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Health & Fitness

This Week at Smart Markets Reston

Join us at our Reston market today for a cooking class with Demo Diva Annie Sidley.

I am working hard this morning to catch up since missing my regular “catch up” day this week. I usually spend Mondays writing the weekly newsletter that goes out to a list of more than 3,000 shoppers, the weekly market updates for each market and the Patch blog posts for four Patch neighborhoods.

Enjoying the holiday with family over in the mountains on the western side of the Shenandoah Valley was a nice diversion, though, and it was good to see the oldest and youngest members of the extended family together. I hope all of you enjoyed your holiday as well.

We kicked off this week with our Demo Diva at Fairfax Corner, and she joins us at our Reston market Wednesday with a great menu of Green Grocer Potato Salad, Summer Bread Salad and Fresh Fruit with Whipped Cream.

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Annie Sidley comes at least once a month to most of our markets to demonstrate what you can do at home with market produce and products. She comes to teach and answer questions and give direction on techniques — she uses the recipes we hand out at the market and prepares almost the entire menu on site.

Our mission is to get our shoppers back in the kitchen with their families making dinner more nights a week than not. We believe this is the most direct route to better health for everyone. It results in less salt and fat in your diet and more of the nutrients that prevent health problems down the road.

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So please come to shop and to learn how to cook up some great food in less time than it takes to go out or pick up food from others. If Annie can do it standing in the middle of a farmers’ market under a tent, you can do it in your own kitchen with ease and pride. The demo starts at 4:30 today.

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