Boston Food Festival!

 WOW. Today was so much fun! My mom and I went to the Boston Vegetarian Food Festival. This was the second day of the event, so I thought that it would be a little less crowded. BOY was this foodie wrong. This place was packed!! It was held at the Reggie Lewis Athletic Center in Roxbury, Ma. It was basically in a big open gymnasium, and it was packed with people! I held my mom's hand at one point as to not get lost! 

First up

PB&Co Peanut butter samples. Yes Please. My mom thought I was crazy for how excited I was for this booth. 

Sample of White Chocolate Wonderful. This was delicious! my first go at this flavor!

Some Local Indian Food restaurant giving out some sample (these were 4 dollars a plate) I skipped it

Organic Tomato bruschetta

Tribe Hummus Samples!

I got the 40 Spices. It was great! Not too spicy at all but full of flavor

Amazing Grass Booth

The Amazing Meal 

This booth gave me some freebies when I told them about my blog! 

Free Samples

Swag I picked up. (the bar and packets were free. I bought the chocolate superfood)

This next booth was AMAZING. Something I had never seen before. The owners were super nice. I chatted about my blog and they gave me two containers to take home and sample beyond the samples at the booth

Crazy Camel Dessert Hummus. 

These owners are local from New Hampshire. They make all natural dessert hummus with flavors such as pumpkin Pie (AMAZING) maple walnut, chocolate mousse, caramel apple and toasted almond

Peanut butter hummus

My Swag. I got the peanut butter and maple walnut. Seriously. Check out this SITE to see where you can try this hummus. It may change your life.

Whole Foods Quinoa Salad with cashews and Cranberries

This was amazing! Everyone was a little peeved that they would NOT give out the recipe though!

Vega  Booth

Vega Optimizer.

These people were nice enough to give me lots of samples as well!

Vega Swag

Whole food energy bars, complete whole food packets, Vega sport optimizer. I am so siked to try all of these products!

Ezekial Bread with Hemp Butter. Eh, this was my first go at hemp butter. It was ok,  lets put it this way, I didn't go back for another sample.

Hemp Bliss Booth.

Vegan veggie burger with vegan bbq sauce

Tofutti Onion dip with a vegan, gluten free rice cracker. This was delicious, a bit rich for me but full of flavor.

New product on the market called Teather . (sorry, you have to turn your head!!)

What makes Teather^TM so unique? lt all begins with certified organic ingredients of exceptional quality. Rather than using refined fruit products, such as concentrates or natural flavors, Teather^TM uses real whole fruits and white tea leaves. Moreover, no filler fruits like apple or pear appear in Teather^TM. Filler fruits only cheapen product quality and degrade flavor. The result of whole fruit and white tea is authentic flavor other products simply can’t match. Seeds,skins and entire flesh of whole fruit also offers unparalled nutritional benefits. These parts of fruits are packed with an impressive assortment of vitamins, minerals, macronutrients and other beneficial phytonutrients, some with impressive antioxidant qualities. White tea leaf, which undergoes less processing than green tea, provides an additional abundant source of phytonutrients.

The owner was SUPER nice. This product has only been on the market for 20 weeks, so look out for it in Whole Foods in the next month!

Strawberry Pom Teather

Ingredients

Teather. This was delicious! you could really taste the white tea flavors in here. The consistency is a nice, chewy texture like a hearty fruit roll up.

Navita's Natural Booth

Cocoa Nibs

Blue Mango Veggie Burger

Some goodies dumped out on my counter.

My swag

WHAT A FUN DAY!! Alright bloggies. Off to make dinner with Jason! I think its pizza night! we got some Whole Wheat tortillas and all the fixin's

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xoxo

Naomi

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Happy Halloween! and Restaurant Review!

