Well, hello there and welcome back. My name is Stephanie Safarian and you're listening to another episode of the Sustainable Minimalist Podcast, a twice weekly show about intentional and eco-minimalist living.

On today's show, we are analyzing that space

between convenience eating and healthy eating. I feel as though in my own life and my own kitchen I want to cook healthy meals but doing so takes a lot of time a lot of effort a lot of energy that I don't necessarily have and

Therein lies the rise of convenience foods

Today we're talking about how we can fight back against that convenience factor.

And I have the perfect guest to discuss this topic with.

Today I'm talking with Kate Flynn, she is the co-founder and CEO of Sun and Swell Foods.

We're going to talk about Sun and Swell.

We're going to talk about how we can eat a little bit healthier in 2021.

And we're going to talk about all the pitfalls associated with

convenience eating. Kate I'm so thrilled to talk to you how are you? I'm doing

wonderful and I'm so grateful to be here. Thank you. Well I'm so

grateful you gave me some of your time. Before we get into, this is such a bad

pun, but the meat and potatoes, let's say, of today's episode.

Why don't you tell my listeners who you are, what you do, and what on earth Sun and Swell is?

Yeah, my name is Kate. I'm the co-founder and CEO of Sun and Swell.

So at Sun and Swall, we're building the first online plastic free health food store. We focus on selling health foods that are all

organic, made only with real foods, and then packaged in compostable packaging that turns

back into soil if it's composted. We are super passionate about doing what we do because we feel

the package food industry in particular is very

to

to it's hurting the planet for many reasons everything from the ingredients that are going into foods to package foods, the packaging itself. Tell me a little bit more, why did you, out of all the jobs in the world, out of all the professions

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