RE: Need Alternatives to Coffee and Donuts at Church

[Guest guest]

Ginger beer.

Sourdough bread with butter

I cant see why these would be rejected?

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From: realfoodie2003 [mailto:realfoodie2003@...]

Sent: Monday, 9 February 2004 1:27 PM

Subject: Need Alternatives to Coffee and Donuts at Church

Anyone care to help me brainstorm alternatives to coffee and donuts to serve

at church? I have an opportunity to make a change but don't know what to

recommend. Keep in mind, it needs to be fairly mainstream.

Thanks,

Kathy

[Guest guest]

>Anyone care to help me brainstorm alternatives to coffee and donuts to serve

>at church? I have an opportunity to make a change but don't know what to

>recommend. Keep in mind, it needs to be fairly mainstream.

>

>Thanks,

>

>Kathy

Roasted crunchy nuts? Everyone loves nuts. It's hard to say, from my perspective

the thing that is wrong with donuts is that they are full of wheat, but

non-wheat

donuts taste just fine. Smoothies would provide more energy, or good

cookies (full of coconut, nuts, etc). Or jerky. Today I had guests at the house

and we had potato chips (not wonderful, but just potatoes and oil) and kefiili

onion dip (wonderful) or corn chips and salsa. It *looked* pretty mainstream.

(kefiili dip looks like any other dip, except it is probiotic and not full of

weird

stuff).

It is interesting, but since doing the WD I have a whole different take on

snacks. They used to be really important, and I was so happy they were

provided (so my blood sugar didn't drop and I'd feel lousy). Now they

are just a distraction (and I can't usually eat them anyway because they

are all wheat, and even if they aren't, they are likely to make me ill, because,

like others have said, my system and taste buds are just too picky).

Now as for coffee ... if most of the congregation are coffee drinkers,

they NEED it or they will get withdrawals. Just make sure it's GOOD coffee ...

-- Heidi

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In a message dated 2/8/04 10:29:58 PM Eastern Standard Time,

realfoodie2003@... writes:

> Anyone care to help me brainstorm alternatives to coffee and donuts to

> serve

> at church? I have an opportunity to make a change but don't know what to

> recommend. Keep in mind, it needs to be fairly mainstream.

I catered coffee hour at my church once. My wallet suffered dearly.

I made:

--NT's coconut mousse pie

--NT's hazelnut shortcake

--Greek meatballs from the Whole Foods Cookbook (beef, fresh oregano, fresh

mint, parsley, minced fresh garlic, roasted red peppers, lemon pepper, salt,

feta cheese, lemon juice)

--NT's almond cookies

--homemade raw cream cheese

I brought:

-- sprouted bread

-- sourdough bread

The whole thing was a hit. I had people telling me I should open up a

restaurant and asking for recipes left and right. Everyone loves the almond

cookies. I've never met anyone who didn't. The coconut pie is great for

coconut

lovers, and the hazelnut shortcake is general highly appreciated.

I didn't dare tell anyone how I made the cream cheese. But the cream cheese

lovers told me it was better than the Philadelphia, which happened to be

sitting right next to mine while people devoured what I made.

Everyone loved the meatballs, but unfortunately someone got to them before me

and put them in the microwave to heat up rather than the oven.

No one ate the bread. There are always bagels there by default, and people

used the raw cream cheese on the bagels. Perhaps Alvorado St. sprouted bagels

would have done better than the bread.

Chris

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In a message dated 2/9/04 12:35:06 AM Eastern Standard Time,

heidis@... writes:

> Now as for coffee ... if most of the congregation are coffee drinkers,

> they NEED it or they will get withdrawals. Just make sure it's GOOD coffee

> ...

Oh right. I didn't catch that. Replacing coffee with anything would be an

unmitigated disaster and people will resent you, so buy some organic shadegrown

;-)

Chris

[Guest guest]

In a message dated 2/9/04 5:45:15 PM Eastern Standard Time, jafasum@...

writes:

> Does your raw cream cheese come out sour? Mine does. If not, how do you

> make it so it doesn't turn out sour?

It comes out sour, but not extremely so.

Chris

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Chri

Does your raw cream cheese come out sour? Mine does. If not, how do you make

it so it doesn't turn out sour?

Jafa

ChrisMasterjohn@... wrote:

In a message dated 2/8/04 10:29:58 PM Eastern Standard Time,

realfoodie2003@... writes:

> Anyone care to help me brainstorm alternatives to coffee and donuts to

> serve

> at church? I have an opportunity to make a change but don't know what to

> recommend. Keep in mind, it needs to be fairly mainstream.

I catered coffee hour at my church once. My wallet suffered dearly.

I made:

--NT's coconut mousse pie

--NT's hazelnut shortcake

--Greek meatballs from the Whole Foods Cookbook (beef, fresh oregano, fresh

mint, parsley, minced fresh garlic, roasted red peppers, lemon pepper, salt,

feta cheese, lemon juice)

--NT's almond cookies

--homemade raw cream cheese

I brought:

-- sprouted bread

-- sourdough bread

The whole thing was a hit. I had people telling me I should open up a

restaurant and asking for recipes left and right. Everyone loves the almond

cookies. I've never met anyone who didn't. The coconut pie is great for

coconut

lovers, and the hazelnut shortcake is general highly appreciated.

I didn't dare tell anyone how I made the cream cheese. But the cream cheese

lovers told me it was better than the Philadelphia, which happened to be

sitting right next to mine while people devoured what I made.

Everyone loved the meatballs, but unfortunately someone got to them before me

and put them in the microwave to heat up rather than the oven.

No one ate the bread. There are always bagels there by default, and people

used the raw cream cheese on the bagels. Perhaps Alvorado St. sprouted bagels

would have done better than the bread.

Chris

[Guest guest]

@@@@@@ Chris:

> I catered coffee hour at my church once. My wallet suffered dearly.

@@@@@@@@@@

!!!!!!!!!!!

The wallet bit surely is no understatement! Yikes!

With that kind of grub, you could start up your own religion! You

could call it " Chrisianity " .

Mike

SE Pennsylvania

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Thanks for your replies. I did learn some things. I should have mentioned that

I personally am not going to be providing the " treat " (so am not considering

the feast that described-I barely manage to cook for my family, I'm not

ready to provide for the whole church). This is a once a week, three services

job. I am trying to come up with a long-term plan that just anybody can pull

off. I like the idea of sourdough or sprouted bread with butter. I was thinking

maybe cheese and crackers. Possibly they could serve berries and melon in

the summer. We could use nuts, but they wouldn't be NT style. I think this is

mostly supposed to be an " incentive " for people to come to church. (NOT my

idea.) Any more suggestions?

Kathy

P.S. I had already decided to keep the coffee. I don't want to be

excommunicated!

> In a message dated 2/9/04 12:35:06 AM Eastern Standard Time,

> heidis@t... writes:

>

> > Now as for coffee ... if most of the congregation are coffee drinkers,

> > they NEED it or they will get withdrawals. Just make sure it's GOOD coffee

> > ...

>

> Oh right. I didn't catch that. Replacing coffee with anything would be an

> unmitigated disaster and people will resent you, so buy some organic

shadegrown

> ;-)

>

> Chris

>

>

>