All of the cool stuff delivered to my doorstep is often for my child. However typically the goodies are for me.
My entrance stoop will get its fair proportion of packages. Most of them change into for my son, who’s sponsored by some health manufacturers that ship him all the pieces from protein powders to backpacks for him to scoop up commissions on no matter sells via his promotional efforts. My son will get to assessment and promote some cool “power” stuff; I assume that makes him an influencer.
Typically the samples and assessment copies that arrive at my dwelling workplace are for me. Once I see my identify on the handle label as an alternative of his, it’s at all times a bit of like Christmas.
The latest booty included some enjoyable discoveries.
B Good Grainola
Get it? Not simply the “B Good” half, which is a cute and necessary exhortation, but in addition GRAINola. GRAIN. Not gran. A field full.
I’m not a beer drinker, however give me granola made with spent brewer’s barley and I’m munching away with a smile on my face. That’s the key to B Good’s enterprise.
Because the B Good web site explains, they work with craft breweries to get the spent brewer’s grain that can ultimately grow to be their luggage and bars of granola.
“The primary a part of the brewing course of is just like making iced tea — it’s referred to as mash. Scrumptious grains are soaked in scorching water to take away the carbs, which is able to later be fermented into alcohol. This leaves behind ‘spent grain’ — complete grain that’s wealthy in fiber and protein.”
B Good had the thought to take these flavorful leftovers and make meals from rigorously chosen grain blends that included Vienna Malts and Chocolate Malts.
Rebekah Rotzler, whose husband, Hilliard Rotzler, is the founder-creator of B Good Grainola, was the one who despatched my field of goodies stuffed with “the one granola bars and granola made with spent grains from Texas craft breweries.”
You can not think about the crunchy pleasure I’ve been experiencing consuming it by the handful, bowlful, and bar. Don’t power me to decide on a favourite taste although as a result of I actually can’t resolve. Okay, in case you threatened to by no means let me have any B Good Grainola once more, I’d most likely have to decide on the coconut and peanut butter.
However, significantly, I’m not going to play favorites when all of them are scrumptious and wealthy in fiber and the flexibility to attenuate meals waste. “It’s a win for everyone and the planet,” say the B Good individuals.
To which I say, Hear, hear! After which must remind myself to decelerate and chew at an appropriately sluggish savoring tempo.
Right here’s extra of B Good GRAINola’s story:
Why Spent Brewer’s Grains?: “Merely put, we noticed a chance to make the most of the scrumptious and nutrient-rich spent grains from craft brewers as an ingredient in our premium granola and granola bars. We love the depth of taste and fiber these grains impart to the meals we make … to not point out that we’re up-cycling a product that may in any other case go to waste.”
Artisan Cooking Strategies: “Along with our distinctive ingredient sourcing, we additionally make use of artisan cooking methods. The product is handmade in small batches, and we slow-cook the product for 12 hours for a deeply caramelized taste profile that leads to a decrease sugar content material.”
Diet: Smart calorie depend (~170 cal/svg) and sugar (~7 grams) profile with improved fiber (four grams) and protein (four grams) content material over conventional granolas.
Flavors: Coconut, Honey Almond, Oats and Honey, Peanut Butter.
Retail Value: $0.99 (single-serve granola luggage), $1.49 (granola bars), $7.49 (giant granola luggage)
The place To Discover It: B Good Grainola and Grainola Bars can be found at Central Market, Complete Meals Market (regionally in Dallas), Walmart, and direct via BGood.co. Native retailers carry their merchandise in East Texas.
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Ecomended Zero-Waste Life-style
Ecomended is a one-stop-shop the place you will discover zero-waste, eco-friendly, inexpensive, and sustainable merchandise in your cool and acutely aware way of life. From housewares to well being and sweetness, Ecomended merchandise run the gamut from vegan dental floss and wheat-fiber journey cutlery to shampoo bars and artisanal cleaning soap. Their shampoo bars are hand-poured in-store at their brick-and-mortar store in Arizona and are available in quite a lot of lovely shapes.
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Any person’s Mom’s Gourmand Dessert Sauces
Award-winning producers of gourmand dessert sauces, Somebody’s Mother bought its begin in Houston in April 2005 when founder Lynn Lasher determined to show her three youngsters find out how to begin a enterprise “and, extra importantly, find out how to take issues into their very own arms and to imagine accountability for their very own monetary wellbeing.”
Chocolate, caramel, praline, mocha, white chocolate — in espresso, on ice cream and recent fruit — nonetheless you do your dollops, that is some yummy sweet stuff.
The identify of the corporate and the philosophy behind it are one thing I relate to. As Lasher explains on the Any person’s Mom web site: “Usually talking, moms are virtually by no means validated or acknowledged, a lot much less compensated. They do it instinctively. They love instinctively they usually make sacrifices each day. That’s the principle purpose we began utilizing quotes about mothering, or parenting, on the jar lids of our merchandise. We have now 36 now and I like to see the jars askew on the shelf as a result of I do know meaning somebody is searching for simply the suitable quote which, if not recognition, at the very least appears to provide everybody a bit of chuckle.”
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Zincuta Ointment
I’ve at all times been a sucker for ointments in little metallic tins. Even when I didn’t have psoriasis, I’d have been excited to get this old-fashioned-looking skincare product. Zincuta’s Ointment — “a specialty pores and skin cream that brings aid and heals pores and skin afflictions, together with chafes, burns, sunburns, abrasions, uncooked sores, insect bites, psoriasis, eczema, poison ivy, and extra” — is definitely each old school and fashionable.
Impressed by the works of Dr. Josiah C. Case (1865 – 1930), the brand new formulation is the work of herbalist Donna Penney, who researched the nice physician’s authentic and lovingly formulated a very new model of Zincuta.
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Dr. Segal’s Compression Socks
You don’t want me to inform you that sedentary confinement impacts muscle groups and circulation and causes leg fatigue and swelling. Anybody who has flown or sat for lengthy uninterrupted hours at a desk is aware of what I’m speaking about.
Compression socks will help, they usually needn’t seem like you raided your grandpa’s laundry basket or dressed your self in a Walgreen’s Pharmacy aisle.
Dr. Segal’s compression socks are sufficient of a modern different that they made it into O, the Oprah journal. Combining medical expertise with type and design, Dr. Segal’s makes an on a regular basis assortment in addition to medical compression and diabetic socks.
Want I’d had a few of these once I was pregnant!
I gave a pair to my mother, who appreciated having a sassy-looking pair of socks to take care of some gentle swelling in her legs.
Dr. Segal’s socks have greater than type going for them:
- Breathable cotton mix as an alternative of nylon
- Large-top consolation band to stop pinching, chafing, and rolling down
- Antimicrobial and silver-ion wash for odor and stain safety
- Terry cushioning within the toes and heels for additional consolation
- Flat-felled seam development for no lumps or bumps
Seeing my mother’s legs up on her recliner in a pair of those unhealthy boys gave me as a lot pleasure as pulling a pair alone drained legs and toes.