The last post I put up started the ball rolling. Health isn't only important when it comes to kids.. (duh!) and obviously, the people that would usually opt for food deliveries would in fact be adults, or teenagers like myself.
And if the kind of people coming to this site are anything like me, indulging in the guilty pleasure of conveniently delicious morsel doesnt immediately mean that we dont secretly (or not so secretly ^_^) want to be healthy (read: hot) too. Me being the self-consious person that I am, went to this site quite some time back; remembered it, figured it might be relevant to THIS bloggie, and went back there to look it up.
It's mainly a method to reducing cholesterol, but more importantly, it covers nearly everything you need to know about properly understanding exactly what cholesterol is, why it's important and what you can do about lowering it quickly and effectively at the same time as doing a heckuvalotta good for your health.
Lower Your Cholesterol
Now I'm not guilting you into anything, but I'm just saying.. that cheesy Italian slice of heaven does cost more than what you paid the pizza guy. Balance, I always say, is the key. LoL. >=D
Sunday 27 September 2009
More On Health
Wednesday 23 September 2009
Mom Convinced Me the Little Broccolis Looked Like Trees. Somehow, They Then Tasted Better.. =/
I found something pretty cool the other day and it just occured to me to follow it up.
After watching movies like Supersize Me, and hearing about the gross obesity of the current generation, it seems to me like more should be done so children have better eating habits. Because really, kids dont really put much thought into what they eat. They'll pretty much eat anything that has a hint of promise of tasting good, which depends on whats given to them. So why aren't parents giving their kids greener healthier things..?
And it occured to me that the immense popularity and interest of food deliveries is somewhat a symptom to this situation. People are busy. People dont have time to go out and sometimes its just more convenient to have the food come over. But why must this convenience necessarily be an unhealthy one?
Anyway, my moral aptitude led me to this site that turns out to have some pretty good ideas on how to get children develop healthy eating habits by helping moms cook meals and prepare snacks from fruits and vegetables that kids will actually love. Its got all kinds of tips and tricks, trade secrets of successful moms who are able to feed their kids fruits and veggies without the constant frustration of making threats and childish deals and dealing with sulking and untouched plates.
Sounded pretty cool to me. ^_^
The Yummy Healthy Tummy
Farmers Getting On the Online Bandwagon
Virtual farmers market will let UK shoppers buy real produce
Building on an initial experiment in online virtual world Second Life, a British food importer says he will launch a virtual farmer’s market in the United Kingdom in January. The transaction-enabled Virtualfarmersmarketuk.com will serve as a portal to the web sites of specialty British agricultural producers, with online shoppers able to place orders on those web sites or centrally on the virtual market platform, for local delivery.
Importer Marcus Carter says the virtual farmers market will move from Second Life to a dedicated virtual platform his organization is currently building using online gaming technology. As was the case on Second Life, the new platform will allow visitors to tour market stalls online and view what each stall has to offer. But, unlike Second Life, visitors won’t have to create avatars to navigate the virtual market. Instead, they can travel through the market using their mouse and cursor.
Sellers will be limited initially to four to six items per market stall. Farmers will deliver goods to a London-based warehouse, which will fulfill the orders from the online shoppers. Shoppers also can choose to order directly from any producer’s web site linked to that producer’s market stall.
Carter says he will buy goods and sell them to consumers at a 10% markup. The virtual market, which closed on Second Life earlier this year, will reopen on the new platform with an initial 20 to 30 farm producers, but Carter plans to add many more.
The new virtual market will include 90-second videos of each participating producer discussing the story behind her product. Visitors can view the farmers’ videos when they visit their stalls.That ties directly into what Carter sees as the utility of the Internet in accomplishing his objective, which is to make British consumers aware of local produce grown right in their backyard.
Carter notes that access to real-world farmers’ markets in the U.K. is limited. “People want to buy better food but they are not willing to go to 20 producers individually, and there isn’t any place where they can go to meet the producer, listen to his story and then make a decision to buy, with the exception of a real-life famers’ market,” he says. “I’m trying to bring that online. “
Student Run Delivery Service
Students offer buying, delivery service
By BRUCE ERSKINE Business Reporter
TOO BUMMED to shop? We’ll do the drop" is the abbreviated business plan of Store-To-Door, an online grocery buying and delivery service developed by two Dalhousie University commerce students.
"We’ve been working on it since the beginning of July," said Alexandra Barkin, 19, a third-year commerce student majoring in accounting who formed the business as a co-op work term project with classmate Gillian Hull, 20, who is majoring in marketing.
"It’s a great learning experience."
The two Toronto-area natives are targeting the service to Dalhousie and Saint Mary’s University students living on the peninsula.
Since its launch on Sept. 10 after a promotional blitz featuring young women on in-line skates handing out Store-to-Door fliers at Dalhousie, the business has signed up about 40 customers and made about 15 deliveries.
"It’s actually been pretty close to what we expected," said Ms. Barkin.
Store-to-Door delivers a range of products — everything from meat and vegetables to frozen foods and toiletries — that are sourced from Superstore, Costco and Walmart in the Bayers Lake Business Park.
Delivery charges vary according to the size of an order, ranging from $3.95 to $9.95. Orders are done online and payments are made by credit card through PayPal, a guaranteed online payment service.
"Our markup depends on the product, but we try to keep prices on par with Superstore with a small premium for our service," said Ms. Barkin.
She estimated the business, which is offering free delivery on orders over $100 in September as a special promotion, could make $10,000 in the next four months if it signs 500 to 600 customers.
Ms. Barkin said she and Ms. Hull got the idea for the service after observing large numbers of university students calling taxis to haul their groceries home.
"Our delivery charges are about the same (as taxi fares)," she said, adding that while Pete’s Frootique offers a similar, more expensive service, theirs is the only one she’s aware of that focuses on Halifax’s large university student population.
Ms. Barkin said she and Ms. Hull have never run their own businesses before, but they did a lot of research and found that the online grocery shopping and delivery concept is popular elsewhere in Canada.
"In most provinces in Canada, it’s a big business," she said.
Their market research found that 77 per cent of students, if made aware of the service, would consider using it.
Ms. Barkin said the partners kept a lid on their startup costs, which included investments in web design and food coolers, by utilizing the expertise of her father, who is a chartered accountant, and Ms. Hull’s father, who is in the insurance business.
The business has one vehicle to make deliveries, but Ms. Barkin said she and Ms. Hull might have to lease another vehicle and add staff and storage space if the service continues to grow when they return to classes after their work term ends.
"We won’t do deliveries when we’re in school after the co-op term," she said.
"If it’s doing well, we’ll have others do it for us."
( berskine@herald.ca)
Laughs Delivered
A retro delivery vehicle thing. I think it looks real cool. =)
I don't even know what the heck is going on here. X)
