Vegan Care Package Giveaway

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.

Neil’s Vegan Care Package

Yesterday Neil’s vegan care package came from Your Daily Vegan as part of our 2009 Vegan Care Package Swap

Included in the package are the following:

Drew’s Smoked Tomato Dressing

Suzanne’s Ricemellow Creme

(I see fluffernutter sandwiches in our future)

Spicy Apple Ginger Chews

Rice Milk Bar

Pizza Sauce

Crispy Cat Bar

Vegan Strawberry Jello

Quinoa Spaghetti

2 Chocolove Bars &

Newman’s Own Cinnamon Mints 

Post #100, Christmas came early part 2, and oh the fire we set

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.)

Christmas Has Come Early

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!

Neil

Vegan Care Swap- update

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!

p.s. Let me know where you are loacted!

Care Package Swap

I am glad to see that there has been a good amount of interest that has sparked from the idea of doing a vegan care package exchange. Now I would like to move on to the next step which would be getting this all going. If you are really interested in doing this please send me a an e-mail at cookingforaveganlover@gmail.com by October 31st, 2008. I will then let you know within a week who your partners are and you are expected to send your packages within a month of receiving this information.

Please just send me a note with an e-mail address that you would like to be contacted by and whether you are willing to exchange internationally or not. Please do not send me your address I will then match you up with someone and give each of you each others e-mail contacts and it is up to you to exchange mailing addresses. As well please expect to spend around $20 on goods, if you would like to spend more than do so however do not be disappointed if your partner does not do the same. As well this is all based on trust that whoever is participating in this exchange will actually follow through on the exchange, BE AWARE that someone may default and that there is nothing that I can do regulate whether your partner will follow through or not you have to trust that both of you really want to participate. If you don’t feel like you will be able to participate to the full extent please do not respond to this.

I look forward to seeing how many people are interested in participating. Please encourage other vegan bloggers to participate as well.

Vegan November Care Package Swap

So I was drawn to the PPK forum because of this idea of vegan care package exchange which I think is a great idea and would love to participate in. However there are two problems:
1. it’s over on the PPK
2. (this is the big one) I have not been posting on the PPK for 6mos. nor do I have 1000 posts so apparently I couldn’t even participate if I wanted to….it is said that those who do not fulfill one of the two requirements are statistically more apt to default on the exchange.

So now is where I propose an exchange with someone. I have no idea how many people acutally read this blog but I would really like to put the idea of an exchange out there. I am willing to send anywhere.

So comment below if you are interested and we can get this started.