Great Pumpkins!

What a beautiful time of year here in Ohio! If you have been to the store lately, you have noticed that we have our Fall supply of pumpkins for roasting, baking and decorating. Along with the pumpkins you will find squash, gourds and mums. Pumpkins have inspired us in the kitchen to start making Fall dishes and desserts too. Pictured above are staff members unloading the first pumpkins of the season and Chef Ernie making pumpkin seed encrusted tofu over sweet potatoes with a pumpkin and apple cider reduced sauce. There is a baked chicken version of this dish made as well. The pumpkin ideas don't stop there, try the pumpkin bisque or the tri-color pasta with a creamy pumpkin sauce and baked apples. Comfort food gets extra comfortable with our pumpkin mac and cheese! Look for these items in our entree case right now. Also, in the kitchen we are making Cajun Creole spiced tempeh over tomato basil pasta and hand rolled manicotti with chicken and peppers. Extra special baked items in the case this week include, pumpkin pie oat squares, vegan vanilla cupcakes with fudge frosting, peanut butter and jelly oat squares and chocolate chip, peanut butter and banana bread pudding.

Catering menu update

Here at Nature's Bin, we are always making great things and everything that we do is available for your catering needs. Just ask us if anything is needed. A few examples of what we do are available for viewing on our catering menu. The next time you are in our store please ask for a catering menu or visit our website for a printable version. The most current version of our catering menu is on our website today!. Take a look!

Customer Appreciation Day is coming!

Do you know who is really sweet? YOU ARE!! Come on in and feel the love this Saturday, September 17th and celebrate Customer Appreciation Day with us. This will be our 20th annual celebration! We will have samples, give aways and other special events planned as a well deserved thank you to our loyal customers. What a great day to plan a shopping trip!

Fresh in the bakery today, you will find vegan sandwich cookies. Have you ever had one of these before? These cookies are a real treat, larger than life and every bit- delicious! Filled with vegan buttercream and sprinkled with little Enjoy Life! chocolate chips, these top the list on customer favorites in the bakery case. Our bread pudding flavor of the week is peach and clove, we have pumpkin items including cake and cheesecake, peanut butter and jelly brownie bites (pictured above) and chocolate cookie cake.

We look forward to seeing you here this weekend!

Bouillabaisse!

We are serving up some wonderful things as entrees today at Nature's Bin. Now is the time to try Chef Ernie's Bouillabaisse creations. Pictured here is the fish and shrimp version with yukon gold potatoes and hints of clove, fennel, saffron and orange zest. Also available is the vegan version with chicken style seitan and our Bouillabaisse chicken soup.

Baking in the oven right now are the panko breaded shitake risotto burgers. This veggie burger will blow you away. Other notable things to try are our vegan Ohio City pasta and vegan sausage in a marinara sauce, stuffed tomatoes, fried okra and quinoa ragu and tofu curry and ground lamb curry.

We are noticing that everyone is in the mood for soup these days and we are excited to roll out some new and exciting things to try. Remember that four soups are featured daily to take home hot and several cold container soups are ready for you to grab in our grab and go case. Let us know if there are any old favorites that you have been longing for.

Bake Cake!

We are nothing but serious here in the kitchen and this picture proves it. Sharpie marker tattoos may be temporary but my love for baking is permanent! Thank you Chef Ernie for capturing this moment.

Red, white and blue cheesecake anyone? Come for a bakery visit this weekend and you will find this lovely cheesecake, vegan pumpkin cheesecake (yes, it is that time again), pumpkin pie oat squares, blondies, fudge brownies, Nutella hazelnut bread pudding and fresh carrot cake.
Also starring in the bakery case are two new vegan cupcake flavors, pictured above. The Earl Grey Tea cupcake with lemon zest and a very fancy s'mores cupcake with vegan marshmallow cream and made from scratch graham crackers!

Three of a kind

Look at these three new entrees that are sure to be snapped right up. First, try the breaded tempeh with a peach and plum salsa over rice. Next try the seafood and cream cheese filled crepes and lastly, try the roasted veggie stuffed tomatoes over spinach. They say that you eat with your eyes first, these all look great!
Also ready to go in the kitchen today are the beyond popular veggie burgers, beautiful knishs, veggie kasha varnishkes with mushrooms and buckwheat, sweet potato salad, sweet cabbage slaw and romano chicken.