Hemp: Review and Giveaway ($15 Whole Foods Gift Card & hemp ice cream)

WE HAVE A WINNER!!! The random number generator picked...#6 Betsy. Congratulations Betsy!

Nikki is allergic to milk, so she took over this review:

What's the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the word hemp? The drug? Hemp jewelry? How about milk?

"Whoa...what?" was my first reaction when I heard about hemp milk. After being diagnosed with a milk allergy, I started searching for a healthy milk alternative. Have you ever noticed how many recipes call for milk? There's a lot, especially in baking.

    

I came across Living Harvest's tempt hemp milk. According to their website, the milk is made from hemp seeds, which are the edible part of the hemp plant. Hemp seeds are a high-quality protein that are easy to digest. They are loaded with awesome nutrition, including all 10 amino acids, Omega-3 and Omega-6 essential fatty acids, as well as Super Omegas Stearidonic Acid (SDA) and Gamma Linolenic Acid (GLA) which help the body use the Omega-3 and Omega-6. All of this supports muscular repair, skin health, energy production, nervous system function, brain development, heart health, and immune system function. While people with dairy allergies or a vegan lifestyle will be most drawn to hemp milk, the nutrition can be beneficial to anyone.

For the environmentally conscious, you'll be glad to know hemp is a hardy plant with dense foilage that prevents weeds from growing without herbicides. Living Harvest uses non GMO-hemp grown sustainably in Canada without the use of pesticides.

Thanks to the great people at Living Harvest, I was able to try the Tempt hemp milk. I tried Original, but Vanilla, Chocolate, Unsweetened, and Unsweetened Vanilla are also available.  I really want to find a milk to pour over cereal because that's what I miss most about being dairy-free. I tried a tentative first sip and was greeted with a sweet-nutty-earthy flavor. Unfortunately for me, the earthy flavor of hemp milk was too strong to drink straight and overpowered the cereal. My tastebuds long for a mild milk. I tried it next with oatmeal, substituting half of the water for hemp milk. This time, it was delicious (especially with cinnamon and warm apples!). Hemp milk also worked perfectly fine in baked goods. For savory foods, I would try the nsweetened variety.

Now on to the best part: You can win a coupon for a free pint of tempt hemp ice cream and a $15 Whole Foods gift card! The ice cream comes in a variety of flavors, including vanilla bean, chocolate fudge, coconut lime, mint chip, and coffee biscotti.

 

For the first (and mandatory) entry, leave a comment telling me which tempt ice cream flavor you most want to try. Please include an email address so I can contact you if you win. Giveaway ends December 18, and the random number generator will pick the winning comment on Dec. 19. Receive an extra entry for each of the following, for a total of 7 entries. Please leave an extra comment for each entry.

Other ways to enter (after the mandatory entry):
* Leave a comment on another post. Comment on this post to let me know which other post you commented on. You may do this up to 3 times by commenting on 3 separate posts.
*  Link to me on your blog or Facebook. It can be a link to this giveaway or a blurb about some other part of this blog. Comment here with the link to your post.
* Twitter about this giveaway or post it on a forum.
* Add me as a friend on Facebook. I've left it alone for long enough and will finally be embracing it...

Living Harvest provided me with a coupon for hemp milk and ice cream with the expectation that I would give an honest review of the product. No compensation was given, and all opinions are completely my own. Facts about hemp are from the Living Harvest website.

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