Food Notes

Healthy Foodie Favorite Products of 2009 from Hangry Pants

We asked some of our favorite food bloggers to share with us their 5 Favorite Food Products of 2009.

HangryPants is the result of the awesome duo of Heather and Mark. "Hangry Pants evolved from Mark's decision to abstain from meat for 30 days, Heather's interest in food and their mutual love for the internet. We created this "healthy living blog" to chronicle the steps of our various food experiments, Meatless Month being our first."

Heather and Mark's favorite food discoveries for 2009:
• H: Oikos Plain Non-fat Greek Yogurt This is one of the only organic Greek yogurts readily available near me. I eat this daily, usually with mashed banana and ground flax or muesli.

• M: Honest Foods Maple Almond Planks We favorably reviewed a whole bunch of Honest Foods products in February, but The Maple Almond Plank was my favorite and the inspiration behind a very special Beer and Ice Cream Float Dessert.

• H: Quinoa. As a vegetarian I am always looking for protein sources and quinoa, a complete protein, often does it for me. It's easy and quick to cook and pretty versatile as well, so it can can successfully be subbed in a lot of recipes. You can find it in bulk bins or in the rice/grains aisle.

• M: POMx Ice Coffee (Chocolate). Tastes like chocolate milk and gives a huge caffeine boost.

• H & M: Dave's Killer Bread. We felt a little lame picking a bread for our mutual pick, but it was honestly our favorite product of the year. The Flourless Sprouted Bread is unlike any other sprouted bread we've tried and the Sin Dawg, oh the Sin Dawgs were out of this world!

• Bonus Homemade Pick: We (especially Heather) fell in love with making our own nut butters this year. Our favorite was Roasted Pecan Butter - simple, but with an incredible depth of flavor so a little goes a long way.