#RefindingFood
IT’S TIME TO CHANGE HOW WE SPEAK AND THINK ABOUT FOOD, FARMING, HEALTH, AND SUSTAINABILITY.
How to Understand the 11 Most Used Labels on Meat, Fish & Poultry
In the 1950s, a trip to the grocery store was simple. You could buy milk, eggs and meat. Fast forward seventy years later, the simple trip is anything but that. With thousands of choices, consumers are barraged with cleverly crafted marketing statements to appeal to...
Why Google Needs to Be a Part of Your Marketing Strategy
Learn why Google needs to be a part of your marketing strategy; learn how SEO, SEM and Google My Business can boost your sales This month, I worked with specialty food marketing expert Allison Ball on her Food Wiz Biz podcast to discuss making Google a part of a food...
Evaluating the Effects of Sugar, Alcohol, and Caffeine on Your Body
Food is something that I have a love affair with. When I made the decision to develop a better relationship with it and understand about how truly impacts my body, I never knew just how far it would go. What I thought would be a simple three-month, self-guided...
How to Fix Your Broken Relationship with Food
In my last blog post, I talked about how women's relationship with food became so fragmented and broken, especially for multi-ethnic women over 40, like myself. In this post, we’re going to go through a series of questions and exercises that can help begin to heal...
How Your Relationship with Food Became So Broken
It’s 2020, and we, as women, we’re taking our health into our own hands. We’re trying to make more informed decisions; we’re ditching healthcare for self-care, we’re trading in prescription drugs for CBD. When it comes to our food we’re eating...
How I Fell in Love with Food & Health
Did you know that every superhero has an origin story? You know, the story of who they are, where they began, and how they became who they are. As I started writing Love Food, Love Yourself, one of my editors told said to me: This book is going to totally suck unless...
11 Meal Delivery Services Who’s Food You’ll Want To Eat In 2020
In 2019, the evolution of the meal kit had fully arrived in the form of meal delivery and subscription services. Due to COVID-19, this once struggling food delivery model has become profitable, and revenue is up as much as 300%. For those of you who are now,...
Raising Heritage Pork & Being a Female Farmer in Washington
For me, 2020 is a year that’s going down in history. Like you, I’ll never forget what it was like to live through global pandemic, the largest civil and human rights movements of the last two decades, and having to learn to isolate myself from others. Before all...
When It Comes to Your Pantry, Focus On Essentials
It never ceases to amaze me how complicated we make food, health, and nutrition. It even trickles over into what we have in our kitchens to cook with. Believe it or not, you may think that your kitchen has to be stocked with tons of different things to make fantastic...