This Wellness Bar And Grocery Store Is Bringing Healthy Foods To Mid City

(Submitted by Terrez Collins)

Mid City residents will soon person entree to much patient and caller foods. 

Terrez Collins, a registered caregiver and proprietor of cold-pressed juice institution C.A.K.E.D, Juice Co. and wellness barroom Trap Haus, is opening a storefront connected nan area of Government and South 13th streets connected May 17. 

After years of treating sick patients and switching to a vegan lifestyle, Collins wanted to stock nan benefits and joyousness of patient eating pinch her community. 

“It’s each astir showing group what nutrient is really about,” Collins tells Daily Report. “Food is truthful overmuch much than conscionable food, but we’ve benignant of conscionable generalized it and made it fast, speedy and added crap to it. I want to amended and show visitors that this could really alteration your life.”

Trap Haus, located astatine 1300 Government Street, will waste cold-pressed juices, additive-free smoothie bowls, plant-based dishes and caller produce. One half of nan shop will characteristic a build-your-own smoothie bar, wherever customers tin take an in-house-made guidelines and caller toppings to make a civilization smoothie bowl. It will besides waste rotating vegan-friendly dishes for illustration New Orleans-style po-boys pinch mushrooms, vegan gumbo and reddish beans and rice. 

The different half of nan storefront will see a mini nutrient market shop that sells caller consequence and vegetables. Collins plans to judge SNAP benefits arsenic a shape of costs to grow patient nutrient entree for locals successful nutrient deserts. 

“If you look astatine nan meaning of a trap house, it intends a location that sells drugs,” Collins says. “Everything that we consume, essentially, is simply a drug, whether it’s from nature, nan narcotics that we return complete nan counter, aliases from nan pharmacy. It’s a play connected words, and it’s besides astir turning a antagonistic into a positive. So basically, we sling drugs, but it’s successful its astir earthy form. Nature’s drugs.” 

Trap Haus was established successful 2022 successful New Roads. It opened its 2nd wellness barroom astatine Southern University’s recreation center. The Government Street brick-and-mortar will beryllium its 3rd location successful Louisiana. Collins intentionally selected her store’s locations based connected constricted entree to caller foods successful nan area. Soon, she plans to person a van into a C.A.K.E.D. Juice Co. mobile juice and smoothie barroom to popular up successful Baton Rouge and surrounding cities, trading health-conscious foods.