I have a good friend and extremely hard working business owner that is doing something really cool in the health food world starting tomorrow! He owns a granola company called Galaxy Granola. Bare with me here because i know there are a million other granola’s out there to choose from. Bear Naked, McCabes, Henrey’s Brand, Organics Granola, and on and on………. BUT, did you also know that every one of those other granola companies cook that granola in canola some other type of oil in order to give it the texture and taste you’re looking for. This means that if you were to eat a small bowl of that granola you’d be consuming somewhere in the ballpark of 14 – 21 grams of FAT!! That’s more than a McDonald’s Cheese Burger!!
Galaxy Granola however, bakes their products (all of their products) in apple sauce instead. Giving you the same great flavor and texture with less than 4 grams of fat in that same sized bowl of granola.
So, this is the basic idea for the Fat Swap event beginning tomorrow. Galaxy has teamed up with Whole Foods, Revolution Foods, Organic Sunshine Burgers, The Fruit Guys, and Pop Chips in an attempt to trade 10,000 pounds of fatty foods for 10,000 pounds of fruit substitutes for that kind of fatty food. What they’re asking people to do is go to their kitchen, find something with way too much fat in it, grab that fatty food or container and send it to them. They will in turn package something of equal weight that substitutes that fat with fruit and send it right back to you. Hence the swap. Pretty cool huh?? Check out this link with more info here if you like the idea. http://www.fruitnotfat.com/fatswap/
by Scott Lawrence
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