When people ask me if I like to cook healthy meals, I usually look at them sideways and mutter something about being a fitness mama not a “Betty Crocker.” I find joy in making people burn calories, not consume them, so most of my aprons are wadded up in the back of my kitchen towel drawer. However, when I became my daughter’s school lunch room monitor, I decided it was time to give in to the apron-thing and send a healthy, nutritious message at the same time.
This apron proves that finding a healthy apron isn't fruitless!
For some reason I thought it would be easy to find an apron with fruits, veggies and other organic, earthy food-type images on it. Wrong! Every food-themed apron I found had junk food on it: muffins, cupcakes, candy … NOT the nutritious message I want to send! So I did what any desperate modern mom does: I asked my 580 facebook friends if anyone could custom design one for me. You’d never guess who stepped up to the studio spotlight: A local news anchor!!!
I know Anita Kissée through my dragon boat team, The Castaways. She called a 2010 race for us in Salem that we won with her yelling at us the whole way. When she’s not on the water, though, she’s a well-known and loved on KATU news. She blogs over at ChicChick, and I love her “Pug in the Pearl” posts on facebook. It was an incredible honor to have her message me and say to just go pick out the fabrics I wanted and drop them off at KATU… She had it done in one weekend!
Do you see my son clowning around behind me as I model the apron Anita made?
I love wearing my nutrition-focused apron in a lunchroom that is often full of malnutrition. It never ceases to amaze me what parents – who did everything they could to be healthy and nutritious while pregnant – will put in their kids’ mouths and lunchboxes after the pregnancy is over! But I can’t do anything about the “Little Debbie” snacks and lunchables that parents pack. What I can do: Wear a super cute apron that sends super vibrant and positive nutrition messages!
Beth Learn
As the main instructor, founder and CEO of Fit2B Studio, Beth has worked tirelessly since 2010 to integrate diastasis recti rehabilitation into mainstream fitness styles. She has traveled the world as a speaker and educator, and she has fostered world-wide collaborations for her Fit2b Radio podcast and online fitness courses including Experts In Diastasis Recti, 14 Days to A Better Neck, Get your Glutes In Gear, Comforting The Core, and many others on Fit2B. Beth has been immersed in the fitness industry since she began working in athletic clubs in 1995. She became a certified group fitness instructor in 1997 and received her Bachelor of Science in Exercise & Sport Science from Oregon State University in 2001. She has trained and certified in a wide variety of fitness specialities since then including: Yoga, Pilates, hypropressives, aerobics, spinning, weightlifting, prenatal/postpartum fitness, and restorative exercise. Beth is happiest when she's helping people understand their bodies, overcome their fear of fitness, and learn how to move in freedom and simplicity. She enjoys teaching locally, consulting online, and her hobbies include reading historical fiction, race walking, snowshoeing, hiking, and growing blueberries and goats on her small farm with her husband and two children. Read more about Beth and see her full curriculum vitae on our "About The Instructor" page.
I think the best way to get parents to stop buying the “Little Debbie’s” processed toxic snacks is to teach the kids about organic good foods and why they are so much better. When you teach the children, they often wind up reminding the parents what good food really is…organic!
Love the apron! I have quite a collection myself. Always great to look good an feel good when you are creating a culinary safari or even just brewing a cup of organic rooibos tea!
You remind me when cooking and baking for the family; my problem is not cooking but my real problem is how to satisfy everyone in the house, some like crazy hot foods , some are vegan , some are organic woooow, a real headache , I hope you do not have the dame problem as me ?!!
I love the colors of your apron … vital 😉
I think the best way to get parents to stop buying the “Little Debbie’s” processed toxic snacks is to teach the kids about organic good foods and why they are so much better. When you teach the children, they often wind up reminding the parents what good food really is…organic!
Love the apron! I have quite a collection myself. Always great to look good an feel good when you are creating a culinary safari or even just brewing a cup of organic rooibos tea!
You remind me when cooking and baking for the family; my problem is not cooking but my real problem is how to satisfy everyone in the house, some like crazy hot foods , some are vegan , some are organic woooow, a real headache , I hope you do not have the dame problem as me ?!!
I love the colors of your apron … vital 😉