Join our cooking contest!

Many of you, our customers, are fabulous cooks.  Many of our staff are too. How do we know?  Well, over the years, we’ve all exchanged recipes and cooking ideas and they’ve been great.  So, to celebrate our newly-renovated store, we’re holding a cooking contest!  

Rules:  One recipe per person.  Ingredients must be natural and organic, with no refined sugar, white flour or mixes of any kind.  Recipes must be either original or a recipe modified for a particular dietary need like gluten-free (of course, attribute your original source).  The winning recipe won’t necessarily have the most ingredients or take the most time to prepare, in fact, simpler is better!   And we want dishes you’d enjoy sharing around a table with family and friends. 

Of course, we want you to buy your ingredients from us, and we’d be delighted to help you find what you need.

We’re going to run the same contest concurrently for you, our customers, and for our staff.  Everyone will have the month of May to submit recipes.  Copies of each recipe will be made available for us all to try and comment on in our Cooking Contest notebook, which will be at the front of the store. 

On Thursday, June 12, 7:00-9:00 p.m., we’ll throw a party.  Everyone will bring their dish so we can all sample (the best pot-luck ever!)  Then we’ll vote. The recipes with the most votes win!   

What are the prizes?  Grand prize for the best customer recipe is a $500 gift certificate to the store, with two runners-up gift certificates for $250.   Ditto for our staff.   How exciting! 

 

To enter, download for a recipe template (you have to use this template so all recipes contain the same information, i.e., serving size).   Once filled out, submit your recipe to martharuth@debrasnaturalgourmet.com.  Martha will make copies for the Recipe Contest notebook so everyone can check them out. If you don’t have access to a computer, talk to Martha or Debra.  

Might a great cookbook come out of this contest - with proceeds to benefit a number of local causes?  We hope so!  Which means when you enter, you’re giving us the rights to use your recipe and attribute it to you.   

The list (and it’s just a list, no glowing testimonials because we’ll leave that up to you) below is in no particular order!

PURE MINERAL SALT BLOCKS:  For hot or cold massage.  Eighty-four trace minerals.  Good for relieving toxins & tension!

DEMURE MINERAL MAKEUP:   Free of chemicals, oils, dyes, fragrance & other skin irritants.  Excellent coverage, in luscious colors. 

LOGONA COLOURS-MADE BY NATURE:  A collection of wheat-free and gluten-free make-up!

SHOYEIDO:  Wonderful Japanese incense containing the finest natural ingredients.  And we have beautiful new incense burners from Kodo to hold them.  Hard to choose a favorite.

PHEYLONIAN BEESWAX CANDLES:  Temple pillars & orbs of 100% organic Canadian Capping Beeswax.  Proven to be beneficial to those who suffer from allergies, asthma, environmental sensitivities or stress!  These candles give off negative ions, which are good for us, smell wonderful and are beautiful, too!  

100% PURE.  (Yes, this is the name of the company.)  A veritable feast of clean, mostly organic, deliciously-scented body care products.   Cleanse with cranberry, lavender-honey, honey-almond, or lime.  Tone with peppermint-green tea or white tea-rose toner.  Cream?  Pomegranate for face, and coffee-bean or acai for eyes.  Yumm.  100% PURE goes on smooth.   It is simple and clean.

Jocelyn says our doggies and kitties do best when they eat what their ancestor ate in the wild.  This was, of course, prey.  A low-carb, high-protein diet.  Who makes a grain-free, high-protein pet food?  Evo.  Evo is made from fresh meats, high quality oils, fruits and veggies, and is available in cans or kibble, for dogs and cats.   If the idea of a raw diet appeals to you but you're apprehensive about raw meat, try Honest Kitchen's dehydrated meat/veggie/grain mixtures:  We carry Thrive, Embark, Preference - Just add water!  One is grain-free, one vegetarian, and there’s even a version for cats called Prowl.  I add fresh raw and cooked meat to mine, but it can be served simply re-hydrated.  As always, when making dietary changes, do so slowly so you don't upset your pets’ tummies!