Connect Club - Connecting Women in Business - Colorado » garlic http://www.connectclub.net Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:13:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Tastefully Simple – Colorado http://www.connectclub.net/tastefully-simple-colorado/ http://www.connectclub.net/tastefully-simple-colorado/#comments Wed, 21 Sep 2011 15:06:16 +0000 connectclub http://www.connectclub.net/?p=1300 Today we had a spotlight speaker – our newest member Gloria McDermott from Tastefully Simple. Gloria was initially with Homemade Gourmet and moved to Tastefully Simple when they bought Homemade Gourmet last spring. Tastefully Simple started in Minnesota in 1995, creating a line of gourmet foods that are either packaged for immediate eating or with very simple instructions and minimal ingredients. The business was started by Jill Balshack Strahan, originally she created gift baskets with gourmet foods and has now built it into a multi billion dollar company. They are just moving into this area of the country having built the bulk of their business in the north and north east of the country. With the purchase of Homemade Gourmet – Tastefully Simple plans on incorporating the 4 Meals in 4 Minutes and complete meal making options that Homemade Gourmet offered which will open up many new options to their customers. Gloria just came back from a recent Tastefully Simple convention and was very happy to see how much the company cares and supports their consultants. Gloria brought with her today some items for us to sample the first being the Black Aztec Chips and the Corn, Black Bean Salsa – all I have to say is yummy!! Gloria, also, brought in the company’s number one seller, Tastefully Simple Bountiful Beer Bread – it has a wonderful taste and is very moist. This bread can be made with beer and water or any other carbonated beverage for a different flavor of your choice. The next item that Gloria talked about was the Tastefully Simple Chocolate Ugly Cake – just add water and bake to indulge yourself in chocolate heaven. Tastefully Simple has a full line of sweets for any craving from Malted Cocoa mix to Truffle Fudge Brownie mix to Peanut Butter Popcorn. If you visit the Tastefully Simple website you will find variations on recipes for almost every item in their catalog. The Tastefully Simple website offers over 5000 recipes to create the perfect sumptuous meal with minimal labor on your part. Tastefully Simple offers a line of mixes that can be added with simple ingredients to make wonder dips – such as the Dried Garlic & Garlic Pesto Mix – just add olive oil and water for a wonderful pesto in just 10 minutes. Other offerings from Tastefully Simple are their seasonings such as the Garlic Garlic Seasoning Blend – use in place of fresh garlic without the peeling and mincing or the Seasoned Salt – sea salt blended with spices and vegetables for adding zest to any dish. So if you need help in the kitchen to create the perfect meal give Gloria from Tastefully Simple a call!

Gloria McDermott * Tastefully Simple * 303.252.4353 * www.tastefullysimple.com/web/gmcdermott

]]> http://www.connectclub.net/tastefully-simple-colorado/feed/ 0 Financial Planning / Shaklee – Colorado http://www.connectclub.net/financial-planning-shaklee-colorado/ http://www.connectclub.net/financial-planning-shaklee-colorado/#comments Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:55:38 +0000 connectclub http://connectclub.wordpress.com/?p=212 Our first speaker today was a guest speaker from Thrivent Financial, Chris Holgarth, who has been in financial planning for 14 years. He started his talk today speaking how the recession, we are all feeling, started. After 9-11, we were all told to go shopping to stimulate the economy. Then came in the mortgage back securities and the start of the foreclosures. When the banks started to suffer the first foreclosures - the level of failures lead to the trouble in the banking industry. Our government brought in the stimulus package to stabilize the economy, which to some extent it has. Existing housing sales are up from the lows of last year but we are down 42% from the highs of 3-5 years ago. The recent upsurge in existing home sales are due to lower pricing and the first time buyer program. Keep in mind, that although home prices have stabilized here and are rebounding slowly – the median house price in Detroit is 38,000 dollars. Also, Chris spoke about how the unemployment rate is a lagging indicator in a recession, most employers have cut their staff to survive and will not hire new employees until it is absolutely necessary. Some of the larger employers will still be cutting back just to keep the books in balance. Other areas to watch are the energy markets, gas, natural gas, electricity and new green alternative energy sources and emerging markets overseas, all of which are on the rise right now. The market is actually looking up on the 5 year speculation, so it is moving back up slowly. Is the Fiscal Stimulus working – well the credit markets are starting to lend again and housing is starting to stabilize-although consumer confidence is still down. If you are planning retirement look at rebalancing your portfolio to get a better balance with the current market – Thrivent Financial is there to help you work out were you need to be and how you may need to work the market until your retirement to get the best return on your investments.

Stacee Jacobs  * Thrivent Financial for Lutherans * www.thrivent.com * 303.962.6265

Today’s second speaker was Laura Kilty of Shaklee, she spoke about our immune system.  Our immune systems are not only designed to fight colds and flu but also cancer and other auto immune diseases that affect our general population. Laura talked about several of the Shaklee products that help support our natural immune system. The Defend and Resist Complex – contains echinacea, black elderberry, larch tree and zinc – that helps super charge your immune system at the first sign of a cold or flu. Just take 6 tablets throughout the day for 7 days and it helps your body stop replicating the virus thus stopping it, in it’s track. Not meant to be taken long-term but just when you need the extra boost. Her second item was Shaklee Garlic Complex, garlic is a natural antibiotic and helps also with lowering your cholesterol & triglycerides, raises the good HDL, helps fight bacterial and fungal infections, ance and can help lower blood glucose levels. Taking 2 Shaklee’s Garlic Complex tablets is the equivalent to eating a clove of fresh garlic – but in dissolves lower in the intestines – so you don’t get the garlic smell. Her third immune defense supplement is vitamin C – humans are the only mammal that doesn’t produce  on its own – we need to get it from the foods we eat or supplements. vitamin C is a natural antihistamine and helps boost your good cholesterol, some of the other good things it does for your body is it helps reduce bruising, reduces your risk of cataracts and can be helpful with arthritis symptoms. Some of the other items to help with your immune system this cold and flu season are Shaklee’s NutriFeron a complete herbal wellness program for your body and OptiFlora – which is a probiotic to keep your digestive tract in order as this is your first line of defense with 70% of our immune cells residing in our colon. So for your immune health keep Shaklee in mind for all your immune needs.

Laura Kilty * Shaklee * kiltycoataoldotcom  (kiltycoataoldotcom)   * 303.420.3359

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