So I tried something vegan ("Let's all make fun of the vegans and their crazy lifestyle"). I purchased vegan chocolate cake. It was ... different. At first I thought how the hell can you make a vegan cake? Turns out you can and it wasn't that bad. It was very moist but crumbled or came apart really easy (maybe since no eggs?) and the flavor was just a little off, probably from the binders and other stuff it in, the label read like a chemical list haha. I guess the 'healthy' choices are either organic and no chemicals, or vegan with no real products but chemicals added.
Found a great new chocolate. This gem was tucked alongside the beer cooler near the cheeses. My favorite since I moved south has been the
Olive and Sinclair chocolate that stone ground in Nashville. Also the
Nashville Toffee Company makes awesome homemade toffee. This new brand is
Vosges Chocolate! At first I looked at the boxes all hanging in rows and thought, what the hell is this? Come to find out, the story of the chocolatier is that she graduated from Vanderbilt University and traveled all around and founded the company with a concept of "Travel the World through Chocolate". The flavors I've tried so far are the Barcelona (hickory smoked almonds, sea salt, 45% cacao), Woolloomooloo (roasted and salted macadamia nuts, Indonesian coconut, hemp seeds, 45% cacao), Black Salt Caramel (black Hawaiian sea salt, bunrt sugar caramel, 70% cacao) and my favorite so far, Mo's Dark Bacon Bar (applewood smoked bacon, alderwood smoked sea salt, 62% cacao) - it's so good with little pieces of bacon in it. I can't wait to try more!
Final item of my recent WFA is
Arctic Zero 'Ice cream'. I put ice-cream in quotes because it really isn't ice cream, it's lactose free, gluten free, and fat free. The best part is an entire pint (sold just like the Ben and Jerry pints) is only, get this, 150 calories, yes 1-5-0! They even market it saying you don't have to feel guilty for eating the whole pint! It's basically a frozen protein shake with water, whey, sugar cane sugar, guar gum and xantham gum, sea salt and monk fruit (calorie free sweetener, ancient Chinese secret). The flavors I've tried are chocolate, mint chocolate cookie, coffee, chocolate peanut butter, and my favorite so far, vanilla maple. They also make (and soon to try) strawberry, strawberry banana, cookies and cream and pumpkin spice.
Found a great new chocolate. This gem was tucked alongside the beer cooler near the cheeses. My favorite since I moved south has been the Olive and Sinclair chocolate that stone ground in Nashville. Also the Nashville Toffee Company makes awesome homemade toffee. This new brand is Vosges Chocolate! At first I looked at the boxes all hanging in rows and thought, what the hell is this? Come to find out, the story of the chocolatier is that she graduated from Vanderbilt University and traveled all around and founded the company with a concept of "Travel the World through Chocolate". The flavors I've tried so far are the Barcelona (hickory smoked almonds, sea salt, 45% cacao), Woolloomooloo (roasted and salted macadamia nuts, Indonesian coconut, hemp seeds, 45% cacao), Black Salt Caramel (black Hawaiian sea salt, bunrt sugar caramel, 70% cacao) and my favorite so far, Mo's Dark Bacon Bar (applewood smoked bacon, alderwood smoked sea salt, 62% cacao) - it's so good with little pieces of bacon in it. I can't wait to try more!
Final item of my recent WFA is Arctic Zero 'Ice cream'. I put ice-cream in quotes because it really isn't ice cream, it's lactose free, gluten free, and fat free. The best part is an entire pint (sold just like the Ben and Jerry pints) is only, get this, 150 calories, yes 1-5-0! They even market it saying you don't have to feel guilty for eating the whole pint! It's basically a frozen protein shake with water, whey, sugar cane sugar, guar gum and xantham gum, sea salt and monk fruit (calorie free sweetener, ancient Chinese secret). The flavors I've tried are chocolate, mint chocolate cookie, coffee, chocolate peanut butter, and my favorite so far, vanilla maple. They also make (and soon to try) strawberry, strawberry banana, cookies and cream and pumpkin spice.
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