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MOTHER’S DAY GIFTS Give Mom a Treat That’s As Sweet As Her!
Peanut butter lovers rejoice! Do you have someone in your life who puts peanut butter on everything, and I mean everything? Tantalize their taste buds with Irresistible Pretzelmade with Honey Roasted Peanuts and Pretzels and White Chocolate or Simply Salty Carmel made with Honey Roasted Peanuts and Creamy Caramel and Pink Himalayan Salt.
This peanut butter is a perfect treat for a peanut butter-loving mom. Whether her style is salty or sweet, B.Nutty offers multiple flavors so there’s a peanut butter flavor for everyone!
B.Nutty Features:
- Gluten-free
- Zero trans fat
- 15 Flavors!
- Grab-and-go sizes
About B.Nutty:
This amazing peanut butter brand was started by two soccer moms. These mompreneurs were simply creating batches of peanut butter for fundraisers when they realized there was a demand for their gourmet peanut butter all year around! “We tend to run our business as an extension of our family. We know what it’s like to run a household so we cater around family schedules and picking up kids from school. Our company is all about work, work, work and then kids, kids, kids. We love that we’re able to bring family values into our small business. We call our facility The Nuthouse and we’re a little nutty and we like to keep it fun but also family-oriented!” Says Carol, co-founder.
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STAY ALERT COFFEE LOVERS, SOMETHING BIG IS BREWING WITHIN SINGLE-SERVE COFFEE
Step aside, coffee pods.
Take a rest, instant coffee.
There’s finally a single-serve option available in the world of high-end coffee, and it’s quickly becoming a game changer.
Santa Cruz-based startup Steeped, Inc., one of the most promising and innovative companies in the industry, has launched its revolutionary Steeped Coffee brewing method to serious coffee drinkers across the nation. Brewed similar to tea, Steeped Coffee’s nitro sealed Steeped Bags, along with their guilt-free packaging made using renewable and compostable materials, achieve the unthinkable: freshly ground specialty coffee in a single-serving. Best of all, it’s barista-approved.
Steeped Coffee launched when serial entrepreneur and coffee lover Josh Wilbur decided to combine the convenience of a single-serving brew method with the premium quality of ethically sourced coffee. Wilbur wanted to redeem the environmental dilemma created by wasteful coffee pods. Happy to do the math, Wilbur points out over 10 billion unrecyclable pods accumulate in landfills each year – enough to wrap around the earth more than 110 times if placed side-by-side. Moreover, each type of pod depends on expensive and often moldy brewing machines, which are also unrecyclable.
It took Wilbur seven years to innovate the proprietary Steeped Coffee system that delivers fresh roasted, pre-portioned, precision ground, micro batched coffee in customized Full Immersion Filters. “Premium coffee roasters have shied away from offering their specialty beans in single-serve packaging because it’s been nearly impossible to keep ground coffee fresh, which quickly ruins the taste,” said Wilbur. “With our Nitro Sealed bags, oxygen is replaced with nitrogen, so the coffee stays fresh as if it was ground moments ago.”
“Steeped Packs are the easiest way to make a delicious cup of coffee,” Wilbur Says. “You shouldn’t need to perform chemistry before you’ve made your coffee.” Simply steep each Steeped Bag in hot water for about five minutes to allow the coffee to develop its distinctive body and flavor. There is no machine, no noise, no cleanup, no destructive waste.
As for flavor? Even the most discerning coffee connoisseurs in the industry are singing the praises of Steeped Coffee. Barista Magazine is a believer: “Like a tea bag—but for coffee? This new product from Steeped Coffee might just be one of our fave new ways to brew coffee on the road.”
“Finding Steeped has changed my coffee drinking life,” raved one reviewer on Producthunt.com. “It’s my favorite new brewing method and I can’t believe more people haven’t heard of this yet. It is going to be huge.”
Entrepreneur’s Handbook concurs: “You’re likely going to see the Steeped Coffee methodology in hospitals, offices, hotels — places where single-serve coffee reigns — and perhaps on your next flight.
