One of our local community partners is Healthy Oakland. (They’re literally just 5 blocks away from us). On Saturday June 1, 2007 Healthy Oakland put on a slamming event called the “Power of Health and Being Well” Summer Street Festival. It was off the hook with all kinds of great organizations and community folks running tables and booths about healthy living.

Of course, People’s Grocery was there in force. Lori Camille, our nutritional cooking instructor, lead a cooking demonstration on the main stage. She taught people how to make an organic avocado and chocolate mouse pudding. The crowd was intrigued by how easy it was to make and totally surprised at how good it tasted.

The crowd watches closely to learn how Lori Camille makes this magical dessert.

Two of our Peer Nutrition Educators, Geralina Fortier and Dannae Washington, ran a smoothie demonstration booth for over four ours! They handed out hundreds of samples of organic fruit smoothies and told people the recipe for making it themselves.

Geralina hands out a smoothie to a curious gentleman who is about to taste the goodness.

Lori works the crowd with her nutritional magic.

Dannae learns to wield the blender while onlookers lick their lips in anticipation.

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