Parr Bars Have Arrived




All Natural Food Producer Creates Whole Food Bars & Partners With Fast Youth Athlete Inc.


Parr Foods, LLC. Located in Boone, NC expands into the youth athlete market to make a national push to battle youth obesity
January 15, 2010 -- Jay Parr started making energy bars after graduating from Le Cordon Bleu, School of Culinary Arts in 2004. With his experience in the kitchen and his love of the outdoors, the creation of the Boone Barr was inevitable. In 2008, he went back to school to study entrepreneurship and sustainable development at Appalachian State University. With enough encouragement from friends and family (especially my parents and Uncle Mark), I finally decided to give selling them a try. After a short conversation with a local coffee shop owner, the Boone Barr was put in its first retail location. Since then, we have grown from a rental home kitchen to a small production facility with several great employees. The rest is history.
Parr Foods, L.L.C. is a sustainable local-run business located in Boone, NC. We produce the Boone Barr, a whole food energy bar made from all natural and organic ingredients. Each bar is handmade and vacuum sealed to keep it fresh without the use of preservatives. We do not add sugar or artificial flavors, and use 100% wildflower honey as a sweetener in all but our vegan bar, which is sweetened with molasses.

Quality, sustainability, and hard work are our driving principles. We hope to take this great local product and distribute it regionally to retailers with likeminded values.

The partnership with Fast Youth Athlete Inc. was a natural move as their mission is to teach as many youth athletes as possible the fundamentals of quality youth training to encourage a healthy lifestyle, quality character, mentorship, leadership, and improve quality of play. The company is co-owned by Jimmy Lamour and Oliver Jordan. They are two former division III football all stars who reach you athletes through speed manuals, performance training, seminars, clinics, and mentorship.

The two companies saw a need for better nutrition options on the field of play. It bothered us to see kids being given high sugar snacks to maintain their energy during practices or games. The result was always a quick energy boost and a quick energy crash as well. The Parr bars was a perfect option to offer healthy food choices and sustainable energy. We hope to offer Parr bars across the nation to every youth sport organization and school organization in the near future. Parr foods can be contacted through their website at
http://www.parrfoods.com and Fast Youth Athlete can be contacted through http://www.fastyouthathlete.com.

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