Green Living Show

Thanks to my kind brother who gave me two free tickets to the Green Living Show, Keith and I were able to head down today and check things out.

Green Cricket is the company that gave my brother the free tickets as my brother's company Petra is going to be distributing their stuff shortly.

I didn't know this until just now as I'm blogging, and the Green Cricket booth is one of the ones that Keith and I stopped at and chatted to the lady with. We liked! They had really great children's toys as well as body care products. I tried their pomegranate lotion, smelled so good! Check it out if you're looking for fun green gifts, you're sure to find something neat!

Our favorite part was the food. Ha!
Surprise surprise.

We paid $10 and got 5 food tickets and went around to the different stations and got:
- a juicy beef rib with amazing sauce and a stewed carrot and potato
- baked beans
- feta, tomato, red pepper and yummy crunchy thing salad
- and a cannelloni roll with homemade ricotta cheese

It was really good. Everything tasted so clean. If clean is a possible thing to taste. It made me excited to cook with whole foods!

Our only purchase other than food was a slow cooker cook book. There were tons of recipes for meals, appetizers and desserts in it and I'm excited about using it once we move in and start our new life together shortly. It'll be fun to follow the recipes and use delicious fresh ingredients!

It was really neat walking around, we made to sure to at least walk past every booth, we stopped at a bunch as well. It was really neat to see all of the ways and products that help reduce waste, are chemical-free, wholesome and a lot of the times, just plain creative and innovative. I'm liking these minds out there.

Picked up a few samples of things we'd like to try as well as took some business cards and pamphlets of companies we're interested in.

Good times!

Here are some booths we visited and either were interested in their project, or just liked what they were doing!

Benjamin Moore Natura :we got a plantable bookmark from them, pretty cool. And we really like their Natura paints. If we painted, we'd probably go with them.

Gimme5 :a fun way for kids to get their nutrients in! We're kiddish. We liked this booth. And took some yummy mushroom samples from them. Also got cool bookmarks to put on our fridge so we can always make sure to get our 5 colours of foods in everyday.

Green Cricket: mentioned above

Traditional Medicinals: we got free tea samples from them, Organic Nighty Night and Organic Chamomile with Lavender

Yup : Cardboard furniture!

Bronte Creek Organic Gardener: This grass was so neat! This is Keith's description of the grass: "It was so thin, but thick and soft and tangled." It felt so cushiony, almost spongy. So neat. Definitely would think about that if we ever had grass. And not just a balcony.

Fair Trade Jewellery Co. : Wedding bands here we come? Maybe...we'll see about pricing. If not, Malaysia here we come!

A good day!

- Beka