So, we keep getting all these apples from our CSA and now we have 3-4 bags of apples on backlog. Tonight I took some initiative and just decided to take the oldest back and slice them all up. Not sure what we are going to do with them or not, but I hope to figure it out within the next 20 minutes or so. So for our second to last Vegan MoFo post I have something a little more interactive. Leave a comment and let us know what you do with old, softening apples. Do you make a crisp? Bake a pie? Whip up some sauce? Make some jelly? leave a note (and a link to a recipe!).
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Soft Apples?
Oct 30
First, let me start off by saying that, yes, I am still alive. Colleen has been on my case nonstop about her having more posts than me during Vegan MoFo. Part of it has been me being busier than I’m used to at school, part of it is me not having motivation to write (big surprise), and part of it is Colleen stealing my thunder on days that I do actually wanna post. Well, I plan on writing a post every day from now until the day I die so get ready. (OK, there is no way that’s gonna happen but let’s just pretend.)
Now back to our regularly scheduled blog post…
I’m not sure what it was but for some reason I got in the mood for some seafood. Granted, I was never a big seafood person back when I ate it but I couldn’t resist the urge to try something new and exciting. I’m signed up for the Meatless Monday newsletters—which are decent, outside of their occasional obsession with “healthy” dairy/egg recipes—and a while back they featured a recipe for mock crab cakes. I don’t ever remember eating crab cakes but they sounded pretty good and the recipe proclaimed them to be extremely easy (and quick) to make, so I went for it. Big mistake!
Sat and I are in love. I don’t know when it happened exactly, but it happened at first site. Or rather taste. I love fruit snacks – they are a super quick snack that hits the sweet and fruit spot. After eating the Safeway brand of fruit snacks for a while we just got bored. The kind that we liked were often out of stock on the shelves and if they weren’t on sale were super expensive. So we decided to look around for another vegan fruit snack (they are kind of hard to find – many of them have gelatin in them).
Low and behold, or rather, high and behold, on the top shelf was a new brand of fruit snacks, Au’some Fruit Nuggets, made by Florida’s Natural and they are vegan! They have a really visible list of “frees” – lactose free, gelatin free, gluten free, etc. And they are also made from 66% real fruit juice. I know, not 100%, but it is better than the Safeway ones.
When we first opened the box we were really surprised. The packages were TINY! We thought we got ripped off – but then you open them and even more surprizes. The snacks were tiny – and hard. They were like the chiclets version of fruit snacks – little, hard, and chewy. But they are AU’SOME! It is like the fruit EXPLODES in your mouth – you have got to try them. And if you don’t like them, send the rest of the box to me. 
We have had better luck finding them at Target than Von’s (Safeway). The box in the picture above is not the kind that is marketed in the US – I couldn’t find a picture of one and am too lazy to take a picture of ours.
