Monday, November 30, 2009

HERB CLASS December 1st, this TUESDAY! Come taste different herb teas and make some to take home! GREAT class if you are interested in herb teas!

CHRISTMAS PROMOTION! I know you are all off shopping for presents (I am a size 9 :-)) but we still need your business so...... for every $100.00 you spend you will receive a $6.00 Gift certificate! If you save your receipts and bring them in during the week of Christmas you can redeem them for gift certificates for your friends, family or for yourself! So to recap: SAVE your receipts and bring them in December 18, 19, 21, 22, 23 or 24th and we will issue gift certificates for you to give away or keep! PLUS we are having inside sales each week you will not want to miss on meats, supplements, etc so…..MERRY CHRISTMAS!

We now have LOCAL free range eggs! These eggs are from Aparian Farms and enjoy the free life! Free from antibiotics, hormones, and stress! There is a rooster on premise (someone needs to keep them in line) and enjoy life with their steer buddies. All their beef is free range and grass fed only, but they do not have enough for us to sell yet! So we will enjoy their eggs! They are only two miles away, so we mean LOCAL eggs!

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Raw Milwaukee Meetup Group!

For all those of you interested in living the raw lifestyle (75% or higher of diet is living foods) please consider joining the Meetup group in Milwaukee! Somehow I became the organizer of the group last month, and we are planning raw potlucks each month. It is a great way to meet others and get recipes and ideas for living raw! I personally love this lifestyle and have more energy than I ever thought possible. PLUS I do not get sick! (Ok, once I had a cough, but only one in many years!) There are over 170 members, and new members joining each week. It is a great group f people wanting one thing….great health through RAW FOODS! www.meetup.com/rawmilwaukee

Thanksgiving help!

This year brings us all joy, but for one family in particular, if brings great joy. The Fleisner family has been through months of rollercoaster rides as their 17 year old daughter Kassy, has been fighting cancer. Last Thursday was quite a trial, as she almost spent the evening in the arms of her creator. (Not that that would have been a terrible thing…) BUT she made it through once again, and has made it through another surgery. Brenda (mom) is hoping they will all come home this week. I have offered to prepare thanksgiving dinner for the 12 of them! What the heck, what’s another 12 for dinner! They will celebrate at their own home this Saturday. If anyone would like to help in preparing their Thanksgiving dinner, please let me know. We will be making it either Thursday AM or Friday AM. They will be coming here to pick it up on Friday, and all they will need to do is pop it in the oven! We sure have much to be thankful for!

Black Friday

Just 2 days away! 10% off everything PLUS free Raw Sandwiches for lunch!

Vitalize Your Life! Dec 3rd JUDY WALZ!

Judy Ann Walz MSN, RN is coming to speak with us! Judy has experience in all areas of health, starting with many years as an RN. She also is accomplished in acupressure, reflexology, Reiki, Iridology, Nutritional Assessment, is a certified psychotherapist, an author and VERY active in the community speaking on health and wellbeing! So, with all that, we narrowed it down to speaking on Choosing the Beautiful or Choosing the Ugly. Don’t let the title fool you, this is NOT a class on dress or hygiene! Come Thursday December 3rd at 7:00 PM for her presentation. VITALIZE MEMBERS we have a support group at 6:00PM that night. Come excited! We have much to plan and share together! VYL members free, Non members $10.00.

Monday, November 23, 2009

Thanksgiving!

Thanksgiving Feasting!

A favorite time of year is here! Come on in for great deals and great food! Organic Jumbo Yams now .88 a pound, Organic Home Made Herb Stuffing, Organic Pumpkin Pies, Organic Whole Wheat Rolls (frozen so you can pop them in your oven and make your home smell like our kitchen… INCREDIBLE!),3 varieties of our new Raw Breads (great for crackers too! Use with vegetables or add cream cheese, mangos and red peppers! Try with hummus! Yum!) Organic Apple Pie’s (please call ahead to order), Our new Hot Cocoa has been a HUGE hit so grab some original Hot Cocoa or Zesty Cocoa for a real treat! How about our granolas for breakfast….or perhaps some yummy cranberry coconut pancakes? Heck because I am in a sales mood come grab some NEW ORGANIC Chocolate chip and peanut butter cookie dough’s from the cooler! We even have GLUTEN FREE chocolate chip cookie dough to go! ZuZu’s Organic Pumpkin Bars available too! ORGANIC TURKEYS in the freezer! They taste GREAT! Thanksgiving items available after 3 pm Monday. Regular store hours except Thursday, too busy cooking for the family!

