Unexpected findings at Whole Foods

Hey friends

Well we made it home yesterday from Fitbloggin. Overall the conference went fine. It was a huge learning curve for us both. Everyone we met there was so nice and gave great feedback for us to use to make our company and products better! The only thing that we would say that was a con about the Fitbloggin conference was that there were not much presentations on fitness/health/exercise. Majority of the speakers were talking about making your blog great! Now do not get us wrong we learned some new things from these speakers about making our blog better. We just wished there was one or two segments on fitness tips, etc. But besides that we thought Fitbloggin was a success   And a HUGE thanks to Roni for letting us and our raw gluten free vegan company be apart of this great event!!! Roni and the rest of the staff did an amazing job with keeping everything very organized!

Fun times!!!!

Before we left Baltimore we stopped by Whole Foods one more time and came across raw heaven! (not sure how we missed this stuff the first time we went in there)

A whole fridge section of RAW foods to go!!! Of course we got some to try out!

Then as we continued to walk around we came across more raw foods! We will serious in heaven the whole time and huge smiles on our faces.

We were like two kids in the candy store!

And finally Brad’s Raw Chips (we have always wanted to try these). We got the basic kale flavored though the beet chips sounded great. Overall we liked the light and chip like texture these raw chips provided as well as that there were no nuts in them. The one and only con was for some reason we kept getting a weird after taste. Not sure why.

Here is what we bought

Some things we liked and some things we were not really impressed with due to aftertaste, flavor and ingredients. Though we were thrilled to see raw foods options in the store on this coast! The best thing was the orange blueberry cheesecake but of course not as good as ours.

We also tried the Love Force Cinnamon Raisin bread and did not like it. The bread stuck together and was way too sweet for our liking. It tasted more like a granola bar to us than a slice of bread. And Michelle found it to be too chewy for her liking.

We also got a wrap and mock tuna salad. We did not eat these until we got home. Our thoughts on these raw foods- not bad. It was nice having the option of raw foods in the store though none of them really blew us away.

Wrap

Mock tuna salad

As a whole meal these two items tasted fine though when we tried the wrap or filling separately it was gross. Maybe that was because it sat in our car for 5 hours before we ate it. But also we did not know exactly when the raw foods arrived at Whole Foods so they might not have been that fresh to begin with in the first place. 

Both of us would still get these raw foods again if we had no other choice because again mentally it was so nice seeing raw foods in stores. Perfect for those with on the go schedules or people wanting a healthier alternative than highly processed foods. We love to support other raw companies because even us (being raw chefs) like to get a break.

And we also got 2 different types of brownies and mint macaroons. We were not huge fans of any of them. Brownies were boring to us  and not real rich chocolate like which is what we love about brownies. Also one of the brownies tasted like a power bar, not a good thing. Since it made us think we were eating a power bar we felt like it was just going to sit in our stomachs like bars do and get us clogged up. Not good! We only had a few bites of each.

We only liked the raw cacao nibs on top of this brownie. It was the better one of the two brownies we got. This brownie did contain nuts.

This is the one that tasted like a power bar!At least to us the brownie did.

Next up was macaroons…. not to be biased or anything but these were nothing like ours!

And the mint macaroons were not our favorite either. One reason we did not like them was it had spearmint in it and we hate spearmint! And two the agave was too strong (that could be do to the fact that we really are becoming less and less fans of agave). It is our least favorite sweetener because it is too sweet for us now.

Well that is pretty much our eats from yesterday we mostly just snacked. By the time we got home we made ourselves a huge bowl of sauerkraut! Heaven!

We did a little bit of work and emails than hit the sack pretty early. By working at the conference as well as trying to network was very exhausting. Thanks again to everyone who came up to our table and spoke with us. It was a pleasure meeting you all!

That is us with our sister, Jen, who was there promoting her new t-shirt company. Thanks sis for all your help and support !

Today we have been running around like crazy (what else is new) trying to fulfill orders and get ready for the farmers market this weekend. As well as we are going to be making some changes to our blog. From the great tips and information from the Fitbloggin conference we are going to try to make our blog better! Therefore you might start noticing some changes this week.

Till next time… we have some great guest post lined up.

PS: we forgot to mentioned yesterday about the Lebanese Taverna restaurant we went to does offer a gluten free menu. For those of you interested in gluten free restaurants in the Baltimore area.

The Twins

L&M