Jordan Essentials with Lori

04/23/2025

Looking for a family pleasing meal that everyone will love, this is one of our favourites! 😋
Comfort food at it’s best, from my succulent steak marinated in a maple dijon vinaigrette to
mouth watering mac n cheese made with four different cheeses for the perfect rich, creamy and cheesy combination a with a side of asparagus baked and seasoned to perfection!

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05/16/2023

How do you start you day??

Try this delicious smoothie with just these few ingredients. 😋

05/15/2023

In this yummy, low-carb taco recipe, cabbage leaves substitute for the tortillas and are filled with a mixture of protein-packed tempeh, veggies and lots of great spices. Compounds in tempeh called isoflavones serve as a natural remedy for menopausal relief.

Yield: 2 servings

1 Tbsp extra-virgin olive oil

1 small onion, chopped

2 garlic cloves, chopped

4 oz tempeh, cubed

½ tsp sea salt or more, to taste

½ tsp black pepper or more, to taste

½ tsp ground cumin

½ tsp chili powder

¼ tsp paprika

¼ tsp cayenne

¼ cup vegetable broth

2 cups stemmed and chopped fresh kale

4 to 6 large, green cabbage leaves, dipped for 30 seconds into hot water to soften

½ avocado, sliced

1 radish, sliced

¼ cup chopped fresh cilantro

½ lime, cut into wedges

Heat the olive oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add the onion, garlic and tempeh and cook for 2 to 3 minutes until the onion softens and becomes translucent. Add the salt, pepper, cumin, chili powder, paprika and cayenne, stir, then add the broth and kale. Stir again to combine and cook until the broth thickens and reduces by at least one-half. Taste and adjust the salt and pepper as needed.

Spread the cabbage leaves open on a large plate. Spoon the kale mixture into the center of the leaves. Add some of the avocado, radish slices and cilantro, then fold in the sides like a taco.

Serve with lime wedges.

05/13/2023

It turtle nesting season time in the Coastal Carolinas!!!!

🐢Share with friends
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🐢Share everywhere

Help make it a great season for our beautiful sea turtles.

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05/12/2023

Mother's Day is this weekend. This year, consider putting an ecological spin on Mother’s Day by showering her with gifts that honor Mother Earth. Here are some sustainable gifting ideas.

🌷Flower Power

Lavish her with an eco-friendly bouquet. Locally grown, organic flowers at farmers markets, sustainable florists and small-business greenhouses are produced with fewer or no chemicals, support pollinators and require no jet fuel to get to mom’s doorstep.


🍫Choice Chocolates

Satisfy mama’s sweet tooth with organic, fair-trade chocolate that helps cocoa farmers earn a living wage and does not promote deforestation. Opting to buy ethical chocolate prevents child and slave labor and provides women equal pay as well as opportunities to own a business. Look for certified, fair-trade labels as well as non-GMO and organic certifications.

💍Bling Blessings

Adorn her with ethically sourced and sustainable jewelry created from recycled precious metals, Fair-minded Ecological gold and conflict-free gemstones. Beautiful, one-of-a-kind creations can be found at local artisan fairs or online from eco-conscious jewelers. Look for sellers with sustainable jewelry certifications and those that use recycled, upcycled or reclaimed materials.

👜Local Luxuries

There are so many ways to support the local economy while treating mom. Give her a gift certificate for a massage, aromatherapy session or makeover at an organic salon. Treat her to a fabulous dinner at a vegan restaurant. Subscribe her to receive a monthly produce box from a community-supported agriculture outlet. Create a gift basket of goods made by local artisans, including beeswax candles, pottery or body treats like handmade soaps and lotions.

Visit NaturalAwakeningsCC.com to find local businesses to support through the pages of Natural Awakenings magazine, delicious recipes and everything for a Healthy Mind - Body - Planet.

05/11/2023

This month we are sharing ways that women can improve their overall wellness. A big part of this is overcoming daily stress that many women take on as care givers and providers for those around them.

