May Foodie Pen Pals Reveal Day!

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Its that time of the month again. Foodie pen pals!. Such a cool idea, to send out some thought out goodies and hand written notes to a stranger and receive a box from another sweet person. And then all pen pals reveal what they got end of the month!

I received mine from Colleen this month, who goes to St Vincent college founded by german benedictine monks. She sent me a history pamphlet their Gristmill where they mae some self sustained items and sent some delicious Blackberry Jam made by them. She also sent me some dried spicy chili mango, cinnamony almonds and crunchy wasabi peas!

The Jam is being used liberally on toasts and pancakes.

I have to make some scone with this spicy mango!

The almonds have been packed up along with other nuts into hubbs office snack pot, which i think is already almost over.

Likewise with these addictive wasabi peas.. crunch crunch. gone!

Thank you Colleen or such a thought out package!

I sent a package of beans, kind bars, coconut curry bar, and some fresh Kashmiri garam masala to Calee who follows a GF diet.. Check out other foodie pen pal reveal posts at Lindsay’s linky list.

Interested in joining the Foodie Pen pals? Click here to fill out the form! Some details.

-On the 5th of the month, you will receive your penpal pairing via email. It will be your responsibility to contact your penpal and get their mailing address and any other information you might need like allergies or dietary restrictions.
-You will have until the 15th of the month to put your box of goodies in the mail. On the last day of the month, you will post about the goodies you received from your penpal!
-The boxes are to be filled with fun foodie things, local food items or even homemade treats! The spending limit is $15. The box must also include something written. This can be anything from a note explaining what’s in the box, to a fun recipe…use your imagination!
-You are responsible for figuring out the best way to ship your items depending on their size and how fragile they are. (Don’t forget about flat rate boxes!)
-Foodie Penpals is open to blog readers as well as bloggers. If you’re a reader and you get paired with a blogger, you can choose to write a short guest post for your penpal to post on their blog about what you received. If two readers are paired together, neither needs to worry about writing a post for that month.
– Foodie Penpals is open to US, Canadian residents & UK residents. Please note, Canadian Residents will be paired with other Canadians only. We’ve determined things might get too slow and backed up if we’re trying to send foods through customs across the border from US to Canada and vice versa. So, I’m going to keep two separate lists and match US w/ US and Canada w/ Canada!

***If you’re in the UK, please contact Carol Anne from This Is Rock Salt at rocksalt@thisisrocksalt.com to get involved.

If you’d like to join in an only Vegan Food Swap program, check out this by Cat of the Verdant Life , who set up an awesome vegan food swap amongst vegan bloggers just 2 months back.