How was your halloween? Mine was just fabulousss....As I said in my last post it was going to be very low key, as my favorite part of this holiday (is this considered a holiday??) hmmm never thought about that! i digress...so as I was saying favorite part is seeing all the little kiddies come to the door dressed in very creative costumes. Last year there was a little boy who was dressed all green and he was "going green" loved him


So Jason and I prepared by getting lots of the good stuff. He insisted on getting candy that was his favorite, just in case there were some left overs

I was looking inside here to make sure I got a good shot of our selection and I found an empty wrapper! Jason decided to 'try' some to make sure it was ok, then by mistake put the wrapper back. Oh the horror if a trick or treater picked up an empty wrapper...there would be tears

Sadly, we had 1 lonesome trick or treater...needless to say, Jason is a happy camper with his left overs

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Backing up a bit, Friday Night we tried a new Restaurant called Nourish . It is located in Lexington, Ma.

This is a foodie HEAVEN. A little about Nourish: We are a family owned and operated business offering an eclectic menu that ranges from nourishing vegan-friendly dishes to lip smacking carnivore-satisfying plates.  With our dual mission of RESPONSIBLY SOURCED – RESPECTFULLY PRICED we are working with area farms and other small businesses to work as much local and organic food into the menu as possible, while maintaining prices that allow a broad range of people to eat with us. 

 It’s a challenging concept to pull off, to offer enough different dishes on a menu so that both the person who is looking for some tofu or tempeh AND the person who really doesn’t think dinner is dinner unless there’s meat on the plate can both be satisfied.  To also factor in the importance of pricing so that you offer well-sourced food to a wide range of people and also allow them greater frequency is an additional challenge.  But we’re committed to both.  We’ve watched for years as the mix of vegans, vegetarians and meat-lovers combined in one family, or group of diners grew, and knew that with our two concepts we could bridge that gap so eating out would no longer be about someone making a huge compromise.

If you look closely, you can see the Taboule Chicken: Natural chicken pan-seared and sautéed with taboule, served with hummus, tahini, natural pickles, spicy harif, pita and side house salad.

Chicken with the taboule, hummus, small salad with tahini dressing and pita. This was 9/10. WOW I have never had taboule marinated chicken before! it was delicious. Everything was so fresh and healthy. The hummus was clearly homemade, so creamy

Blurry Hummus picture (sorry!!)

Dinner was fabulous. We went across the street to Rancatores which is a local ice cream joint. 

Yes folks, they had Pumpkin Yogurt

Mmmmmm

Then I tried a sample...sadly this was not as I had expected it to be. It was icy, more like pumpkin sorbet, which I just was not feelin' I wa so sad that this yog didn't live up to my standards...

I went with Hydrox Yogurt.....mmmmmm HUGE chunks of Hydrox!

Plenty of Toppings!

J got a sundae with vanilla ice cream, butterscotch, heath bar and homemade whipped cream which he was not too into either. It was real homemade, so it wasn't light and fluffy like the stuff out of the can. Still a delicious treat though!

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So back to Saturday. I woke up and hit the gym in the am

• 15 minutes on the stepmill
• Weight circuts (lunges, rear delt, tricep OH press, abs)
• 2 mile run

I stopped at Whole foods to pick me and Jason up some lunch from the whole foods salad bar! I FINALLY FOUND THE PB&J LARA BARRR

My salad. This had lots of everything, I tried to snap a shot showing all the goodies

I also picked up this guy

it was enjoyed with this guy a little later in the day

Jason and I took our last ride on the motorcyle for the season. We went out for about an hour and a half. it was beautiful! then we went to Kelly's House of Harley and dropped off his bike for the winter...Sad day :(

Last night we went out to dinner with Jason's family and his Nana. I didn't bring my camera sooorrrryyy!!!

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Breakfast this morning. A berry-filled bowl of oats!! with Cinnamon and 1/2 banana, walnuts

Hated it.

Sad little banana left from last week. I think this guy has seen better days

So today I am going to the VEGETARIAN FOOD FESTIVAL HERE IN BOSTON! 

I am going with my mom around 1 and I cannot wait. Lots of samples, vendors etc... This will make for a great post!!  Get ready!!

have you even been to a food festival like this?? What was your favorite part??

XOXO

NAOMI