February 9, 2010
Hello readers!
I’m often asked whether it’s necessary to own a Vitamix to enjoy a high-raw lifestyle. The answer is no, absolutely not! I was eating raw foods long before I got my Vitamix. This said, having a good blender will enhance and contribute to a raw or semi-raw lifestyle immensely. With a decent blender, you can make soups, smoothies, and salad dressings; you can grind nuts, chop vegetables, and even whip up raw ice cream. Yum!
The only downside of having a good blender at home is that one tends to become spoiled; as soon as I grew accustomed to my blender (and, later, my Vita), I found myself longing after homemade smoothies and soups when I was traveling.
Enter the Tribest personal blender. This incredible little contraption allows you to whip up blended foods and beverages wherever you may roam. Small, transportable, and super high-powered, it’s an unbelievable tool if you’re looking to bring healthy habits on the road. My Tribest has lived under my office desk, has traveled home for the holidays with me, has accompanied me on two business trips, and is a terrifically easy to clean alternative to my Vitamix. In many ways, I depend on it more than the Vita, if only for its conveniance. To operate it, you need only put food or beverage contents in the custom cups that come with the blender, screw on the blade attachment, put the blade and cup into the motor base. You press and twist the blending cup, and in moments you have homemade soup, salsa, tapenades, smoothies, or ground nuts and seeds. Best of all, the pieces are easy to dissassemble and clean up–a rarity among appliances!
Various raw foodies have blogged about and promoted the Tribest blender. You can check out my girl Ani Phyo’s review here, and my friend Ingrid‘s review here. Suffice is to say, the blender is super popular in the raw community, and with good reason!
Now, you all have a chance to try the Tribest out, too. The good folks at Tribest have generously agreed to share not one, but two models with me. They have models to suit a range of needs, and models PB-150, PB-250, and PB-350 all feature BPA free blending containers.
The PB-350 Mason Jar Personal Blender, which Tribest sent me to sample and review, offers glass containers with blending and grinding containers. In the past two months, I’ve used it to make the following:
Green smoothie for Christmas morning:
Salad dressing with fresh basil:
Ground almond meal:
…in addition to a ton of raw soups and dressings. Check out the incredible glass jar collection:
The verdict? The PB-350 is an awesome home kitchen device. Best of all, it’s allowed me to bring raw soups and smoothies to the office!
As if this gift wasn’t generous enough, Tribest has sent me a second model, the PB-250, to share with all of you! This blender features:
• Personal Blender Motor Base – 110V
• one Blending Blade Assembly
• one Grinding Blade Assembly
• two 16 oz BPA Free Blending Containers
• two 8 oz BPA Free Grinding Containers
• one commuter sipping lid
• three Regular Lids
It yields about two servings, and of course you can take it on the go anywhere, anytime.
So, what do you have to do to enter this giveaway? I dislike being forced into fourteen various entry steps, so I’ll keep it pretty simple:
1) Leave a comment on this post, telling me what the first thing you’d make with a new Tribest blender would be
and
2) If you want an additional entry, Tweet OR mention the giveaway on your blog and then leave a comment saying you did it.
I will announce the winner on Wednesday, Feb. 24th!
I wish you all luck!!
Finally, a friend and client emailed me on Friday with the following request:
Hey Gena! I have really been wanting carrot cake type flavor lately…think there is any kind of smoothie recipe for that??
I’m sure there are a ton of options, but my own kitchen fiddling gave birth to this one. Of course, I used my Tribest blender to make it!
Carrot Cake Smoothie
1 1/2 cups carrot juice
1 cup ice
1/2 cup cashews, raw
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp allspice
Blend all ingredients on high. This will yield at least two servings.
OK, guys. Enough about me. Get commenting, and good luck!
xo
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I also tweeted this (@mirluinwen)
Totally going to make banana “ice cream” first! I love frozen blended banana 🙂
I would love to have the one with glass containers as I am trying to get rid of all my plastic and just use glass for food.
I would make my favorite chocolate shake – so rich and creamy it always hits the spot!
Thanks.
I’d make a breakfast smoothie with berries, fuji apple, a banana, chia seeds, rice protein powder, apple cider vinegar, cinnamon, and coconut oil. yum! It’s my favorite breakfast and one that I miss now that I’m living on the east coast while my dear vita is still on the west coast.
Some linky love: http://www.soapandchocolate.com/2010/02/cereal-sorbet.html
I would definitely make a green smoothie with spinach, banana, almond milk, pineapple juice, and cinn!
I would make almond milk!
I would definitely use this to make salad dressings and sauces!
I’d make cashew butter first!
