Is it just me or was traffic really bad at 3 in the afternoon this week?  Is there a little more stress and hurry in the air that there has been for the rest of the summer?  Have you seen strange, flashing lights in the early dawn hours going down the roads? 

If so, then it can mean only one thing: school is back in session!  Fall (if we can really call August that in South Louisiana) is also when apples are in season.  As always, we’re bringing back some of our favorite apple concoctions for you!

Apple Scotch (that's it on the top shelf in the photo) is the ultimate treat after little Junior gets out of school: a bread with granny smith apple chunks, butterscotch chips, and a vanilla cookie on top.  It’s available Wednesdays and Fridays

Cinnamon Apple Swirl is just what you need to get on the teacher’s good side in the dog-eat-dog world of competition for Teacher’s Pet… it’ll nuke that apple Susie DoGooder brings to class.  Cinnamon Apple Swirl is our Cinnamon Burst Extreme with apples swirled in, too!  Available Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays.

Our Apple Nut Muffins and Teacakes have Fall spices folded in with apple chunks & pecans in a lovely little teacake/muffin.  Available Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays.

Don’t forget the Bayou Bars!  We try to have a variety with apple in it most days, too!

About a month ago we announced our Dog-Human Lookalike Contest and now we're happy to announce that we have a winner!!!

Congratulations to Leigh McGowen, our Bowser of the Year!

There’s been a decent amount of publications lately that are highlighting the correlation between good food and children’s test scores in standardized testing.  The recent program Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution highlighted that point when the area he focused on in Britain saw test scores jump significantly once school lunches were switched to real, whole foods and made-from-scratch cooking.

While we can do small things for our schools like sign petitions and call our local school board representative to ask for systematic change, the simplest thing we can do now is send our kids to school with a lunch box.  That’s what my wife and I recently started doing now that our oldest son is in school… and it is not as time-intensive as you might think.  Our oldest is too young to see test score results but we’ve noticed smaller mood swings in the afternoon now that we’ve dropped school lunch from our family’s menu! 

Here’s our template we invite you to try with your kids:

• A  sandwich, made on Honey Whole Wheat, Challah, or Dakota
• A piece of fruit cut up the night before
• A small salad with his favorite dressing
• A small bag of chips or crackers (they’ll eat it first every time)
• 100% fruit juice or water

It takes five minutes to put this meal together and it’s got enough staying power to keep our six year-old going throughout the day without bogging him down with tons of refined carbohydrates and simple sugars.  Obviously we’ve got some self-promotion in that menu… it’s got Great Harvest bread!  However, we stand by our products – simple, made-from-scratch, breads with ingredients you can read and understand without a dictionary.  Great for getting adults through the day, too!