Featured Vendor: Hidden Garden Foods

Every week, Spud will be featuring one of our fantastic partners.  This involves some tasty info, photos and a giveaway for twenty Spud customers (see below).

This is the second week of our Featured Vendor series. Today, Spud is spotlighting Hidden Garden Foods, creator of gluten free cookies that actually contain vegetables.  That’s right, your childhood dreams have actually come true.

Hidden Garden Foods are certified gluten free, provide half a serving of vegetables in a single cookie, contain no preservatives, artificial flavours or colours.  Hidden Garden cookies are a treat you can feel good about eating, which is a feeling Spud seriously stands behind.

 

 

We had a  short interview with Catherine Anderson, the owner of Hidden Garden Foods, and asked her about what gave her inspiration to create her cookies, veggies, and her favourite cookie flavour.

A:  I had two little girls who refused to eat vegetables, so I was struggling with ways to hide some vegetables in foods that they liked.  That required a lot of effort and creativity, and I thought that if you could buy a product that did it for you it would be popular. A few months later, Hidden Garden was born!

Q: How did you select the veggies to go in these classic cookie recipes?

A: I wanted to use vegetables that had a good nutritional value and are not one’s that you’re likely already eating a lot of (like carrots). The colour of the vegetable is important too; beets, pumpkin and butternut squash are all great colours that make the cookies look appealing.

A:  I really go back and forth between all three of them.  Some days I think I like the Chocolate Chip the best, but then we have a Red Velvet or Ginger Snap baking day and our kitchen smells so good that I remember how much I loves those cookies too.  People are really split evenly between them, so you just have to try all three to decide which is your winner!