Better School Lunches and Nutrition
Whole Foods Donates to Children’s Garden Project
There are so many wonderful projects that are teaching children about nutrition and food. Across the nation people are becoming aware of the great opportunity to teach children how to grow their own vegetables allowing they to gain passion for gardening.
In a recent article, “2011: The Year of the Vegetable; Children can learn to enjoy healthier foods if they grow them with their parents. It’s easier than you think.” By George Ball, comes his note, “We cannot expect children to make the right food choices when healthy foods are out of reach and nutrition-smart role models are not in evidence.”
That’s why we applaud the Children’s Garden Project in Charleston and Whole Foods Market who is donating 5% today, Jan. 11, 2011 to the organization.
5% Day at Whole Foods Market in Mt. Pleasant
The Charleston Area Children’s Garden Project has been selected by Whole Foods Market in Mt. Pleasant as a recipient of 5%-Day, Tuesday, January 11, 2011. 5% of net sales will be donated to the Garden Project.
This would be a great way for you to make a little donation to the Children’s Garden Project while stocking up on some good food. Whole Foods will donate 5% of the net sales on Tuesday to help support us. Overall for the day, that could add up to a nice donation from an unexpect place. The Children’s Garden Project is glad to have been selected by Whole Foods Market to be a recipient of their Community Giving Program.
Head on over to Whole Foods Market in Mt. Pleasant and stock up on some Slatherin’ Sauce or get the ingredients to make our famous Slather Burger or Slather Meatloaf for supper.
Welcome 2011 and Happy New Year
At the close of the year we draw close to family and friends. To good times sharing memories and enjoying meals together in our homes. To laughter, tears and delight in our connections.
When I envisioned Slather Brand Foods, I hoped that my Momma’s recipe, which is the basis for Slatherin’ Sauce, would be enjoyed by everyone. Since May 2010 you have demonstrated your support and encouraged me through your Facebook messages, by turning out at events where we are sharing Slatherin’ Sauce and by purchasing our sauces, giving them to your friends and telling others about what we are doing.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart for helping me make my dreams come true, for helping me create a product that you delight in and which I hope will be part of your family’s life of celebration; through cooking and preparing food!
In the New Year, we will have a national distributor, greater visibility on national grocer’s shelves and hopefully, if our research goes as we hope, next year we’ll have new versions of Slatherin’ Sauce to share with you all!
Happy New Year!
Just in Time for Christmas!
Slatherin’ Sauce makes a tasty gift for business associates, friends and family. Our 2010 gifts are wrapped and ready to go. So, not only is Slatherin’ Sauce “The cure for boring food,” but we’re the cure for boring gifts too.
You can find our Gift Pack of Slatherin’ Sauces and our Slatherin’ Sauce in a Sweetgrass Basket at these Charleston area merchants (list follows.) Not in Charleston? You can purchase these gifts online. Or buy individual bottles at these merchants.
Charleston Merchants Selling Gift Packs and Slatherin’ Sauce in a Sweetgrass Basket:
Thornhill Farms
10882 Highway 17 North
McClellanville, SC 29458
(843) 887-3500
Boone Hall Farms
2521 US 17
Mt. Pleasant, SC 29466
(843) 856-8154
DOIN’ the Charleston
Bohicket Marina Island, SC 29455
(843) 243-9292
Jakes
19 Broad St.
Charleston, SC
(843) 577-9797
Remedy Market
162 C Spring St.
Charleston, SC 29403
(843) 793-3003
Newest Fans!
Meet Grace and Dakota …my newest customers. Grace is on a strict gluten free diet and is delighted she now has a sauce she loves and can eat…Grace and Dakota ..princesses of Slather.
Photos from Wine Under the Oaks
Sunday, December 5th proved to be a gorgeous Lowcountry Day with bright skies and lots of great folks out to meet us at The Charleston Wine + Food Festival’s event, Wine Under the Oaks.
At the event we debuted our holiday gifts, Slatherin’ Sauce in a Sweetgrass Basket and our Gift Pack of Slatherin’ Sauces. We had great responses from many who came out. Have you done your holiday shopping yet?
Caroline Nuttall of Charlie! magazine was out to see us and she said of Slatherin’ Sauce, “I’m obsessed! Soooo good”
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Anne Howe Slathers It On
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Anne Howe, better known as @ShopperAnnie on Twitter is a shopper marketing consultant who authors The Shopper Annie Blog. Anne’s become a raving fan of Slatherin’ Sauce and she’s turned her culinary talents to creating some wonderful recipes using Slatherin’ Sauce.
Anne and her family are prepping for a wedding and they are planning to use Slatherin’ Sauce on their meatballs at the reception.