Features of Steeped Coffee include:
- 100% Specialty Coffee: quality coffee ethically sourced directly from farmers
- Nitro Sealed: removes oxygen, stopping the clock on freshly ground beans
- Ultrasonic Edges: no glue, staples, or wasted materials for max steeping
- Full Immersion Filter: non-GMO filters that regulate ideal water-in and maximum flavor-out
- Guilt-Free Packaging: made using plant-based renewable and compostable materials
- Micro Batching: roasted locally in small batches
- Precision Ground: consistent water-cooled grinding to the micron
- Pre-Portioned: consistent SCA recommended water-to-coffee ratios
- Just Add Water: single-serve convenience with no machines required
- Barista Approved: tested by multiple independent specialty coffee Q-graders for freshness, quality, and taste
The Steeped Coffee brand is available in five roasts: light, medium, dark, French roast, and a single-origin Swiss Water Process decaf. You can get your hands on Steeped Coffee packs at www.steepedcoffee.com, various luxury hotels, top company break rooms, by asking your local retail stores to start carrying Steeped, or through any of the partnered specialty roasters now offering their own Steeped Packs with their coffee.
With so many coffee gadgets, machines, and accessories flooding the market these days, this simple unplugged Steeped Coffee brewing method might be just what you’re looking for to take your moment, while at home, at work, or on-the-go.
About Steeped Coffee:
Steeped Coffee is the most convenient way to make a cup of delicious coffee. Steeped, Inc., based in Santa Cruz, California, is a B-Corp (Benefit Corporation) focused on Purpose Beyond Profits. They strive to innovate and find new solutions to old problems, to be a light on a hill, to honor and value every relationship, and to set new standards of doing business without compromise. Steeped is focused on every detail from farm to cup and beyond, to bring people the most convenient, quality, ethically sourced, and sustainably packaged products available. For more information, visithttp://www.steepedcoffee.com.
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Sweets of Eden – Homemade Caramels Still Being Made the Old-Fashioned Way
Susanne McBride admits she’s not much of a cook, but when it comes to caramels, she’s a regular Mary See. A micro-confectioner, if you will, one batch at a time.
While not an expert in the kitchen, making caramels is what she could do and her friends and family agreed. McBride, along with her daughter Kate Brown and their combined families, are owners of Sweets of Eden, Homemade Caramels and More, a business they began in 2016. McBride began making the creamy treats 30 years ago after remembering her mother’s caramels, a family recipe that was lost a decade before. She found a new recipe, and while not exactly the same as her mother’s, it was a hit and brought back fond memories.
The caramels are all made by hand, slow cooked, small batch and individually wrapped. Currently they are being sold at pop-up locations at festivals and fairs in Monterey County as well as Downtown Gift Shop in Oldtown Salinas. Making up to 20 pounds per week and recently permitted to sell wholesale, they are in the process of creating packages for local stores throughout Monterey County, with a different flavor featured monthly.
Starting with vanilla caramels, they soon expanded and now produce up to more than 15 flavors seasonally, including sea salt, apple pie, coffee, pumpkin, peppermint, raspberry, root beer, green apple, orange creamsicle, passionfruit, lemon, cinnamon and licorice. All are gluten and dye-free. The family is testing out several new flavors, such as bacon caramel, a hot spicy caramel and sugar-free and never lack for volunteers for the taste testing. The maker’s favorite? McBride says, “The last batch made is always the favorite until the next batch is made.” McBride is a third-generation Monterey County resident — her family has been in the area since the 1870s. Both McBride and Brown have full-time jobs, but love to step into the kitchen and stir the pot. As for how the name of the company was created, well, it just made sense. “We are surrounded by Steinbeck and it clicked. There is a sweet history here and we are going to include it.”
So far the only way to get the caramels is at one of the pop-ups, at select stores and by contacting the family direct.
About Sweets of Eden:
The grandkids are 6th generation Monterey County. Family history dates back to the late 1870’s, long before it was Steinbeck Country. Perhaps a chapter in the Long Valley was about our family….perhaps.
After many years of making caramels, and with the help and support of their husbands and kids, They decided go “BIG”! Big for them anyway. You can find them at local fairs and Farmers Markets. In the meantime follow them on IG and FB. They will keep you posted on new flavors and locations.
