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January 2010
Energy Savings
Amy's Kitchen is saving more than $50,000 per year in energy costs.
November 2009 >>Source: Health Magazine
America's Healthiest 100
11-14 - FROZEN DINNER 3.0
Amy's Kitchen delivers pizzas, burritos, and wraps, filled with good-for-you ingredients.
November 2009 >>Source: Fitness
Good-for-You Goodies
Dessert doesn't have to be off-limits. A recent study shows that you absorb as much calcium from a serving of fortified ice cream as you get from a glass of milk. "You can satisfy craving and get some nutrition at the same time." says FITNESS advisory board member Lisa Young, Ph.D., R.D., author of The Portion Teller. Here, a few more tasty picks.
Amy's Organic Orange Cakes.
All natural with no trans or saturated fat and only 180 calories per thick slice, this pound cake won't pack on pounds. —Sarah D'Angelo
November 2009 >>Source: Cooking Light
The truth about the great American veggie burger.
3 Store-Bought Veggie Burgers - Our RD Recommends
Amy's California Veggie Burger
(140 calories, 0.5 grams saturated fat, 430 milligrams sodium, 4 grams fiber, and 6 grams protein)
Ingredients:
Mushrooms, onion, bulgur, celery, carrots, oats, and nuts.
Verdict:
Balanced taste and texture make Amy's stand out among other options. Like the Sunshine burger, this patty's protein is on the low end. To increase it, add an ounce of extra-sharp, reduced-fat, cheddar cheese; try with a whole-wheat baguette and fixings.
December 2009 >>Source: Veg News
Favorite Veg Meat: Amy's California Veggie Burger
Reader Picks: Chow
Vegetarian food darling Amy's Kitchen delivers your top choice with a whole foods burger bursting with flavor.
September 2, 2009 Source: Merritt Watts / Self Magazine
The whole enchilada: An authentic Mexican meal in your freezer.
Here it is, almost Labor Day, and the closest you've gotten to a romantic Mexican getaway all summer has been watching Salma Hayek in Fools Rush In with a Corona Light? No worries - there is a healthy way to upgrade the authenticity-factor of your Mexican "staycation" (and it doesn't involve a sombrero, a sunburn or tequila) - it's Amy's new Enhilada Verde whole meal.
The frozen dinner was inspired by Amy's recent study abroad experience in Mexico (yes, Amy is a real person! Her parents started the company - she's a junior in college now. Read her blog here.) It blends organic spinach with jack cheese and queso fresco to form the enchilada filling. That is wrapped in a corn tortilla which is topped with a spicy verde sauce and served with brown rice, veggies and black beans. The flavor is fresh and with 15 grams of protein and 20% of your daily value for iron, you won't
even miss the meat!
It's no surprise I'm loving Amy's latest offering... After all, the company won our Lifetime Achievement Award in our Healthy Food Awards for being "body-friendly fast food." Check out this picture of Amy by her favorite vegetarian restaurant in Mexico. Now that looks like la vida!
Green teen reaps rewards of eco-friendliness
September 13, 2009 Source: SF Chronicle
Marin County teenager Erin Schrode is a bit like Elle Woods, the gorgeous and bubbly character in "Legally Blonde." Like Woods, Schrode is beautiful and vivacious - and not to be underestimated. Erin Schrode is on a mission to get harmful chemicals out...
Where Woods, played by Reese Witherspoon, campaigned in the "Legally Blonde" sequel to outlaw animal testing in cosmetics, Schrode is on a crusade to get harmful chemicals out of beauty products.
The 18-year-old - who moonlights as a model and was recently featured in Seventeen magazine - has testified before the California Legislature, helped found a national coalition called Teens Turning Green, and started an eco-friendly body care line now sold in Whole Foods stores nationwide.
Erin packs her last two suitcases from the floor of her bedroom with clothes before she heads to New York to start college. Photo: Brant Ward / The Chronicle
At the end of August, the "ultimate green girl," as she calls herself, was one of five teenagers from California honored for her activism and impact. She received $36,000, to be applied to college or to her activist work.
"As a teenager, there was a point where I thought, 'Hey, I'm just a kid. What can I accomplish?' " Schrode said, sitting in her home in Ross. "I've answered that question. I went to Sacramento, looked lawmakers in the eye and told them why I thought it was important to take lead out of lipstick and chemicals out of products teens use every day."
