Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Fööd Review with Charles: Tazo Passion





I know what you’re thinking; where the heck have you been Tarina? Well the answer is simple; I’ve been trying to get over my fear of making a video review myself and failing. Really I tried. And I did make a video product review but for whatever reason my voice gets so distorted on video that it’s grating. My friends swear I don’t really sound that way but how can I know?
In short expect more food video reviews with Charles and all of my reviews will be written. Okay? Okay.
I won’t stay away so long next time.

Final Verdict: I loved the tea :)

Sunday, February 2, 2014

Fööd Review with Charles: Natures Bakery Fig Bars

My friend Charles is a foodie. I am not. That is why I am introducing Fööd Review with Charles; short video reviews of various organic food products accompanied by a small written segment on the company by yours truly. Charles was actually very excited about these reviews so without further adieu let's begin our review on Natures Bakery Fig Bars.





Natures Bakery began as a family owned bakery, founded by Richard Marson, dedicated to wholesome natural products. In 2010 Natures Bakery was created by Richards son David.
“Here at the bakery and beyond, we hang our hats on one common sense principle: balance. Balance in life, and certainly balance in our wholesome, tasty snacks. Finding harmony between nature, activity and nutrition is our calling—one which we hope is highly contagious.”naturesbakery.com

As companies go I am more than happy to give Natures bakery my money and I will. When I first saw the raspberry fig bar in my Conscious Box I was not overly thrilled because I don’t like fig or raspberry. After recording this review with Charles I opened my bar and my first words were “Ohmygod, this is good”. I cannot pretend to add anything of substance to Charles’s review so I will just say;
Final Verdict: I will definitely buy again

Sunday Afternoon Soup: The most amazing bowl of Ramen




I told you we’d buy the Numi Organic tea again, only this time it’s being used for its true calling; making soup. At around noon Charles came downstairs and started cleaning pans (always a good sign) and informed me that I might want to be taking pictures. That’s all you really need to say to me, so I closed my laptop and went to see what he was doing. The answer: amazing things.
 Just yesterday we all went to Roots, an organic grocery, where we bought more Spinach Chive Savory Tea from Numi Organics. That combined with 3 sugars, ramen, a fried egg, scallops, left over Chinese pork dipped in egg foo young gravy, rice seasoning, as well as some sriracha (Whoa what a list) makes what I lovingly referred to as a bowl of Frankenstein’s monster-esque soup. This is an average afternoon at this house, really it is.
My reaction to tasting this was surprise.
“It wasn’t what I was expecting.”
“What were you expecting?”-Charles
“A disgusting bowl of soup”
“I guess I exceeded your expectation.”-Also Charles
In all it was pretty good, which is amazing for me because food is pretty much pass/fail in my book. Charles and Eric loved it too and they have much more refined pallets so I’ll say this bowl of mish mash soup is a win.
More pics (I have pics of all the ingredients but laying out so many photos is annoying)
 


Me taking a picture of Charles taking a picture of his fried egg


Me taking a picture of Charles taking a picture of the ingredients

Assembly