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Green Fest Expo Around the Corner

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The Green Festival Expo (in Portland Dec. 9-11 at the Oregon Convention Center) features a inspiring array of speakers, documentary film screenings, and green exhibitors. For the past 15 years, Green Festival Expo has been committed to helping Americans find solutions to help make families and communities healthier – socially, economically, and environmentally. The event is completely free with registration.

Green Festival is one of the only trade and consumer shows that is completely vegan and vegetarian offering meatless products at the food court as an opportunity to showcase how food choices can positively impact sustainability and climate change

This year Green Festival Expo will unveil a new pavilion for Sustainable Innovations, showcasing the newest products, concepts, and exhibitors of the year. For this Expo, there will be a strong focus on family activities where kids can learn about the environment and how they can do their part in stopping climate change. The Family Fun Pavilion will be run by local business Hammer and Jacks Toy Store. Yoga programming will be run by Full Lotus Yoga PDX and Carioca Bowls. For both kids and adults, there will also be offerings of organic foods, hands-on demos, educational activities and inspirational speakers at the Green Festival Pavilion and booths. On Saturday afternoon, attendees will be able to enjoy a very special performance from The School of Rock.

Some of the pioneering, inspired speakers at the Green Festival Expo will be:

  • Colleen Polling, Nourishing the body, mind and soul: Vegan 101
  • Barbara Troyer, Environmental, Wildlife, & Northwest Coordinator, Food for Thought (a program of Animal Place)
  • John Lewis, CEO, Bad Ass Vegan
  • Sahsha Campbell-Garbutt, Owner, Life and Light Wellness
  • Lateefah Smith, Founder, The Veggie Connection
  • Ellie Laks and Jay Weiner, Founders of The Gentle Barn
  • Peter Spendelow, President Northwest VEG
  • Erik Wolf, Executive Director of World Food Travel Association
  • Erin Switlaski, Executive Director of Women’s Voices for the Earth
  • Anthony Rossi, Vice President of Global Business Development at TerraCycle
  • Eileen Durfee, Owner, Inventor of Go Healthy Next

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WHERE: Oregon Convention Center – 777 Northeast Martin Luther King Junior Boulevard, Portland, OR 97232 – View Map


Bike to the Green Festival Expo for Free Admission!

LA CrowdThe Green Festival Expo is just around the corner! It’s a great place to pick up some free goodies and maybe a holiday gift or two. Taking place Dec 11th -13th at the Oregon Convention Center, it’s the first time it’s been here in the festival’s 14 year history.

Green Festival Expo is the largest and longest-running sustainability event in the United States with a mission to bring together the world’s most trusted companies, innovative speakers, national and local innovative businesses, conscious consumers and pioneering thinkers to promote the best in sustainability and green living.

GF Logo stackedDuring the 3-day expo there will be free yoga classes, B2B mentoring sessions for green business owners, an interactive family fun area for kids to learn all about reducing their carbon footprint and over 50 inspirational speakers. Green Festival Expo is now featuring a Portland Local Market Place on the floor where attendees will be able to shop locally, taste vegan and vegetarian food and enjoy organic products close to home.

Bike to the expo, park at the Green Festival Bike Valet and receive FREE admission! Youth 16 and under are granted free admission as well. Booth space is available for local and national businesses. Book today by calling (828) 333-9403 x300 or e-mail [email protected]. Visit www.greenfestivals.org for more information. Hours open to the public are: Friday 12pm – 6pm, Saturday 10am – 6pm & Sunday 10am – 5pm. Find your tickets here: http://bit.ly/195cS0D.


Our Catering Kitchen is Growing!

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Boise Fry offers a variety of potatoes and cut fries, from shoestring to po’boys.

Part of being your favorite delivery concierge and catering option means providing customized breakfast, lunch, and dinner from the best restaurants in Portland. We’ve made all of Portland our catering kitchen, always adding new vendors, products, and restaurants to our online ordering options. Add some new flavors to your workday and try out these new options:

Tamale Boy: Tamales here are either Oaxacan or Norteño style, filled with chicken mole negro, chile verde pork, passilla pepper and queso fresco, or slow roasted pork. The menu at Tamale Boy also features burritos, enchiladas, and a number of creative seasonal options. There are quite a few vegan and gluten free options as well. Spice up your workday and order up!

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Wolf and Bear’s: the cutest little food cart that ever was.

