Updated price list and stocklists

With changes in the wholesale prices of some of my raw organic nuts I thought it timely to circulated my updated retail price list.  The cost of organic macadamia nuts have slightly increased (due to my macadamia nut sadly supplier going out of business and the next affordable supplier is 50% more expensive. I have absorbed most of this price increase but had to pass on a little of it to my customers). The cost of pepitas (pumpkin seeds) has decreased. Click here for my updated price list. Click here to learn more about what are Activated Nuts and how they are prepared.

To order my products: simply contact me on 0407 871 884 or soulla.chamberlain@me.com and collect from 23 Kent Street Waverley at a mutually convenient time.

My activated nuts are also sold at the following select retail stores:

1. online at GPA Wholefoods 2. Just Organics, Oxford Street, Bondi Junction (opposite About Life) 3. Thr1ve cafe, MLC centre, Sydney CBD. Ive blogged about Thr1ve before here. 4. Orchard Street, Macpherson Street Bronte (near to 3 Blue Ducks) 5. Bayside Health, Bay Street, Double Bay (next to the Oaks Hotel) 6. Kingsleys Meats, 22 Plumer Road, Rose Bay. I've blogged about Kingsleys Meats here and here. 7. Natures Wonderland, Queensland

If you are a retailer who wants to stock my products simply contact me to discuss wholesale pricing. Or  if you are a customer who wants your local retailer to stock my products, ask them to contact me directly.

In addition to the products I make, I also sell a range of imported or local products at slightly above wholesale prices and below retail prices as a community service to clients and customers including 2 types of raw milk cheeses, pastured eggs, extra virgin cold pressed organic olive oil and fermented cod liver oil. Price lists for these products are available from my home in Waverley.

new product: gluten-free muesli

What do I eat for breakfast? Eggs day in day out. Yes, that’s right , I eat eggs every day. Fried, scrambled, poached, omelette, boiled- alternating each day. Teamed with sides of steamed greens, avocado and sauerkraut, washed down with a kefir smoothie. And I never tire of this breakfast fit for a king.  Sometimes I have (pastured) bacon too. So why did I recently launch a muesli? Well, for those customers and clients of mine who have been hounding me for years to create a premium quality muesli that leaves conventional mueslis for dead on the (rare) occasions that they don’t want to eat eggs for breakfast.

What’s so special about this muesli? Here's how my muesli is totally different from anything else out there on the market:

• It is gluten-free (gluten is a toxin and gut-irritant found in many grains including wheat, oats, barley and rye which are commonly found in breakfast cereals and conventional muesli)
• The only (gluten-free) grain used is buckwheat (which is technically a fruit and not a grain).
• It contains a mixture of ALL of my moorish activated nuts and seeds.
• All nuts, seeds and buckwheat used in the muesli are properly prepared ("activated"). To find out what ‘activated’ means click here.
• The nuts, seeds and buckwheat groats are left whole and not chopped to avoid rancidity and oxidative damage.
• The muesli is deliciously flavoured with shredded coconut, goji berries, dried figs, vanilla bean powder and cinnamon powder.
• All ingredients are certified organic.
• It doesn’t contain any nasty ingredients typically found in conventional muesli like preservatives, puffed grains (which are very unhealthy), glutenous grains or added sugar.

Prices are $29/500g or $18/300g or $9/120g.

I must admit that it is really yummy and I have enjoyed eating it more than I ever imagined. I don’t eat it as a brekky substitute but more as a snack or dessert or even without milk as a trail mix. My kids adore it and once again I give it to them occasionally only as a snack or dessert. Great to have on hand in the pantry for that emergency moment or to consume as a trail mix for long walks or hikes.

I have received overwhelming positive feedback from customers who have tried it.  One customer recently wrote me saying that my “organic muesli is so delicious and totally addictive….the crunch of the nuts and the sweetness of the figs and goji berries make for the perfect combination that keeps me full until lunch!” – Kate Walls.

To purchase or try a sample simply contact me on 0407 871 884 to arrange a mutually convenient time to collect from my home at 23 Kent Street Waverley. It is also sold at select speciality stores.

Real chocolate for Valentines Day

If anyone wants to buy their loved ones chocolate for Valentines day, ditch the commercial ones that are full of nasties and opt for the real raw cacao deal. So what’s in commercial chocolate that is so nasty? Most popular brands of chocolate contain:

• sugar (usually the white refined variety which is highly processed) or glucose syrup (made from wheat starch);
• soy lecithins (and/or other emulsifiers)
• cocoa (which is the processed version of cacao – note the difference in spelling!)
• milk powders (which are heavy processed and devoid of nutrients)
• barley malt extract (which is heavily processed and contains gluten and phytates)
• preservatives (usually 220 which affect asthma sufferers), flavours and colours (eg 122).

And don’t kid yourself in thinking that the world famous brands like Lindt are immune from this litany of ingredients. The first (and hence dominant) ingredient in one certified organic brand is rapadura whole cane sugar and the fourth ingredient was soy lecithin. And while rapadura is much less processed than white refined sugar, sugar is still sugar which is still sugar and if that is the main ingredient in what is going into my loved ones’ mouths then I’m going to think twice about it. Many trendy organic brands sweeten with agave syrup, which I am not a fan of as it is 90% fructose and creates severe fluctuations in blood sugar levels with insulin spikes and crashes.

There is no chocolate that I know of on the market that ticks all of the boxes…which is why I started making my own years ago. My hand-made chocolate coconut balls are made from unprocessed raw cacao powder (75% content), raw cacao butter, extra virgin coconut oil and sweetened slightly with whole medjool dates. I roll these into 20g balls then coat in desiccated coconut. No sugar or other sweeteners required. When the quality of the underlying ingredients are the real deal, then you don’t need to add much, if any, sweeteners (natural or otherwise). The raw cacao powder I buy is from Loving Earth and is long fermented and high in antioxidents. Raw cacao butter and coconut oil are high in healthy saturated fats and also slow down the release of fruit sugars contained in the dates.

In his new book “Your Personal Paleo Code” Chris Kresser writes: “There’s nothing wrong with dark chocolate (with greater than 75 percent cacao content); in fact its one of the most nutrient-dense foods available…”

To purchase a packet just text me 0407 871 884 and collect from my home at a mutually convenient time at 23 Kent St Waverley 2024. $15 for a packet of 6 balls.