Susie S.'s Profile
"Sustainable just because it tastes and feels better"
Member since February, 2007
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41 reviews
7 useful ratings
31 listings added
3 friends
Location
San Francisco, CA
My affiliations
DaLata Designs
My blog or website
My Dream Product
Stickers to put on all my things to "beep!" when I lose them
Offline, find me...
Walking around the city
My heroes
Tina Fey, Oprah, Napolean Hill, the founder of Burt's Bees
My non-green guilty pleasure
Driving on long road trips
Satisfying Low Calorie Goodness
Lundberg Brown Rice cakes are the best I've had. They're lightly flavored with sea salt, hearty and thick. Low calorie at 70 calories each. They only have 1 gr protein which is too bad but they definitely have become my snack of choice. Great with pb or cheese!
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Crazy Bugs Macaroni & Cheese Dinner
I'm glad you also discovered Kraft owns Back to Nature. They take great pains to talk about the humble beginnings of the brand and never mention their success in being acquired by a conglomerate.
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Natural Twin of Wheat Thins
These Crispy Wheats are nearly identical in taste to Wheat Thins except the sea salt gives them a more delicate delicious saltiness.
They're so similar I compared ingredients and found more natural versions of sugar, oil, and syrup (brown rice instead of corn) are used in the Crispy Wheats.
What burns me is Back to Nature is owned by Kraft and this is mentioned nowhere on their packaging. Only when I wrote to customer service did the name "Kraft" pop up. Oops. They better try to hide it harder. It wouldn't stop me from buying those but I call for transparency in corporations that own natural brands.
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Anderson Valley Brewing Company
I agree - it is very tasty. Not too heavy, not too light.
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The perfect open faced sandwich bread
For years I've been eating the dense flat German bread that comes wrapped in cellophane. It's got to be one of the chewiest breads you can imagine, and it's about 1/8" thick. My favorite lunch is to melt cheese and tomatoes on a slice of this bread, whether the sunflower or the whole rye bread. Toast it and you'll be in chewy healthy heaven.
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Gluten Free Never Tasted So Good
I've never had to seek out gluten free products but if I ever do I'm happy to know about Mary's Gone Crackers - the crunchiest most fun and delicious crackers I've ever had. Full of flax seeds and based on brown rice, they're thin and so crunchy it almost hurts your ears. The con is they're pretty expensive - $3.50-4 per box. But worth it - to eat plain, with cheese, or PB.
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Will be the best franchise ever
I am writing from O'Naturals in Portland where they now have wireless access. I'm having a $4 cup of clam chowder which has huge chunks of clams in it along with delicious foccacia made here. I've been to the restaurant in Falmouth several times, and this is my first time to this branch. Their food is consistently amazing and they have the most sustainable values of any chain, I imagine. For example: No diet sodas so they can know their sodas are all natural!
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Minty and Pretty
I've started using Lip Shimmers as my lipstick because they're subtle but pretty, minty feeling, and not too expensive. All the better that they're natural.
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Shop for Sustainability
Pachamama World has a great variety of Fair Trade products especially Haitian oil drum art. (These are great alternatives to art in your kitchen or bathroom to add cheer and decorate). Pachamama also has a network of people who throw Fair Trade house parties which is a very nice alternative way to make income as well as celebrate an occasion instead of more frivilous kinds of product parties, know what I mean?
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Complete Natural Products Store Online
Mothernature.com is a dot.com era online store that has always had a wide selection of the best vitamins, lotions, and other natural products you'd want at discounted prices. With free shipping when you spend over $49 it is a cost-effective alternative to expensive health food store chains (oops I mean chain).
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