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Changing Hospital Food from Unhealthy to Organic

Rachel Kahn — Wed, 07 Jun 2017 17:00:17 +0000

Changing Hospital Food to Healing Food!

Learn how a hospital dietician defied convention to create an organic vegetable garden for her patients.

I have a vision. A vision of a healthy world with happy people. A vision of a colorful healed earth full of abundant life. In this beautiful dream, people walk on mama earth’s soil and have so much gratitude for her gifts. I imagine bright orange carrots, plump fruit, and little grinning healthy kids with berry juice running down their face.

Some people tell me this is a fantasy. They talk about all the things wrong with the world. I am not naïve to the world we live in yet I choose to tell the stories of inspiration. The stories of brilliant kind people taking steps to make a difference.

Joetta Redlin, Director of Nutrition Services and her team at Winneshiek Medical Center in Decorah, Iowa are choosing to make such a difference.

Whoa, whaaaat you are thinking. A hospital?? Am I reading a counterfeit LoveSelf article? Nope this is the real thing and you will be offering hugs to Joetta and the team at Winneshiek Medical Center by the time you wrap up the last words of this story.

What comes to mind when you think of hospital food? If you are like me, it is something like “yuck” and Jell-O. I will confess. Healthy and tasty are not descriptors that occur to me. In other words, will someone run to the organic grocery store and bring this poor patient some good food?!

Guess what? Joetta and her team are working really hard to prove me wrong. A food is medicine inspiration for all healthcare centers!

What was once a barren courtyard has now become a beautiful edible landscape. Complete with bright flowers and stunning vegetables. In August of 2009, collaboration between the hospital leadership, with support from the Kellogg Foundation, sparked the idea of creating a healthy garden. The garden was designed to feed the patients and their families healthy naturally grown produce.

Joetta spoke to me about “not needing all those pills if we eat healthy food”. The team truly believes that health is not just “absence of illness… it is about well being”.

Imagine swiss chard, fresh herbs, bright green broccoli, gorgeous cabbage, asparagus to launch a beautiful spring, tomatoes, peppers, and kale. I could go on and on yet you get the idea. Hungry yet?

Like all things that are worth having, the garden is hard work. Planting, tending, maintaining, harvesting, cooking, and serving are a labor of love for the Winneshiek staff. Joetta will tell you she is not your average dietician. As a matter of fact, she laughed stating, “I think I may be weird”. At LoveSelf we think weird is awesome. Especially when it means following your own path to empower healing. Joetta spoke to me about “not needing all those pills if we eat healthy food”. The team truly believes that health is not just “absence of illness… it is about well being”. Oh my goodness!!! Are you feeling that hug yet?!

As a matter of fact, she laughed stating, “I think I may be weird”. At LoveSelf we think weird is awesome. Especially when it means following your own path to empower healing.

Remember the vision that launched this story? Well, I have a vision for Winneshiek Medical Center and it is quite a lofty goal. Keep up the great work. Feed all your patients natural healthy yummy vegetables. Heal their bodies and spirit with earth inspired decadence. Continue to be the light for all medical centers.

Joetta and all those who support your great work, thank you for being a shining example of what happens when you take the steps into the colorful healed earth dream.

For a quick and easy dinner try Joetta’s Baked Penne with Roasted Vegetables. Inspired by the Winneshiek garden, of course! We included a dairy free, vegan option too!

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Inspiring People

Rachel Kahn — Mon, 08 Dec 2014 01:30:55 +0000

At LoveSelf, we write about inspiring people healing with the power of real food and self-love. We believe that together we create a beautiful future for each other and ourselves.

It is time to tell the happy stories!

Do you know an incredible person with a healing story? Let us know! They may just be featured in our Inspiring Stories!

A Little Girl and Her Mother Navigate the Challenges of Celiac Disease
A Story of Celiac. A Little Girl. And Her Mother’s Love. Learn the Symptoms of Childhood Celiac Disease.

Celiac Disease and Depression
A journey to find healing and self love with the power of spirit and real food.

Healing from Rape, Injury, and Obesity. A Self Love Story
A woman’s journey of forgiveness, healing, and wellness. Her five wisdom tips to self love may change your life.

Bees, Healing Chocolate, and the Power of Spirit
A story of (quite literally) falling down, getting back up, and following your dreams on even the hardest days.

Cancer Survivor Becomes Healing Chef
A man’s journey of surviving cancer to become a healing chef and passionate inspiration for wellness.

Adoption and the Spirit of Food
An unbelievable story of two families, an adoption of a teenage boy, and the healing spirit of food.

A Woman’s Story of Healing an Eating Disorder by Growing Her Own Food
Wisdom Tips for Overcoming Eating Disorders and the Healing Power of Growing Your Own Food

The True Faces of the Hungry. They Look Like You.
The man the feeds the hungry and teaches us about forgiveness.

