by Mignonne Bryant | Jan 29, 2015 | News Slider, Opinion
Eating healthy does not always come at a high price. College students may have limited funds, but there are ways to eat healthier at a lower cost. Graduate assistant Lauren Kinser showed some Lipscomb students how to pick the right items to eat at a lower cost. In a cooking demonstration, Kinser used reasonably inexpensive ingredients to make healthy snacks, like a peanut butter and jelly smoothie and energy bites, which are made with oats. “There’s no reason you need to pay two dollars extra to go to Whole Foods and feel better about it,” Kinser said. “You can feel better about saving two bucks and putting that towards buying something else.” Even at more affordable stores like Kroger, students may still be faced with expensive options. In the case of honey, Mountain Ridge is $9.29, Aunt Sue’s is $10.49 and the Kroger brand is $8.55. While it may not seem like a huge price difference, every penny counts when you are a broke college student. “Right now, I don’t have a lot to spend on healthy food,” senior Angela Moore said. “So it’s often easy to give the excuse that ‘oh that’s gonna be spendy so I’m just gonna go the fast way.’ I don’t wanna do that if there’s a better way.” Kinser encourages students to look at the labels of ingredients. She explained that many of the ingredients may be the same. “The name can sometimes be misleading,” Kinser said. “And also, what’s even more funny is sometimes they’re actually made in the same processing plants, but they just have a different label on them.” Yet Whole...
by Mignonne Bryant | Jan 16, 2015 | News Slider
Through casual coffee and conversation, his involvement has reached many – even those abroad in Africa and Haiti. Rob Touchstone, co-founder of The Well Coffeehouse and adjunct bible professor, knows how to think outside the box when it comes to business ideas. And now, as the newly appointed director of missional entrepreneurship in Lipscomb’s College of Business, he hopes to inspire the same thinking in others. It all started with golf balls. Touchstone grew up near a golf course where he and his friends would collect lost balls in the woods. He very soon came up with an idea: to re-sell all the missing golf balls back to the golfers. Touchstone said the golfers would find it hilarious because they were most likely buying back their own balls. With some money in his pocket, Touchstone and his friends decided to grow the ‘business’ by selling lemonade. While the golf balls continued to sell, they found that the golfers had no interest in purchasing lemonade. Toward the end of the day, Touchstone and his friends had plenty of lemonade left, so they decided to give it away for free. Touchstone said that when they did this, the golfers would reach into their pockets to pull out money. By trying to give away the lemonade for free, they ended up gaining a profit in return. Touchstone has always cherished this concept, and he’s even carried it with him through his most recent endeavor. Now, The Well gives all of its profits to missions and building wells in poverty-stricken countries. So far, the business has funded nine wells around the world. The latest development...
