From Honolua Bay to the happy-faced spider--25 reasons Maui rocks!
by Shannon Wianecki
10. Mana Foods.
What strange magic allows this natural foods store to continually expand inside without growing on the outside? Oh, quirky, funky, accommodating Mana Foods . . . how do we love thee?
Let us count the ways:
1. bountiful local and organic produce
2. friendly cashiers
3. bulk macadamia nuts
4. to-die-for vegan baked goods
5. hilarious bulletin-board postings. . . .
To see complete list, see original article
Sunday, December 6, 2009
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Best Chocolate Selection on Maui
From the Sunday, November 29th Maui News
MANA FOODS HAS WIDE SELECTION OF CHOCOLATE
In response to the question about where to find the widest selection of chocolate anywhere (Letters, Nov. 22), it's Mana Foods, of course. With almost 400 different types of chocolate, it is by far the largest selection I have seen in Hawaii, on the Mainland or in Europe.
Marie DeJournette
Paia
In response to the question about where to find the widest selection of chocolate anywhere (Letters, Nov. 22), it's Mana Foods, of course. With almost 400 different types of chocolate, it is by far the largest selection I have seen in Hawaii, on the Mainland or in Europe.
Marie DeJournette
Paia
Monday, November 30, 2009
Gluten Freedom: December 2009
Gluten Free HolidaysTurkey with Gluten Free Stuffing
Yams
Broccoli with Mock Hollandaise
Tempt Hemp Ice Cream
Prepare to roast your turkey as you normally would
Gluten Free Rice Stuffing:
This recipe is courtesy of Ener-G Foods and is really yummy
1 Cup diced Onion
1 Cup Celery, chopped
1 Cup Celery Leaves, chopped
1 4oz can sliced mushrooms, drained OR 4 oz of sliced mushrooms of your choice (I always love Porcini mushrooms for the deep, hearty flavor)1 Cup Rice, uncooked
3 Tbsp Gluten-Free Margarine ( I prefer Earth Balance Organic)
2 Cups GF Vegetable Broth1 Tsp (or to taste)
Sea/Mineral Salt
3/4 Tsp Poultry Seasoning
1/2 Cup Chopped Toasted Almonds
Cook the rice in the vegetable broth until tender, about 1 hour. Saute the remaining ingredients in a skillet until the celery and onion are tender.
Yams
Broccoli with Mock Hollandaise
Tempt Hemp Ice Cream
Prepare to roast your turkey as you normally would
Gluten Free Rice Stuffing:
This recipe is courtesy of Ener-G Foods and is really yummy
1 Cup diced Onion
1 Cup Celery, chopped
1 Cup Celery Leaves, chopped
1 4oz can sliced mushrooms, drained OR 4 oz of sliced mushrooms of your choice (I always love Porcini mushrooms for the deep, hearty flavor)1 Cup Rice, uncooked
3 Tbsp Gluten-Free Margarine ( I prefer Earth Balance Organic)
2 Cups GF Vegetable Broth1 Tsp (or to taste)
Sea/Mineral Salt
3/4 Tsp Poultry Seasoning
1/2 Cup Chopped Toasted Almonds
Cook the rice in the vegetable broth until tender, about 1 hour. Saute the remaining ingredients in a skillet until the celery and onion are tender.
Add the rice and toasted almonds, stir to blend.
Stuff & Roast Turkey as you normally would
Yams
Organic Yams
Roast in 375 oven approximately 1 hour for every 4 yams
Serve with GF Margarine
Broccoli
Organic Broccoli Steamed
Mock Hollandaise
1 Cup GF Margarine
Juice of 2 Lemons
6 Egg Whites only
Melt butter in small sauce pan
Crack 6 eggs for the whites into bowl
Add juice of both lemons to egg-white mixture and whisk.
Add to melted butter on low heat and stir until all three are blended and eggs are coagulated into butter and lemon juice.You can play with this recipe for desired tang.
It will not look like a smooth hollandaise, but will taste as good if not better.
Spoon over Broccoli
Tempt Hemp Ice Cream
Favorite Tempt Flavor
Spoon
Quiet Room
Sneak into the freezer, grab your flavah, find the darkest quietest room you can, open the top & sink your spoon into the creamiest ice cream you will nevah want to share!!!
Happy Holidays!
