Tamater of my dreams + giveaway
Hey everyone! Hope your humpday is treating you well 😀
For dinner last night, I broke out this treasured heirloom tomato.
I got it a Whole Foods on Sunday because it was so beautiful, and decided it was destined for some caprese before our dinner last night.
I sliced it up and topped with sea salt and pepper
Topped mine with raw goat cheddar and the pilot’s with havarti, and fresh organic basil
It was pretty face-rocking amazing 🙂
For dinner, we had a little Italian shrimp stir-fry thingy that I made up on the spot.
I sauteed an onion and garlic, then added a can of organic diced tomatoes, oregano, rosemary, sea salt, pepper, a splash of balsamic and red pepper flakes. Then I added in some organic shrimp, topped with fresh basil and served with roasted asparagus.
Not too shabby 😉
The pilot had a lot of studying stuff to do last night (wah wah) so I chilled and watched American Idol and then called it a night.
This morning, I met the girls for a weights sesh (munched an apple on the way) and we dominated our core. I’m going to be sooooore tomorrow. It feels nice to know you did something 🙂
After weightstravaganza, I couldn’t wait to have another Cherry Chocolate Bomb smoothie (Kristen’s recipe). I made the same changes that I made the other night and it was equally amazing.
I did some work on the computer, then had a slice of millet for snack covered in a blanket of nutritional yeast and chili powder.
After running some errands, I had a quick meeting with the cafe owners to go over the plans for the cafe.
I still can’t believe this is really happening!
The thing is, we need some help. We’ve been thinking of names for a few weeks and haven’t found anything we love. (The pilot has contributed the funniest hippie sounding names he could come up with…goofer). I want to name for the cafe to be something intriguing, but without the words “vegan” or “raw” because I don’t want to scare anyone away by thinking we only serve carrot sticks. So, what would you name a high-raw, gluten-free, vegan cafe??
By leaving a suggestion below, you’re giving us permission to use the name you suggest (or a variation) 😀
The creator of the name we end up using will receive a batch of macaroons and $50 worth of goodies from the health food store (think almond butter, bars, nutritional yeast, or whatever fun things you might be needing).
We’ll pick a “winner” by Friday and I’ll have the goodies out by Saturday.
I know ya’ll are geniuses at this sort of thing and I can’t wait to read your suggestions!!!
I’m off to train a client, then pilates and ZUMBA!
xoxo,
Gina
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LIVEstyle cafe
How about Oasis Cafe?
What about ‘Good Life Cafe’…..?
Prana cafe?
Evolve?
Cafe Intuition?
Spirit Cafe?
Cafe Awaken?
Enlighten Cafe?
Energy and Bliss Cafe
Those are just a few ideas. Good luck!
Invigorate, Revive, Snackface, Whole, Vigor, Chia
“In a Nut Shell”
or “In an almond shell” or “the almond shell” orrr “Roons and Spoons” hahahaha
food in the raw
I don’t have any suggestions except I like Rachel’s suggestion: LIVEstyle Cafe
1. La bonne vive- the good life in french
2. Greenstar
3. Oasis
4. La vida Buena- the good life in spanish
5. The Green Spoon
6. New Life
7. Green Leaf
8. Green Eats
9. Green Cuisine
10. Earth Eats
11. Natural Choice
12. Wild Oats
13. Tranquil
14. Zen Cafe/ Kitchen/ Eatery
Cafe PURE…first thought I had. 🙂
Wildgreen Cafe
Good Eats!
Whirled Peas
Sweatpea
Green Monkey
Shoots & Sprouts
Golden Jungle
Coconut Cafe
Mana Cafe
Carrot Stix
Fresh Side Up…haha just thought i’d try, but I can’t wait to hear some good suggestions!
Paradise Foods
or
Almond in Paradise
Heirloom cafe
What about:
Pure Delights (or just Pure Delight)
Pure and Simple
Cafe True
TRUE
Good luck with naming your cafe!
Simplicity at it’s Best
Lotus Cafe
I’ve got nothin’! I’m not good at this kind of stuff… :/ Good luck!
Lovin You Cafe
Body and Soul Café
B(eats) Café
“Viva Fresca Cafe”
“Living Fresh Cafe”
“Macaroon”
Best of luck in your new endeavor!
I know you said without Raw..
but the RAW DEAL popped in my head……
Raw-licious
The Good Life Cafe
Eat for life
Must love food
Rockin’ yum’s
Green is good
In Green we trust
Peace , love, good eats
Must try everything
Face Rockin foods
Valdosta Temptations
For Real Cafe
Utopia Cafe
Try and Chi-a
Irresistable Eats
Face Rockin roons’
Sinfully Sweet
No oven’s here
Have no PRESERVations
Simple Raw
Must love Health
The good SEED
What about Maca or Maca Cafe?
It’s a superfood that makes you feel wonderful and rejuvenated and I’m sure that’s the feeling you want your customers to leave your restaurant with!
how about “VITAL”?
shangri-raw!!!
all right, that’s all i could come up with.
oops, just reread your post, haha.
other ones:
go go goji
veggie heaven
.. usually i’m more creative but that’s all i could think of.
Slice of Life
vivid
How about “Crudo Cafe & Bistro”?
1)Purefection
2) Dew
3) Purely Natural
Adam
Eve
Eden
The Apple (sorry, I know they’re all from the same idea, but I got on a roll with it!)
Heart and Soil
Naked
Utopia
Or — Body and Soil
Real Food!!!!
Natural Nibbles
Full of Life
Trim Tastes
=)
~VeGiZzle
Pura Vida
How about
-Sprouts Bakery
-Au Natural
~Lite
1. Friendly Eats
2. Peace and Greens
3. Mmm…Fresh
Wow everyone has such great ideas. I can’t wait to hear what you decide. When I was thinking i kept coming back to how much you love pink and how much you love the pilot. Something like Pink Pilot Cafe – has nothing to do w/ food, but it wold be a good story.
My ideas, so far:
Glorious Food
EAT
Fud [there would be a horizontal line over the U so it’s pronounced “Food,” — not Fudd like Elmer. Maybe too pretentious or confusing…]
Senza [“without” in Italian; as in without gluten, cooking, etc.]
Grub
The Foodery
The Fueling Station
The Daily Feed
Feedbag
Feed My Lips
THRIVE
Superfood Cafe
Green Bistro
Holy Yum!
Conscious Eating
Consciously Gourmet
Where will it be located in Valdosta? If its over there off of Baytree by the Main Squeeze and VSU, a few of these are more fitting for that area.
Vegging Out
Green & Lean
Lean & Green
Green Grub
Oh Snap! — I was thinking of snap peas, random I know 🙂
Pure
Viva
Great Greens
Roots — like the actual food, and like where you are from influences your food and eating
Guilt Free — fresh, healthy, gluten free food makes you feel this way
Are you gonna go for more casual of formal type of setting? Like here in Valdosta we have Tropical Smoothing Cafe, which is totally casual… and then The Bleu Cafe downtown, which is nicer. What style of Cafe depends on the name 🙂
opps.. *Tropical Smoothie Cafe*
not smoothing, haha 😉
The Haven?
I am sure everything you are making will be heavenly:)
Good luck with everything!