august vegan food swap

i love getting snail mail.  i think this stems from spending many of my summers working at summer camp where there was nothing quite like getting something in the mail from friends or family at home.  {keep in mind this was before the days of facebook & everyone and their mother having cell phones!}  and carepackages stuffed with goodies?  those were such a treat. 

so after much procrastinating, i finally signed up for the vegan food swap and i recently received such a lovely parcel from kelly of three and a half vegans.  just look at all that yumminess!

it included wicked ingredients such as sprouted organic flour, ume plum vinegar and after picking up on some recent cravings i mentioned on the blog, kelly was so thoughtful to include some chocolate too!  i have never had vegan white chocolate chips and i can't wait to dig into them and bake something amazing.  and as you know, i love me some mexican cuisine and was really excited to try out this marinade from rick bayless.  it was really quite good made with chickpeas!

but the pièce de résistance was the justin's peanut butter cups.  oh mah gawd.  i'd heard so many good things but never tried them, and oh my they are amazing!  these were just the perfect little sweet treat to enjoy in mid air on our way to new york and we totally stocked up on more of them while we were there.  {and promptly finished them before arriving home.}

 

i packed up a little parcel for sarina of earthgiven, so be sure to look for her swap post too.

big high five to meshell for organizing things & if you want to get involved in next months swap just contact her here!