All Cookies Are Not Created Equal

We're so proud to be partnering this week with local vegan baker and rockstar mom-preneur, Jennifer Ward of Be Free Bakers, for our optional dessert offering.  Her products boast whole grain, gluten-free, nut-free, dairy free, corn-free, vegan, and truly natural.  In short, they are the kind of magic that only comes from Tinkerbell's wand of pixie dust and leprechauns sliding down rainbows into that big pot of chocolate, I mean, gold.

All cookies are NOT created equal.  

Unconstitutional - yes.  There are cookies...and then there are COOKIES.  We're not sure if it's that beautifulAskinosie Chocolate or the pureness of these God-given ingredients or just the love mixed into each batch of cookies.  I cannot put my finger on it, but when I take a bite of these delicious desserts, I feel the same way I felt on my first roadtrip in my Honda Odessey - WOW, they thought of everything!  Someone really loves me.  From the extra storage and blind spot information system to the decadent blend of chocolate to cookie ratio and 'ingredients-I-can-pronounce' label, I fell in love.

Outsourcing, or local-sourcing, any of our dishes is a Conveniently Natural first.  We just couldn't hoard these all to ourselves and wanted to give you the opportunity to fall in love with a Springfield, MO lawyer-turned-chocolatier (Askinosie chocolate) and a Lees Summit gluten-free mom turned entrepreneur (Be Free Bakers) who understands that allergen-free foods don't have to taste like cardboard and drop like hockey pucks.

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Ways to Get Healthier 

 

We're always on the lookout for ways to make your life easier and get healthier at the same time.  Here are a few of our top local picks:

1.  Be Free Bakers: a gluten-free vegan bakery ~ cookies, cupcakes, flour mixes.  Persistence is the name of the game. Founder Jennifer Ward just kept at it in her search for great-tasting, equal-opportunity treats that didn't exclude anyone or their allergies.  These truly are the bomb!  (Really...that's the name of one of her cookies - try it!)  Find out where to buy here.

2.  Scott Fitness:  a gym with fewer meatheads and hardly any...well, you can read more about it here.  No screaming, no grunting, no beating of chests! Finally...a 24-hour gym where you can check your fear, insecurities, and mipples at the groovy, hand-scanning door.    

3.  Roving Imp Theater: in the spirit of laughter really being the best medicine, my long-lost, short-lived days as a comedic improviser taught some of the best lessons in life ~ all while laughing my arse right off.  Once trained by Roving Imp's Nifer Honeycutt who went on to study at the Second City Conservatory in Chicago, I feel like I'm 6 degrees from Jason Sudekis (wait...he's a KC native).  Anyway, let go and laugh now and then.