Laughing, she added, "When I began this journey, I had no idea what a powerful voice I possessed and that I can use it for the greater good."
August 2009 >> Source: Food Network Magazine
Special Delivery
July 13th 2009 >> Source: The Nibble
Franks & Beans Day
PRODUCT: Amy’s Organic Beans
Filed under Kosher Nibbles, Rice/Beans/Grains, Vegan
July 13th is Franks & Beans Day. Thank goodness for Amy’s—we can celebrate with quality baked beans. Amy’s Organic Vegetarian Baked Beans are the best canned beans we’ve had: rich, hearty beans that aren’t drowning in the cloying sweetness that other brands succumb to.
(What is it with manufacturers who sweeten every savory food, so that meat and vegetables smack of sugar? Isn’t that what dessert is for? Do Americans really want everything to taste sweet, or want to ingest all that extra weight-gain and diabetes-inducing sugar?)
Also delicious are Amy’s Organic Traditional Refried Beans (pinto beans), Organic Refried Beans with Green Chiles and Organic Refried Black Beans—all of which go perfectly well with franks and other foods, and should’t be reserved for Mexican dishes. That being said, the quality of Amy’s refried beans is superior to most Mexican restaurants. Just heat and serve!
July 2009 >> Source: Fitness Magazine
The 3rd Annual FITNESS Healthy Food Awards
We can't do your supermarket shopping for you (sorry!), but we can make it a whole lot easier. We combed through more than 46,000 products on store shelves–and did lots of testing and tasting–to find the 50 most delicious, healthiest packaged foods out there.
DINNER
Best Frozen Veggie Dinner
Amy's Vegetable Lasagna
A suppertime classic made healthy (and vegetarian!). What's not to love?
Per package: 310 calories, 16g protein, 35g carbohydrate, 12g fat (4.5g saturated), 5g fiber.
Best Frozen Pizza
Amy's Margherita
A crispy, crunchy crust that's not too thin and not too think topped with mozzarella and tomatoes. Just as good as if you'd ordered in.
Per 1/3 pizza: 250 calories, 11g protein, 32g carbohydrate, 12g fat (3.5g saturated), 2g fiber.
June 2009 >> Source: Health Magazine
America's Healthiest 2009 Awards
Dinner / Frozen Vegetarian Entrée: Amy's Light in Sodium Indian Mattar Paneer ($4.99)
When you're craving the taste of India in the comfort of your own home, Amy's serves up a winner. This dinner has three tasty parts: delicately spiced organic peas and paneer (Indian cheese); organic basmati rice with carrots, onions, and cumin; and curried garbanzo beans and sweet organic tomatoes. All this for 320 calories. 8 grams of fat, and 11 grams of protein.
March 2009 >> Source: Fortune
ORGANIC GROWTH
Rachel and Andy Berliner of Amy's Kitchen tell FSB how they built a leading frozen-food brand by catering to busy vegetarians.
As told to Fawn Fitter
LIKE MANY BUSY COUPLES, ANDY AND RACHEL Berliner turned to frozen dinners when home cooking wasn't on the agenda.One night in 1987 they came up with a better idea. The result: organic powerhouse Amy's Kitchen. Based in Petaluma, Calif., Amy's leads the nation in prepared organic food sales and boasted 2008 revenues of $240 million. With Andy, now 61, as CEO and Rachel, 55, as head of marketing, the 1,600-employee company sells 140 vegetarian products, such as frozen black-bean tamales, in chains that include Kroger, Safeway and Whole Foods.The couple's daughter, Amy -- born the same year as the company that bears her name -- is training to join the family business. And it all began with a humble potpie.
RACHEL: My parents raised their own organic vegetables. Andy's first business was Magic Mountain, and organic tea company, which he sold in 1981. We were already committed to a healthy vegetarian lifestyle when I got pregnant with our daughter in 1987. Near the end of my pregnancy, I pulled a muscle and couldn't stand long enough to cook or shop, so Andy went to the local health-food store for some frozen meals...
ANDY: ...and they tasted like cardboard.
RACHEL: We had been talking about how to put our child through college and provide her with a certain standard of living, and we knew we wanted to do that by running our own business. We just didn't know what type it would be.
