Wray Organic Market & Cafe - September Specials

La Bella Italian Cafe - Pasta with prawns, Rump Steak with chips and salad - Cleveland, Brisbane Australia

I spotted a new Italian Cafe in Bloomfield Street, Cleveland and their specials board

$10 lunches including:

• Barramundi with chips and salad
• Pasta with king prawns
• Rump Steak with chips and salad

I should have chosen the Barramundi, being the healthy choice, but I was in the mood for pasta and prawns and I am SO glad I did! The pasta was cooked to perfection, the sauce to die for and the prawns cooked perfectly. It was an amazing meal and there wasn't a morsel left on my plate!

Hubby chose the Rump steak with chips and salad and was very pleased.  I had a bite or two and it was a very tender steak cooked perfectly medium-rare as requested. The chips were great. 

I also enjoyed a Mocha coffee which really hit the spot!

La Bella Italian Cafe

Address: 15/99 Bloomfield St, Cleveland QLD 4163 Phone: (07) 3488 0001 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/La-Bella-Italian-Cafe/353618008135027?fref=ts

Wray Organic: Breakfast Toastie and White Rose Goji tea

I love shopping at Wray Organic Market and Cafe in Cleveland. Located in Ross Court (a court off Bloomfield St - where Pizza Hut is located), there is a large range of Organic products from around Australia and the world. They also stock a large range of Gluten-Free products, including meals and desserts in their Cafe. 

I was feeling a bit peckish, having missed breakfast and after perusing the food available settled on a breakfast toastie, made with gluten-free bread. It had organic eggs, ham and tomato. It came with a salad that has their signature wray organic cafe salad dressing. 

 I chose an interesting tea mix of white rose petals and goji berry. It was very nice and from wht I have read, very healthy. The goji berry flavour was lovely and I felt very refreshed.

I didn''t buy a dessert despite the fact it was very tempting. I was eyeing-off a raw dessert when someone else bought it. Oh well. Next time.

Wray Organic Market and Cafe
Ross Court, (off Bloomfield St)
facebook.com
(07) 3488 2288

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Wray Organics - 2nd Birthday celebrations

I saw an advert for the Wray Organics 2nd Birthday celebrations on the Wray Organics Cleveland Facebook page. "Heaps of prizes, giveaways, tastings, special guests, birthday cake, fun photo booth & more... meet Katrina Ellis N.D. 10.00am-2pm  (naturopath & author of international best seller "Shattering the Cancer Myth" & "Raw Addiction" book signing & raw treats

10.00am-2pm

• Latest recipe tastings 
• Peace Love & Vegetables Sauerkraut
• Organic sausage tastings
• Raw snack tastings from Kitz
• Inca protein smoothies
• Kora skincare
• Tastings from Noosa Seafood Market
• Our Eco Home demo
• Organic Dairy Farmers cheese tastings

Wray Recovery $9.90

100% sprouted rice protein, coconut H2O, mesquite,
banana, super greens, cocoluscious vanilla ice cream

The Cleveland Sands - I won a free cake and coffee, live music

Every time I go into the Cleveland Sands I swipe my members card. Sometimes I get some points but others I win free $5 drink, free coffee or a free coffee & cake.

[ members card win - free coffee and cake! ]

 I have been pretty lucky of late and today  I won a free coffee and cake from the cafe.
I decide upon a mocha and a cappuccino cheesecake. Delicious!

[ Mocha and Cappuccino Cheesecake ]

 Every Sunday there is a live soloist and today Nigel Jones kept us entertained.

[ Nigel Jones soloist playing live music from 12 to 4pm ]

It is a lovely day to be in the beer garden.

[ Beer garden at the Cleveland Sands ]

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The Cleveland Sands Hotel 

Hours	Mon - Sun: 10:00 am - 2:00 am
Parking	Parking Lot

Address:

Cnr of Middle St and Bloomfield St, Cleveland QLD 4163 Phone: (07) 3286 2466

Wray Organics Cafe: Gluten-free lasagne and salad with mocha

   

My favourite spot for organic food in
Cleveland, QLD is Wray Organics in Ross Court, off Bloomfield Road, Cleveland.

Their coffee is amazing and they offer alternatives to dairy milk in the form of soy, coconut milk, almond milk and quinoa milk.

They have a large selection of snacks and meals and a great majority of them are gluten-free and made from products from their supermarket. Everything tastes fresh and healthy. 

Gluten-free vegetable lasagne

Served with baby spinach leaves and an amazing dressing. 

So tasty and healthy and no stomach pains from eating wheat or gluten.

Wray Orgnics Supermarket and Cafe
197 Bloomfield St Cleveland QLD 4163
(07) 3488 2288

Wray Organics Store Tour and Tastings

On Saturday 8th of December my husband Philip and I went along to our local Wray Organics Market and Cafe for a 'store tour and tastings' which had been announced on their Facebook page.

Tastings included samples of their amazing organic products which included: fruit salad featuring jaw-droppingly delicious mango, watermelon, cherry, peach and some cream; next was sprouted bread with goats cheese and cherry tomato on top; then kale and asparagus salad with olive oil, lemon juice and sprouts; desert sample was a cup of christmas cheer including organic christmas cake with christmas CocoLuscious coconut icecream, mince pie,pouring cream and cherries. YUMM!

We also tasted some Ginger Beer made with Galangal - Thai ginger; and some coconut water - which I swear by to hydrate. To end our sampling experience, those that were game were given a taste of the Loving Earth AFA Blue Green Algae powder in water - which Marion our guide has every day. It tasted slightly like nori - which we love! Loving Earth AFA has amazing properties which you can read about here. 

My husband and I had a great morning and learned a lot about the huge range of products at Wrays Organics - my favourite store. 

I would rather have small amount of quality than a large amount of pesticides, meat and fish treated with antibiotics; preserved with chemicals, then tinted for attractiveness. Meat sold at Wray Organics is provided by the Meat-Ting Place - an organic butcher that preserves his meat the old fashioned way - with salt and natural tint of beetroot juice.  

Gone are the days I eat dried fruit full of sulphur. Of white flour bread that is so low in nutrients you may as well not eat it. Fruit picked green and gassed to ripen. Why spend money on cheap food that then goes off or has no taste.

The cherry tomatoes we tasted just EXPLODED with flavour. As did the other organic fruit we sampled.

The asparagus was so fresh and delicious we ate it raw. As did the kale and chard. So full of nutrients, fresh and organically farmed.

I just feel GOOD when I walk in and meander around Wray Organics and even better when I leave with new products to try as well as my favourites - such as the Goats Cheese Marinated; and Sheep's Milk Yoghurt. 

Elgaar Farm Bio Active™ (Probiotic)  milk is something I will be trying.

"Elgaar Farm’s unique probiotic milk – our fresh organic milk with the benefit of our unique probiotic cultures, adding numerous beneficial lactic bacteria and enzymes but tastes just like normal milk. Elgaar Farm Bio Active™ (Probiotic) Full Cream Milk is not homogenised, which means that the cream will rise naturally to the top. Just shake well if you prefer"

I am just so blessed to have such amazing store so close to where I live.

STOCKIST INFORMATION:

CocoLuscious (Coconut Milk Icecream)

http://cocoluscious.com.au/

https://www.facebook.com/CocoLusc

Elgaar Farm Products

http://www.elgaarfarm.com.au

Loving Earth Products

http://www.lovingearth.net/products

The Meat-Ting Place Products

http://www.themeat-tingplace.com.au

https://www.facebook.com/The.Meat.Ting.Place

Wray Organics Cleveland

https://www.facebook.com/wrayorganiccleveland