Monday, March 28, 2011

Mondays Shelf Relaince Minuet 3-28-11 What New Consultants Need to Know


Hello Team Shelf Reliance Leaders, 
**I'll be out of town next week if you need help call my cell phone.  I will be answering e-mail.  
Business
1.
Welcome, Welcome to all the new consultants this month; Sarah Pack, Jodie and Julie, Veronica Martin, Amy Gordon, and Jacqueline Brown.  We are so glad that you have decide to become Shelf Reliance consultants and a part of our team.
2.  Congratulations to:  Elise Burt, Jeona Marble, and Jodie and Julie for all hitting Mentor this month.    
3.  A little about Me:  A lot of you are new and probably wondering: Who is this girl and why is she sending me stuff?  Well if you get this it means you are in my three level downline.   My name is Heather and I signed up to be a Shelf Reliance Consultant in April of 2010.   Initially I signed up because I had been looking for something that would bring in a little extra money and that was intellectually challenging.  I also loved the idea of getting in at the ground floor of the business opportunity but most of all I loved the food.  I was hesitant at first but my husband told me that it was perfect for me so I signed up.  Before I signed up with Shelf Reliance I had looked into another direct sales company, when a consultant for that company told me that no one really made any money at it I thought "It sure seems like a lot of effort to not make any money"  I obviously did not end up with that company and I have been so happy that with Shelf Reliance consultants actually make money!  I have had a lot of ups and downs, just as anyone would, but for the most part my experience with Shelf Reliance has been very positive. 

I have always been a proponent of food storage and after a minor disaster a couple of years ago, when we ended up eating our food storage, I am convince of the importance of food storage. I cook with THRIVE foods every day.  My personal favorites are powdered eggs, freeze dried spinach, and freeze dried mangoes.  My husband and older kids love the pineapple, and my baby loves the blueberries.   
I have three children ranging from 6 years old to 1 year old.  We are busy and we love the convenience of THRIVE foods.  I have found that cooking with THRIVE ingredients makes cooking dinner at home so much faster and easier.  I can get dinner on the table is less time than it takes to get fast food, and it is so much healthier.
I do have a life outside of Shelf Reliance: I am a Joy School teacher.  My children participate in a cooperative preschool program, where the mothers take turns teaching the children.  I enjoy having the kids in my home and I like being involved in my children's education.
I am a former Home Economics teacher.  I taught Home Economics at the junior high level before leaving education to become a stay at home mom.  I love to cook, sew, and teach.

I blog about using THRIVE foods at http://www.cookingwithmyfoodstorage.blogspot.com
I blog about being a Shelf Reliance Consultant at http://blog.shelfrelianceleaders.com/

4. New Consultant Training Conference Call
If you are a new consultant and most of you are don't miss this call!
Thursday March 31, 2011 at 7:00 p.m.to 10:00 p.m. MST
We will be discussing:
7:00 p.m. Basics of the Website: creating events, adding customers, placing orders and
setting up Qs.
8:00 p.m. Understanding the compensations plan: this is the key to your businesses success
9:00 p.m. The Perfect Party: preparing hosts, samples, presentation, and closing.
To access the conference call call : 1-570-548-0142 Your Conference The passcode:
955976#
We will be using a web meeting program similar to Dim Dim. 
To join the meeting online so you can see what I am doing on my computer go to: https://connect.usu.edu/matt
Log in as a guest. Enter your name so we can tell who you are.
You will then see my computer screen.
Press the full screen button on the bottom toolbar, so things are big enough to read.  
It will be very helpful if you can follow along on your computer.

If you can only listen for part of the call that is fine. You can come and go as you need.

When you call in to the conference call we will mute everyone (except for when we are
answering questions) so if there is noise going on around you don’t worry about it.

