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The Friday 5

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Happy anniversary to us! 🙂 Today is our 11th wedding anniversary, and we’re planning to celebrate on our family vacation this evening. Thankfully, Club Med has group babysitting in the evening, so Mal and I will get to have a proper date night to celebrate #11! And, of course, I’ll be sure to have a full  wedding anniversary recap when we get home! Speaking of anniversaries… The early access to the  Nordstrom Anniversary Sale kicks off today! Woohoo! Early access is only for Cardholders and Nordy Club Members, so if you’re not, be sure to mark your calendars for the official start of the Nordstrom anniversary sale on 7/19. There’s always so many great deals – you don’t want to miss it! I’ll also have a blog post with my favorites from the sale next week! Since it’s Friday and all, it’s time for another edition of The Friday 5 where I share 5 of my favorites from the week. I wrote this blog post before we left for vacation, and I hope you enjoy it. See you next week! 🙂 1. Embr

Scout & Cellar Clean-Crafted Wine FAQs

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If you’re new to clean-crafted wine, you might have some questions about why Scout & Cellar wines are different from others on the market. I personally think they are delicious, which, of course, is why I became an independent consultant, but I really love that they are better for you. Read on for some commonly asked questions and responses (aka Scout & Cellar Clean-Crafted Wine FAQs). If you have additional ones, please don’t hesitate to reach out, and I hope you enjoy this Scout & Cellar Clean-Crafted Wine FAQs post! Scout & Cellar Clean-Crafted Wine FAQs What does “clean-crafted”   mean exactly? The short answer: wines that are grown naturally—without the use of synthetic pesticides—and bottled consciously—without added sugars or non-organic chemicals to modify texture, flavor, color or aroma. The result is wine that is natural, delicious and provides an all-around better wine experience —just like nature intended! How do you verify a wine is clean-crafted? It

Is 50 the New 70? How the Modern Lifestyle Is Remaking Middle Age

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“Do not go gentle into that good night.” That’s one of my favorite lines in all of literature, and it informs my outlook on health, life, wellness, and longevity. Live long, drop dead. Compression of morbidity . Vitality to the end. All that good stuff. But I’m sorry to report that Dylan Thomas imploring you to assail life with boldness is becoming harder for the average person to fulfill and embody. People more than ever before are heading into middle age with a head-start on the degenerative changes to body composition and function that used to only hit older folks. They may want to go boldly into that good night, but their bodies probably won’t be cooperating. Ignore the standouts for a moment. I’m not talking about that awesome granny you saw deadlifting her bodyweight on Instagram or the centenarian sprinter smoking the competition. I’m not talking about the celebrities with personal trainers and access to the latest and greatest medical technologies. I’m referring to the gene

Are you a victim of healthwashing? (Find out the ways food companies trick you)

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When I first started researching ingredients and food over 8 years ago, the industry was so different than it is now… More people are aware of what’s in their food – we’re reading ingredient lists, juicing, taking supplements, and eating more real food. That’s why we’re now seeing a wave of new “healthy” products flooding the market as some food brands are hoping to cash in on the health food movement…  But some brands aren’t going about it the right way. You’ve heard of greenwashing, right? That’s when a company makes their product appear more environmentally-friendly than it really is. Well, the same is happening to our food. Health-washing is EVERYWHERE. “Health-washing” is when a food company adds synthetic and processed additives to food to make it appear healthier and more nutrient dense than it actually is. Food companies will also add specific labels to the packaging, which imply a product is healthier than it actually is.  They are targeting people like you with these

The Return Of Sunflower Butter

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Remember when the blog world discovered sunflower seed butter? Nut butter fanatics everywhere went gaga. It was my favorite drizzle for over a year, and I barely ate peanut butter at all. I think the trend went like this: all kinds of crazy peanut butter –> almond butter –> multi butters –> sunflower butter –> –> Cookie butter –> full circle peanut butter When Mazen started preschool, I had to pack nut free lunches for  years . He ate so much sunflower butter that he stopped eating it. At the same time, I started buying the Sunbutter brand at Whole Foods so I didn’t have to make a second trip to Trader Joe’s. On my recent trip to TJs I picked up a jar of the original TJs sunflower butter and OMG I FELL IN LOVE AGAIN! It is NOT the same as Sunbutter – it’s way better! Drippier and not as earthy. SB is back. Also on the breakfast train… Smoothies galore. And peaches out of our ears. So summery good! Lunches This Week There was also a time, I think before I was