Fresh Wednesday's at City Hall continue until October and I was there yesterday taking in the activity. After doing some admin inside City Hall for the Shoot Toronto photo exhibition (it takes place from Sept. 10-16 in the rotunda) I then met up with Kibbutz D.We strolled around, bought lots of fruit and veg, had lunch in the square and chatted with some fun farmers and got some free LARABARs.
Larabars are all natural food bars created by a woman named Lara, who wanted a health bar that tasted good and came in some interesting flavours. She came up with the idea while hiking in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado.
A true entrepreneur, she put in some blood, sweat and tears and made the first 500 at her home with a cuisinart and a rolling pin. Now the Larabars are sold in Canada, US, UK, Singapore, Iceland and Israel.
The one we had was filling and tasted great with a bit of bite as it had some cinnamon in it, it was called Cocoa Môlé. Try and pick one up at your local health food store and taste for yourself. The staff at the booth were so helpful and friendly!
An interesting story about these health bars, Nathalie almost mowed down Sarah Jessica Parker when she was trying to buy a energy bar in NYC earlier this year (not sure if it was a Larabar she was searching for?).
Maybe I will give her a few of these mini ones to keep in her purse so when she has another low sugar attack she doesn’t have to push by SJP to get her fix! She was so frantic to get some food in her that she didn’t recognize SJP until her cashier was excitedly saying, ‘it’s Carrie Bradshaw.’ I love this story!