A Mom’s Journey to Healing Her Body Image
For the Love of a Mom and Her Baby. Healing the Pain of Body Image Issues

Ritz Carlton Chef Partners with Organic Farming Grandpa!
Learn how to create a perfect gluten free wellness feast from a Ritz Carlton chef and his sidekick Farmer Starkey.

Healthy Fast Food and the Mom Who Makes it Happen.
Find gluten free, paleo, non-GMO, dairy free, organic TO GO at Snap Kitchen!

Mongolia. Meditation. And the Heart of an Explorer.
How meditation and organic food inspired a young woman’s life in Mongolia.

The Beach. Self Love. And Healing Your Inflammation with Juice.
A story of healing from inflammation and leaky gut symptoms. How self-love can inspire you to follow your dreams. Wisdom tips and the restaurant designed for love and healing.

The Love of A Mother and the Joy of a Salad
The love of gardening and a salad. A young woman honors her mother and the mom is all of us.

A Tiny Organic Farmer, Fairies, and the Art of Saving a Seed.
How our food system has depleted over the last fifty years and the organic seed you can save. Steps you can take to save our produce and how a fairy may be the love that finds you.

Goddess of the Soil
Faith is a soil scientist and plant research goddess. Did you know healthy soil has the same microbiome as your gut. How healing the soil can heal your leaky gut and autoimmune symptoms.

Cook Like a Ritz Carlton Chef with Farmer’s Market Ingredients
A Ritz Carlton chef’s story about organic food and caring for his mother with autoimmune disease. Get inspired to create a stunning gluten free meal from farmer’s market ingredients and learn in loving others we love ourselves.

The Joy Bus of Tragedy to Triumph
Creating a Joy Bus. One woman’s journey to support cancer patients with love and organic meals.

Clean Your Liver. Change Your Life.
A healers story. Learn how cleansing your liver is an amazing step to healing physically and emotionally.

Raw Food Passion
Introducing Elaina Love – A raw food story of decadence, beauty, and health. She lost her child to cancer. The story of how her son became her angel and the raw food she creates to heal others.

A Vietnam Vet, Agent Orange, and Non-GMO
The story of a Vietnam era couple whose exposure to Agent Orange changed the way they look at GMO and chemical farming practices today.

Healing a Gluten Sensitivity with Wheat!
The story of gluten sensitive man and the organic heirloom wheat that healed his leaky gut symptoms and inspired a new dream.

Traveling to Malaysia for Organic Recipes
An expectant mother’s story of travel, honoring Malaysian heritage, recipes passed through generations, and the art of cooking organic food.

One Dietician’s Work to Change Hospital Food From Unhealthy to Organic
Winneshiek Medical Center introduces an organic vegetable garden. How to bring an organic garden to your hospital. Tips from the dietician that made it happen!

Bees Have Feelings Too! A Bee Education
Saving the bees! Learning from Liesa Helfen of Worker-B, bee keeper, and raw honey extraordinaire. Did you know bees have feelings? Learn about the amazing role of bees in keeping us healthy.

Afghan War Vet Grows Food For The Hungry
Meet Sonia Kendrick! Sonia is a mother, war vet, organic farmer and a true inspiration. She has turned her pain of food insecurity into a triumph of feeding the hungry.

Boston Ritz Carlton Partners with Foley Fish
Introducing Frank Kassner, executive chef at the Ritz Carlton and Laura Foley Ramsden, owner of Foley Fish. Together they bring you sustainable seafood and a happy belly.

Global Volunteer Returns Home: Providing healthy food to rural communities
In Fairfield, Iowa resides a lady with the heart of a caregiver and a mind of an electrical engineer. Introducing Jan Swinton, area celebrity, local food advocate, and natural farming networker extraordinaire.

94 Year Old Man and a Grass Sandwich
I have fallen in love with a man named Harry. Harry is 94. Witty, brilliant, kind, and endearingly cranky. Learn how Harry shares his love of raw food and how to make a grass sandwich.

The Colors of LoveSelf
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Recipes

Rachel Kahn — Wed, 15 Oct 2014 23:47:09 +0000

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At LoveSelf, we adore happy bellies and earth empowered food! We create and share healthy joyous recipes knowing that what we eat is best when happy and inspired.

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Kale Salad with Quinoa
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Gluten Free Vegetarian “Meatballs”
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Gluten Free Jalapeno Cornbread
by Merle and Michele Herrick
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Organic Heirloom Sourdough Bread
by Darrold Glanville
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Paleo Green Tea Shortbread (Secret Recipe)
by Rachel Kahn
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Paleo Beef Stew
by Rachel Kahn
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Gluten Free Apple Celeriac Stuffing
by Rachel Kahn
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Gluten Free No Bake Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies
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