I would definitely use it to make some delicious smoothies and raw cashew cream sauces.
hhhmmmm…what to make first? It would be a hard decision but I would bring this to work and make fresh blended salads everyday! I would share too! 🙂
the first thing I would make would definitely be a green smoothie made of spinach mango and coconut water. This blender would be great for making smoothies at school or work!
hey gena i want to thank you for making it easier for me to choose from all your fabulous recipes when you came up with the list of the the best of 2009 so that would definetly be what i would start with me!!!!!!!!!!
1) Banana Soft Serve
2) My guacamole
3) Cashew “pizza cheese”
4) Zucchini Marinara
5) Butternut Squash and Apple Soup
6) Raw “Peanut” Noodles
7) Spicy Thai Salad
8 ) Raw Tortilla Soup
9) Carrot Falafel with Tangy Tahini Sauce
10) Chocomole
I have yet to make my own nut butter, so I’d have to make that!
I’d make Ani Phyo’s Raw Pad Thai Salad – one of my faves!!
I would make smoothies more often that’s for sure.
I’d make a Choosing Raw x HEAB remix: CARROT CAKE CHIA PUDDING, y’all!
And then blog about it. Naturally.
And then eat it, with unalloyed lust.
i would make a big honkin green monster!
Thank you for your fantastic blog! I’ve been following for a while but this give-away is a big motivation to speak up for the first time 🙂
I love that it is travel friendly and glass.
I’d make my favorite special day/ TGIF afternoon smoothie:
A big handful of cashews
a banana
a date or two or three
a big spoonful of raw cacao power (and/or carob)
a pinch of vanilla
water
yum!!
THIS SMOOTHIE. I swear…I went into whole foods to get a smoothie (I’m proud to say I switched from vegetarian to vegan now). Everything has soymilk..which I know isn’t as healthy as a homemade nut milk. I got “The White Rabbit” which is soymilk, bananas, and carrot.
I would love to make your carrot cake smoothie..its the perfect thing I’ve been craving and cant believe how simple and healthy it sounds.
Thank you for this offer and excited to follow your updates 🙂 Take Care!
-Rach
the smoothie looks divine! great giveaway!
smoothie! spinach, lemon, carrot, apple…yummm!
i tried to do this with my current blender – did NOT work out 🙂
Oooh, I’d like to try that smoothie!! But the first thing would be blended oats or a soup!
I have been dying to make raw soups but not sure my food processor is up to it… I would try a beet soup to use all the beets sitting in my fridge!
This looks like a great blender. I’d make a fruit smoothie.
Gena: I would love to have this little gem especially as you pointed out, for travel. I would definitely try out a green smoothie first and go from there. The ideas are endless.
The first thing I would make is definitely a SMOOTHIE!
And I tweeted 🙂
Gena, the first thing I would make is your Asian dressing. Ever since doing the detox I’ve fallen in love with it. So many ways to use it and so delicious.
Daneen
What would I make?
“Things turn out best for people who MAKE the best out of the way things turn out.”
The bottom of my blender busted out just four nights ago while I was trying to make your chocomole recipe for the first time. (I’m four-weeks old in the raw food world.) With courage I confronted the goopy mess, spatula-ed what I could salvage into a dish, and enjoyed it immensely! (Though the consistency wasn’t silky smooth I actually enjoyed the little chunks of dates I happened upon . . . sort of like a more sparse tapioca! Who knew?) I am now blenderless but at least the story made for a good facebook status update.
Having already made the best out of the unexpected outcome of this recipe the first time, my numero uno task with a newly gifted Tribest blender would be . . . to try again! Isn’t there some proverb that says “When one blender dies another is born”?
(Thanks for making the best out of food in a world where food is not always the best. Your blog is a great resource!)
Hmmm, first thing? A GREEN smoothie!
…just posted it to my facebook! blend, baby, blend!
peanut butter *soy* ice cream…I know I should use it for something healthy first, but at least I’m being honest!
I am dying to make that banana “ice cream” that everyone is raving about in the blogosphere!! So, that is definitely the first thing I would try to make if I won this! 🙂
Hey Gena,
I just posted about your giveaway on my blog. I was actually looking into getting one of these a couple of months ago..they really seem awesome! Thanks again!
I would make some blended soups since the weather has gone haywire and it is freezing cold every where. Then I would grab my favorite blanket and make some soft serve (banana, pumpkin and mint) Yummy!!!
i would make that carrot cake smoothie recipe!! yum!!
I can and do make smoothies in my normal blender. If I had a more powerful blender id make a soup or maybe blend some nuts and make a chocolate cashew cream I love.
Hey Gina!
Carrot cake is my favorite! And I recently started making more smoothies. For sure the first thing I would make would be your carrot cake smoothie!
The first thing I would make would be ICE CREAM! I bought all the gums, but my poor little Magic Bullet just doesn’t like ice. Instead I get ice cream flavoured ice crystals – not cool.