Black FRIDAY is Just Four Days Away!

Feeling thankful for all we have, we thought we would share! Come shop and save 10% off everything in the store this Friday! Now, this is a great deal as many products have a very low mark up so……come save! This includes all sale items too! PLUS FREE RAW SANDWICH BAR (with purchase) from 12:00 pm until 1:00 pm! (Editor’s note: I cannot stand shopping, so for me, this would be a haven. Department stores freak me out as they are, so if you are like me, this is the shopping you can get in so you don’t feel left out on the biggest shopping day of the year! For those of you fearless women who enjoy mall shopping, come take a break -grab your groceries and enjoy lunch with us!)

Christmas Open House December 6th

In appreciation for all you do as customers to support our family, and for so many of you who have become friends, we are inviting you to an open house at our home on December 6th from 2:00 pm – 7:00 pm. We will have food and beverages, and invite you and your family to stop in! You may bring a dish to share if you like. Our home is just on the other side of the church, so use the same driveway as you do for the store. We will have Christmas movies playing and some games in the café for kids if they like. Please stop in and join us in celebrating the most joyful time of the year…..Christmas!

This Year, the Woman Got it

My husband Roger is a very good marksman. He has taken time to teach all of our children how to shoot and also how to hunt. The boys have gotten their bucks, and this year Jenna joined the ranks! Roger said on opening day as different deer came…….and went……... It was good teaching time for Jenna. Pretty good I’d say because within an hour the next day, she took a buck down and that was that! So now I have a freezer full of pheasants AND a buck. What is a raw foodist to do? Yup, enjoy the meat! Luckily, I still whip up a mean casserole, so those full moons may bring out the meat side of me……evil laugh here…… Jenna said it was an awesome experience, and the feeling of appreciation for the buck was very strong. She offered a prayer of thanksgiving (as Roger has taught them all to do….good man) and learned all about deer anatomy after that. Story ends here!

All Your Baking Needs

Enjoy our new bulk food area! We started ordering in bulk the SAME EXACT product as Wilderness Family Naturals (Great family, great products) so we can package for you and save you $$! We also are able to purchase bulk berries from Earth Friendly Foods and will have them soon. What does this mean? LOWER process and HIGH Quality in your shopping basket. Yeah!

Credit Card….to charge or not to charge……

FYI we are now charging a 5% fee for any charge or bank card use. This excludes the SNAP program (food stamps). We pay more than 5% on all of your charges, sometimes as high as 8% for exclusive cards, and to keep our prices in the store low, we decided to implement this change. Sorry! We are just too fair and small to pay these fees out of pocket. HOWEVER if you are going to stop shopping here because of this please use your card and let us know prior! We sure do not want to lose anyone, just looking to bring the profit margin a bit higher on our products.

Thursday, November 19, 2009

Tonight Tonight Tonight!!!

It’s here! Tonight’s class can help YOU overcome addictions, cravings, lower the temper, relax and bring your anxiety level back to….normal! (What is normal anyway? A sign my mother bought for our family reads……Normal around here is just a setting on the washing machine! thanks mom…..) EFT Emotional Freedom Technique expert Linda Farr will be joining our Vitalize Your Life! Program to help demonstrate and teach us the taping we hear about throughout the holistic health world. Come tonight and bring whatever item it is you crave and see if you can throw that item in the garbage on the way out! 6:30 PM. If you are not a member of the VYL program, the cost is $10.00. Money WELL SPENT! Gosh, I LOVE this job…..

RAW BREAD!