At the time potpies were the most popular frozen meal, so we decided to bake our own. My mother suggested that since we were launching the company to support our daughter, we should name it after her. My mom, who's an amazing cook, came up with a vegetable and tofu potpie recipe. We spent hours in the kitchen, testing the recipe and then making about 100 pies by hand so we could debut them at a San Francisco health-food show in March 1988. The first day of the show, a handful of natural-food stores signed up for orders. But then we had to figure out how to fill them!
"We borrowed against Rachel's car, and I sold a watch and some gold coins -- that raised about $20,000, enough to get us going."
- Andy Berliner
May 2009 >> Source: Seventeen
Your 5-Minute Dinner Fix!
Sometimes you only have enough time to heat and eat, so keep these healthy meals in your freezer!
Amy's Black Bean Vegetable Enchilada
Beans, veggies, spicy sauce, and more are all stuffed inside two corn tortillas. Yum!
April 30, 2009>> Source: Press Democrat
Amy’s Kitchen receives award from assemblyman
Assemblymember Jared Huffman, D-San Rafael, is presenting his Sustainable North Bay Award for April to Amy’s Kitchen in recognition of its environmentally friendly business practices.
“For all of its products, Amy's uses certified organic ingredients, including vegetables, grains and fruits grown without pesticides,” Huffman said. “All dairy ingredients are free of artificial growth hormones, and do not contain animal enzymes or rennet. In addition, Amy's products do not contain genetically modified organisms or hydrogenated fats or oils.”
Amy’s Kitchen has manufacturing operations in Santa Rosa and Medford, Ore., and employs about 1,700, including 1,000 in Sonoma County.
The company is the largest North American provider of frozen organic food, turning out more than 5 million meals per month.
Huffman is scheduled to present the award to Paul Schaffer of Amy’s Kitchen on Thursday, April 30, at 4 p.m. at the company’s headquarters on Corporate Circle in Petaluma.
February 2009 >>Source: Veg News
Take the Cake
Sure, the new year offers an opportunity to herald in healthy habits, but some of us think the emphasis should fall on "habits" rather that "healthy." For an addictive taste of dessert nirvana, we recommend Amy's Organic Cakes. The venerable vegetarian company whose pizzas, soups, and frozen meals have kept us sated for 20 years has added two rich cakes to its repertoire–Chocolate and Orange. We went gaga for the Orange flavor's moist, citrusy goodness, and love that the packaging proudly proclaims its vegan-neww and GMO-free-newss. Yum!
February 2009 >>Source: Good Housekeeping
100 Best Convenience Foods - Frozen Meals
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January 2009 >>Source: Pilates Style
Hot Fuel
Start your day with a warm, comforting and nutritious breakfast.
Breakfast really is the most important meal of the day. Studies show that children who eat the morning meal do better in school, and nutritionists agree that skipping breakfast can actually prevent weight loss. On top of that, consuming healthy fare when you wake up not only revs your metabolism so that your body can burn fat, but it also boosts your cognitive function so you'll think clearly. So get with the program and be sure to fuel your body every morning. And what better way to do that – especially in the winter – than with a piping-hot, nutriously delicious breakfast? Forget lumpy oatmeal, sugary treats, carb-loaded bagels or –worse– greasy diner food. Nurture yourself with these natural picks, which will keep you full and satisfied throughout your hectic (and occasionally endless) mornings.
January 2009 >>Source: Clean Eating
Staff Tested Supermarket Soups
By Sandy Cordeiro
Since soup epitomizes comfort food, Clean Eating decided to see how clean some of the brands lining the shelves actually are. And, our taste testers were all too happy to see what varieties they'd be savoring come winter. Read 'em and eat.
Amy's Organic Lentil Vegetable Soup
Perfect for those with food intolerances, this natural soup featuring organic green beans, tomatoes adn spinach is free of gluten, dairy, lactose, soy, corn and tree nuts. Or try Amy's Organic Light in Sodium Soup in Lentil Vegetable for the same flavor with half the sodium.
NUTRIENTS PER 1-CUP SERVING
Calories: 150, Total Fat: 4g, Carbs: 23g, Fiber: 6g, Sugars: 5g, Protein: 7g, Sodium: 680mg
TASTE TEST:
- "Surprisingly substantial. I'm not a huge fan of lentils, but i would eat this again. The veggies have a nice crunch and consistency."
- "Yum! Very simple and tates homemade. Satisfying with all the lentils and finely chopped veggies. I'd buy it!"
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