You heard correctly! April 21st is National Chocolate Covered Cashew Day. Good thing SunRidge Farms has you covered. You’ll want to visit your favorite retailer that is carrying our bulk products and look for item 022608 to find delicious Dark Chocolate Covered Cashews.
Make this the year you buy bulk foods. Let’s take care of the environment and save money by reducing packaging.
National Bulk Foods Week is October 13-19, 2013. Here’s a little more information on how to shop for bulk foods – http://www.yumsugar.com/How-Shop-Food-Bulk-29458772
We don’t need to say much here as it’s well presented in this editorial – http://www.huffingtonpost.com/toni-nagy/what-every-parent-should-_b_3008452.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular,organic-food
NFC, a leading certifier of Kosher foods, has instituted a NO GMO Policy. “While according to the strict letter of Kosher food law, a GMO food ingredient is not prohibited, it certainly is not natural,” says Rabbi Reuven Flamer, Founder and Director of NFC. For more on this, here’s the link to the NFC website – http://nfccertification.info/nfc-apple-kosher/nfc-announces-no-gmo-kosher-policy/
A story we’ll be following very closely is this from naturalnews.com. http://www.naturalnews.com/039864_GMO_corn_nutrients_minerals.html
This is a story we all need to follow for our health.
Unhealthy and highly processed junk food. It’s everywhere since it seems so innocuous and simple. However, the truth is that these snacks are quite ominous and not so simple. We understand this and it’s one of the driving motivations for our creativity in coming up with new snacks that are healthier and lightly processed, if at all. Part of the problem in the proliferation of these snacks that are undermining the health of consumer who is purchasing them is the lack of knowledge or awareness to these concerns. That’s about to change!
The following article adapted from “Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us,” which will be published by Random House this month. This excerpt should be enough to make sure that this book is on your reading list for this year. Here’s the link from the NY Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/magazine/the-extraordinary-science-of-junk-food.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&
The Farmers Assurance Provision, slipped into a recent spending bill essentially strips the courts of the ability to challenge Monsanto’s GMO seeds or crops even if the courts become aware of health issues related to those items. Read more on the story here – http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/food-oversight-curbs-spending-bill-outrage-article-1.1298967
The fight to label GM foods isn’t over and it looks like the grocery retailers might force the issue. The Hiller’s grocery chain in Detroit is labeling all of the foods in their stores to help consumers know if it is Non-GMO or not. We like this approach and wanted to share this story. http://www.abc-7.com/story/21572988/grocery-chain-labeling-non-gmo-foods#.UT4ndBmGE7A
We look forward to seeing everyone at the Natural Products EXPO West in Anaheim, March 8-10. Come by our booth #2789 and sample some of our newest items and get all the information you need on our bulk displays, packaged products, and HealthyGO snacks. For information on the show and a location map to our booth, please follow this link, http://www.expowest.com/ew13/public/Booth.aspx?IndexInList=6&FromPage=ExhibitorList.aspx&ParentBoothID=&ListByBooth=true&BoothID=1125010&AEID=433,438
We found this story on Yahoo today and wanted to link to it since it offered very reasonable reasons for avoiding certain types of foods, food additives, etc. that we feel very strongly about as well. In some cases it’s not just the food itself but the process in which is grown which often times is very detrimental to the environment as well as the likelihood of being detrimental to you. By removing these 14 items from your diet you stand a great chance of improving your health this year. http://health.yahoo.net/articles/nutrition/photos/14-foods-you-should-cut-your-diet#0
