Back to the Roots with Foodiacs.com! CLOSED

I want to share with you the newest online community for food enthusiasts Foodiacs.com is an online gathering place for the passionate eaters of the world. It connects community members with exclusive products and services, including artisan treats, high-quality kitchen tools and cookware, and elite culinary tours and classes. Starting in 2012, Foodiacs.com will also share local food-related events in regional areas, such as a special tasting event offered by a local craftworks chocolate company or a preview dinner at a new restaurant.

Foodiacs [foo-dee-aks]-noun Slang. Definition: Those who are overly zealous and enthusiastic about eating, cooking, and fine dining.

“We recognize the quality and passion that goes into creating these artisan foods and want to bring lesser known but high quality items to the forefront of the food community in a unique way,” said Katie Clegg, chief eating officer of Foodiacs.com.

As teachers begin to write lesson plans, they often look for new and creative teaching methods. This year teachers, students and parents alike can go back to school with Back to the Roots, a grow-it-yourself box garden of pearl oyster mushrooms.

The kit allows anyone – no matter their cooking and gardening level - to grow up to 1 1/2 pounds of gourmet oyster mushrooms in as little as 10 days. The mushrooms are grown entirely on recycled coffee grounds, which has allowed Back to the Roots to reuse nearly 1 million pounds of coffee grounds.




To expand on the amazing work that Back to the Roots has done, their exclusive Foodiacs offering allows their members to purchase two Grow-Your-Own Mushroom Garden Kits and receive a third kit for Free to be donated to a school of your choice. When you purchase this offer, you’ll receive a total of three kits along with a classroom curriculum. Donate one, two, or all three! They want to help kids all over the country, and especially the ones in your life, have an incredible hands-on experience learning about growing their own food and about innovative ways to reduce and reuse waste.

Back to the Roots is the first product to be featured on Foodiacs. The event will run from September 6 at 12:00 p.m. ET - September 20 at 11:59 a.m. ET. Three boxes of Back to the Roots can be purchased for $40 (a 33% savings)!

In 2009, Nikhil Arora & Alejandro Velez were just weeks away from completing their last semester at UC Berkeley and heading off for jobs in the corporate world of investment banking & consulting. A professor casually mentioned in class that gourmet mushrooms could grow entirely on recycled coffee grounds.    Read More Here..

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Our family is soon to experience growing our very own mushrooms and enjoy preparing a dish with them! We are looking forward in just 10 to 14 days with very simple care and maintenance this kit will produce up to 1.5 pounds of gourmet pearl oyster mushrooms! Yummy! Stay Tuned...

You too can experience the sustainability! Courtesy of Foodiacs, One Lucky Frugal Plus Reader has the Chance to Win a Back to the Roots Grow-it-yourself Box Garden of Pearl Oyster Mushrooms!

To Enter:

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** Subscribe to Frugal Plus via email and/or Google Friend Connect


** Go over to Foodiacs and let me know what you like best about their site.

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* Follow @1JavaJill and @Foodiacs on Twitter and tweet about this giveaway using the hashtag #Giveaway (1x Daily) leave the direct link(s) in your comment(s).

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One Winner will be randomly selected from the qualified comments. This Giveaway will end Wednesday, September 28, 2011. Winner has 48 hours to claim their prize or another winner will be drawn. Contest open to residents of the US 18+ only.  Please NO PO Boxes.

Disclosure: I will receive a complimentary product from Foodiacs in order to facilitate my review. No other compensation was received. The opinions expressed above are my own.

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