The Whole Food Nut

08/10/2026

Dan Dan Noodles 🍜

Thanks to my Sous Chef 👨‍🍳 and taste tester, we made our first dish of DDN. 🍜

He crumbled the tofu, chopped onions and assembled the sauce with a little guidance from moi. 👍

Dan Dan noodles is a Chinese noodle dish originating from Sichuan cuisine.

We've been wanting to make it for awhile but finding some of the sauce ingredients was a challenge. 🛒

Thanks to Magnolia Street Market, an Asian grocery store, we got the black vinegar and chili oil with chili peppers that was needed for the sauce. 🌶

We made the pickled onions which adds a lot to this flavorful dish. It's a delicious blend of umami, sour, sweet, salty and spicy. 😋

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07/31/2026

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Don't swipe if you're easily grossed out. Post-op pics.

Jenn wants to thank everyone for the support and care over these past 3 weeks. 🫂

The blanket made us laugh a lot and your kind gestures really helped her. Thanks Julie❣️

She's very thankful for the rides, treats, fruit drop-off and friend's showing up. 💕

3 weeks post-op. 4 casts.
6-11 months recovery.
2 weeks until next cast removal. 👍

Take care❣️

07/15/2026

Going old school. ☎️
Ring me if you need me. 📞

I'll be out of the office for at least 2 months due to arm and hand surgery. Hoping to come back with a bionc arm. 💪🦾

I won't be responding to text or email. So if you want to reach me, just ringy dingy. ☎️

👋 Don't miss me too much. 😆

☎️📞☎️📞☎️📞☎️

Here's my post-op wish list if you want to visit and hangout. 😉 IYKYK 😆

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🧁 .oldtownfoco 🍪
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07/15/2026

I'm excited to announce that I've partnered with UCHealth as a presenter for their Aspen Club program. ❤️

Established in 1989, Aspen Club provides health-related programs and services to those 50 and forward in Larimer and Weld Counties to help older adults age healthfully and independently. ❤️

There are 13,700+ members strong throughout Larimer and Weld county.

To sign up for the free UCHealth Aspen Club (which serves adults 50+ in Northern Colorado), you can apply by submitting your details online on the Aspen Club Sign Up Form. 📝

www.uchealth.org/services/community-health/aspen-club/aspen-club-sign-up-form/

Alternatively, you can call
970.495.8560 to register over the phone. ☎️

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I'll be presenting Grocery Store Guidance on July 29th. 🛒

✅️ Good nutrition starts with smart choices in the grocery store.

✅️ With a little prep and guidance, healthy choices are easy to find. Nutrient-rich whole foods can help you reach your daily dose of vitamins, minerals and fiber. 💚

✅️ The program will cover steps to take before shopping, how to navigate the store, shopping on a budget, reviewing food labels, and maintaining a healthy food list. 💚

WHAT:
Grocery Store Guidance 🛒

WHEN:
Wednesday, Jul 29th, 2026
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

WHERE:
Harmony Campus, Bldg A,
3rd floor conference Rm 2121 E Harmony Road
Fort Collins, CO

Please share if you or someone you know is interested. ❤️

Aspen Club members benefit from a wide variety of services including health and wellness education, Medicare assistance, advance care planning and much more.

07/15/2026

Thanks ❣️

Your gift basket made my day in many ways. 👍

✅️ No toxins
✅️ Cruelty free
✅️ Vegan
✅️ Organic & plantbased
✅️ Woman owned

I can't wait to 🚿🛁🛀🧼💧💦.

07/15/2026

Microgreens 🌿

Microgreens are young seedlings of edible veggies and herbs. 🍀

Unlike larger herbs and veggies that take weeks or months to grow, microgreens can be harvested and eaten in a week.

These tiny versions only grow to a few inches and come in many different varieties.

Though these little greens are small in stature, they contain extremely high levels of powerful vitamins, minerals, and health-supporting components.

07/15/2026

Impulse Dance Fitness Class
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Thanks to Nadia and for the fun event today❣️

We enjoyed the energy, laughs and b***y sphere❣️ 😂

This is a great local business if you've not had the chance to check out their classes yet.
⬇️

Impulse Dance & Fitness

05/11/2026

When will we break the stigma on mental health? 🧠

Every time this awareness month comes up I ask that question.

While there's been some progress made, we see the same stigma. 🤐

Why do we acknowledge and discuss a wide range of health diagnosis, but remain uncomfortable, judgemental and unable to communicate about mental health? 🧠

Unlike physical ailments that often have visible markers, mental health issues can be hidden behind a smile, making them harder for observers to detect or take seriously. 😶

By treating mental illness with the same urgency and lack of judgment as physical health conditions, we can create environments where seeking help is viewed as a sign of strength.🫂

💚Lead by example:
Demonstrate acceptance in your own behavior and call out stigma when you see or hear it.

💚Encourage professional help:
Gently suggest resources like counseling when you notice a friend or colleague struggling.

💚Equalize health:
Remind others that mental illness is a treatable health condition, no different than heart disease or diabetes.

💚Respect privacy:
If someone confides in you, keep their diagnosis private and let them decide how much of their story to share.

Above all, be respectful, kind, supportive and a good listener.

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05/08/2026

UPCOMING SESSION for
FOCO CITY EMPLOYEES ONLY

OUR RELATIONSHIP
WITH FOOD 🍽
EMOTIONAL EATING FROM STRESS & TRAUMA 🧠

Take this one-hour class to learn about emotional eating and our relationship to food. 🍴

Stress and trauma can override hunger signals, leading the brain to use food as a way
to cope with difficult emotions. 🧠

In this class, you’ll learn to:

✅️ Listen to your body

✅️ Understand the physical impact from stress and patterns of stored trauma in the body

✅️ The purpose of emotions

✅️ Notice the emotions beneath the urge to eat

✅️ Recognize emotional vs. physical hunger

✅️ Hormone signaling

✅️ Vagus nerve and Digestion

✅️ Understand how stress drives cravings

✅️ Identify food as a coping mechanism

FC CITY Bldg.
May 14 | noon to 1 p.m. | Colorado River Room 222

05/01/2026

Estrogen rant 🔊

Angry and fed up with the lack of care, knowledge, research and funding for women's health.

We shouldn't be the ones informing and educating everyone but that is the state of women's health. 👎

Hello FDA 🗣
What are you doing to help the millions of women that went without hormones for so many years and are paying (financially, emotionally and physically) the price❓️❔️

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