2005 Letter Archive

Email from: Nikki - March 1st 2005

Dear Amy,

I just had to send you something saying how absolutely wonderful your products are. I've been trying to get into a healthier lifestyle, and found myself at a Whole Foods store the other day. Somehow I ended up with 50% of my shopping cart filled with your products. I'll admit that at first I was skeptical. I've tried the mainstream meals such as Lean Cuisine, and while they are decent, they all seem to have a strange taste and they just don't satisfy your appetite. Your products on the other hand taste as though they were just freshly made, and leave one feeling really good! I'll be hooked for the rest of my life now - thanks so much!

From Nikki

Email from: Tiffany Baldwin - February 25th 2005
Subject: Silas thanks you

Dear Amy's Kitchen:
 
For quite some time now, our son has been quite the Amy's snack addict!  I originally got the Spinach/Feta ones as a fun way to get Silas to get some spinach.  He was only about 15 months, but he took to them like a fish to water -- except fish don't have super garlicky breath!  He then tried the nacho and the cheese varieties.  Again, success.  BUT, we cheered when you came out with the Spinach Pizza snacks -- all the spinach, not so much on the garlic.  :)
 
Now at 2.5 years, Silas takes his Amy's snacks to nursery school, and his teachers are so impressed that he actually eats things with spinach.
 
Thank you for make wholesome prepared food.  There is so much, um, crap out there that Amy's is a refreshing addition to conventional grocery stores.
 
Kindest regards,
Tiffany Baldwin
Illinois

Email from: Dave Barloon - February 11th 2005

I hate frozen pizza. I have never found a pizza, whether expensive or a cheap brand, that tasted any good. Frozen pizza is hard textured and tasteless. But I kept trying to find a good frozen pizza-because frozen is just more convient for our family. Then I happened to try Amy's frozen pizza-what a difference--Amy's tastes great, the crust is like fresh baked-everyone in the family loves them. I don't write to companies about their products-but, Amy's has something different and special-Thanks.

Dave Barloon

Email from: Andy & Donna Fay - February 10th 2005
Subject: Macn 'N Cheese

Just wanted to let you know what a big hit your macaroni & cheese is with my granddaughter.

Molly comes over quite often and always goes right to the freezer to be sure that I have a supply of "brown" macn 'n cheese.  If she doesn't see that brown box in the freezer she doesn't want to stay for lunch!  I don't think I have ever asked her what she wanted to eat and had any other response.  Knowing that it is a healthy food product, as well as something she loves, makes me feel good about giving it to her.  Molly never seems to tire of her beloved brown box of macaroni & cheese.  She's only four years old, but I'd like to think we're getting her off to a good start with nutricious, healthy food.
 
Thank you for making me popular with my granddaughter.
 
Donna Fay
Berea, OH

Email from: Shelly Hawes-Smith - February 9th 2005
Subject: Finally!

Being a vegetarian is hard!
 
I can't find anything to eat in a restaurant. 
 
I live in the midwest - where they think 'vegetarian' means you eat fish, seafood and chicken. Where every single entree has a slice of dead flesh tossed on top of it...ACK!  (Pasta can be quite tasty without dead critters, I might add)
 
Eating has become a huge chore and problem for me. I usually have to eat before we go out to eat!
 
I once spent 15 minutes trying to explain to my own grandmother that fish is indeed -  meat! (her argument? Fish is fish..not meat)
 
I've been eating the 'big brands' of veggie burgers (like Boca - which taste like the bottom of someone's shoe) and Gardenburger (which are edible but not what I'd call 'good') ...  these protein patties have become a way to sustain me but I longed for a veggie burger that tasted good and didn't require me to cover it up with mayo, pickles and cheese just so I could 'get it down'. I dreamt of a veggie burger that I could look forward to eating..... a veggie burger that I could take with me to picnics that would have people envious instead of feeling sorry for me. (poor girl, doesn't eat meat)
 
Finally..... Amy's Chicago Burger.
 
it tastes (dare I say?) GOOD?!
 
It's exactly what I've been searching for.... it's tasty and seems almost homemade. It isn't dry and hard like a hockey puck and it isn't trying pass itself off as meat in my vegetarian world. It even has nuts..oh, how I loooove nuts!
 
Next trip to the store, I'm branching out and trying a few more of your selections.... now, if you can just get a box of the Chicago burgers into my local wholesale club, I'd be grateful. I'd like to buy these in bulk, please! (pretty please?) (with hummus on top?)
 
Many veggie thanks,
 
Shelly Hawes-Smith
Rockford, IL

Email from: Kathy Driscoll - February 8th 2005

I am writing to you today to tell you how much I love your frozen pizzas. They are the BEST pizza (frozen or otherwise) that I've eaten! I buy them for my son and me, we are the only ones in our household. Their size is perfect for us. All of the different flavors are good, however, our favorite is the spinach pizza. Your pizzas are a good way for me to give those vegetables to my son that he would not eat otherwise.

How I learned about your pizzas was a customer in the Publix Super Market where I shop in Land O'Lakes, FL. She said to me, "Those pizzas are a good way to add spinach to your child's diet. That's what I do." Well, I took her up on that and we love them. Your crust is the best too!

Have a good day!

Kathy Driscoll

Email from: Jeff - February 6th 2005

Subject: The King must be fed!

Having been addicted to your enchilada's for a long time. Now I've started on the pizza's which are really wonderful. Am eating too many of the spinach & tomatoes along with the olives & mushrooms ones.

One thing I have to add to the enchilada's on my own. Having spent a lot of time in the Southwest I have to have green chile's added to them. Otherwise for frozen food they are quite delightful and consistent.

On a serious note my dog George is also in love with your food. He will come out of a coma to get his tray of enchilada's or else! Hence the King I mentioned. Same with the pizza's. In his declining years he is more demonstrative in his demands when he feels left out of meals. He can barely walk or see but when your stuff is cookin' he wants some. The only other things he is this way about it cream sauce and egg rolls which you don't make.

Thanks for your great food.
Jeff

Email from: Celia Lopes - February 3rd 2005

Dear Amy,

I want to thank you for making my lifestyle choice of being a vegetarian a lot easier...and tastier!

I want to thank you for making packing a lunch fun again as it was when I was little.

Best of all, I want to thank you for not making a business out of selling animals as food. I salute you for that!

-Love Celia in PA

Email From: Melissa Marshall - February 3rd 2005

Dear Amy,

We love your products so much. We recently discovered your pizza pocket sandwiches and Spinach Feta pocket sandwiches. My 8 year old daughter can eat an entire pizza pocket sandwich which is terrific because she is a picky eater. My husband and I love all of your products, but my husband is particulary crazy about the Spinach Feta pockets. As a mom, I love the fact that everything is made with organic products as well as with no bioengineered ingredients. That is important to our family.

Thank you so much for such great products.

Melissa Marshall & family :-)