California Virtual Academy is taking a guided tour of our store on Tuesday March 9th at 10! If you'd like a personal trip through the aisles of Whole Foods Market La Jolla for your school just ask!

Join Megan Clarke, Community Leader for Kids with Food Allergies and one of our members, to learn cooking tips, taste product samples and learn about products for creating foods for your food allergic child. 

Please sign up at the concierge desk. Space is limited!

Join Elizabeth Kaplan, chef and founder of The Pure Pantry and Valerie Breslow, Holistic Health Counselor and Clinical Nutritionist, for this informative lecture on cooking with the best of the best foods to support a healthy diet and promote weight loss.  Sample delicious, gluten-free dishes prepared with organic superfoods and learn how work these ingredients into your daily diet.  Recipes, food samples and encouragement provided!

Please sign up at the concierge desk. Space is limited!

The Bloodmobile will be in the side parking lot! All donors can come into Whole Foods Market and receive a free treat. Come and give blood today!

 The menu will consist of:

 Apricot Ginger Glazed Tasmanian Salmon

Corn Fennel Relish, Avocado Oil 

Quinoa Heart of Palm Salad

 Chocolate Kahlua Tart 

 Please sign up at the concierge desk. Space is limited!

Oriental Medicine Practitioner, Dawn Asher, discusses the specific dietary needs, from the Eastern Perspective, of our growing children and their developing organ and immune systems.  Glean from this ancient wisdom an approach to food that the whole family can benefit from.

Explore:

*a new perspective on your child's development and things that you can do to support it

*simple dietary changes to head off illnesses before they really set in

*tips to ensure that finicky eaters get the nutrients that they need

*ways to approach and work with food sensitivities and allergies

Dawn Asher MS, LAc, is a Nationally Certified, Diplomate in Acupuncture, and a Qi Gong and Chinese Medicine Practitioner.  She has been studying, practicing and teaching Oriental Medicine for the past 13 years.  She provides treatments, dietary and lifestyle consultations and teaches various classes on Eastern theory and health and longevity techniques. 

A devoted mother to a very healthy and precocious eight year old boy, join her as she delves into a topic very close to her heart.

Please sign up at the Concierge desk!

Take Your Taste Buds on an International Journey & Support a Global Cause!

We will feature recipes inspired by our Whole Planet Foundation clients all over the world. Whole Planet Foundations mission is to create economic partnership with the poor in developing world communities that supply our stores with product. Customers can purchase a passport for only $10! This includes tastings of four dishes as well as dessert.

Menu

Haitian Pumpkin Soup

Rice and Beans often called “Gallo Pinto” from Costa Rica

Guatemalan Chicken Stew with Tomatillo Sauce

Vegetable Biryani with Cashews from India

Chocolate Coconut Frozen Banana Popsicles

Whole Planet Passports can be purchased at the Customer Service Desk. 100% of the proceeds will be donated to our Whole Planet Foundation!

Presented by HAPPYFAMILY and WHOLE FOODS MARKET 

Kids will learn that organic and healthy food is also really tasty! This class will involve a favorite children's book and craft followed by an interactive demonstration where each child will make a delicious treat and of course EAT! Come join us this month as we make delicious and healthy "Grrreat Green Smoothies".

There will be two classes:

Timid Toddlers

Ages 18 mos -3 years

10:00 am-11:00am

Picky Preschoolers

Ages 4-6 years

11:30 am-12:30pm

By registration only

12 children per class max