Fiesta Lime, Sunny Tomato and Carrot Cashew are débuting on Saturday at ZuZu’s Organic Café! Come for lunch or dinner and choose from our regular menu….or enjoy a raw sandwich on this dairy free, flour free, gluten free FANTASTIC (ZuZu’s favorite stuff since…hot out of the oven sliced bread! But she loves it MORE than sliced bread1) RAW BREAD! Topped with your choice (or all of) Avocado spread, red peppers, red onions, spinach, zucchini, tomato, cucumbers, sprouts, carrots and lettuce! Is your MOUTH WATERING YET!? Ymmmmmmm

CaCao Nibs! Coconut Milk Powder! CaCao Powder!

We invested into LARGE amounts of bulk items that we are packaging here in our licensed kitchen! This means SAVINGS TO YOU! The same high quality foods you purchase on –line or from other companies right here in your back yard! (ok, I may have stretched the back yard bit…) Raw cacao Nibs that are now $5.00 les a bag! Our Raw Cacao powder is now $7.00 less a bag! These savings are brought to you by……us! And there is a ton more on the way (literally!). We are working with Raw Foodists who have traveled the world to find everything from raw wild gooseberries (my favorite berry on earth) to really raw cashews. All items will be making their way into our new bulk area (hopefully rearranged this weekend) and will have our labels. We are also packaging our spices in very nice jars so you can purchase them and then refill them. I suppose this concern for everything you eat has taken us to a new level. We just think we can make it better than anyone else, and more affordable too! So sit back, you have no idea what we are all up to yet!

RAW CACAO Hot chocolate!

This is the best hot chocolate we have ever tasted! Come enjoy Raw Cacao, Fresh Organic Coconut Milk touched with Organic powdered sugar to make a YUMY hot cocoa! Spicy Hot Cocoa available too!

Christmas Tree Already!?

Yes, our Christmas tree (measuring 27 feet circumference) is UP! We flew Emily home last Thursday and hid her in our laundry room. We picked up all the other children early for school for “a very important activity” and brought them all into the kitchen. We then proceeded to tell the children we were going to get our tree! They all just stared, as it was November 12th. We had taken them out of school for this? I asked them what was missing and the younger ones gave the list….hats, saw, rope, etc. Then Eric said “my lovely twin sister” and out she popped! He didn’t even know she was coming! They all flew on top of her (quite the bear hug) and we took off to Christmas on Indian Lore in West Bend. We have gotten our trees there for as long as I can remember, and they are INCREDIBLE people. Their season starts sometime soon (we called and came early because….they are our friends!) It was a very great weekend with Emily! This is the last time all of us will be together to have our family ritual of tree cutting as next year three of our children leave for two years on missions. It was a great tree cutting! We found one that was 17 years old and TALL! Visit them for hay rides, warm fire, s’mores and great trees! www.indianlorefurniture.com and tell them “hi!” for us!

Vitalize Your Life!

As our program unfolds, we are learning what works well. We have decided to hold a support session from 6:00 pm until 6:50 pm each Thursday with the class to follow at 7:00 pm. (however tonight the class does start at 6:30 pm). Please watch for a class listing during the next week or so. As more people sign up for the classes, we will offer more support groups at other locations as well. We will keep you posted! It is an amazing group of people…and we have just gotten started! If you know of anyone who wishes to improve their health, this is it! The tools, leaders, education and support is great!

Holistic Health, Green Living and Emergency Preparedness Expo News

We have just arranged to have a Community Holistic Health insert in the local papers scheduled for April. We are looking for professionals who want to advertise and have editorial space as well. This guide will be VERY helpful for people in the tri county area in finding holistic health care professionals, support and supplies. Included will be some of our success stores from VYL program and many personal treatments we have used on our family. If you know anyone who would benefit from advertising in this segment please send them our way! PLUS if you have a home remedy that has worked for something please send that too! This guide will be available at the Expo! Get April 24th 2010 on the calendar today!

THANK YOU!

As Thanksgiving weekend is almost upon us, our family wants to thank you for all of your support this past year. It has been a wonderful year serving and getting to know so many of you. There are such wonderful people in this area! With all the unrest in the country, we believe that whatever happens would only draw us closer as a people. There is no one I know that would not fight for his family’s safety. There is no one I know that would not fight for the freedoms our parents and ancestors fought for. I am thankful for my great great grandfather whose body rests in Jackson WI. He and his family led a group of families to America and settled the Kirchhayn and Cedarburg area. They built the first churches there, and their farmsteads are still visible. They came to America for freedoms they could no longer enjoy in Prussia. I am thankful for my freedom as a woman to have as many children as I do, to eat what I grow, run businesses, enjoy our religion, and have access to unlimited information and the world through technology. But most of all I am thankful for the gifts given to me by a kind Lord. They are what make me…me. Your gifts make you….you. Thank you for sharing yourselves with us!