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Newest Raves for Festival Season
Coachella marks the beginning of festival season, that magical time of year when it’s totally acceptable to wear a full face of glitter in broad daylight, dress like a unicorn and wear a fanny pack. It’s so important for your look to be on trend (and out of this world), but have you also taken the time to consider what absolute essentials you’ll need for your trip to the desert?
Being outside partying for hours on end in the sun and arid climate can come with a few challenges. A refillable water bottle and sunscreen are obvious must-haves, but what do you do when the lack of sleep and dry air catch up with you, leaving your eyes red and irritated?
Welcome LUMIFY redness reliever eye drops from Bausch + Lomb to center stage. When your eyes are red, these drops are your ticket to brighter, whiter and more radiant looking eyes. Not only will they look clearer, but LUMIFY feels refreshing and soothing, too. What’s more, the bottle is so small that it can easily be carried in your festival fanny pack. Your secret to red eye relief couldn’t be more convenient.
Just one drop of LUMIFY starts working in 1 minute for more beautiful and vibrant looking eyes that last up to 8 hours. Make sure to bring LUMIFY along with all of the other, latest raves for festival season… because you don’t want to be caught in the desert unprepared!
For more information, please visit www.lumifydrops.com.
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Can One Superhero Moisturizer Be Your Everything?
This season, Care Skincare launched The Everything Multi-Level Moisturizer. This multi-functional formula nourishes, hydrates and repairs the skin, providing the benefits of a serum in the comfort of a cream. Key ingredients in The Everything Multi-Level Moisturizerinclude:
- Three Molecular Weights of Hyaluronic Acid—treat short-term and long-term dehydration on the surface of the skin, as well as its deeper layers.
- A Special Peptide Blend of Palmitoyl Tripeptide 1 & 7—stimulates the regeneration of different types of collagen, renewing the skin and reducing lines and wrinkles.
- A Natural-Grade Fermentation of Sweet Black Tea—supplies the skin with antioxidants to fight free radical damage. This ingredient also has anti-bacterial properties and contains polyphenols, which are linked to skin rejuvenation.
- Turmeric Root Extract—acts as a natural antioxidant to protect against free radical damage and environmental stress, improving skin tone and clarity.
- Centella Asiatica Extract—contains amino acids, beta carotene, fatty acids, and phytochemicals that soothe and calm the skin and deliver powerful anti-aging properties—supporting the skin’s underlying structure and improving elasticity.
- Superoxide Dismutase—this antioxidant enzyme serves as one of the body’s most potent defenses against destructive free radicals that can harm the skin.
- Sodium Ascorbyl Phosphate—a stabilized form of vitamin C that is ideally suited to nourish and even out skin tones.
All products in the Care Skincare line were developed by a team of world-class experts using high quality ingredients that strictly adhere to the brand’s clearly communicated standards for “Clean Beauty.” Everything offered from the brand is fragrance-free, alcohol-free, mineral oil-free, paraben-free, phthalates-free, and cruelty-free. The brand strives to be easy to understand, having stripped away any unnecessary jargon from its marketing. Packaging is simple, legible, functional, and always recyclable.
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art & eden launches brand new collab with Animal Planet
Last month, art & eden celebrated its 2nd birthday with the launch of its new collab with Animal Planet (subsidiary of Discovery), debuting boys’ and girls’ clothes featuring endangered species that benefit Project CAT, an organization which serves to protect tigers in the wild. The new art & eden x Animal Planet collection is available on Nordstrom.com, Kidbox, and at www.artandeden.com. There is both a boy and girls collection for children 6 months – 10 years old, and price points fall between $30-$42 USD.
art & eden is a sustainable cotton kids’ clothing brand. This collection will feature vibrant images of animals that are in vital need of protection and conservation, such as tigers, elephants, sharks and whales. In addition, a portion of the proceeds from the sale of the line will go to ProjectCAT, Discovery’s ongoing initiative with the World Wildlife Fund dedicated to ensuring a healthy habitat for future generations of tigers.
