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Mama Knows Nutrition: The Podcast

62: How a new food product goes from dream to Whole Foods shelves [Ft. Ali Bonar]

Mama Knows Nutrition: The Podcast

Kacie Barnes, MCN, RDN

Parenting, Self-improvement, Nutrition, Education, Health & Fitness, Kids & Family

5657 Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever wondered how new food products actually get into stores when they’re not made by a big corporation? Ali Bonar, CEO and co-founder of Oat Haus, talks about the hurdles she’s overcome to leave her previous career behind and start a food company. The Oat Haus flagship product, Granola Butter, is the world's first oat-based spread and was born out of Ali's eating disorder recovery. Oat Haus is available at over 1,200 stores, including Whole Foods, Sprouts, Harris Teeter, The F...

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0:00.0

If you're anything like me when you go into the grocery store, you don't give a second thought about how anything got there.

0:06.9

Like, I just go there, expect things to be there. I see new stuff. I'm like, oh, that's cool.

0:11.7

But there's so much work, obviously, that goes on behind the scenes. And we get a really good behind the scenes look of what it's like to be an entrepreneur in the food industry and

0:21.9

start your own food company. I talked to Ali Bonar of Oathouse. It's a granola butter company,

0:29.1

and if you haven't heard of granola butter, it is amazing. It's like an alternative to nut butter,

0:35.1

and it is completely not free.

0:43.9

So for anybody who goes to a school that's not free or your house is not free, you should definitely check it out.

0:45.5

And listening today to hear the whole behind the scene story with Allie who really opened up

0:50.9

to us about the emotional reasons why she started the company in the first

0:55.1

place and what it's been like to be an owner of a company.

1:05.8

I'm Casey Barnes of Mom-Nose Nutrition, and this started as a podcast to really help you with feeding your

1:12.8

toddlers because that's a lot of what the work I do is about but I decided it was more fun to

1:19.2

just talk to different people and get them on here and have fun conversations still answer

1:25.1

your questions too but just you know diversify a little bit more.

1:30.0

So let me bring on Allie.

1:34.1

Hey, Allie, welcome.

1:36.3

Hi, thanks so much for having me.

1:38.4

I am pumped to talk to you here.

1:40.6

I think that I've known you now for, it feels like years now, just online because you used to be here. I think that I've known you now for it feels like years now, just online because you

1:47.1

used to be queen with a K and now y'all are Oathouse. Yes. Yeah. Yeah, you know, we've had a we've had

1:54.7

many evolutions, I think. And it's funny looking back to, you know, at the earlier, right when we

1:59.8

started, like even just the earlier labels and stuff and just being like, oh my gosh, why did I think that

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