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Pretoria has boarded the banting bus with a brand new food market dedicated to the sale of LCHF meals and produce.
The Pretoria Banting Market, which takes place at the Pretoria National Botanical Garden, currently has around 32 tables booked, with new requests from interested vendors coming in daily. Some of the current vendors include Carrado’s, Wendy’s Healthy Foods, Bite Size Banting, Earthfood Trading Company, Leafy Greens, The Lazy Cook and The Ice Creamery.
Visitors to the market can expect everything from banting breads and rusks to nut flours, nut butters, cauliflower wraps, cheese, cookies, grass-fed meat products, home-cooked meals, sugar-free ice cream and more. In addition to a plethora of produce and meals, a nutritionist will be on site to give advice and book private consultations. Vendors are not allowed to sell any non-banting products as to ensure that all food is naturally low in carbohydrates and free from sugar, vegetable oil and artificial preservatives. “We prefer that the products are grown, baked or processed by the stallholder to be local, fresh and of good quality,” says market founder Karin Loots.
The Banting Food Market
It all started when Karin Loots stumbled across a radio broadcast with Tim Noakes in 2014 and subsequently bought the book The Real Meal Revolution. “It took two days to read it from cover to cover and I was hooked for life on the low-carb high-fat lifestyle,” she explains. After discovering the difficulties of shopping for low-carb, sugar-free produce, she began baking her own bread and later, making sugar-free ice cream, which has resulted in a successful side business called The Ice Creamery.
“There was a huge demand for banting products, but nowhere to buy them, so we started talking about a market and wishing somebody would start it in Pretoria. Nothing happened, so we took the initiative,” Karin tells us. The first banting market took place on 21 March 2015 and, after a highly successful premiere, will return on 18 April. Karin is planning for the market to take place on the first Saturday of every month from May onwards.
The Banting Food Market
You can catch the next Pretoria Banting Market on 18 April 2015 at the Pretoria National Botanical Gardens from 9am to 1pm. Entrance is free of charge. For more information, visit bantingmarketpretoria.co.za or email karin@bantingmarketpretoria.co.za.
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Thank you Karin!!!!!!!
Please us posted on u future dates . And if u would be interested in opening maybe at bryanston organic market on Thursday and Saturday. It’s through teh Waldoff school , sure lots of people would be interested.
Hi Bronwyn. You can email Karin at karin@bantingmarketpretoria.co.za. Hope this helps
Great….can’t wait!!! now my search for banting food is over at last! thankyou
Banting Divas is selling snacks and banting products each Saturday at the Pretoria farmers market @ Pioniers museum. http://Www.facebook.com/bantingdivas
Love Banting market…iam an Organic Farmer,living in Pretoria East,Boschkop…
Hi Phinansi,
It is good to hear about organic farming, what type of farming do you do, is it just vegetables? How do you distribute your veggies, how can one obtain it? I am interested and live in the North of Pretoria.
Regards,
Elize
Please let me know what you supply +27 (83) 7853932
Banting Divas attend all of Karin’s Markets. Pretoria botanical gardens the 1st Saturday of every month
And Bryanston every 3rd Saturday of every month.
Dankie Karin, nou is ek klaar gesoek. Hoekom so Engels, is julle inie buiteland en bemark slegs hier?
Bestaan hierdie mark nog, sal graag wil deurry en gaan kyk, maar ek sien dat daar in 2015 laas aktiwiteit op die plasings was?…