Garden Granola® Now available at STORY at Macy’s Nationwide + Victory Dance Muesli at Macy’s Herald Square

For the next two months you can find Garden Granola at STORY at Macy’s NATIONWIDE + Victory Dance Foods Muesli at the flagship STORY Herald Square in NYC!

The first STORY of the new year, FEEL GOOD, launched nationwide yesterday. The team at STORY collaborated with WELL + GOOD and CALM to create, FEEL GOOD, the ultimate destination for all things wellness. Visit a STORY near you and you’ll discover energizing workout essentials, nourishing snacks (like us), and editor-approved tips to help you connect the dots and feel good! 

Sounds pretty amazing, right? We think so too and we are thrilled to have our Garden Granola® and Muesli be a part of it! 

AVAILABLE NOW NATIONWIDE

• All STORY at Macy’s locations: Garden Granola® Beet Ginger, Carrot Turmeric & Kale Matcha 

• Herald Square Flagship location: Blueberry Buckwheat Almond & Cherry Almond Chia Muesli + all 3 flavors of Garden Granola®

Quantities are limited and only available in-store at STORY.

Click here to Find a Story at Macy's near you or check the list below

New Store News: Good Nature Market In New Haven, CT

Hey Yalies and New Havenites! We’ve arrived on campus!! Find us now on the shelves at both the 15 Broadway & 44 Whitney Ave locations of Good Nature Market twenty-four hours a day!  

Find Victory Dance Foods available now at both New Haven Good Nature Market locations! 

Bon Appétit Magazine Feature

Check out our Cherry Almond Hemp GRANUESLI in the February 2019 edition of Bon Appétit !

The February edition of Bon Appétit magazine which hit newsstands January 18, 2019 is the annual Healthyish edition. This years publication focused on twenty-one people who are all changing the way we eat, shop, and live today. One of the twenty-one people chosen was Jessica Young, the founder of BUBBLE GOODS, an online health food paradise that we partnered with since it launched in 2018. The Bon Appétit team dubbed Young as the “Healthy Snack Oracle” and we couldn’t agree more.

We’re honored to have our GRANUESLI included in this selection of healthy snacks and in Bon Appétit Magazine and to also have our GARDEN GRANOLA® featured in a larger roundup of nine snacks that can be viewed online Healthyish, a Bon Appéit Brand’s website, available here and pictured below.

We are beyond grateful for our partnership with BUBBLE and all they have done to support our brand and all the other amazing brands that make up the health food paradise that is BUBBLE.

Garden Granola and our Cherry Almond Hemp Granuesli can be seen in the back row with six other snacks all picked by Jessica Young in collaboration with Bon Appé

​Vegan Potato Beetroot Soup Recipe

It’s vegan, gluten free and sure to bring you warmth during these cold winter months!

Recipe & pictures by Kimberly Espinel @thelittleplantation https://thelittleplantation.co.uk Shared with permission

When we saw this gorgeous pink soup on Instagram featuring our favorite veggie, beetroot, we just had to reach out to its creator Kimberly Espinel and ask if we could share it with our followers!  She very graciously said yes thanked us for asking. 

Ingredients:

• 2 - 2 ½ cup potatoes, roughly diced

• 2 large white onions, finely chopped

• 3 cups of vegetable stock

• 1 cup Whole Mylk

• 3 - 4 tbsp white wine

• 1 ½ tbsp almond butter

• 3 - 4 tbsp olive oil

• Pinch of salt

• 1 small beetroot, peeled and diced

• Optional garnish: Black sesame seeds, ground black pepper, olive oil, beetroot leaves or other

Instructions:

1. Add water to saucepan and boil potatoes with a pinch of salt until soft. Then drain and set aside.

2. In a frying pan over a medium flame, heat the olive oil and sauté the onions until soft and translucent, for around 10 minutes.

3. Place the boiled potatoes, sautédd onions and all other ingredients in a large pot and bring to the boil.

4. Once boiling, reduce the heat and let it simmer for about 10 minutes.

5. Place everything in a (high speed) blender and blend until smooth.

6. Serve immediately and garnish with a drizzle of olive oil, sesame seeds, coarsely ground black pepper and fresh beetroot leaves.

