147 | Eating Healthy Doesn't Have to Be Bland with JustBE Founder Jennifer Peters

The Optimal Body

Find eating healthy boring? Feeling like social experiences are compromised with healthy eating? We have Jennifer Peters, founder of Just Be Kitchen, on to expand your views on getting creative with healthy eating. From start to finish, Jennifer outlines her journey to how she opened up the Just Be restaurant, and where her passion came from. Through her story, she shares the changes she has made to her diet to perform optimally, and how she navigated her relationship with hidden added sugars. She speaks about Just Be’s most creative recipes and how they have impacted hundreds of people's lives through healthy relationships with food. Finally, she shares how the pandemic has helped her embrace her passion in an even more meaningful way and ends with her top food swaps to optimize your health! Learn more about Just Be's Christmas launch and all the work they are doing to nourish and sustain optimal health!

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What You Will Learn In This Interview with Jennifer Peters

3:21 - Where does Jennifer's passion come from?

6:51 - What created performance shifts for Jennifer?

9:26 - Reframing sugar cravings

11:31 - How is the Just Be Kitchen changing food relationships

14:19 - Just Be's most creative recipes

17:08 - Jennifer's relationship with food

22:13 - How did the name 'Just Be' come about?

24:30 - How has Jennifer shifted during the pandemic?

31:14 - Why awareness makes the biggest difference?

34:20 - Christmas launch & Learn more about Just Be Kitchen

About Jennifer Peters

Jennifer is the founder & foodie of just be the kitchen. She wanted to close the gap between who she was and what she did and felt compelled to open a wellness company. Tired with healthy food being depicted as limited, boring, or about the sacrifice she opened Denver’s first and only 100% gluten, grain, refined sugar, dairy, soy, peanut, and legume-free restaurant focused on comfort food “JBK style.” Just BE Kitchen has been cited Denver’s best gluten-free in various publications including Westward and Eater and Just BE is also the only Whole30 ap5roved restaurant in the State of Colorado!

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