by Lauren Slayton | Apr 1, 2011 | Uncategorized
I am writing this from post from Blackberry Farm. I’m here giving a series of short talks to some guests participating in a motivational boot camp. If you aren’t familiar with Blackberry Farm it’s a farm to table property in the Smoky Mountains. All of the...
by Lauren Slayton | Mar 30, 2011 | Uncategorized
For today’s post I asked Melissa (@MarketMelissa) to talk meat substitutes. Melissa conducts our Market Foodtraining tours on various topics including “Vegetarian Foodtraining.” While I am not a vegetarian, I do believe there are major issues with...
by Lauren Slayton | Mar 28, 2011 | Uncategorized
Last year I took a break from nutrition and wrote a post for by younger son Weston. Both of my boys were born in March and for your children birthdays are literally the day of their birth. Nine years ago Saturday, I gave birth for the first time. I woke up early...
by Lauren Slayton | Mar 25, 2011 | Uncategorized
You know those naked people in the locker room at the gym? I am not one of those. Nor am I the girl running down the beach totally at ease in her bikini. I may have the bikini on but I’ll have my cover-up du jour on for more of the time. When we were in France last...
by Lauren Slayton | Mar 23, 2011 | Uncategorized
About a month ago I was encouraging a client to add more fruit to her diet. Pushing fruit in February is like selling pork in an Orthodox neighborhood. It isn’t easy. At the time I was loving Cara Cara oranges and suggested them to my client. “Oranges are too...
by Lauren Slayton | Mar 21, 2011 | Uncategorized
My friend Rebecca (of Beccarama) wrote on her blog about eating a steak. What made this event post-worthy and interesting was that Rebecca is a vegetarian and the post was entitled “falling off the vegetarian wagon”. Rebecca tells the story of...