Keeps in the fridge in an airtight container for about 48 hours.

Check out Kimberly’s beautiful food photography and an amazing work @thelittleplantation  on instagram and at https://thelittleplantation.co.uk!  And If you give this gorgeous beetroot soup a try let us know and make sure to tag us @victorydancefoods and @thelittleplantation

Recipe: Orange, Berry & Beet No-Bake Cheesecake by Chef Ashley Nicole Perez

The Perfect Healthy Valentine’s Day Dessert
Gluten-Free. Vegan. Refined Sugar Free
Made with Victory Dance Foods Garden Granola

This luscious no-bake and nearly raw cheesecake is not only beautiful on the outside it’s full of healthy swaps, superfoods and a totally unique flavor that sets it apart from the rest of the cheesecake pack! This beautiful and nourishing dessert uses our Garden Granola in the crust and fresh ginger in the filling that lends the perfect spicy twist. You will be sure to crave this creamy indulgent treat and it’s beautiful color and uniquely delicious taste make it perfect for Valentines Day and any festive occasion! And if you aren’t sold yet, it’s freezer friendly, vegan, gluten-free and refined sugar free!

We didn’t know Chef Ashley before Cheesecake, Garden Granola and Instagram brought us together! We are so grateful that our food and social media stars aligned and can’t wait to collaborate with her and bring you more yummy treats in the near future.  To learn more about Ashley and her passion for helping people learn how to cook healthy nourishing food that actually tastes good and more delicious recipes, visit her website at The Naked Food Life  and follow her on insta @thenakedfoodlife !

We have included the ingredients below but to see the complete recipe with full instructions, visit  The Naked Food Life

Ingredients:

Crust:

• Heaping 1 cup mixed nuts

• 1/2 c pepitas

• 1/3 c Victory Dance Foods Garden Granola

• 4 large dates, pitted and quartered

• Pinch salt

• 1/2 tsp cinnamon

• 2 flax eggs (2 tbsp ground flax + 3 tbsp water)

Filling:

• 1 3/4 c blanched sliced almonds, soaked for at least 2 hours, drained and rinsed

• 1/4 tsp sea salt

• 1/4 raw honey or maple syrup

• 2 tbsp fresh squeezed orange juice

• 1 orange, peeled 

• 1 inch piece fresh ginger

• 4 drops Orange vitality oil

• 1/3 c melted cacao butter (melt in a dehydrator or over the lowest setting on the stovetop)

• Splash vanilla extract

• Optional: a few drops vanilla stevia, or additional sweetener,

  to taste

Beet & berry swirl:

• 1 medium beet, cooked and chopped

• 1/2 c berries

• 1/4 filling mixture 

• More orange juice, to taste

For the complete recipe and instructions click here
Recipe and Pictures posted with permission from Ashley Nicole Perez

If you make this dessert and are going to share your creation on social media. 
Make sure to tag us @victorydancefoods and Ashley @thenakedfoodlife
so we can see your beautiful creation!

Milestone: Shipping our first pallet

On January 9, 2019 after a Christmas season full of long hours making Garden Granola….

we shipped our first pallet of Garden Granola® to our new (and first) distributor Associated Buyers!  We had the pleasure of meeting the Associated Buyers team out at the Summer Fancy Food Show last July and have been working with them to make some big things happen since the summer.  We are really excited about this partnership and can’t wait to share with you soon exactly where all that Garden Granola we shipped to them will be headed soon!  So Stay tuned.

VDF Garden Granola wins 2018 Bronze Sofi™ Award !!!

