{"id":2380,"date":"2013-12-03T12:59:31","date_gmt":"2013-12-03T17:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/?p=2380"},"modified":"2013-12-03T23:42:02","modified_gmt":"2013-12-04T04:42:02","slug":"vegan-food-swap-from-jill-at-vegan-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/vegan-food-swap-from-jill-at-vegan-cuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Vegan Food Swap from Jill at Vegan Cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier last month I received my vegan food swap for November from Jill over at <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.vegancuts.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Vegan Cuts<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Vegan Food Swap by MeShellG, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prairiev\/10987001845\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"Vegan Food Swap\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5503\/10987001845_bb85cb4a21.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was FULL of great stuff and samples from other products. The thing I like about when I see people getting swaps from Jill is that I think it would probably be really easy for her to just throw in a bunch of samples and call it a day, but she does a full regular swap AND still throws in a bunch of samples. Boom. Delicious.<\/p>\n<p>So what was in the box for me? Just to name a few:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Irish Moss from Upaya Naturals.<\/strong><br \/>\nI&#8217;ve been curious about trying this stuff for a while so it was really neat to actually have it in my possession. \u00a0Irish Moss can be used for a variety of different purposes, but especially as a thickening\/gelling agent.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Viana Jumbo Veggie Snack Sausage<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.viana.de\/index.php?id=81&amp;product=179&amp;L=1&amp;backId=30\">Viana<\/a> is an organic product company that we met at the Vegetarian Food Festival this year. We had already tried these snack sausages before, and bought a few dips\/spreads. Would eat again!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bixby Bar &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bixbyco.com\/items\/view\/whippersnapper\" target=\"_blank\">Whippersnapper Bar<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Vegan Food Swap - Bixby Bar by MeShellG, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prairiev\/11175292446\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"Vegan Food Swap - Bixby Bar\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5524\/11175292446_be7db39588.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a> So yummy.\u00a0Organic dark chocolate, wild Maine blueberries, walnuts, tellicherry pepper. Delicious. I also\u00a0reached out to them to find out if they would fit on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foodispower.org\/chocolate-list\/\" target=\"_blank\">Food Empowerment Projects Chocolate<\/a> list. They seem to be holding themselves to a high standard where ethics comes into play, but I&#8217;ll be interested to find out more from them!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Organic Fiber Bar\u2122 Fiber Bars<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Vegan Food Swap - Organic Fiber Bar by MeShellG, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prairiev\/11175249015\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"Vegan Food Swap - Organic Fiber Bar\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3778\/11175249015_4bd2df549d.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This was actually really good! I don&#8217;t really need to add fiber to my diet, but if I did, I would find this a pretty pleasant way to do it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Crazy Rumors &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/crazyrumors.com\/all-natural-lip-balms\/perk-captivating-coffee-lip-balms.html\" target=\"_blank\">Perk Vegan Lip Balm<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Vegan Food Swap - Perk Lip balm by MeShellG, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prairiev\/11175293336\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"Vegan Food Swap - Perk Lip balm\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5496\/11175293336_3a5a02f598.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This stuff is so me. Love it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vegan 1 &#8211; Banana Shake<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/vegan1-packet-banana_1024x1024.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2381\" alt=\"Vegan1 Banana\" src=\"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/vegan1-packet-banana_1024x1024.jpg\" width=\"403\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/vegan1-packet-banana_1024x1024.jpg 403w, https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/vegan1-packet-banana_1024x1024-268x300.jpg 268w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 403px) 100vw, 403px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t tried this yet! But it looks great.<\/p>\n<p>And there were lots of sample products from Earth Science, Aubrey Organics, Ultima, Saquito, Juvo, and more.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks Jill!<\/p>\n<p>Now, if you want to join in on December&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/veganfoodswap\/\" target=\"_blank\">Canadian Vegan Food Swap<\/a> you can find more about it by clicking the image below. Matches go out on December 8th.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/veganfoodswap\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-1858\" style=\"border: 3px solid black;\" alt=\"click to find out more about the vegan food swap\" src=\"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/vegan-food-swap-1024x493.png\" width=\"560\" height=\"270\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier last month I received my vegan food swap for November from Jill over at Vegan Cuts It was FULL of great stuff and samples from other products. The thing I like about when I see people getting swaps from Jill is that I think it would probably be really&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,557,507],"tags":[856,858,857,860,859],"class_list":["post-2380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vegan-food","category-vegan-food-swap-2","category-vegan-swap","tag-bixby-bar","tag-crazy-rumors","tag-organic-fiber-bar","tag-upaya-natural","tag-viana"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}