LASSENS – NATURAL FOODS & VITAMINS
How to Eat? Written by Gayle Every once in a while I like to have a little shot in the arm to increase my motivation to eat right. It is so easy to get caught in a trap of eating without thinking, especially in the busy summer when my preference is to do things the […]
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Lassen’s Core Values Stand the Test of Time Written by Gayle When the Lassen family sat down several months ago to formalize our Mission Statement, Motto, and Core Values, it really didn’t take too long to boil them down. These are things that Lassen’s has believed in from the very beginning. When Oda Lassen opened her
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The Best Ice Cream Ever will Put a Smile on Your Face! Written by Gayle Photo from the McConnell’s website If you have visited Santa Barbara in the last, oh, sixty-five years, you are probably familiar with McConnell’s Ice Cream. It was a favorite stop for the Lassen family when they went to the Santa
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Do You Want to Ride Your Bicycle? Written by Gayle Where is your helmet, girl?image from www.publicdomainpictures.net by Karen Arnold Did you know that May is National Bike to Work Month? This week is Bike to Work Week, and tomorrow, May 16, 2014 is Bike to Work Day! According to The League of American Bicyclists (since 1880!) more than
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Healthy, Quick, Vegetarian, Vegan, and Delicious! Written by Gayle I always love quick, new, and easy recipes, especially when the weather gets hot and dry and being in the kitchen just does not sound appealing! This recipe comes from my daughter-in-law, Marci, who is a genius in the kitchen (and at restaurants–order what she orders
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We Can Make a Difference With our Dollars! Written by Gayle Image from Wikipedia Many years ago we visited Egypt as part of a travel tour. The pyramids, the camels, the Nile river, the mummies, the hieroglyphics–it was everything that I had imagined and much more. But part of the “much more” was disturbing.
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Celebrate Earth Day by Supporting Some of Our Beautiful Earth! Written by Gayle What’s 2 million acres, almost 80 years old, has more than 1,200 miles of maintained trails, stretches from the San Francisco Bay area to the LA County line, ranges from semi-arid desert to the coast and Redwood Forest, has more that 450
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Simpler is Better! Written by Gayle I love to throw open my windows and let in the fresh Spring air! It always reminds me of the Spring Cleaning ritual of my childhood. We don’t make such a production of it these days, but there is nothing like having a clean house or room or
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We Love Super Things! I don’t know what it is about super things, but from the time we were children, we have loved them. Check out the play time of any three- or four-year-old, and you’ll see lots of capes and masks. You like the rolling pin for a weapon? This kid of mine wore
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Take a Yearly Tradition and Make it Better! Written by Gayle When my kids were little I wasn’t that excited about the annual egg-dyeing activity. I was wary of the unnatural colors that were in the commercial egg-dyeing products. But I wasn’t creative enough to figure out this solution–use nature’s dyes! Today I did a
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