LASSENS – NATURAL FOODS & VITAMINS
It’s Fantas… (Warning: Here comes an awful pun…) Today’s Food Demonstration in the Ventura store is Tangerine Kale Salad and let me tell you, it is FANTASI-KALE (whoop, there it is…)!!! Stephanie, our lovely Demo Captain, threw together an easy, fresh and delicious recipe primarily consisting of our Organic Local Produce. […]
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Sports Water Done Simple and Pure! Ok, I’ll just say it. My muscles cramp. A lot. Charlie Horses are not my friend, but they sure like me. And exercise makes it much worse. So I like to supplement my water with an electrolyte drink. But have you tasted some of those? All the sugar, all
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A Delicious Raw Energy Snack! It’s just a regular day in the Lassen’s office. I’m sipping my cinnamon vanilla herb tea from The Republic of Tea and working on graphics for an upcoming Lassens Event (Did you know that FABIO, the long haired wonder himself, is coming to our Thousand Oaks (1/25) and Ventura (1/26) locations
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Oda Lassen’s Granola Written by Gayle As promised a week ago, here is a great granola recipe. I got this recipe from Oda Lassen herself, although I have modified it a bit–her tastes were for things a bit sweeter than mine! Start with some old-fashioned rolled oats I love these
We Honor, Thank, and Miss Oda and Hilmar Look at these two adorable people! This is Oda and Hilmar Lassen, the founders of Lassen’s. We are so sad to announce that we have lost them both. Hilmar passed away on November 11, 2012 at the age of 98 and one-half, and Oda
Time for a Fresh Start! I’m not going to blast you with a guilt-trip on this New Year. But here are some suggestions for a great year. Notice Beauty When my sister and her husband moved from drizzly Seattle to the San Diego area, they promised each other that they would stop whatever they
Stocking Stuffer Ideas It’s officially December! Don’t tell me that there aren’t flurries of cottony snow falling gently on my eyelashes. Don’t say that around the corner there isn’t a frozen lake full of families ice skating and sledding down the powder covered hills. Do not attempt to look me in the eye and explain that there
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Dangers of GMOs Friday, October 5th, 2012, Lassens was asked to attend a special screening of the documentary Genetic Roulette in Westlake Village California at the Center of Spiritual Living. We were there! Armed with organic apples and Lassens alkaline waters which we handed out free to all attendees of the film, a trio of Lassen-ers
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Heathier and Happier! It’s hard to find a person in this world who doesn’t love (or at least like) mac & cheese. It is, I believe, the ultimate comfort food, right up there with chili and grilled cheese sandwiches. When I was a wee one my sister and I had mac-&-cheese-offs. Back then it was the big brand in
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Hello Summer! In case you missed it, let me be the first to warmly welcome you to SUMMER 2012! Frankly I don’t know how you could miss this summer sun. I can’t really see it right now from inside my office but I can feel it reaching down with those wiggly heat wave arms to
Peaches & Beaches / mini vegan peach cobblers Read More »
Pure Deliciousness! Today, June 4th, 2012, marks the start of the 3rd annual Hemp History Week; a public educational campaign to try to help bring back industrial hemp farming to the United States. Hemp was banned from American farms in the early 1900’s due to the demonization of the cannabis plant, namely hemp’s THC
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Reaching Out to Serve The plight of the citizens of Northern Uganda has been in the news cycle over the past few months. Invisible Children posted a video on the web about the hunt for Joseph Kony, the notorious leader of the brutal Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). His cruelty has been without bounds for over
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