5.   New On the Shelf Reliance Leaders Blog:
a.   Great Sale on Food and Water Package:  If you have not yet send out this info to your customers be sure to do it.  If they order before April 1st and live outside of Utah they don’t have to pay sales tax.
b.  Top 10 reasons I don’t have my food storage:  This is a very funny but true hand out about food storage. It is aimed at an LDS audience so it is not appropriate for all situations but if you are asked to presents at and LDS event it might be fun to take.
c. Home Parties are coming to Canada:  I am so excited aobut this.  I hope you are beating the bushes looking for consultants in Canada.  It would be amazing to have some of the first in the country on your team!!!

Training-What New Consultants Need to Know
 Most of you are either New consultants (meaning you have been a consultant less than 2 months) or you have your first new consultant under you.  Either way there are a few things that everyone needs to know.
1.       How do I log into my account?
To log into your consultant account go to: https://www.shelfreliance.com/parties/account/login
Add the above link to your book marks so next time it is easy.

2.       Set up An Event:   
·         To set up an event log in to your account
·         Click on the Blue “Event” link on the left hand side of the page
You will now be looking at the Event List.  This shows any events that you currently have set up.  If you have not yet set up an event it will be empty.
·         On the right hand side at the top of the page there is a button that says “Add an Event” Click on it.
·         Check the Box “This is a Party” ALWAYS CHECK THIS BOX!
·         Type in the Event Name  for example “Heather Lorimer’s Party”
·         Type in the Date and time
·         The next field is “Is Open” and you need to choose yes or no.  This field is talking about your personal website. If you check yes then it is visible on your website.  If you check no it is not. I always check yes. 
·         Enter the Host name , e-mail and phone number.
·         Click Create and Event at the bottom of the page.

3.       Add A Customer
You must add a customer as a customer before you can place an order. After a party I add all the customers at one time, and then I add all the orders.
·         Click on Customers in the left menue
·         Enter the customer e-mail, press continue
·         Enter the Customer name, press continue
·         Write down the customer password on the customers order form.   I do this because customers are always loosing the passwords or are wanting you to change something on their account. It is just easier to have their password.  SR automatically send them their password, so you don’t have to.  They can change it if they want to.

4.       Place a Customer Order
·         On the left hand side of the screen there is a blue list of links. Click on Orders
·         Click on Place a New Order  (on the top right)
·         Select a Party.  NEVER NEVER NEVER skip this step.  If the party is from a party select the party such as the Heather Lorimer party we set up in the last step.  If the order is not from a party but it what we call an “outside order” these are orders that did not originate at a party.  Maybe a past customer called you up and wanted to order. Maybe a Q customer is out of something and wants it fast.  Whatever these order all need to be linked a personal monthly party or yours.  At the end of the month (or 2) you can turn in host benefit orders for these orders.  It is amazing how fast these orders add up.  This is one of the benefits of being a consultant you get the free and ½ price products off these orders.
·         Enter the guest’s E-mail address
·         Enter the Guest Billing Information
·         Enter the Guests Shipping Information : Or click the Same as Billing button.
·         Add the products the guests wants.  You can either type in the product ID number or you can search for it.  I hate searching for it, it is a slow process. I always add the product numbers.  Be sure to double check that the number the guest wrote down and the product they wrote down are the same.  Sometimes they write the wrong number down.
·         Enter the payment information:  You must has the customers CVV code to enter an order
·         Double check the summary page that everything is correct on the order and press submit. 
Congratulations you just submitted an order!

5.       What you need to do to get paid:  As a consultant there is one thing that you need to do to make sure you get paid.
a.       Your Q must have a PRODUCT total of $50.00  (as a consultant or mentor or director).  If your product total is 49.99 you will NOT get paid.  I always set me Q at $60.00 a month to make sure I don’t have this problem.  Double check that you Q is set up correctly.  There is nothing sadder then working really hard all month and thinking you are going to get paid and then not getting a check because your Q was short $2.
6.        Other things you might want to know: 
a.       You can check you rank on the downline sale repot.  When you are looking at the downline sales report you need to click on commission detail then you rank is on the blue highlighted line under where it says RANK.  The rank and commission detail are LIVE and up the date. If you have hit a rank it will show up live.  Remember that until your Q processes you have not hit the rank and are not eligible for commission.  I have my Q process early in the month so I can better track my rank and commission. 

