Is the Rebel Kitchen the Hells Angels of food?

The Rebel Kitchen is a brand new company (January 2014) sitting in UK and producing (more to come) coconut milk based drink, which are vegan and lactose free.

So, where is the Rebel side ? They actually claim they want to rebel against the fact that healthy and good food is always expensive, and enable everybody to acces it.

So, we have kind of fruit warriors claiming themselves as "rebel" and fighting for vegan and lactose free food. The mission is noble, the design appealing, but do they really pass together?

Funky Fish by Asda : who said fish was boring?

 

 

The UK supermarket chain ASDA redesigned its fish products, launching the "Funky Fish Kitchen". They did manage to get a fresh and funny design, which supports the product, without taking away the serious and trust of it.

Weel done!

To see the products, go to www.asda.com and search for "Funky Fish Kitchen".

Paleo Food

We discovered Paleo food thanks to an article published on FDIN. Well, we knew the motto "I would not eat what my grand mother who have not eaten", but we did not know the motto "I would not eat what the grand mother of the grand mother of the grand mother of the grand mother of the grand mother of the grand mother of the grand mother of my grand mother who have not eaten" ...

So, this is exactly what Primal Kitchen is offering : "Food that our bodies have been designated to eat for 1 000 000s of years, ie without grain, with processing (they are pressed cold !)

They absolutely managed to avoid the boring healty food side, andto play more on the simple, tasty food.

  

To discover them : http://www.theprimalkitchen.co.uk 

Premium cake mix from the House of the Rising Bun

Still some years ago, cake mixes were made for people who had not time to cook and / or no knowledge and / or no imagination AND were definitly not foodies.

This  definitly evolving with the apparition of premium cakes mix, targeting foodies who want to prepare something great, if possible new, but keeping the challenging part of cooking and DIY. The idea of these mixes is to facilitating cooking, not by providing aroma and other stabilizer, but by enabling to have all the high quality ingredients in the same pack.

This is exactly the case with the House of the Rising Bun, a seducing UK company... ( http://www.houseoftherisingbun.co.uk/)

 

The Collective Dairy (1): sweet and savoury yogurt

The Collective Dairy is a dairy product company, which defines itself as "Kiwi recipes / English made" . They currently offer, as limited edition, a blackcurrant beetroot flavour.They present it as dessert or snack.

Again, a dynamic and innovative producer is going in the savoury direction for yogurt! More info: http://www.thecollectivedairy.com/

An adult premium pop corn from Joe & Seph's

Joe and Seph's, the UK pop corn manufacturer, just launched a "cocktail" range. Nice move, which practicly brings the pop corn to the status of exclusiv food, and definitly take them out of the kid / teenager / kino nerd product.


They claim using % of real spirit, which make this product stronger as a beer. Could one get drunk with pop corn?

http://www.joeandsephs.co.uk/index.php?mode=pouches

Instant BBQ + spices kit : a further step in convenience grilling

Who has never experienced the "Let's do a quick grill, we don't need many things" ending in "I bought half of the spices and sauces sortiment of the shop because I did not know what do to for a marinade"?

Bar-Be-Quick, UK manufacturer of instant grill then had the idea to pair with Schwartz to offer pack of herbs and spices with their instant grills.

Will the next step be to find the instant grill in the frige area of shop with spices and meat?

Mini Spark : Kabuto Instant Noodles

Japan food is not only characterized by a great taste, but also very often by a great design. It seems that Crispin, founder of Kabuto Noodle, perfectly understand this when he started his company in 2010.

 

He sais to have joined the Instant Noodle battle field with the the skill, dedication and discipline of a Samurai warrior, and then used the kabuto, which is the name of the helmet of the ancient samourai warriors as a symbol. 

Compared to the other instant noodle available in Europe, he is definitly winning the battle ...

To learn more : http://www.kabutonoodles.com/

Yeo Valley savoury yogurt (savoury yogurt, part I)

Yeo Valley, a family dairy company based in Sommerset (UK), with great design and taste products, launched some days ago this "Orange, Carrot and Mango" Yogurt. As we saw this yogurt, we thought to have found the first savoury yogurt ever made... Well, after checking a bit, we needed to rephrase : "we (to the best of our knowledge), found the first carrot yogurt in Europe".

If you want to learn more about Yeo Valley, or just appreciate a nice website, just go there : https://www.yeovalley.co.uk/

If you want to learn more on savoury yogurt, check the Umami Spark in the coming days...