The carrot cake smoothie sounds delicious!
K
This is a good one! It looks like the perfect size to make dressings, which the Vitamix is sometimes too big for, in my opinion. So, I’d make salad dressing!
I would definitely make almond meal. I would love to have some on hand for recipes. Thank you for the amazing opportunity. I thoroughly enjoy your blog!
I’m travelling to my brother’s wedding soon and my flight arrives around dinner time, so the first thing I would make would be my favourite – your raw tortilla soup. I can’t get enough of it! I’d also be able to green smoothie it up for my entire trip. Perfect 🙂
I would make your awesome raw marinara sauce! I want want want this!!!
Probably green smoothie. Maybe nut flour :). What a great giveaway–it’s nice to know someone’s day will be made!
Tweeting as much…
that sounds pretty cool. i’d definitely make some pesto first!
What an amazing giveaway! I would definitely try making almond butter–I seriously can’t get enough of the stuff!
I’d love to say the first thing I’d make is a green smoothie, but now all I can think about is the Carrot Cake smoothie. That would definately be priority #1!
I would love love love to win this! I have a terrible Black & Decker Blender that barely blends my smoothies well and leaks on top of that! I HAVE NEVER MADE OR HAD RAW SOUP SO THAT WOULD DEFINITELY BE THE FIRST THING I WOULD MAKE!! i hope i win!! thanks gena!
Tweeted!
Wow! There’s a ton of comments on here already! I’ve love a Tribest blender, as I don’t have a Vitamix and my Osterizer blender is undependable.
I would make a raw banana cream pie. I love banana cream pie but since I have been so good on my diet but you are correct, a good blender is so helpful in going raw. Especially since there are so many more options with a good blender vs trying to make things in the food processor with too much liquid. Lol. Either my food processor from my mom is too old or you are not supposed to make raw marinara sauce in it. It exploded all over the kitchen cabinets!
Oh my gosh!!! I’ve been looking for a travel blender with glass containers for a LONG time… If I had this little wonder, I would make the almond-tahini-cilantro spread thats on my “to blend” list. I’m so excited! Thanks Gena!
I’d make a strawberry banana blueberry smoothie. I haven’t had one in so long!!
i’m a sucker for a delicious smoothie, so that’s what i’d make with this tribest. my latest dessert favorite includes spinach, strawberries and coconut milk.
Wow, I would probably either a delicious green smoothie (although the Carrot Cake one is tempting) or some nut butter….yum!
Hi Gina. I love your blog…read it everyday! You are so sweet and down to earth and your recipes are always yummy! I would love to win the personal blender! As a busy mom raising and homeschooling 6 kidlets, I need all the help I can get. A portable blender would be so great for the long days out of the house, running kids around to and from various activities. Thanks Gina! Warmly, Jenn
I’d make a smoothie, maybe the Carrot Cake Smoothie!
I’d make a strawberry and banana smoothie with soy milk!
Hi Gena, this is such an amazing giveaway! It’s my birthday in May and I want a really good blender as a gift, so it’s so weird that you’re posting a giveaway with one when it’s been on my mind for a while! It’s so hard to say what the very first thing I’d make would be; I might use it to make one of your many delicious dressings that I’d like to try (in particular, your goddess dressing!), or to FINALLY make my own almond milk. Then I’d dehydrate the pulp and use the grinder attachment to grind it up to un-bake with… In fact, I’m getting carried away with ideas now! There’d be no stopping me ^_^
I’d have to make a smoothie, of course!
Hmmm. I’d make a chia carob banana smoothie. Not sure where the idea came from, but it’s what I’m currently craving!
I would most definitely make a smoothie! Yay! What a super awesome giveaway, thanks Gena!
The first thing I would make is a “green monster” smoothie. I have been following your site and a few other raw foodies as well. I am eagerly awaiting my tax refund so I can purchase a Vitamix. I have a juicer and I love it, but I hate waste. I also like the versatility of the Vitamix. I think the Tribest would be a fantastic portable option to bring with me to the office.
Thank you for the opportunity!
I would LOVE to make some soups and salad dressing with this. I just found my love of coconut butter and coconut oil. Want to incorporate those in my foods as much as possible.
I think I would take it to work and keep it there so I can make a quick raw vegan soup for lunch – or at least heat it up in an acceptable way. Or maybe a nice fresh salad dressing when I’m at work late… Oh, the possibilities!
By the way, I love your glass in the carrot cake smoothie picture. 🙂
This looks awesome! I’ve never made blended soups so that would probably be the first thing I’d make…and maybe a grilled cheese to go with it 🙂
I would make that carrot cake smoothie!
The first thing I would make would probably by cashew whipped cream – so yummy on warm pancakes with fresh berries!! I love your blog with lots of inspiring ideas – thank you for this fantastic offer and all your wonderful recipes and insights.
I would love to have this blender! I have experimented with nut butters in my food processor and think I need a more high-powered motor. My kids also loooove smoothies, so this would be great to have!!
Tweeted as well!
I’d take it to my upcoming work conference and make myself a carob-banana-almond smoothie treat to wind down with at the end of each long day.
THANK YOU for this post! I’ve been lusting over a Vita-Mix forever and I’m so glad to see a convenient, affordable option until I’m ready for the big purchase! (my tax return check can’t come soon enough)
The first thing I would make? Hmmm… I would LOVE to make fresh, homemade almond milk for my morning smoothies and take them on my morning commute. The “commuter lids” are genius!
Tweeting you now 🙂
Oh so true about being spoiled by the Vita Mix. I was overall happy with my run of the mill blender while in college. Then soon after I moved home my mom bought a Vita and oh man it was love at first smoothie! I just moved out of the house a month ago and reinherited my college blender, and feel like its worthless. I have been soooo spoiled by the Vita mix, and am already trying to justify saving up and buying one.
I would love to try out the tribest blender, as I have already heard great things about it from Ani. I would first use it to grind up nuts for nut flours and nut butters. How I miss my homemade concoctions! Thanks for the awesome giveaway Gina!
Gena*** (sorry!)
I would make raw hummus for sure. Every time I make it in the blender I end up wasting half of it at the bottom where it is hard to get out. This gadget is perfect to eliminate that problem.
Gena, I would make a lucious cherry almond vanilla smoothie! Yum. Thanks to you and Tribest for offering us a chance to win this great item.
I’d love to make hummus and nut butters!
I retweeted at @seaweedgirle.
Hi Gena!
The firs thing I would make would be an energizing green smoothie. I love that I would be able to take it with me as I dash out the door to teach my 7 am Pilates class!
thanks for the chance!
Gazpacho! During this snowstorm, I need to think summer soups to keep me going.
Wow! What an awesome giveaway. I would make myself my favorite sweet green smothie. Fast and quick.
i would grind walnuts for my grandmother so i could make her favorite cranberry walnut bran muffins for her 🙂 thanks for a great giveaway!
I would probably try the Carrot Cake Smooth or Pumpkin Pie In A Bowl (which is my “go to” lunch of choice)… Thank for the giveaway!!!
A green smoothie would probably be my first concoction. Off to send the link to my dear mother who’s looking for a new blender for green smoothies. Thanks!
Tweeted! btw- carrot cake smoothie sounds delish… will give it a go this week! Yum! thx! 😉
I’d make the first step toward FINALLY keeping my New Year’s resolution to eat more fresh fruits and veggies! (By which I mean: office smoothies.)
Thank you for this contest and for forcing me out of lurking to say, “Great blog!” I have truly enjoyed months of lurking and learning. You have such a gift with words and wisdom.
i’m a newbie to the high-raw lifestyle (inspired by your blog) and don’t own a juicer/blender yet. the first thing i would make would be your “healing veggie broth” to help stay warm in this snow storm!
i want it! i would make pesto for sure!
Awesome! I’d love to win.
I would certainly have to make a straight-up fruit smoothie the first time. Keep it simple. 🙂
I’d make a green smoothie! I have them for breakfast nearly every day and I’m SICK of spinach chunks!
I’d whip up some vegan “egg” nog (with silken tofu)! Holidays or not, I say that this sweet treat is delicious anytime!
The first thing I would make would be a green smoothie!
I love the fact that this blender you can use glass, unlike the magic bullet that my in-laws have. I’d love to win this.
I also tweeted about it!
banana soft serve! thanks!
I linked this giveaway on my blog.
I would like to enter this giveaway! The first thing I would do is make a green smoothie!
I would make my first GREEN SMOOTHIE ever!
golly my magic bullet is just biting the dust so this is perfect! I am dying to make nut butter at home, but the MB couldn’t handle it
What a beautifully fantastic blog! I love it!
I would LOVE this giveaway…but I am not lucky and 406 comments! Woot you are popular! (or is it just the blender haha 😉 ). Anyways, I would totally make that Carrot Cake Smoothie in it…because anyone who knows me knows that I would chew my arm off for Carrot Cake anything!!
Love your blog and will contiue to follow and add you on my Roll – and in my next post…hey two entries are better than one right? 😉
I’m also intrigued that you are a book editor…please help me get published!!! ;)…Sorry, a girl can try no? Have a wonderful Wednesday!
I would make a blended soup!
Hummus for sure! I’ve been on such a pita chip and hummus kick! Second would ground cashews for cashew butter!