Boise Fry Company: The standout here is fresh cut local potatoes (pick a potato: Kennebec, gold, sweet potato, yam, purple, or Okinawa; pick a cut: shoestring, homestyle, curly, po’balls), fried to perfection with a long list of signature sauces and seasonings. Order a beef, bison, or vegan burger on the side. Boise Fry is committed to using organic, local, an enviro-friendly products wherever possible.

Sake Japanese and Thai: A fusion of flavors intersect at Sake, from fresh sushi to a variety of noodle dishes and soups: ramen, udon, pad thai. Offer your group a variety of flavors and options by ordering direct from Sake!

Wolf and Bear’s: Get fresh with Middle Eastern inspired vegetarian salads and pita made from fresh quality ingredients, as organic and local as possible. Pita wraps are packed with creative combinations and delicious fillings: grilled eggplant, caramelized onions, roasted red peppers, hummus, homemade kalamata tapenade, creamy Mediterranean cheeses, and tahini.


Happy New Year! Plan your Resolutions Now!

Optimized-edited_WFBikeWith the New Year comes New Year’s Resolutions which usually means buying some new gym clothes, setting up a budget, and throwing away sugary foods.

One that always seems to evade our grasp is the resolution to eat right. We always start off the year with the best intentions, like buying more kale and throwing out the peanut butter cookies.

But by January 15th, we seem to have conveniently forgotten the greenery in the fridge and have started foraging for junk food in the pantry.

Fear not, citizen! There’s a new way to keep yourself loyal to your best intentions. Whole Foods makes it easy to follow through with your resolutions, offering healthy alternatives through their optimized online menu. Whole Foods is filled to the brim with healthy alternatives that will help you stay healthy, without forcing yourself to give up flavors you love.

Whether you’re a vegetarian, a carnivore, a vegan, an organic foods enthusiast, or just someone who wants to try something new this week, Whole Foods can cater to your every need. Check out their menu, and you will find anything from appetizers to allegro coffee to whole meals and entrees laid out for your ease of use. Because at the end of the day, you can do it all yourself. But you don’t have to.

Best of all, we can drop it off at your doorstep, meaning you have more time to use those gym clothes and jump on the cycle machine.

Check out the Whole Foods Online Menu to start planning your resolutions!


Let Whole Foods do the Prep Work!

Optimized-edited_WFBikePlanning for the holidays can induce a lot of stress. You have to get the decorations up, clean the house, plan the trip, brace yourself for relatives… and on top of that, you have to have a hot meal ready to go.

It all stacks up on itself, really. Who has time to enjoy the eggnog?

While we can’t remove the stress that comes with the in-laws, we can offer hot, delicious holiday foods fresh from the oven. Whole Foods is optimizing their holiday menu, ensuring that while you can do all of the prep work yourself, you don’t have to. Whole Foods has created a menu catering to your every need, whether you’re a carnivore, an herbivore, or somewhere in between.

If you go for a more traditional holiday meal, try one of the traditional Holiday Dinners, including a fully cooked Diestel Turkey, Herb Stuffing, Fresh Green Beans, Turkey Gravy, and Dinner rolls.

More of a Tofurky kind of person? No problem! Go Vegan with a Wild Rice Cranberry Fig Roast, Acorn Squash, Mushroom Gravy, and Vegan Pumpkin Pie.

Whole Foods also offers salads, breads, and other assorted side dishes to perfectly accentuate your ideal holiday sit-down.

These meals can cater to 8 people, though if you’re looking for something more intimate, Whole Foods also offers the intimate holiday dinner, serving 4.

No matter how you choose to celebrate, Whole Foods will make sure it’s delicious.


Bad Case of the Munchies? We can Help!

With recent developments in Oregon, there might be a time in the future where you start to get suuuuuper hungry and have a strong urge to watch Adventure Time.

Or maybe you just started synching Dark Side of the Moon with The Wizard of Oz,  and it seems like the perfect time to get something delicious in front of you. (If you haven’t done it yet, try it.)

Frankly, I can think of 91 reasons why you might get a bad case of the munchies during the next couple of months.

I was going for subtle, but it kind of devolved there.

Even if you don’t plan on taking advantage of Measure 91, sometimes you get an urge for something tasty without needing the full sized meal. If only there were some way you could get delicious food delivered to your location so you can stay inside and take care of business.