Yams
Organic Yams
Roast in 375 oven approximately 1 hour for every 4 yams
Serve with GF Margarine
Broccoli
Organic Broccoli Steamed
Mock Hollandaise
1 Cup GF Margarine
Juice of 2 Lemons
6 Egg Whites only
Melt butter in small sauce pan
Crack 6 eggs for the whites into bowl
Add juice of both lemons to egg-white mixture and whisk.
Add to melted butter on low heat and stir until all three are blended and eggs are coagulated into butter and lemon juice.You can play with this recipe for desired tang.
It will not look like a smooth hollandaise, but will taste as good if not better.
Spoon over Broccoli
Tempt Hemp Ice CreamFavorite Tempt Flavor
Spoon
Quiet Room
Sneak into the freezer, grab your flavah, find the darkest quietest room you can, open the top & sink your spoon into the creamiest ice cream you will nevah want to share!!!
Happy Holidays!
Saturday, November 28, 2009
Top 8 Reasons to Love Mana Foods
By Stephanie Nelson
So, we know we don’t love the parking, or the lack thereof. (Or those mean stares you get from the Charley’s lot parking attendants as they assess whether they can catch you heading up Baldwin to Mana despite the No Parking for Mana Foods signs. I feel like I’m on a covert operation, stashing my shopping bags and heading into other stores first as a diversion.) But there are plenty of reasons to love Mana Foods. You likely have your own reasons. These are a few of mine.
1. Personally, I love the small, narrow aisles; they remind me of big city corner delis. Plus, I’m not as overwhelmed by all the choices. (The cereal aisle in those super-sized supermarkets can be downright intimidating.) Nor do I get lost, which I find quite comforting.
2.Gluten-free products galore at excellent prices, including Pamela’s Pancake Mix (a must-try no matter your gluten intake preferences).
3.Vosges Haut-Chocolat: While it’s an expensive candy bar for sure, it costs less than a massage (or therapy!) and comes in interesting flavors like milk chocolate with almonds and sea salt, and dark chocolate with chilies. There’s even one with bacon. Aren’t you just a little bit curious? The candy bars make a lovely, little gift…and won’t break your gift budget.
4. Freshly baked croissants, flakey on the outside, light and sweet on the inside.
5. The vitamin room with its many naturopathic remedies, plus yummy soaps and Dr. Hauschka’s face products. (Careful, though. You go in thinking you’ll just look and you come out with incense sticks, peppermint foot lotion and American Apparel shorts.)
6. Lots of local goods from produce to grass-fed beef.
7. Princess Cake. I grew up on this quintessential Swedish cake, being half-Swedish and visiting family there many a summer. A yellow cake filled with jam and whipped cream, and covered in chewy, green (yes, green) marzipan is a very hard cake to find. So imagine my surprise when I found it in a small, Hawaiian surf town. Home sweet home.
8. When I’m in Costco., I could be anywhere in America. But in Mana Foods, with its sandy surfers, sun burnt tourists, yogis, and barefoot locals, I know exactly where I am. And that’s pretty nice.
Original article
Stephanie Nelson is a writer who spent decades stalking Manhattan's restaurants and keeping silent about her opinions. Now living full time on Maui, she finds it hard to keep quiet about food. Stephanie is always on the lookout for the next delectable treat.
So, we know we don’t love the parking, or the lack thereof. (Or those mean stares you get from the Charley’s lot parking attendants as they assess whether they can catch you heading up Baldwin to Mana despite the No Parking for Mana Foods signs. I feel like I’m on a covert operation, stashing my shopping bags and heading into other stores first as a diversion.) But there are plenty of reasons to love Mana Foods. You likely have your own reasons. These are a few of mine.
1. Personally, I love the small, narrow aisles; they remind me of big city corner delis. Plus, I’m not as overwhelmed by all the choices. (The cereal aisle in those super-sized supermarkets can be downright intimidating.) Nor do I get lost, which I find quite comforting.
2.Gluten-free products galore at excellent prices, including Pamela’s Pancake Mix (a must-try no matter your gluten intake preferences).
3.Vosges Haut-Chocolat: While it’s an expensive candy bar for sure, it costs less than a massage (or therapy!) and comes in interesting flavors like milk chocolate with almonds and sea salt, and dark chocolate with chilies. There’s even one with bacon. Aren’t you just a little bit curious? The candy bars make a lovely, little gift…and won’t break your gift budget.
