November 2011 – CLIF SHOT BLOKS®, the best-selling energy chew for performance athletes announces a new clean and crisp flavor – Citrus –available now, exclusively in sports retail stores.

Made with 95 percent organic ingredients, CLIF SHOT BLOKS provide an optimum blend of carbohydrates and electrolytes for essential energy and proper muscle function. Shaped like small cubes, CLIF SHOT BLOKS taste great and are easy to chew. Plus they’re simple to handle mid-run or mid-ride with their performance-friendly FASTPAK® packaging that makes one-handed, on-the-go usage a breeze.

New Citrus CLIF SHOT BLOKS adds a refreshing lemon-lime zest to the BLOKS line that’s crafted especially for hard training and races. “Athletes have a heightened sensitivity to taste when they’re training and racing,” said Chris Randall, CLIF SHOT® brand manager. “As with all CLIF SHOT products we made sure that Citrus SHOT BLOKS would taste just right during activity.”

It is month two of the Attune Cooking Challenges Recipe Contest, and savory is the theme. My job was to come up with a savory recipe using one or more of the Attune line-up of organic and all natural cereal. At first, all I could think of were sweets! It is the holiday season after all. But once I switched my mind over to savories, the ideas started to flow. What I eventually ended up with was these delicious Curry Potato & Carrot Croquettes.

Post-Thanksgiving, recipes start floating around for mashed potato cakes. But why wait until after the holidays, and why not include some other flavorful vegetables? Pairing potatoes, carrots, and curry seemed like the ideal match, so I went with it. The result was beyond scrumptious - full of flavor, light sweetness from the carrots, crispy exterior, soft interior - perfect!

I created the recipe (which is of course dairy-free, but also egg-free, vegan, soy-free, and optionally gluten-free!) specifically for Attune (though it does use "everyday" ingredients - I promise!), so you can view it this month here on their blog. Click on over and tell me what you think!

November 2011 - Gardenburger, LLC is recalling a limited quantity of Eating Right™ Soy Protein Burgers sold in Safeway, Carrs, Dominick’s, Genuardi’s, Pak ‘N’ Save, Randalls, Tom Thumb, Vons, and Pavilions retail stores nationwide because the packages inadvertently contained Eating Right™ Veggie Burgers, which contain milk. The label does not list milk as an ingredient. People who have allergies to milk run the risk of serious or life-threatening allergic reactions and should not eat this product.

The retail package is a 4-count, 10-ounce carton marked with a UPC Code of 79893 80071 and one of the following lot codes on the side panel of the package: 

Alisa Fleming ~ I just ordered my own copy of this well written and beautifully illustrated e-book, which was released today. It was created by two friends from Lexie's Kitchen and G-Free Mom. I double-checked, and the entire e-book is dairy-free (a couple recipes give you a dairy-free option and a dairy option, but all others are dairy-free and vegan as is - everything within is also gluten-free), and the tips are universally helpful for getting both kids and adults to up their healthy food quota in a delicious liquid form. I've already tried two of the recipes (the Glugle recipe was even made for me by the recipe author herself last week!), and they are wonderful.

The Eat Fresh and D-tox Your Life E-book has a suggested donation of $10, with all proceeds benefiting MitoAction, an organization dedicated to helping families navigate mitochondrial disease, a cause that is near and dear to Lexie's heart. You can read more about the e-book and what it helps to support in the information that follows from Lexie: