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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id make a nice banana smoothie YUMMMMMMY
Giiiirrrl this giveaway ROCKS!! I’m in love 🙂 Thank you so, so much for the opportunity! What a fantastic blender! The first thing I would make would likely be a strawberry-banana smoothie. My fave!
i would make a green smoothie — YUM. this would be so clutch to take to work so i wouldn’t have to spend the extra time every morning making things to eat all day!
thanks!!
I would definitely try my hand at that carrot cake smoothie. Yum.
I would join the Green Monster club! I have only tried one from a pre-made bottle (my friend did the blue print cleanse) and I actually liked it…making my own with that chocolate protein powder would be BANGIN.
ohmygosh this looks so portable and convenient and just perfect! how have i not heard of these?! i would definitely try making some homemade pesto…and then move on to a smoothie..and round it out with some banana ice cream
i would have so much fun 🙂
That does look like a good little blender. Oh how I miss my smoothies! or having a blender at all really.
I’d love to make some smoothies on conference trips. They generally have the WORST breakfast options, and I’d love to be able to whip up something tasty and healthful.
Thank you for this opportunity! It’s very generous of you.
I would start making my breakfast smoothies at work- I commute an hour to work and sometimes it’s very hard to make my brain function at 6:30am when I am supposed to leave. I would also get to share with my coworkers! 🙂
I tweeted!
http://twitter.com/ThinspiredBlog/status/8977263678
Ooooh, I think the first thing I would make would be hummus 🙂 Yumm. I would add goodies into it, like garlic and olives!
I would make the carrot cake smoothie. I would love to win this to go along with my new Vancouver lifestyle.
🙂 Lauren
Smoothies, smoothies and more smoothies! I have been on such a smoothie kick lately. I would try any smoothie recipe I came across!
I’m tweeting about this right now!!
The first thing I would make would probably be a smoothie. My kids love them and I’d love to have this personal blender so we could make them for breakfast when we are traveling.
I would love to own one of these. I’d make a green smoothie first! Mmm….
AND I ALSO TWEETED THIS 🙂 Ooops 🙂
I’m also tweeting this giveaway!
I would use it for the raw chocolate “milk shakes” I make for me & my son. I’d also likely grind grain, flax & nuts in it, as it’s a pain to clean out the coffee grinder for those small batches.
Ooh, awesome giveaway! It’s so funny that you mention this blender because last week I listened to an interview with Ani Phyo & she was raving about it. I would LOVE to have it & it would get so much use!
I would definitely test out its smoothie-making skillz first, and then try a nut-based dressing recipe!
Thanks for the opportunity to win this, Gena!
This is awesome – I especially love that it uses glass jars, as I’ve been seriously cutting back on my plastic usage. I would love to try your carrot cake smoothie (as I’ve been enjoying “carrot cake” oatmeal for breakfast recently) – but I also love using a blender for salad dressing. Thanks for the offer!
Hi! Thanks for having this giveaway! The first thing I would make is a spinach smoothie with vanilla soy milk, bananas and blueberries!!
since i just started RAW i will make tons of things! but first some ice cream!
I want to make some sort of protein/banana soft serve as well!
Thanks so much for the opportunity! The first thing I’d make would be Heab’s protien icecream!
This blender would be perfect for me to finally make a soup that tastes GREAT, I would love to make your “Moroccan Spiced Soup”! Last time I tried that soup in my normal blender it did not even taste good because the blender couldn’t make it smooth enough – a soup half pieces and half proper soup…
no doubt…banana ice cream!
I would use the blender to make an orange and banana smoothie–my favorite!
Simple, the glorious green smoothie:
1 apple
medium handfull of raisins
1/2 cup water
1 handfulls of spinach
1 handfull of kale (kale makes everything blended better :P)
1 bananna
Blend, pour, enjoy.
wow, gena! what an amazing giveaway – i am super excited to have this chance to win either set 🙂
the absolute first thing i would make would be a morning green smoothie! my current blender is a low quality model that i’ve been getting the best out of, as i long for the wiggle room in my budget to spring for a vita mix.
thanks again gena. the information you give us through your blog is invaluable.
-jennifer nicole
The first thing I would make is your beet and carrot soup! I crave beets and can’t wait to make it!
We are going to visit my in-laws in March, and they eat things like funnel cakes for lunch 🙁 So I would take it with me and make all sorts of stuff! Probably a green smoothie to start things off, since I can’t imagine a day without one!
First thing…bananna ice cream. I would love to be able to make ice cream and some of Katie’s fudge babies!
I have been wanting a blender so much! My mom has one at home, but I’m a poor college student sans significant cooking equipment. I would make a delicious green monster with plenty of berries and spinach and soy milk in it! Mmmmm…
Wow! so many things to make. The first thing I would make would be a green smoothie. I’m 8 months pregnant and trying to incorporate more raw foods into my diet. This is one of the best ways I’ve found to do it… start each day with a green concoction!
the first thing I would make would be a Greek yogurt, banana, strawberry with coco powder smoothie!! I currently have a magic bullet which I use about 3 mornings a week, but the concept of glass containers instead of plastic is amazing!!!
when i saw that blender the first thing that came to my mind was portable green smoothie! i love a smoothie in the morning but i am NOT a morning person and it’s hard for me to get out of the door on time, much less drink a smoothie before doing so!
also that basil looks AMAZING! i might have to get my hands on some of that if i won this blender…
It looks like there might be a lot of traveling in my near future as well, so I would just adore to have a blender that I could take with me! The first thing I’d make would be hummus, since it’s always what I crave when I’m on the road.
I agree with you. I broke my piggy bank and bought my first Vitamix, but sometimes I am in such a hurry in the mornings that I don’t make a smoothie and then when I get to work, I honestly crave one. I would love to have a blender readily available for those days. My favorite smoothie these days is thai coconut, a whole vanilla bean and hemp seed powder, delish!!
I would love LOVE this little guy. I travel a lot and I need this!! I would make a hemp chocolate shake for my little ones first. 🙂
xoxo,
Laura
Love your blog…keep it up!
I would definitely make homemade salsa with fresh tomatoes, cilantro, onions, jalapeno and hot chile peppers and a touch of garlic.
I would then have to follow that up with a smoothie – still undecided whether it would be orange cream or carrot cake, though 🙂
decisions, decisions!
I would definitely make my favorite green smoothie:
a banana
some homemade raw almond milk
raw agave syrup
cinnamon
a handful of blueberries
lots of kale
so delicious!
I would try your carrot cake smoothie first, but then I would follow that with my orange dream protein smoothie… vanilla ice cream protein with fresh squeezed OJ. It’s like a hug in a blender cup! 🙂
I would love to make the carrot cake smoothie first of all!!!!
I found your blog and contest through Howard as well – thanks Howard! I can’t decide what I would make first! Probably a Chocolate Raspberry smoothie – but that carrot cake one looks divine too!
Good luck everyone!
I would definitely make the Butternut Squash and Apple soup!!
Winning this blender would be great. As a broke graduate student (who spends way way too much time in the library), sometimes it gets difficult to stay as raw as I would like to be.
that blender looks great, i love the mason jars! id first make either protein ice cream or nut butter!
My first drink would be a fruit smoothie.
The first thing I would make with a Tribest blender (either model) would have to be a pureed raw soup. I tried making it in the usual food processor and it just never got smooth enough. I’m sure the Tribest would fix that right up!
I think I would use it as an excuse to tackle thai coconuts and finally make your version of Bonobos’ Coconut Chai – since I moved out of NYC I’ve been craving one more and more!
I would totally whip up a single serving of raw soup. No wait! I would whip up a smoothie with some of my new Vega powder! So expensive, but so good!
The first thing I would make in this blender is my first green monster!
The first thing I would try is this Gone Raw-Butternut Squash Soup recipe. I think it looks so great, but my current blender sounds like I’m trying to grind gravel if I put raw squash in it!
1 Squash diced
olive oil
pine nuts
roma tomato
garlic
agave
water
sea salt
rosemary
This is a great idea, thanks so much!
Dear. Gina!
I would make my first green smoothie !!
I have been saw numerous yummy photo’s of smoothies from you but never get chance to make my own since i don’t own a blender..
so I am cross all my fingers for this giveaway :):)
I’ve been on a tropical fruit smoothie kick lately, so will probably make that. The beet soup recipe looks yummy though.. wonder if my kids would eat it 🙂
hmm…my usual breakfast smoothie would likely be the first thing to make
Love this! I would make my baby’s first baby food with it! We are trying to start with pureed bananas, so that is what I would do with it first. After that, I always wanted to make really good homemade pesto, so I would make that and put a slab of it on some flattened pizza dough. Yummy!
Gena this looks like an amazing smoothie recipe!
thanks so much for hosting this giveaway, I would love to win this – I travel a lot and would love to be able to make smoothies on vacation/travel. This first thing I would make would probably be a smoothie in a bowl =)
Hi Gena! This product looks awesome! It looks similar to the Magic Bullet. I have been eyeing that one for a while. I have a kitchenaid and while it has held up really well to all of my blending (along side my cuisinart), it doesn’t do small ‘mixings.’ Since I make almost all of my raw food for just me, it would be really nice to have something to blend smaller amounts in. So anyway, I think the first thing I would make is my favorite asian salad dressing that was Gena inspired. It is a take on your raw peanut sauce. I just subbed out a few things and added a few more. I love it on virtually all vegies, especially cabbage and jicama slaw, yummy!!!
I will make a carrot cake smoothie!!! Thanks for the recipe!!
green smoothee!
Hi ya,
I’m I allowed to partisipate in this contest, even though I live in Sweden?
If I am, the first thing I would be doing is a hot (spiced) gazpascho for me to bring to school.
And I have posted about this contest on my blog 🙂
<3
Amanda
Oooh, so many options!! Probably a green smoothie! Or a yummy fresh salad dresssing. *fingers crossed*
Gena,
FYI: I own a BodyBugg and posted on their boards your contest. I’ll bet you get a lot more entrants!
!) I would love to make the smoothie I’m craving right now:
-Kale
-Dates
-Chia seeds
-Blueberries
-Banana
-Coconut Water
-Coconut Flakes
-Hemp Seeds
-Cinnamon
2) I Tweeted this giveaway on my page 🙂
Thank you!
I would make this here Chocolate Mocha Milkshake:
1 coconut meat and water
1 frozen banana
2 T tahini
1 T agave
2 T cacao powder
It’s just amazing and to take it on the go without cleanup would fantastic.
That looks like something I could DEFINITELY use!! If I got one, I would instantly make a banana-date-spinach smoothie. YUM! 🙂
The first thing I’d do is try your frozen banana ice cream! I never knew that ice cream could be made without using milk or dairy of some kind.
I’m not a big ice cream or dairy person, but now and then, I just get a craving so strong!! I’m going to go freeze some bananas right now!
I found out about your blog (and contest) from Howard 🙂
And the first thing I’d make with a new Tribest blender would be the cashew cream that chef Tal Ronnen mentions on his website, and I’d proceed to convert all my sister-in-law’s creamy recipes to vegan-alishious delights!
And yes, I’m tweeting…
2nd entry please…
I mentioned your contest to my company’s (Microsoft) vegetarian distribution list. Thousands are now aware…
i might be to late but i know JUST what i would make with this!! a sweet vidalia onion dressing. its the one unhealthy product i cannot seem to mimicwell enough! i have been trying using my food processor but its just not working out…then i have to eat whatever comes out of the food processor and a lot of times its not so good….grainy and chunky water onion dressing…..please save me from myself!!!!
My very first green smoothie 😀
The first thing I’d make with a new Tribest blender would be Kristen Suzanne’s Earthbound Brazil Nut Milk (page 64 of her Easy Raw Vegan Smoothies” book.
Oh god, I hope I win…
I would make A LOT of green smoothies for myself, my family and my friends! =)
Steph
I would make your raw marinara!
