Brantley and I had the AWESOME opportunity of going and learning about Natural Grocers in Idaho Falls, a 100% natural grocery store.
The thing I found most interesting about the store is its founding principles. It is so different than any other business I have ever encountered.
-Its a Family Store beginning with a simple nutrition book
-Dedicated to provided nutrition education (they hold seminars 10x a year for their employees just so they are educated about health and nutrition)
-Everyday affordable pricing. I was a little skeptical about this one at first. Who knows of 100% natural foods as ever being "affordable" but as I looked around the store I noticed it really was! They can do this by saving money elsewhere (like no plastic bags or paper, only reusable-how awesome) so they can lower the prices for produce.
-committed to community. They provide free classes and one on one private nutrition coaches weekly in the store.
They have classes on...
Heart Health
Bone Health
Brain Health
Weight loss
Food Jungle (reading food labels)
Gluten Free Living
Meal Planning
(and more)
(I really want to take their cooking classes made with all natural ingredients)
-committed to employees. They provide their employees with a "living wage" rather than a minimum wage. It was cool to learn that when the company wasn't as big, the owners would take all the employees to lunch.
Basically the whole point of Natural Grocers is to inform others of the benefits of natural eating so that they can then make better decisions.
I love that.
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| Trevor Benion is the Nutritionist at Natural Grocers and put on the seminar |
I really enjoyed this seminar, partly because an AMAZING display of food was given to us. All made with 100% non artificial, organic and natural ingredients (that is HARD)
YEAH IM SERIOUS. All of these things were delicious (which I did not expect to be honest). It really is amazing all you can do with real ingredients. and they taste normal and GOOD. I don't know why we all don't all make these changes. I would eat like this everyday.
Top Left: Sausage and egg casserole
Top Right: curry and BLT lettuce wraps (my favorite)
Bottom Left: Vanilla Greek yogurt with Brazilian nuts and raspberries
Bottom Right: Dairy free blueberry cheesecake (so stinkin' good.)
I would recommend everyone go learn about making healthy alternatives and becoming educated in nutrition and other parts of your life!
PS) Natural Grocers also has a "health and beauty" section. I was in heaven.
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