4. Freshly baked croissants, flakey on the outside, light and sweet on the inside.
5. The vitamin room with its many naturopathic remedies, plus yummy soaps and Dr. Hauschka’s face products. (Careful, though. You go in thinking you’ll just look and you come out with incense sticks, peppermint foot lotion and American Apparel shorts.)
6. Lots of local goods from produce to grass-fed beef.
7. Princess Cake. I grew up on this quintessential Swedish cake, being half-Swedish and visiting family there many a summer. A yellow cake filled with jam and whipped cream, and covered in chewy, green (yes, green) marzipan is a very hard cake to find. So imagine my surprise when I found it in a small, Hawaiian surf town. Home sweet home.
8. When I’m in Costco., I could be anywhere in America. But in Mana Foods, with its sandy surfers, sun burnt tourists, yogis, and barefoot locals, I know exactly where I am. And that’s pretty nice.
Original article
Stephanie Nelson is a writer who spent decades stalking Manhattan's restaurants and keeping silent about her opinions. Now living full time on Maui, she finds it hard to keep quiet about food. Stephanie is always on the lookout for the next delectable treat.
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Mana Foods Celebrates 25 years
The Maui News, October 29, 2009CARLA TRACY photo
Mana Foods
Celebrates 25 years with giveaways, demos, prizes, lots of Halloween fun
It started out 25 years ago in Paia as a tiny hole in the wall that sold only fresh-squeezed juices. Now, Mana Foods is the most powerful health food store on island with over 100 employees.
These days, Mana Foods features more than vegetarian options. There is a department packed with natural gourmet meat and seafood, a deli headed by Thai Chef Suphan Ann Gale, a bakery, a vitamin room, the famous wall of chocolate, and household and pet items.
"We always try hard to have our food be affordable. We are just doing the customer appreciation week to thank the community," says partner Sunette Fenn, who runs the store with founder Ed Thielk and his sister, Theresa Thielk, along with partner Chris Ozee.
"Our event this week includes customer giveaways, prizes, nutritional education, product sampling and Dr. Hauschka facials and more."
From 5 to 8 p.m. Friday, Mana Foods will host a barbecue fundraiser with 100 percent of the profits going to the Paia Youth & Cultural Center. Just look for the grills going out by the cart cage to the side of the store.
"We're going to have some really good food," says Fenn. "We'll have healthy plate-lunch options, including locally caught fish; grass-fed, antibiotic-and-hormone-free steak and vegetarian selections."
Over 300 local vendors, "just about everyone on island," says Ed, sell their products to Mana Foods. Saturday, you may come shop at the store and get an up-close look at some of them.
"Saturday features Meet the Farmer with Anuhea Farms and their asparagus, and Green Leaf and their yacon," says produce manager Ryan Earehart. "Yacon is a Peruvian root like jicama. Saturday we'll also have a cheese demonstration on the bamboo bar.
Since Saturday is Halloween, and Paia is celebrating in a big way, Mana Foods will provide all-natural treats for the keiki from 5 to 7 p.m. outdoors along with a magic show and bagpipers.
In addition, from now through Saturday, if you buy $250 worth of products, you'll get "a free bag of schwag," or a free bag of store items (while supplies last).
This year, Mana Foods was nominated for the Mayor's Small Business Award. It was also named "Best Health Food Store" on the island in The Maui News.
These days, Mana Foods features more than vegetarian options. There is a department packed with natural gourmet meat and seafood, a deli headed by Thai Chef Suphan Ann Gale, a bakery, a vitamin room, the famous wall of chocolate, and household and pet items.
"We always try hard to have our food be affordable. We are just doing the customer appreciation week to thank the community," says partner Sunette Fenn, who runs the store with founder Ed Thielk and his sister, Theresa Thielk, along with partner Chris Ozee.
"Our event this week includes customer giveaways, prizes, nutritional education, product sampling and Dr. Hauschka facials and more."
From 5 to 8 p.m. Friday, Mana Foods will host a barbecue fundraiser with 100 percent of the profits going to the Paia Youth & Cultural Center. Just look for the grills going out by the cart cage to the side of the store.
