I wanted to make one post with all my favorite small business sales in one place. These are all products I use regularly, and LOVE. I know the owners/founders of most of these companies and I am happy to support them. They may not all be necessary for you so don't spend money on stuff that you don't need, but many of you already love these companies so I wanted to share the sales they are currently having. For most of them this is their best deal of the year. Share below any Small Businesses you are supporting today.
🥞 Equip: We love the Vanilla protein for pancakes and my Mom puts a scoop in her tea every morning, it's a great way to add extra protein if you find you're under eating. They have an Unflavored version which is 💯 Carnivore.
https://www.equipfoods.com/LAURAESPATH
🌡️Meater: We love the Meater Bluetooth thermometer and they almost never run sales, especially on their new Meater Pro. If you mainly cook indoors (oven, air fryer, crockpot etc) then the classic Meater is great, if you cook on a hot grill or over open flame then you need the new Meater Pro which is safe up to 1000°F external temp. You can also order a personalized Meater which is such a fun gift idea!
🥩 Carnivore Snax: We LOVE Carnivore Snax and they are perfect as a stocking stuffer for a Carnivore in your life and great for travel. I always keep some in my suitcase when traveling. The skirt steak and pork loin are my favorite and Chris loves the Brisket and Chuck because they have more fat. Only 2 ingredients, meat and salt! They rarely do sales so if you want to stock up this is a great time (I definitely stocked up!).
https://carnivoresnax.com/lauraespath
🧂 LMNT: You know I am a big fan of LMNT in general, I drink the Unflavored pack daily. They have their Holiday Medley pack back for a limited time which we love. It's perfect warm over the holidays if you tolerate the sweetness and flavoring. They also have all their recipes /formulas for free on their website if you want to make your own at home. They don't have any extra sales going on but they are a small business I love so I wanted to include the link for the Free Sample Pack.
Cheese is good! I ate a block of chipotle oven baked cheese with lunch yesterday and it was divine. I love it, but know that it halts any progress I'm making, and will even trigger eating in excess to where I'll gain weight. It's sad but I have accepted it. If I eat it in small quantities with a meal, it's ok, but I really have to work to keep it in check.
What's your favorite cheese? How do you incorporate it? Do you see negative results when eating it?
Happy Sunday! Sharing a video today from our week, one of the highlights. This was Wednesday evening church, normally they have a more casual prayer meeting where someone plays the guitar, but they were doing some construction in the fellowship hall so they had their prayer meeting in the sanctuary. No one was there to play the piano so my my Grandma did it, she's been playing the piano in church for probably 80 years.
For context, she's 88, she had a really bad fall 5 years ago now and hit her head and ended up with a lot setbacks, similar to having a stroke. She has a lot of dementia like symptoms also (I am sure related to her Type 2 diabetes), she really can't read music anymore, and she has trouble seeing well, and she needs to wear hearing aids to hear but hates wearing them, so on this night she didn't want to wear them. My 93 (almost 94) year old grandpa takes care of both of them on their farm. Anyway, on this night she sat down on the piano and led worship as people called ...
Happy Saturday! I hope you are all doing well. I know some people in the group have had some recent tough news for themselves or family members. It really puts the day to day issues we face into perspective, and reminds me to just focus on doing the best I can to be as healthy as possible. To those who are having a hard time, we are all here for you and sending you some prayers and support. 🙏🏼🙏🏼 Just focus today on doing the best you can and remember that food isn't going to bring you the comfort you are looking for.
Here is a little video of Penelopes performance from her piano recital l last night, she's been taking lessons for about a year and a half. 🎹🤍🖤
*Livestream Monday night at 4pm pst/7pm est
Daylight Savings Time is starting on tomorrow in the USA, that means every state, except Arizona, will change their clocks forward one hour tonight. That also means everyone gets one less hour of sleep tonight. Research shows it can take your body a whole week to fully adapt to that one hour time difference.
Even though Arizona doesn't change our clocks, my job is headquarters out of Texas so everyone works on Central time. So with Daylight savings time I now have to start my day an hour earlier every day. So I have meetings daily now at 630 and 7am. 😭😭 I am very much dreading this as I already go to bed pretty early (and we all know I need a lot of sleep!).
How are you feeling about the time change? Does it affect your life/schedule at all? What are some things you do to help reset your circadian rhythm?
Happy Friday! Thanks to everyone that hung out on the Livestream last night. If you need to hear a good motivational rant from me check out the replay. 😂😂 The next Livestream here in Locals will be Monday at 7pm EST/4pm PST. I know Mondays are better for more people, and since most of my travel is slowing down we can do Mondays for a bit again.
That being said, I am headed out on a quick 24 hour trip today. 😂 Then the rest of the weekend we will just hang out with my Mom before she flys home Monday.
What are your plans this weekend? Any temptations ahead you are worried about?
