Ok, the secret is out! I know all you people who live in Almonte come to HFT everyday and buy a…read moredoughnut, because that's what I would do if I lived in Almonte, and I'd buy two, or maybe even three on Fridays! LOL.
Cue melodramatic music. Voice over: "Never in her life did this city princess ever think that she would be envious of people living in a small town, but as she was stuffing her face with a S'mores doughnut from Healthy Food Technologies, she started to realize that there was more to life than the big cities..." Voice over ends.
Seriously though, the doughnuts are amazing!
So I had heard of Healthy Food Technologies, which sells doughnuts fried in a machine that the owner invented that contains 50-70% less fat than traditional doughnuts, but hadn't visited until recently because it's in Almonte, which I felt was a bit of a trek from Ottawa for just doughnuts. However, my husband and I took a week off work for a "staycation" and decided to visit some of the small towns around Ottawa that we normally wouldn't visit. We decided to have lunch on Mill Street (their main street), and then wander around like tourists and conclude our visit with a dozen doughnuts from HFT. We even packed a cooler to bring the doughnuts home in the scorching heat.
The doughnuts taste like regular full-fat doughnuts. They do not taste low-fat or healthy in any way, haha. Doughnuts are $1.50 each, 6 for $8.50, or 12 for $14. The specialty doughnuts are $2.25 each. We just got a dozen of the regular doughnuts.
They do have some whole wheat doughnuts, which we tried and I'd say they are a little less tasty than the white flour doughnuts, but still very good.
We got 2 S'mores (because hey, I love all things S'mores), a whole wheat apple fritter, a regular apple fritter, a whole wheat strawberry filled, a whole wheat honey glazed, a mango filled, a blueberry filled, a key lime filled, a Boston cream, a Canadian maple and a Dutchie.
They were all tasty, but the S'mores was by far my favourite. It had marshmallow whipped cream filling, chocolate glaze and graham cracker crumbs sprinkled on top. I will be dreaming of this doughnut.
There's free parking in the private lot to the side of the shop. There are some tables and couches inside to sit and there's also a picnic table on the front lawn (with a patio umbrella that's not fully functional, one of the spokes was broken).
Dear Healthy Food Technologies: Please open a store in Ottawa. Also, can you please make honey crullers/French crullers? Thanks. XOXO, Jennifer :)