Originally shared on Instagram and Facebook 4/25

We are so thrilled to announce that VDF GARDEN GRANOLA® has Won the 2018 Bronze #SOFI Award in the “Granola, Cereal” Category ! ! !We are so proud and humbled to receive this honor and can’t wait for the Summer Fancy Food Show #SFFS18 in  New York City when we will get to take our Sofi™ home. 🏆

A Sofi™ is the top honor in the $127 billion food industry and we are honored and FULL of Gratitude! A Huge thank you to our fans, customers, suppliers and our loyal retail partners for your business, we are so happy to share this with all of you. 🙌💖

We have always looked to the Sofi™ as the ultimate stamp of excellence and so many of the brands we admire most (like Kind Bar, Justin’s Nut Butter and Sir Kensington’s) are past winners so to receive this award is just incredibly amazing and a dream come true! 💕💕 🧐

❤️,

Maddie & Jennifer

To learn more about this coveted award Click the link in our bio or visit victorydancefoods.com/sofi and sofiawards.com

Happy Valentine's Day! We made you a Mix Tape

WE MADE YOU A MIX TAPE

At Victory Dance Foods we LOVE music, especially dancing to it,  so we are sharing a Valentine's Day playlist that comes straight from our heart.  It's an upbeat eclectic mix of 115 of our favorite songs about love that we hope put a lil' bounce in your step and even more love in your heart.

XOXO

HOLIDOSE 2017

STOKED FOR THE ULTIMATE DOSE! The HoliDose is what we look forward to all year long: it's the spot to snap up all the gifts on your list in one go, everything made with lots and lots of gorgeous Love.

Not familiar with Dose? At Dose you can taste, browse and pick up the very best from us and so many more (120+++!), all of the delights for right now, everything made with artistry, integrity and care.

HoliDose's $10 tickets get you into the party and in front of a meticulously-curated lineup of makers, artists + entrepreneurs (including sips from Virtue Cider, Cocktail Courier and Deep Eddy Vodka, gratis!) so you can knock out all your shopping in one fun, super conscious spot.

Oh, and, bonus! $2.50 from each ticket goes directly to help kids connect to food via The Kitchen Community's Learning Gardens at CPS.

100% of sales at HoliDose support hard-working business owners like us.

Join us and all kinds of rockin' Chicagoans for a Sunday of fun! Mark your calendar for December 10, at 401 N Morgan in the West Loop: this is the ULTIMATE Dose. XOXO

the 411 on HoliDose
who you, your crew + 120+ of the best small businesses
what a marketplace filled with all the merriest
when Sunday, December 10th, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
where Morgan MFG at 401 N. Morgan in Chicago, IL
why because HoliDose has everything you need to rock the holidays right
tix $10 online / 25% goes directly to The Kitchen Community
more details and tix at dosemarket.com

Renegade HOLIDAY Craft Fair Chicago Dec 2nd + 3rd →

SAVE THE DATE  DECEMBER 2nd + 3rd !

We’re SO excited to kickoff the Holidays at Renegade Craft Fair right around the corner December 2nd + 3rd!  This festive event is 15 years in the running and features over 250 makers + more! 

Explore a curated selection of modern design, including jewelry and accessories, art, apparel, ceramics, illustration, stationery, home decor, cookware, apothecary, and more.

Featuring US + local food trucks, seating by Beehive Chicago, livestreamed DJ sets with Lumpen Radio, Reckless Records, and CHIRP Radio 107.1FM, workshops with Welltended and Rebuilding Exchange, photo ops by Magnolia Photo Booth Co. and Blkk Hand, live portraits by Doodlebooth, tarot readings, a very special installation with Chris Uphues and all-around good times at a truly one-of-a-kind holiday shopping experience.

As always, Renegade is free to attend! All are welcome ✨

DATES
December 2 + 3, 2017
HOURS
11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
LOCATION
Bridgeport Art Center
1200 West 35th St.
Chicago, IL, 60609
PARKING
Limited onsite parking is available, along with street parking in the immediate area, but is not guaranteed
TRANSPORTATION + FREE TROLLEY
Carpooling, ride services, biking, or taking public transportation to the Fair  is encouraged.
Enjoy our free trolley to the Fair! Pick-up services from Ashland Ave. Orange Line Stop begins at 10:30am. Last pick-up from Bridgeport Art Center at 6:30pm.

TO LEARN MORE VISIT:
http://www.renegadecraft.com/fairs/chicago-holiday
TO JOIN + SHARE FACEBOOK EVENT WITH FRIENDS
https://www.facebook.com/events/154798895115438/

#RenegadeCraftFair #RenegadeChicago