Friday, November 6, 2009

Holy Hupla!

GREAT SCOTT! I think we are on to something!

Last night was the first meeting for Vitalize Your Life! And it was GREAT! We had a couple dozen people attend, and many more wanting to come within the next few weeks. It is going to be incredible to watch and see how this program utterly changes this part of WI. Our guest speakers and their dates will be release next week, so get excited! Next Thursday we will be taking a group picture for the Daily News, Hartford Time Press and other local papers, so come! THANK you to all who are helping to make this program a success! We will be running this program for a long time, with celebration parties every April and October! We LOVE TO PARTY!

RAW BREADS!

Oh my! You will LOVE the new breads! These raw breads are made from sprouted nuts, seeds, and vegetables! All gluten free, dairy free, yeast free and the best things I have ever made! (If I do say so myself!) I even fed the Direct TV man raw sandwiches for lunch yesterday on our raw breads! I told him there were many people that would love this, as they have been waiting for these breads to appear at the store! It was fun and he LOVED THEM too! We have three breads and one pizza crust coming, so start drooling now…..

Produce Produce Produce!

The produce looks great! With so many more shopping, the shipments just keep coming! DON’T let the oranges scare you. They are organic and don’t look perfect like the ones in the alternative stores. They are GREAT! I just can’t tell you how wonderful organic produce is compared to conventional. It is a shame that kids are exposed to that stuff, no wonder they don’t like apples….if all they are ever offered at school are those waxed red delicious! Take the plunge and buy organic! (Strawberry fields were wiped out….that is why no one has organic strawberries again yet…)

HERBS for IMMUNITY!

The class this coming Tuesday is a great one! Chris will be teaching us all about herbs and how to access their preventive and healing attributes this cold and flu season. I can only profess so often that foods and herbs heal! Come see how these herbs can help YOUR family! And, for those of you who have attended one of Chris’s classes, you know to BRING A NOTEBOOK and pen! This man is a walking encyclopedia! (yes Chris, you are!)

Direct TV Man and Promotion!

So, I am sitting there dealing with the sales people from both Dish network and Direct TV. We do not watch much TV at all, but enjoy a movie or two a month. The younger ones watch some Disney here and there as well. As I was talking with the Dish people, I realized that I would only save $20.00 over two years with their program. However, something kept telling me not to go with them! We had Dish years ago and I liked their system much better than Direct, but I went with that inner prompting and went with Direct TV.

A nice man came and as we went into the basement he remarked on our food storage (most members of our church store food in their homes in case of emergency). And that was it! Low and behold….it was the son of a good church friend I have not seen in well over a decade! Connections were made as we spoke for quite some time about his family. He now lives with his family (8 year old and twins 1 ½) in the Port area. He stayed for lunch and also explained all the fancy buttons on the remote. He was a delight! I love inspiration! FOLLOW IT!

I am passing you this information. If you would like to have Andrew Kaye come to your place and install Direct TV just call 262-252-6000 or 877-924-3234 and give them this code: 8916. You will save $100.00 off your bill just for having this number! This is an incentive for the installers, so I thought I would pass it on!

Peace to My Soul

Just to give you a heads up…..I am taking off each Wednesday! We are closed on Sundays, and I just wanted to designate another day (in full) to our family…. and my sanity! I will not return calls or emails on those days. As so many people are joining the Vitalize program and getting excited for the Expo, please note it may take a few days to respond to your emails anyways! I do spend time at home each day taking care of family and home, as that is my first priority, but you are all the runners up from there on out!


Distillers and Blenders

Orders are going in on Monday for distillers and blenders! Please contact us if you are looking to order! Blend tec Home Blender $359.95 and their Mix and Blend is only $295.95! Distillers range from $135.00 to $160.00!