CARLSBORG — Free chocolate tasting, free recipes and demonstrations are part of this week’s Nutrition Fest at Common Sense Nutritional Therapy, 261043 U.S. Highway 101 just west of Carlsborg Road.
The Xocai brand of dark chocolate will be just one of the foods available for sampling, said Sherry Fry, the nutritional therapist who started Common Sense.
Also during the festival from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. today through Friday, visitors can taste pâté and crackers, cold soups and a turkey loaf with cranberry topping, all of which are raw with their nutrients fully intact.
A raw turkey loaf?
Yes, because it’s meatless. “It tastes like turkey,” Fry said, though it’s made with nuts, almond butter and other natural ingredients.
Visitors can also take food-allergy tests, toxicity screenings and heart-rate variability tests, and see a demonstration of nutritional response testing during the Nutrition Fest.
The movies “Food Inc.” and “Food Matters” will screen throughout the day, Fry said.
She also said that she’ll hold prize drawings at 2 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. each afternoon through Friday.
Fry, who is known for her Live Cookies and Live Bread Shoppe, is trained as a nutritional coach.
For information, phone 360-683-2756 or 888-272-1473 or visit www.LiveCookies.com.
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Sequim-Dungeness Valley Reporter Diane Urbani de la Paz can be reached at 360-681-2391 or at diane.urbani@peninsuladailynews.com.