Garden Grown Nuggets

Did you hear the good news?  Peas of Mind is now offering a NEW product! We have added Garden Grown Nuggets to our delicious and nutritious line of frozen food for kids.  Here at Peas of Mind, we reinvent the classics! We take those unhealthy dishes kids love and make a nutritious version the whole family will enjoy. 

This time last year we thought to ourselves: what are we missing in our line of frozen snacks and meals for kids? We have our Peas of Pie pizza which is loaded with veggies (that are unseen to the veggie-phobic eye.)  We turned nutrient rich vegetables (like carrots, broccoli and cauliflower) into guilt-free French fries. And we have even infused fresh baked pull-a-part bread with a full dose of veggies.  What classic kid food are we missing?  

Then it hit us like a ton of broccoli florets: NUGGETS!  I’m sure you can attest that your kids LOVE nuggets and we have realized that those darn things just aren’t going away.  So we started the process of reinventing this fried, saturated fat-filled chicken nugget by turning it into a garden-grown nugget that both moms AND kids will love.

We spent hours in the test kitchens whipping up different versions of our all-natural nugget until we had a version that truly gave us Peas of Mind.  This perfectly peas-full nugget is loaded with broccoli, carrots, tofu and brown rice, making it both vegetarian and gluten-free.  We then decided to give our customers more choices and came up with three flavors: Original, BBQ (which are both VEGAN) and Cheesy!  One serving of our Garden Grown Nuggets is:

• packed with vitamins and minerals
• has less sodium then the leading brands
• contains one FULL serving of veggies 
• includes 7 grams of complete protein 
• gluten free
• lower in fat than the leading brands

So get ready to devour the first gluten-free and vegan nugget! They will be on shelves of Super Target in May, in Sprouts Farmers Market in June and on their way to a shelf near you soon! (Find them in the freezer section)

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Roasted Carrots with Cilantro Salsa

I came across this delightfully easy recipe recently and thought I'd share.

1 pound carrots, peeled and cut into sticks ½ inch thick
5 teaspoons olive oil, divided
1 shallot, peeled
1 small garlic clove, peeled
½ cup cilantro leaves
2 to 3 teaspoons red wine vinegar (or lemon juice)
¼ teaspoon red pepper flakes (or to taste)
Salt and fresh ground black pepper to taste

Preheat oven to 450°.
Arrange carrot sticks on a baking sheet and toss with 2 teaspoons
olive oil and salt and pepper to taste.
Roast carrots, turning them over once or twice during cooking, until
they are tender (check with a paring knife) and beginning to
caramelize, about
25 to 35 minutes.

Chop shallot, garlic, and cilantro very fine. In a small bowl mix
them with 3 teaspoons
olive oil, vinegar, red pepper flakes, and salt and pepper.

Serve carrots hot, topped with cilantro salsa