Hello Everyone!

Tonight is our meeting, come if you can! 7PM here in the lower level.

As neither my husband nor I have ever owned a grocery store, there are things we learn along the way! One thing we are learning is to put things on SALE! People love to see the word SALE, so we have these cute new sale signs where the sales are! Our prices are kept low all the time (most items have a profit margin of well under 30%), so we hesitated putting anything on sale, but what the heck. Why not! A couple items just to tease you are broccoli $1.99 head, cauliflower $1.99 head, plums $1.38 lb, Spectrum Organic Virgin Coconut oil only $9.25 for 14 oz (Both Patty and I ordered a case not knowing the other did so we have a TON!!! Great for you!) and as always, the Garden of Life Vitamin Code at the lowest retail price possible $29.99 so come on in for that alone! All Enviro Kids Cereal $4.25 and Grapeseed Spray $5.99 and Don’t Bite Me patches for $7.99!!!

OIL = Health! As the fall and winter months approach us, please get your oil! Fish oil, Flaxseed Oil and Coconut oil are the three we most recommend. Our family takes

1 TB of Flax oil a day and our skin is not dry!

Flax oil and fish oils both provide Omega-3 and the fish oil DHA.

I personally take coconut daily, and it is incredible for your skin topically as well. Coconut oil is the BEST oil I have ever read about or studied. NO the fats associated with this terrific oil are NOT bad for you! They are fully assimilated and full of enzymes! Coconut oil is fantastic to lightly sauté with, bake with, make popcorn, use in salad dressings, make smoothies with, remove makeup, and to keep your body soft! Did I mention it is on sale? Just seeing if you were keeping up..... (Oh, these statements we not evaluated by the FDA, nor will they probably ever be so don't believe me on any of this, as I am not an MD, so try it yourself!)

Advertising- As Hwy 33 is a state Hwy, we are having quite the time getting approval for a sign anywhere. We are working with the local and state now, and perhaps we will get a sign up yet this fall. Until then, we need YOU to help promote the store! THANK you for all you do already! We would love to have the local papers do articles on our store, but perhaps they need a little inspiration from you, the readers. Don't hesitate to call if you have a paper that does feature articles!

Once the date for the cafe is set, we will resume more advertising. Our store inventory is paid for as it is delivered, as we avoid debt, and with wanting to bring in more product lines (Enzymatic Therapy, Schoffs Botanicals, Amazon Herbs, Essential Oils), we keep our advertising to a minimum. Not what we want to do, but what we do to keep food on our own table! (It is a SHORT walk to the grocery store for us! How many others can take the cart home via the driveway!?) So please continue your word of mouth! We appreciate it!

ON LINE ORDERING - Within a month you will be able to order your grocery and we will deliver it to you!

SEE YOU SUNDAY! Nature's Garden Family Picnic 4-7 PM!
Come enjoy The Gardens too!

Remember....EAT TO LIVE!!!!


Karen

EXCITING NEWS!!!! Sitting with our now professional photographer daughter, Jenna, in a vegetarian cafe in NY the inspiration for our tagline and our decor came....

ZuZu's Organic Cafe
A Taste of Manhattan

In our organic cafe we will serve ethnic foods, many raw food entrees and the entire decor will be pictures from NY, NY. The tables will be black with hundreds of NY pictures decoupage on them, and there will be dozens of photographs enlarged to bring a fantastic feeling of being in the most amazing city on earth...right here in Allenton WI!

We want YOUR opinion. Anyone interested in helping with any part of the cafe - cooking, designing, hosting, waitressing, menu ideas ( we already have ideas, just need your yeah and nay and opinions) or if you are just plain excited about all of this - is welcome to join us for an informal meeting on SEPTEMBER 18th 7PM.

STORE NEWS:
The large 30oz and 42 oz coconut oil is on the way! We will have great prices!!

New items: Tupelo honey ( breaks down slower and is great for diabetics) Un petroleum lip balm in many flavors, Suzie's crackers (We pulled all the tree of life crackers, they just we not what we wanted in a cracker...) zinc lozenges, no-chicken broth, diced tomatoes FINALLY (we have been waiting..) , sprouted hot dog buns, great tasting Kombucha tea in a perfect size...16 oz, and wow is it good!, OG Mangosteen juice fortified with Goji+ pomegranate+Black Cherry!, Fresh butternut squash coming Thursday, and as always many

more items that I simply cannot remember!

The tomatoes you will find here at NG are from our very own organic garden! Enjoy! If anyone else has some extra tomatoes organically grown come share them here as well!

(yes, we will pay you...)

Looking forward to seeing all of you at the family picnic September 21st 4-7 PM!!

The Gluten Free cookies that just came out of our kitchen are the BEST we have ever tasted! And yes, they are straight from our kitchen with our own secret recipe! (doesn't secret sound exciting??) Come grab some up before they get attacked by the cookie monster!! (her name is Patty....in case you ever wondered....)

We will continue to bake our fresh Organic Whole Wheat Flax bread on Tuesdays and Fridays. It will be available when we open! NEW MUFFINS now here! Try our banana and our apple cinnamon muffins as well as the blueberry when you are in! Fresh GF bread is still in the trial and error stage, so look for that the third week of September. YUM!

I am off to NY for the week to visit our oldest daughter and will be visiting with chefs from raw, vegetarian and organic restaurants there so watch for some exciting entrees at our cafe!

CLASS UPDATES:

The Washington YMCA has invited me to teach a class Tuesday September 23rd at 6:30 PM. "Bringing Nature's Garden into Your Kitchen" will cover the basics of a healthy kitchen. Learn how to cook with Miso, honey, agave, whole wheat and taste the differences between organic and conventional. Basics on health will be discussed too! (that is just part of my deal...) The cost is $4.00 for YMCA members and $8.00 for community members.

The "Health School Lunches" class will be repeated on Tuesday, September 30th at 6:30. Please let us know how many are coming! Adults $10.00 and Children $3.00. This class was SUPPER last month and we are EXCITED to repeat it. Sign up soon as we already have a large class!

October 7th at 9:30 AM at Cedar Ridge we will be covering a variety of topics. We will cover living a healthy lifestyle, cooking simply with natural foods, organic bakery and food samples and whatever else they request!

October will be a month with classes on basics such as cooking with beans (and loving them by the way), cooking with grains and cooking with wheat. We will post them soon!

Any ideas on what to call the cafe? ZuZu's Organic Cafe, Nature's Garden Cafe, The Organic Vine cafe, Livin' to Eat Cafe.....IDEAS?????? HELP!

P.S. Our oldest daughter Jenna (18) is a photographer in NY. She will be home fulfilling wedding commitments for the next two months and would LOVE to shoot your family Christmas Picture here at The Gardens or at your home. Please visit www.theweddinggardens.com to see what our gardens have to offer, and www.elegancebyexpression.com to see Jenna's work! She will have a special running for September and October so we will pass that along!!