wanted to give a quick shout out to three good friends I saw this past week. Steve and I stopped to visit one (and her husband) on our way home from Canada, and the other two just happened to be in the Berkshires this week. Hello to Elizabeth, Natalie, and Mary! [...]

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Day Three: Hiking (and Eating) On Quebec’s Second High Peak

July 29, 2010

And back to the trip. I’ll be pausing here and there for some product reviews, as I have a few companies waiting for me…but day by day, I plan to share our travels with you. On the third day of our trip, we headed to Parc national de la Gaspesie to climb the second highest peak in [...]

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Product Review: Turning Eden Foods’ Kamut Flakes Into Granola

July 28, 2010

Eden Foods recently sent me a package of their Kamut Flakes. A natural foods company that got its start in the 1960s, Eden Foods began as a food cooperative in Ann Arbor, Michigan. You can learn more about the company’s background and mission here. They’re supporters of local and sustainable agriculture, along with sustainable investing. I [...]

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Day Two: Already Craving Vegetables

July 27, 2010

Wow. I just went through my photos of the second day of the trip, and was kind of shocked by how many there were. I guess since Day One of the trip was spent almost fully in the car, I shouldn’t be so surprised. After our first night of camping, we woke up and decided to [...]

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Day One: Driving Up to Quebec

July 26, 2010

Steve and I had been talking about going away for a week this summer since our last trip. But it wasn’t until two days before we left for this one that we finally determined where and what we were going to do: a road trip into the Gaspe Peninsula of Quebec. We rented a car, [...]

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Foodbuzz 24×24: A Vegetarian Gulf Coast-Inspired Meal, For the Environment’s Sake

July 25, 2010

Hello! We got back from our road trip through the Gaspe Peninsula of Quebec yesterday, and since then have been busy with many things, among them weeding the garden, cleaning up our camping supplies, doing laundry, and hosting a lovely meal. Tomorrow I’ll get into many details of foods and events from the trip. I [...]