Category: Healthy Living
Holiday Survival Tips
Holiday stress, travel, cold temperatures and shorter daylight hours can make us more susceptible to feeling down. Here are a few of our favorite holiday survival tips. Take 5-10 minutes for yourself each day. Spend 5 -10 minutes away from friends and family to do something you enjoy, such as listening to music or doing … Continued
Ingredient Swaps for Special Diets: Making the Holidays Delicious for Everyone
November and December are full of holiday parties, celebrations and gatherings. Whether it’s the annual office holiday party, the Thanksgiving feast you’re hosting or a New Year’s bash, chances are you’ll find yourself cooking in the next few weeks. There’s also a good chance that you’ll be cooking for someone who has special dietary requirements. … Continued
Healthy Salads For Your Thanksgiving Meal
Mashed potatoes, stuffing and turkey always get all the love. This year why not add some crispy, green carb-relief to your Thanksgiving feast? Fall Harvest Salad with Pumpkin Goddess Dressing With squash, apples, and cranberries – it includes everything you want at your Thanksgiving table. Plus, that pumpkin goddess dressing looks amazing! Get the recipe Wild … Continued
Kick Start Your Immune System for Fall
Boosting your immune system before cold and flu season gets in to full swing is important, which is why our employees have pulled together their top 10 favorite products for boosting the immune system. Gaia’s Black Elderberry Syrup: Cold and flu season beware! Our wellness team swears by this product, a natural concentration of immune-boosting … Continued
Healthy Halloween Treats Kids Will Love
Halloween is an opportunity for strengthening community, with many people walking door-to-door around their neighborhoods. It’s a time to foster imaginations as kids (and adults) dress up as superheroes, princesses or villains. It’s a time of delivering treats, seeing gap-toothed grins and hearing “thank you” from Elsa and Harry Potter as they head down the … Continued
Don’t Judge a Veggie By Its Root
With thick skin, strange colors and long, sprouty stems, very few would argue that root vegetables are the Brad Pitt of produce. While not always aesthetically pleasing, root vegetables are tasty and nutrient-dense. We’ve outlined below our top five reasons to stock your pantry with in-season root vegetables this fall. Versatile: Most root vegetables can be … Continued
Spring Clean Your Cleaning Supplies
Written by: Amy Haggerty – Lakewinds Marketing Specialist Spring is finally here (please?) and that means it’s time for bike rides around the lake, barbecuing with friends and deep cleaning your home from top to bottom. Yes, it’s Spring Cleaning time! That wonderful (to some) time of the year when we attempt to rid ourselves of the … Continued
Feeding your Family on a Budget – the Lakewinds Food Co-op Way!
Written by: Jill Krantz – Lakewinds Event & Community Relations Coordinator Is it possible to feed your family, on a budget, with mostly organic and/or natural foods? Even a large one like mine? Six kids, three of whom are teenage boys. . . YES. It requires some basic knowledge, simple planning, and a little extra … Continued