To help someone manage stress, a functional or integrative doctor may suggest a daily dose of herbal tea, nightly entries in a gratitude journal, a visualization practice, brisk walks, gardening, art therapy, mindful meditation, a nutrient-rich diet that reduces food allergies, yoga poses and regular sessions of qigong or tai chi. Armed with an extensive list of better-for-you choices than addictive, prescription sleeping pills or tranquilizers, individuals are empowered to improve their health and eliminate stress. Studies suggest that 75 to 90 percent of illnesses are stress related. Getting to the root cause before it escalates into cardiovascular disease, depression or diabetes is what curious and compassionate doctors do.

Use these tips to bring more calm to your daily routines. Your body and mind will thank you for it!

🤍For more Women's Wellness tips click link link below
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05/10/2023

COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHT

The are many settings where Samantha Werner, owner of Sam’s Path to Wellness, meets with⁠ clients, the majority of which are women, to give advice on how to improve their own and their family’s well-being with natural remedies and more. While often in a house, a café or on a park bench, she has also had consults at “kids’ play or entertainment sites for mothers watching their children,” says the Leland, North Carolina-based practitioner. “I go to people throughout the area. It’s convenient for them and me to not have an office.”⁠
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05/10/2023

It's time to start thinking about promoting your business in one of our upcoming issues. Next month is our special Men’s Health issue. Be sure to check out what's coming up in July & August to plan ahead too. ⁠
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Attention local Coastal Carolina businesses dealing with any of these upcoming topics! Let us help promote what you are offering. ⁠
Contact us today to be a part of one of the upcoming editions. ⁠
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Deadlines are approaching for our June issue!⁠
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05/09/2023

Support our Local Community.....

Consider Anna’s Organizing Service to help declutter and organize any space, whether a home, office, business, storage unit or something else. “You have enough to worry about, don’t let clutter and disorganization be one of them,” points out Anna Mann, owner and entrepreneur.

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05/08/2023

Shelton Herb Farm for the best flowers, organic herbs and vegetables among other gardening needs 😊🌹

Sometimes mom can be tough to buy for. We may have just the thing for her: a 1 gallon rose plant!

We’ve grown 8 varieties from cuttings taken over the winter and they are finally ready for sale.
- 7 Sisters Heirloom Rambling Rose: Named for the seven shades that can be seen at any one time. Big clusters of double flowers, which gradually go from deep cerise to pale mauve to ivory white. Strong fruity fragrance, free flowering, and strong growing.

Grand Duc Charles Tea Rose: The flowers open with crimson outer petals and neat pink centers, then darken to solid crimson. The heat of the sun speeds the process: Growing as a neat, erect bush with constant blooms and a lovely fragrance.

- Heirloom Green Rose: Perhaps the oddest rose in existence, With small blooms about the size of golf balls and made up entirely of deep green sepals, this is not your ordinary rose.

- Peggy Martin Climbing Rose: Named for an avid Louisiana gardener whose home and property stood under 20 feet of salt water for two weeks after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The only plants to survive were one crinum and a tough-as-nails beauty of a rose that Martin had acquired through pass-along cuttings. It is a rambler that can be very aggressive (read vigorous growth) with no thorns and beautiful pink blooms.

- Red Cascade Climbing Miniature Rose: A vigorous climbing and disease resistant rose producing huge clusters of deep red 1" roses in late spring, summer, and fall.

- White Climbing Rose: We’ll be honest, we aren’t entirely sure how this rose came to be in our possession but it’s large creamy yellow-white blooms and ability to be trellised captured our hearts.

- End of the Rainbow/ Rainbows End Rose: Like getting two roses in one plant with blooms in shades of pink, yellow, and peach.

- Petite Scotch Pink Rose: This rose was found in 1949 by Jackson M. Batchelor growing in the garden of Orton plantation on the Cape Fear River. The area was originally settled by Scottish and English immigrants and Mr. Batchelor speculates that this rose came with them. It makes an outstanding groundcover shrub for slopes. With clusters of small pink flowers blooming in May, it’s a local celebrity.