Nature's Path Crunchy Maple Sunrise

This is how they had it packaged at Costco.
Packaging will likely look different if you
purchase it elsewhere.

I have a strange relationship with breakfast foods. I love them, I really do, but I don't often get to really enjoy them. The thing is I'm not really a morning person. I never have much of an appetite when I first wake up in the morning. This certainly sounds odd coming from someone who otherwise loves to eat (with a passion!). I may certainly feel hunger as I grudgingly roll out of bed, but appetite? It just isn't there. Yet I still manage to always make myself eat breakfast. Mostly because I know that if I don't, I might be way too hungry later on and in a situation where food isn't readily available. Besides, breakfast is supposed to be a healthy thing to do! 


So here I will do my first cold breakfast cereal review. You may also start noticing a pattern here. Maple flavored food again? Why, yes! I absolutely freakin' love maple! I don't think I've had a maple-flavored-something yet that I didn't like. 


So here we have Nature's Path Crunchy Maple Sunrise. Cute name. Delicious cereal...Ok, to be honest, I don't think I've had a single cereal from Nature's Path that I didn't like. And a good majority of their stuff is vegan to boot! 


Moving on to the review... after the break!

French Toast Muffins - Recipe

Tastes like french toast, yet contains no stale bread! Amazing!

Now, didn't I just say that I didn't want to focus on recipes/home cooked food in my intro? And here I am in my second review going over a recipe.


French. Toast. Muffins. Doesn't the name alone sound positively decadent? It's taking one of the best loved breakfast foods out there, the best use of stale bread ever, and it's transformed into an ever so convenient muffin form. What's not to love?


The particular recipe used here hails from the cookbook The 100 Best Vegan Baking Recipes by Kris Holechek. Now, I initially acquired this cookbook as the kindle version though my library's digital borrowing program. While I absolutely love digital books, I'm not terribly fond of digital cookbooks, for many reasons that I won't go into here; let's just say I don't like them for the time being and leave it at that. That aside, this little recipe alone has convinced me to actually buy the book so that I have plenty of time to go through many of the other recipes and try them at my leisure. 


Now, you may be wondering, "Where can I get this recipe? I must try it!" Well, guess what? It's you're lucky day! Kris herself as the recipe posted on her blog! Huzzah! Go. Read. Salivate! Mmmmmmm.


Continued after the break....

So Delicious Greek Style Cultured Coconut Milk

Strawberry flavor - lid already removed (obviously)

First review! Let's go!


Ok, I've been wanting to try this stuff since So Delicious first announced they were coming out with a greek style yogurt. With all the rage going on about greek yogurt I've been very curious to try it. I just wonder why it took so long for someone to do a vegan version, as popular as it is right now. 


What is greek yogurt? Well, for the traditional dairy variety, it's a strained yogurt that is thicker and creamier than the standard variety. Typically it is also lower in sugar and higher in protein as well; which seems to be the main reasons why it's gaining so much popularity as of late. So how does our coconut based variety differ? To be honest, I am not entirely sure. I've never in my life had dairy greek yogurt before, so I can't really compare from that angle. So Delicious's website isn't too forthcoming with information either, only describing it as "thick and creamy." Hmmmm. 


My thorough analysis after the break!