The first thing I’d make with a new Tribest blender would be a frozen fruit green smoothie for our girls 🙂 This makes it look fun! 🙂
i went to this ‘rawesome’ (teehee) raw class about a week ago at the local health food store, and the instructor was concocting something called a ‘cabbagechino’…omg it was incredible…and i was so excited to look at the faces behind me of those in the room who had never heard of raw before this instance. i have been looking for some way to spice up my regimen of just green smoothies in the morning…and i think i found my solution! the recipe is:
1 1/2 oz vanilla flavored almond milk
1T vanilla extract
2oz raw cane sugar (i don’t use this, so i would sub it for stevia or raw honey)
2T raw cacao powder
1tsp Cafix crystals (i had never heard of these before…but it seems like it’s a similar blend as the chai teechino, with which I have made chai cookies…yum!)
1 wedge of cabbage
1-2 c ice
I don’t know how well this recipe would blend in a smaller blender, but, hey, it’s worth a shot! i don’t drink coffee, and i really enjoyed this, so it’d be a great recipe for those transitioning out of the coffee phase. plus…the cabbage gives it a texture so similar to a frappachino!
take care.
I tweeted!
http://Www.Twitter.com/elizabethmbond
How fun!!!
The very first thing I would make is butternut squash curry soup!
I blogged about your giveaway on my blog.
Simple almond milk
I would make my first GREEN Lemonade!!! I am just beginning to “go” raw !! Have been conversing with girlonraw and she is coaching me along…..sooooo I NEED IT!!!!
the first thing i would make would be a fruit-filled protein smoothie! i am absolutely in love with them!
I would make some cashew cream!
I want to make some homemade vegan ice cream! I’ve found so many cool recipes, but my crappy blender can barely chop a banana. At least it was free:)
I would make a batch of raw
vegan chocolate truffles and send
them right to you, Gena!!
Dawn
I tweeted!
Gena!
This is so cool! I’ve mentioned before that I want a high power blender really badly.. but the Vita-Mix is so expensive. I’m working my way up to one though. this would be such a great addition to my cooking… or should I say un-cooking appliances. I would deffinately make the Organic Bananna Protien Shake with this first. You know.. the one with the carob or cacao in from the cleanse? I love that so much I had in about five times in a row! I love that the containers are glass too because I know it is much better to keep food in glass rather than plastic. This giveaway is so awesome! Thanks for putting this up on your blog! Also I love your blog.. as someone else said above, it is inspirational. But I think you already know that.
Thanks a bunch!
~Julia
carrot ginger salad dressing MmMMmMmMMM
The first thing I would make with the tribest would be some chocolate pudding! That is an Awesome little trinket, it would be excellent for me who’s practically a gypsy!
I think I would make your carrot cake shake – sounds delicious!!!
I would love to win… I also linked to the contest on my blog 😉
since my current (cheap) blender is about to crap out on me- i would love this one! it looks so easy to use!
I would make organic and delicious pesto!!!!
– emily http://www.emilyeatsclean.wordpress.com
I have been toying with raw food for a while now and I think the first thing I would make is a blended salad, this is the one thing i have yet to try!! I am moving to NY next week and this would be perfect for my new tiny kitchen!
And I linked back here:
http://healthingit.com/2010/02/10/schedule-shifting/
the first thing i would make would be the banana soft serve. it looks sooo delicious but i cannot try it since i live in a dorm room. but hopefully i will if i am able to win this (:
I just tweeted this for ya too!
http://twitter.com/ashveg
Oh my gosh I am so excited! I recently watched a YouTube vid by Ani Phyo and she was using the Tribest Blender. I thought, “How cool, I want one!” I looked online and couldn’t find it, since she didn’t mention the brand.
Anyway, the first thing I would make with this would probably be a morning green drink, since I’m trying to incorporate more of these and this would be a great “on-the-go” way to drink one!
I really love your blog, you’re an inspiration! 🙂
Namaste,
Ashley
I would probably make one of those raw food recipes I can’t make since my magic bullet has lost its “magic” – a nut pate or something!! 🙂 if that fails, definitely a green smoothie. mmm.
Wow…what a really cool give-away! Hmm…I would make raw ice cream or a green smoothie. I do not own a vita-mix, but I make green smoothies in my Kitchen Aid food pro! I’ll have to try the carrot cake smoothie, yummy!