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Organics Live: Organic Delivery Service + Franchise Opportunity in PA, DE, NJ

April 13, 2015 By Robin Strong Elton 3 Comments

Post written in partnership with Philly Social Media Moms for Organics Live.
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Imagine what it would be if, as a national policy,
we said we would only be successful
if we had fewer people going to the hospital

next year than last year.

How about that for success?

The idea then would be to have such nutritionally dense,
unadulterated food that people who ate it
actually felt better, had more energy, and weren’t sick as much.

Now see, that’s a noble goal.

~Joel Salatin

Trying to eat in a way that’s healthy and sustainable for your body, your lifestyle and the earth? Invested in preserving and improving the world we share?

A logical first step is to incorporate more organic fruits and vegetables into your diet.

Local peeps, huddle up. Today we’ve featuring a company that delivers locally sourced, organic food right to your door— for less than retail.

And they’re offering opportunities to become a partner, so you can grow your own business while supporting organic.

And there’s a chance to win a Vitamix blender at the end of this post.

Read on, friend.

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So, raise your hand if you or someone you know is making more of an effort to eat organic fruits and vegetables.

We hear all the time about the benefits of eating organic and supporting organic farmers. But for many of us, shopping for organic food can be a timesuck and a chore, requiring a stop at the farmer’s market or CSA plus a grocery store or two just to get the foods we feel good about feeding our families. In addition to these reasons, many people feel eating organic is too expensive for their family budget.

What if I told you there was an easier way?

What if there is an easier way to get affordable, fresh, certified organic fruits and vegetables: delivered right to your door every week?

Organics Live, a company founded in Canada, is coming to our area and will be offering their popular weekly delivery service to homes and businesses. Organics Live delivers certified organic, sustainably produced, and locally focused food and groceries for less than the cost of shopping retail! That and their 100% Satisfaction Guarantee is part of their very successful formula.

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Right now, Organics Live is looking for the right partners in the Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware Areas as they expand to the U.S.

  • Have you always dreamed about being in business for yourself?
  • Did you leave the workforce to raise your kids and are now looking for something to generate income and a different type of satisfaction?
  • Are you already passionate about health and wellness and interested in partnering with a company that has the same values?
  • Are you a go-getter who works hard and feels it’s time to personally reap the rewards of the success you generate?
  • Are you looking for a way to achieve work/life balance?

If you said yes to any of the above, you may be the one of the partners Organics Live is looking for.

Why Organics Live as a possible business venture?

Organics is growing!

Sales of organic products in the United States jumped to 35.1 billion in 2013, up 11.5% from the previous year’s 31.5 billion. 81% of U.S. families now choose organic food at least part of the time.

You can join a rapidly growing company founded by concerned dads with a shared belief that strong, prosperous communities can be fueled by good clean food!

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“At Organics Live, everything we deliver is sustainably produced with a heavy focus on supporting local growers and producers. We run a carbon neutral operation, offsetting all parts of the businesses, from field to plate. Our boxes are “best-of-season”, meaning that we source the freshest, highest quality fruits and vegetables available at any given time and deliver to homes and business weekly. Our mission is to build sustainable local food systems by providing our franchisees the support they need to move sustainably produced goods and services from makers to consumers with as little waste as possible.”

Corporate makes it easy

No inventory, warehouse space, or product management. No receivables, billing, or collection. No sourcing, buying, receiving, packing, or deliveries. Corporate even provides your website, IT, sales hotline, and marketing materials!

Not the usual franchise start-up costs

Territory ownership of households and businesses, full franchise status with resale rights, no royalties, and no brick and mortar required means your investment is 1/10 of a typical franchise operation start-up cost.

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If any of this appeals to you and you want to learn more or claim your desired territory before it’s taken, please visit Organics Live to learn more at www.franchising.organicslive.com.

As for the rest of you, Organics Live looks forward to making it easier and more affordable for you to eat the way you want to! We can’t wait to show you the Organics Live difference! Stay tuned!

Follow Organics Live on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter to keep up with happenings, expansion and seasonal recipes.

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Filed Under: Conscious Consumerism: Shopping & Reviews, Fitness, Health, Happiness, Food & Recipes, Local (DE, PA, NJ, MD) Tagged With: Eating Organic, Locally Sourced, organic, organic delivery, Organic Delivery Service, Organic Produce, Organics Live, Philly organic, saving money on organic 3 Comments

The Coupon Interview Experiment

April 14, 2011 By Robin Strong Elton 2 Comments

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A man is rich in proportion to

the number of things he can afford to let alone.

-Henry David Thoreau

My In-Real-Life buddy Danielle Liss saw Extreme Couponing for the first time last week. (If you haven’t seen it, click on the link and watch some of the clips.) Danielle asked friends from all areas of the blog world to participate in an interview regarding groceries and coupons. I am incapable of refusing such a request, as Danielle owns many many many unflattering photographs of my teen years.

If you want to participate, please feel free to copy the questions. Danielle plans to post a link to all of the answers, so send your link to dsliss [at] gmail [dot] com.

1.  Do you use coupons for groceries?

On occasion, but the majority of coupons are for items that just barely qualify as food, let alone good food. In our local paper you’ll periodically see coupons for Seventh Generation, Marcal recycled paper products, Sun & Earth detergents, yeast, Newman’s Own, and I’ll use those.

