Feed Your Soul Foods – Central Kootenay Farm & Food Directory

Contact: DM McLennan

Address: 5620 Birch Hill Lane, Mirror Lake, Kaslo BC

Community: Mirror Lake

Website: feedyoursoulkitchen.ca

Feed Your Soul Foods started as Folk Food.

Folk Food is the kind of meal you put together with intuition, with a pinch of this and a handful of that, based on what you 'just happen to have on hand.' The secret ingredient is Soul.

Folk food is based on the lifestyle of using what's on hand, what's local, what's available seasonally.

Feed Your Soul Foods began in 1999, with a handful of coins, and a hungry family.

We were a young idealistic family living an alternative lifestyle in the Slocan Valley: without electricity, without a car. Proudly penniless. DIY scroungers. Artisinal. Musical. River-waders. Star Singers.

Pregnant with baby G, DM would hitchhike to Nelson once a week, with a basket full of Falafel's Cousin Wraps, Indonesian Brown Rice Salad Wraps, Chickpea Yam Curry Triangles, Almond Butter Bliss Balls - and the cookie that 'the cookie emoji' was (certainly) based on: the FYSF Chocolate Oat Cookie.

Later, DM would do her 'lunch girl' rounds - sometimes with a baby G in a backpack*

She appeared once a week and walked her basket along Baker Street. She sold lunches directly to the proprietors and operators of the Nelson businesses along Baker Street. People would cheer when she walked in the door, "The Lunch Girl is here!"

In 2003, the young family built a kitchen into the basement of the family home in Mirror Lake.

in 2003 Feed Your Soul Foods products became available daily at The Kootenay Coop's Deli counter. Then a year later, Oso Negro Fine Coffee launched the cafe and built the gardens and welcomed Feed Your Soul Foods classic Chocolate Oat Cookies and Almond Butter Bliss Balls as staple treats. Kootenay Staples

Several of our original products - the Folk Foods, have become Kootenay staples. We've been making them here since 1999.

Maybe you've had an Indonesian Brown Rice Salad Wrap with peanut sauce. Remember Falafel's Cousin Wraps? Like, they're related

Our recipes feature natural foods and whole foods. Our kitchen is vegetarian. We make stuff you can enjoy daily. Our aim is to nourish and sustain vitality.

(What kind of music the soup is listening to, as it bubbles? That's part of the brew)

Special orders are welcome.
We've got frozen bulk packs too.

feedyoursoulkitchen.ca
Thank you,
DM McLennan

* He would eat around the chocolate chips in the Chocolate Oat Cookie and hand them over her shoulder, grunting, “Uh.” He gave me his chocolate - I think because he knew I loved it. That’s my Gwyn! He works in the Kitchen, now. Commutes from Nelson to work three days a week. We laugh a lot together and are generally punny and silly as we work together.

Where to find our products:

Sunnyside Naturals (Kaslo), Cornucopia (Kaslo), Kane's Landing (Kaslo), Kootenay Coop (Nelson), Oso Negro Coffee (Nelson), Gaia Tree (Winlaw)

When our products are available:year-round

Products: Apricot Coconut Bars, Bulk Packs Almond Butter Bliss Balls, Bulk Packs Raspberry Glacier Bar, Caramel Pecan Brownie, Frozen 850g Handmade Vegetarian Soups, Frozen Cashew Savoury Bites, Frozen Chocolate Oat Cookie Dough, Frozen Sunflower Savoury Bites, Frozen U-Bake Chickpea Curry Triangles, Frozen U-Bake Spanakopita, Nutty Heaven, Vegan Brownie

Categories: Farm Gate Sales, Food Processor