ComFest Food!!!

     As a regular Comfest attendee, I am so pleased at the variety of food choices available.  I usually go to the festival for one day each year and am glad to know that there will be foods I can eat...and feel good about eating.  This year I went for a day and a half and was able to sample a variety of foods. On Friday, I was there midday and enjoyed a Sesame Spring Roll with ponzu sauce from Dragonfly and Del's Favorite Tofu Wrap from the Wellness Forum.  These two booths were convienently located right next to each other so I knew this would be a hot spot for me on Saturday. 

     I arrived Saturday at 3:30 and immediately wanted some ice cream to cool down.  First stop, Jeni's ice cream for a scoop of Strawberry Buttermilk....delicious. I wanted to enjoy some dinner food before performing on the Live Arts Stage at 6pm.  My partner chose the food this time and returned to our blanket carrying a Chick Pea Salad from the Wellness Forum and guess what...another Spring Roll from Dragonfly!  Delicious again!  After drumming for 3 hours at the live arts stage, my partner and I were hungry to say the least.  Loaded with 24 dollars worth of Comfest Tokens for performing...we ventured off into the Food court.  First stop...Wellness Forum for another Chick Pea salad...this option had a fair amount of protein with the chick peas, sunflower seeds, and dressing.  Next mission, to find a juice beverage with no sugar added.  This mission took us clear to the other end of the Food Court, where we happily found the Clintonville Community Market, selling 100% juice spritzers as well as many other fine foods.  We left with more than we could carry....spendning the last of our tokens...wisely I would say...on 4 coconut macaroons by Portia's creations, an order of blue chips and guacamole, two spritzers, and a bag of Fire Cracker Mix.  At this point, we packed some of the food in our back packs and carried what we could.  It was then that I remembered we were supposed to meet some friends at the Live Arts stage 45 min ago. We scrambled to get back, weaving in and out of the crowd of people quite smoothly....without spilling a bite of Chick Pea Salad or knocking anyone over with our backpacks.  We sat down to enjoy our food, and to my suprise...I was full!  We carried the rest of the food home to enjoy the next day! 

     Enjoying all of this healthy food on the run at Comfest this weekend left me wishing that myslef and others could have access to healthy food on the run like that all the time.  The foods that we tried were very fresh and satisfying.  I imagined corner markets set up throughout the week in different areas of Columbus selling this kind of food.  Folks could stop in during lunch breaks or order a dinner to go.  I remembered that the Wellness Forum and Portia's Creations sell avariety of their foods at the Clintonville Community Market, so I stopped in this morning to pick up some lunch for the day. Please check out the links below to some of the Food Vendors I mentioned.  I beleive the Wellness Forum offers pick -up meals, and Dragonfly has a "On the Fly" section of their resteraunt where they offer foods to go. The Clintinville Community Market offfers a variety of healthy food choices in their refrigerator section and throughout the store. Enjoy!!!

http://communitymarket.org/

http://www.dragonflyneov.com/

http://www.wellnessforumfoods.com/