Created sustainably and packaged in recycled materials, the Animal Planet x art & eden collection will feature more than 40 exclusive designs including shirts, dresses, skirts and shorts, all made of organic cotton and low-‐ impact dyes. The marketing campaign supporting the apparel collection will spotlight the unique combined mission of protecting endangered animals while also emboldening children to create a planet they are proud of.
Carolann Dunn, Vice President, Consumer Products Licensing at Discovery, said, “The collaboration with art & eden will not only feature beautiful aesthetics and quality eco-‐friendly materials, but it’s a true celebration of wildlife. Animal Planet’s mission is to keep the childhood joy and wonder of animals alive by bringing people closer in every way; and this new fashion collection is a great way for our littlest fans to both enjoy and show their support of wildlife and nature.”
Susan Correa, Founder & C.E.O of art & eden, expressed much joy as she said, ”We checked yet another box of a dream coming to fruition in our serendipity filled journey, when we signed the collaboration between art & eden and Animal Planet. At art & eden, our attention has always been captured by the beauty of biological diversity and our artists have done a terrific job of converting biota as it walks, flies, roars, barks, crawls, swims, swoops & buzzes on our fabric. We recognize that while animal, aquatic and aerial life has movement -‐ extinction is mute and silent, and it has no voice but our own.
The animals we so enjoy today – could well be in the history books of tomorrow’s children. We are thrilled that through this partnership, we can bring awareness to the beauty of life in our world and collectively we can seek progress by responsible interaction with the diversity that surrounds us.”
The new apparel line will continue the overall effort of ProjectCAT, Discovery Communications’ ongoing initiative with the World Wildlife Fund dedicated to ensuring a healthy habitat for future generations of tigers. The partnership raises awareness for the endangered species and provides a portion of proceeds to Project CAT in support of a global effort to double the number of tigers in the wild by 2022.
About Discovery:
Discovery, Inc. (Nasdaq: DISCA, DISCB, DISCK) is a global leader in real life entertainment, serving a passionate audience of superfans around the world with content that inspires, informs and entertains. Discovery delivers over 8,000 hours of original programming each year and has category leadership across deeply loved content genres around the world. Available in 220 countries and territories and 50 languages, Discovery is a platform innovator, reaching viewers on all screens, including TV Everywhere products such as the GO portfolio of apps and Discovery Kids Play; direct-‐to-‐consumer streaming services such as Eurosport Player and Motor Trend OnDemand; digital-‐ first and social content from Group Nine Media and a strategic alliance with the PGA Tour to create the Global Home of Golf. Discovery’s portfolio of premium brands includes Discovery Channel, HGTV, Food Network, TLC, Investigation Discovery, Travel Channel, Turbo/Velocity, Animal Planet, and Science Channel, as well as OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network in the U.S., Discovery Kids in Latin America, and Eurosport, the leading provider of locally relevant, premium sports and Home of the Olympic Games across Europe. For more information, please visit www.corporate.discovery.com and follow @DiscoveryIncTV across social platforms.
About Animal Planet:
Animal Planet, one of Discovery, Inc.’s great global brands, is dedicated to creating high quality content with global appeal delivering on its mission to keep the childhood joy and wonder of animals alive by bringing people up close in every way. Available to 360 million homes in more than 205 countries and territories, Animal Planet combines content that explores the undeniable bonds forged between animals and humans, optimized across all screens around the world. In the U.S., Animal Planet audiences can enjoy their favorite programming anytime, anywhere through the Animal Planet Go app which features live and on-‐demand access. For more information, please visit www.animalplanet.com@animalplanet
About art & eden
art & eden is business reimagined -‐ a thoughtfully built, deeply considered, lifestyle brand for children created in a sustainable business model that has embraced triple top line accountability ensuring we build a product thats best for the world. art & eden’s approach focusses on ensuring prosperity, while celebrating community and nature, so the results are far more positive, as they can be economically, ecologically and equitably enjoyed. Our Buy Better. Do Better -‐ campaign commits to a percent of profits used to nourish children in need locally and globally.
art & eden has reimagined the business of business.It is about ushering in change in the unchanged business of fashion. It is about using business as a force for good. It is our call to action – to care about leaving “Tomorrow’s Children” a world they can thrive in.