When they were visiting Hilton Head in November 2010, they created their own version of Slathered Burgers. In photos above you can see Anne and her husband in their Slatherin’ Tees as they prep the burgers.
Anne wrote this recipe:
“Amazing burger test with Slather Sauce. We mixed 50/50 ground chuck and round. Added 2 shredded whole wheat bread crusts, large clove chopped garlic, 1 egg and 1 cup regular Slather Sauce. Mix well and form the burgers. No grill at the Hilton Head condo, so we broiled in oven. We added sliced Alpine Swiss on the burgers right before they came out from the broiler, and served with well-caramelized sweet onions. Oh so juicy! Most of our group slathered their buns with the spicy sauce to add an extra dimension of flavor! AMAZING!”
Wine Under the Oaks
We are so blessed in Charleston to have a mild climate that offers outdoor events and get-togethers all year round.
This weekend, on December 5th, join Slather Brand Foods as we participate in Wine Under the Oaks at Boone Hall Plantation. This signature event unveils the Charleston Wine + Food Festival’s new poster and offers incredible opportunities to sample gourmet foods and shop for hand-made culinary crafts.
The atmosphere will be enhanced with live music so you can make merry and festive while benefitting the American Red Cross.
Chef Robin Rhea of Slather Brand Foods will be on hand with samples of her signature Slatherin’ Sauces and a bit of her own native sauciness! Drop by and tell her you’re a fan and she’ll show you how to Slather It On!
They love Slatherin’ Sauce in Maryland!
Part of my northeast tour has included stops and demos at Graul’s Markets in Maryland. Saturday, Nov. 20 was an incredible day! By 4:00 pm there was not a bottle of Slatherin’ Sauce to be found at Graul’s Market -Ruxton….60 bottles sold in 5 hours. Both of our demos there resulted in a complete sell out!
I am delighted and humbled with the kindness of all that I met!
Taste of Home Event in Pennsylvania with Pa Pree Kah
Pa Pree Kah owner and chef, Craig Kravitz and Chef Robin slathered it on at the Taste of Home event at University of PA Johnstown campus November 18, 2010. About 400 people attended the event.Chef Craig sold and showcased many of his wonderful products and sold out three cases of Slatherin’ Sauce and had to turn people away who came back to purchase at the end of the show. The great news is that folks can visit Chef Craig at Pa Pree Kah, his wonderful Specialty Food store, in the Moxum community of Johnstown.
To date Pa Pree Kah is the only store on Western PA where Slathering Sauce is sold.
Better School Lunches and Nutrition
Slather Brand Foods supports Slow Food’s initiative to demand that schools serve nutritionally sound lunches to our nation’s children. Part of the reason we demand that our sauces be all natural, gluten free, contain no preservatives, additives or high-fructose corn syrup is to be safe for our families to enjoy.
I urge everyone who reads this blog and who cares like I do about what our children eat, to take action as suggested in this letter I received from Slow Food USA.
Dear Robin,
“It’s this opportunity or we lose it” – Rep George Miller, referring yesterday to the Child Nutrition Act.
Today 32 million children will line up in school cafeterias across the nation. Right now, underfunding means that the people filling our kids’ trays have no choice but to do it with food that will lead to one in three of those children contracting diabetes.
It’s time to serve our kids a better deal.
As Congress returns post-election, they’ll have an improved Child Nutrition Act sitting on their desk – one that gives more money for each meal, supports farm-to-table programs, and kicks junk food out of schools. Click here to tell them to pass it now:
http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/5986/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4736
The Child Nutrition Act Congress has before it is far from perfect, but it contains the first real increase to school lunch funding in the entire 44 year history of the legislation. That is an amazing achievement for all of us who’ve pushed this hard for so long.
But if we have any hope for getting real, nutritious food on school menus, we have to let Congress know that we want the Act passed now, not later, and we want the flaws in this bill – the funding taken from food stamps – fixed before the end of the year.
Your message could literally make the difference – and is the last chance for this Congress to deliver healthy lunch to our kids:
http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/5986/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4736
So far on this ‘Time For Lunch’ campaign, our community has sent over 100,000 emails, made countless phone calls to Congress, and 20,000 of us gathered for an ‘Eat-In’ all over the country.Now it’s time to seal the deal, and for Congress to deliver our children this historic legislation.
Thanks for making it Time For Lunch,
Jerusha, for the Slow Food USA TeamPS – Other than inflationary increases, Congress has never raised the level of funding for the food our children eat at school. Let’s make sure this Congress passes the historic Child Nutrition Act, and delivers America’s children the nutrition they deserve.