"We're going to have some really good food," says Fenn. "We'll have healthy plate-lunch options, including locally caught fish; grass-fed, antibiotic-and-hormone-free steak and vegetarian selections."
Over 300 local vendors, "just about everyone on island," says Ed, sell their products to Mana Foods. Saturday, you may come shop at the store and get an up-close look at some of them.
"Saturday features Meet the Farmer with Anuhea Farms and their asparagus, and Green Leaf and their yacon," says produce manager Ryan Earehart. "Yacon is a Peruvian root like jicama. Saturday we'll also have a cheese demonstration on the bamboo bar.
Since Saturday is Halloween, and Paia is celebrating in a big way, Mana Foods will provide all-natural treats for the keiki from 5 to 7 p.m. outdoors along with a magic show and bagpipers.
In addition, from now through Saturday, if you buy $250 worth of products, you'll get "a free bag of schwag," or a free bag of store items (while supplies last).
This year, Mana Foods was nominated for the Mayor's Small Business Award. It was also named "Best Health Food Store" on the island in The Maui News.
Saturday, October 31, 2009
Gluten Freedom: November 2009
Back To School!!!
Ok, so it’s the love hate “back to school” time of year. We love it because we get to go to the bathroom without anyone knocking at the door wanting something that only YOU can do, but we also hate the idea of having to come up with something creative on a daily basis for your child’s lunchbox…which for you newbies is fun…for a while.
If you’re smart, and they’re old enough of course, you will designate an area of your fridge that will hold all of your “pre-approved” lunch “choices” and you will let your child make his/her own lunch, with the goal of course of eliminating yet another thing you are no good at, and handing the responsibility back to them.
However, if your child isn’t old enough and you are relegated to chief cook and lunch maker, let’s look at the gluten free options!
Believe it or not there exists new bread I have discovered, and one that Mana should have in the store by now called Udi’s. Udi’s bread is a godsend!!! I defy anyone to note a difference between Udi’s and any other decent sandwich bread. So….lunch.
Entrees:
*Udi’s bread (Finally one that doesn’t crumble in your hands at first bite!)
*ANYTHING YOU WANT TO PUT BETWEEN DA SLICES!!!
*Left over anything you made for dinner that they liked, placed in a BFA-free reusable container
Ok, so the rest……
(GF sides for lunches)
*Sliced Fruit
Can add for scoopage:
*Almond Butter
*Dips (Read labels)
*Lemon
*Chips (check labels carefully) Safe Chips are:
*
*Mary’s Gone Crackers Sticks & Twigs
*Garden Of Eatin Plain Corn Chips
*You get the picture, but READ labels!
Can add for scoopage:
*Dips (Read labels)
* Hummus
*Lemon
*Roasted Nuts
These are really easy to make! Simply heat your oven to 300-325 (depending on your
oven for about 8-10 minutes or until you just start to smell the nuts.
*For Almonds…simply add the almonds and bake
*For Pumpkin Seeds…you have a couple of choices. Personally I love them with
a bite, but if your child doesn’t, just put them on the cookie sheet, add about 1-2
teaspoons of olive oil per pound (453 gm), add Himalayan sea salt (or sea plain
salt) and mix, then bake as above. If you like a bite, add cayenne pepper to taste
when you add salt.
Snacks are easy….Mana is full of gluten free choices for snacks, but while you can, because this won’t last long, have your child learn to enjoy the naturally sweet snacks of the abundant and local Mana fruits we have on our beautiful island home!!!
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Maui Weekly: Business Briefs
Mana Foods is getting ready to celebrate 25 years of wholesome business with a “community appreciation week,” beginning Monday, Oct. 26. Founded in 1983 by Ed Thielk, this North Shore market, which offers a wide range of natural and organic items, has a dedicated team of over 100 employees to keep this “bustling business” running smoothly. The colorful produce aisle has an average of 80 to 90 percent certified organic or unsprayed items, and 40 percent of their produce is Hawai‘i-grown. In honor of their anniversary, Mana Foods is holding a weeklong celebration, which includes customer giveaways, prizes, nutritional education, tasty samples, facials from Dr. Hauschka and more. Mana Foods is located at 49 Baldwin Avenue in the heart of Pä‘ia. Call 579-8078 or visit www.manafoodsmaui.com for more information.
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