Oh right, there is a way! Portland Pedal Power has just what you need to cure the afternoon/evening munchies:

Big Ass Sandwiches lives up to its name, creating ample sandwiches filled with home roasted meats and homemade ingredients, sure to squash big hunger in its tracks. Best of all, Big Ass uses bread baked locally by Fleur De Lis, meats from Northwest, family owned stock yards & hot sauce made locally by Secret Aardvark Trading Co.

Whiffies Fried Pies creates savory and sweet fried pies sure to knock you off your feet, like their BBQ Beef Brisket, Tofu Pot Pie, and their Oregon Mixed Berry.  Whiffies has been featured on Food Network, Travel Channel, Rachel Ray Magazine, Sunset Magazine, and more!

The Dump Truck serves a menu that mixes the traditions of China with the funk of Portland to bring you some of the best dumplings you will ever taste. Check out their menu, and you will find everything from your traditional pork dumplings to the remarkable! Seriously, who else would even attempt to create a Bacon Cheeseburger wrapped in a dumpling? 

Pacific Pie Co. whips up some of the best pies this side of the galaxy, and does so with an Aussie flair few can imitate. All of the pies at Pacific Pie Co. feature local, humanely raised meat and organic veggies as well as vegetarian, vegan, and gluten-free alternatives for any diet out there. 

So when you have an overwhelming urge to eat something delicious, don’t fret! Portland Pedal Power has your back. We have more than 30 varieties to choose from on our lunch menu, and we are happy to do the heavy lifting for you.


Bite the Big Apple With Bowery Bagels!

photo_deliveryA New York style bagel: Right off the bat, you might think it would be pretty difficult to find such a baked good around here. After all, Portland can’t get much farther away from the Big Apple.

How could Portland, Oregon, found about as far west of New York as you can get (About 3,000 miles worth!), create such a classic symbol of the metropolis?

Never fear, skeptical bagel connoisseur, for a hero appears within our very city! Bowery Bagels is Portland’s premier New York style bagel bakery and sandwich shop. The hand rolled bagels are boiled and then baked, resulting in an authentic, lightly crisp, chewy bagel.

Their bagels are particularly delicious with any of  Bowerys house made cream cheese schmears: plain, smoked salmon, fresh herb, roasted vegetable, BOM.com (bacon-onion-mushroom), and several vegan options.

They offer breakfast bagel sandwiches in the morning, and a delicious selection of lunch sandwiches, made from scratch soups, and salads. All the meats, sausages and bacon, are roasted and cured in our kitchen.

Make sure you start your morning off right, or get yourself pumped for a second wind at the office: Get yourself something delicious from Bowery. We take care of the hard work, and all you have to do is meet up with us, grab your meal, and get a taste of New York. Our Bowery-toting bikes have got your back.


Taste the Mediterranean at Tangier!

There’s nothing like great Moroccan and Mediterranean food. Few genres of flavor offer the same kind of complex tastes and culture that comes with each meal. As luck would have it, Portland is home to some great locations where you can experience the fine edible art from the Mediterranean, and none compare to what Tangier creates in their kitchen!

Tangier is a warm and welcoming family restaurant conveniently located in downtown Portland, quite close to the waterfront. When you show up, you will likely notice Tangier has a casually elegant atmosphere, catering to the exquisitely prepared cuisine that will enhance any dining or celebration experience.

Tangier features an extensive menu, much of which is vegetarian, vegan, and gluten free. Take a look at a few of the choices you will want to order from our website:

Vegetarian Mezza – Falafel, humus, tabouli, tatziki, spinach pie, zattar pizza, baba ghannouj & veggie grape leaves.

Tabouli Salad – Finely chopped fresh parsley mixed with mint, green onion, tomato, bulgar, lemon juice & olive oil.

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Try Something Fresh from The Burrito Bar!

There’s nothing like a good burrito! If you’re familiar with the kind of food we deliver at Portland Pedal Power, then you should know that we only deliver the best. that’s why we’re very excited to announce we’re now delivering for The Burrito Bar!

The Burrito Bar is a small family owned business located in the Pearl, and pride themselves on the quality of their food, their cleanliness, and their customer service. The Burrito Bar boasts a sweet and spicy menu with locally-sourced ingredients made fresh daily, including all of their salsas! Both the Burrito Bar and PPP enjoy providing fresh and healthy alternatives for the community, so the two of us getting together was simply bound to happen sooner or later!

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