2.  What is the primary source of your coupons?

I get the Sunday edition of the Wilmington News Journal; I follow brands I’m loyal to on FB, Twitter and/or by email and sometimes coupons pop up that way. I also subscribe to Moms Need to Know via RSS and scan Mindi’s grocery store/coupon matchups (local to PA and includes Whole Foods) for anything that looks good; she links you up to the printable coupons. (Mindi, you need an organic category for people coming to the site for the first time.)

3.  Have you ever purchased food that you would not normally eat because you have a coupon? Remember any examples?

Have I ever? Suuuure. I went through a period of intense frugality when I wouldn’t buy anything without a coupon, and also bought things simply because they were such a good deal with the coupon.

One would think I’d have been introduced to a lot of great new brands that way, but I honestly can’t think of a time when that happened even once. Today, I won’t even look twice at a coupon unless it’s something I plan to buy anyway.

4.  When you grocery shop, what are the most important factors in your food choices?

Is this real food? Is it packed with preservatives, HFCS, food coloring, sugar? Does it involve an unconscionable amount of packaging? Can I recycle the packaging? Is it organic?

Is it going to make me feel bad about myself, on an ethical level for buying it, on a parenting level for feeding it to my kids, on a personal level if I eat it myself and it makes me feel ill?

5.  Do you use reusable bags? Why or why not?

I do, but not as often as I should (i.e. every time). I am really bad about forgetting them lately.

I do recycle the plastic ones we use (cat litter can or return to store) and the paper ones (hold paper recycling). Plastic never goes away, it just breaks down into itty-bitty pieces, winding up contaminating our soil and water and working its way up the food chain.

6.  If you had a coupon, would you purchase a stockpile of items because of the deal?

No. I might buy two.

Expiration dates sneak up on you more quickly than you expect, people eat more when there’s more to eat, we lose power on a regular basis out here in the boonies and things spoil. Stockpiling is a good way to waste food, in my opinion. And clutter in your house keeps the good energy from moving around, that’s bad feng shui. (I’m not sure if I’m kidding about that or not.)

7.  Do you plan your meals in advance? What do you base your meal plan on?

I loosely plot out seven dinners. Some weeks I get more organized and plan the meals so that the leftovers factor into later dinners. My family is really literal so if I commit the meal plan to paper or internet, I’m locked in.

The meal plan reflects what’s in season at the farmer’s market, or what was on sale at the store that week. It has to fit our schedule (crockpot meals on nights when it’s my turn to take a kid to soccer practice, etc). Since I pay more for free-range and organic, it’s really important that everything gets eaten. I hate to waste food or money.

8.  Have you ever tried to coupon to get items for free or close to nothing? How did it go? Do you still coupon?

Band-aids (we go through a lot of bandages, we are hands-on-yet-clumsy folk) occasionally go on sale for a dollar a box, so with a doubled coupon you get it for free. Ditto for Pringles, or Kool-Aid (yuck) which Jeff likes in his lunches sometimes; I refuse to pay good money for that crap.

9.  Last one – What do you blog about? (Or, as we learned in Bloggy Bootcamp, what’s your elevator pitch?)

simple.green.organic.happy. is a series of musings on green living, playful parenting, and the pursuit of happiness. By treading lightly on the earth, raising upstanding human beings, and finding beauty, complexity & happiness in my own backyard, I’m trying to become a better person and leave the world a better place. I hope others may be inspired to join me.

Thrift is not an affair of the pocket, but an affair of character.

-S.W. Straus

A few unsolicited observations:

I don’t have cable, and I haven’t seen Extreme Couponing, but my inexpert opinion is that some people are desperately clinging to a illusion of security and control that is misleading and unhealthy.

It’s one thing to feed your family on $50 a week if that is the very very most you could possibly afford (although even then you’d be better served with some packets of seeds and some careful meal plans; I talked about this in SPAM is not the answer). It’s quite another to spend so little because with enough time and coupons, you can. It’s immensely freeing to give money away, and my experience has been that when you release money “into the wild,” when you let go of some of its power over you: that’s when the universe becomes more generous. I hate to get all New Age-y but I cannot deny the karma.

Also, what extreme couponers are not taking into account is the long-term costs of that kind of diet. **slapping on my Food Police badge and bracing for impact** I am totally behind Jamie Oliver when he says sending a Lunchables into school with your child is a form of child abuse, even if you got it for free. Kids are only capable of eating what we provide for them, and if what we provide is processed, sugar-laden, pesticide-covered, BPA-laced (and contributes to the well-being of factory farms, which comes with its own host of health problems), then we are setting our kids up for a lifetime of improper eating habits. Which we KNOW is not healthy for them. If we KNOWINGLY lay the building blocks for an unhealthy future, that is, at the very least, neglect.

Food is central to our health and well-being and should not be something we pride ourselves in finding bottom-basement prices for. If ever there was a place for quality over quantity: this is it.

Lastly, I can’t get over the business model of printing millions of coupon booklets, which only a small percentage of people actually clip, and I would guess most of those clipped coupons expire before they are redeemed. Why can’t we put a better e-couponing system into place?

If you have opinions about coupons please play along, ’cause Danielle is my friend & I like her.

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Filed Under: Fitness, Health, Happiness, Food & Recipes, Going Green 101 Tagged With: extreme couponing, green grocery shopping, saving money on organic 2 Comments

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