My mom and I

If you were scrolling through Instagram and Twitter this weekend, you were probably bombarded with pictures and tweets from myself about the Wow Summit conference hosted by Mom's Meet.

"But Samantha, you are not a mom?"

Robyn O'Brien gave an awesome keynote speech about why we have the right to know what's in our food, and that with all these new food allergies popping up we should be aware that its not always us changing, its the food.
 She showed the two slides about the double standard in food. I know they are hard to read but the one to the right is example of the U.K ingredients list for Nutri Gran and The U.S ingredients list for the same product. How insane is that!? I personally think its ridiculous we can't put natural products in our own food. If the UK can do it, why don't we? How hard is it? 

The next was a session hosted by Nature's Path about GMO's. I personally HATE GMO's. Don't even get me started. It's so scary to think that are food has this stuff in it (unless it has a GMO label).
I forgot to take a picture of this slide but here is a similar chart that was showed. Below is all the countries (in green) that required GMO labeling.

 
So Russia has GMO labeling but not the U.S????
I think that's a little ridiculous.
Don't get me wrong. I love my country. I love the freedom we have. But I also feel we have a right to know what we are buying is healthy for us and not full of pesticides and chemicals.


My next favorite talk was from Heather White. She talked all about keeping your home free of unnecessary chemicals. This was full of great information from me because I am in the process of trying to switch over all our products to greener more eco-friendly versions.
Heather's company EWG has great information on their site here : http://www.ewg.org/



Last but not least all of the sponsors at the conference were amazing! Zevia, Flu Nada, Sweet Leaf, Suja, Smart Flour, Dippin Chips, Mrs Thinsters, Canyon Bakehouse, Kiwi, and so many more. Everyone was so nice, friendly and so excited to hear and work with bloggers.
As a blogger I love meeting companies that love to work with us. Its encouraging :)

Thanks Mom's Meet for invited me to come! I'm crossing my fingers I can come next year!

First off, I wasn't even planing on attending but an opportunity presented itself and I found myself waking up at 6am on a Saturday to head down to Winter Park with my mom to the event.

It went by so fast which I was not expecting. I partly wished it had gone a little slower so I could have taken it all in.  So many speakers and so many topics.

 My favorite session was a Photography Tips session by Julie of The Little Kitchen ( Top Right). She was so sweet and gave great simple tips. Definitely going to apply some of them to my future food post's :) 

Oh and obviously I enjoyed the Pinterest session. Who wouldn't??
AND did I even mention the gluten free cupcake the GiGi's Cupcakes had for us GF folks at the conference?? It was pumpkin spice and I about died. I wanted seconds SO BADLY. I am defiantly going to make a trip to GiGi's next time I'm in the area.



If you are in the Central Florida area and want to come next year, I highly recommend it!
And if you were there this year and we said hello! It was great to meet you and I hope to see you again next year!