7.       How to get a problem solved
a.        When you have a problem with a specific customer order (such as you placed an order and the customer received the wrong thing)  You need to contact the corporate office.  You can do this several ways:
                                                               i.      Call customer service:  1-866-380-4301.  Sometimes you have to do this but right not the hold times are LONG so I only do this as a last resort.  I expect the hold times will continue to be long until they move into the new building next month (cross your fingers ) and they have room enough to hire more customer service people.  For those of you who have never seen the currenty facility.  It is small and the customer service reps are practically sitting ontop of each other.  There are as many people squeezed in there as possible.  So be patient.
                                                             ii.      E-mail:  parties@shelfreliance.com  If you are going to e-mail be specific.  Tell them everything they need to know in order to solve the problem.  Be sure to give them your contact information an the customers name, email and detail about the order.  When you e-mail you automatically get a e-mail back telling you they are working on it and giving you a tracking number.
                                                            iii.      Live Chat:  This is a new feature that is located on the top right side of the consultants’ page.  It is not always on.  But when it is on I have had good success with it.  It opens a chat window with a customer service rep. You type in your problem and they type back to you.
b.       When you have a general question:  Such as “How do I fill out the host benefit form? “ You need to contact your sponsor (the person you enrolled under)
                                                               i.      Call:  You should know this persons phone number if you don’t you can find three levels up from you (these are everyone who could get paid off of your sales) when you are logged in under the “upline consultants” link. 
                                                             ii.      E-mail:  You can e-mail anyone in your upline with any question
c.        Other places to look for answers:
                                                               i.      Consultant Handbook:  Please read this, study it until you understand it.  If you have not yet received it you can find a copy of it online at https://www.shelfreliance.com/pdf/parties/handbook-screen.pdf
                                                             ii.      Discussion Form:  when you are logged click on the link “discussion forum”  This is a place where consultants ask and answer each others questions.  You might want to take an hour and look through all the past discussions. This will help you avoid many problems other consultants have come across.
                                                            iii.      Our Team Blog:  http://blog.shelfrelianceleaders.com/
1.       I post everything I can think of to help you.  You can find links to the documents that I use in my business. 
2.       I post all of my training notes there too.
                                                 
Homework
1.        Double check that you Q is set up correctly
2.       Set up a party for outside orders for the Month of April
3.       If you have a down line consultants make sure they know how to: Create and Event, Add a Customer, and Place a customer order.  These three things are really are really the backbone of our business and everyone needs to know how to do them. 
Keep up the great work! 
 Heather

Heather Lorimer
Shelf Reliance Independent Consultant
435-535-1470
Visit my online store: www.shelfreliance.com/homeparties



Saturday, March 26, 2011

Last Week for Freeze Dried Frenzy Consultant Giveaway

This is the last week for our team promotion  Freeze Dried Frenzy:    
Just a reminder of how it works; 

 For the month of March anyone who signs up a consultant or signs up as a consultant will be entered in a drawing for a box of my favorite THRIVE foods.

 Each is a sealed number 10 can shipped directly to you.  Including:
Freeze Dried Strawberries                 
Retail price $24.59

Freeze  Dried Chicken            
Retail price  $37.09

Freeze Dried Taco TVP

Retail price  $13.89
 Fudge Brownies        

Retail price $14.79
Macaroon Cookies

Retail price $16.59

Total Retail Price  $106.59
Your Price: FREE

You and the new consultant will each get an entry.   If you have fence sitters I hope this will help them decide to join your Team.  I think this is a great was to jump start your team.  The consultants I personally add to the Team will be NOT be in the drawing (I have something else for them.)
So far the following people are entered in the drawing:
Amy Sancrant, Jodi and Julie, Jacqueline Brown, and Jeona Marble, Jodie Moore, Veronica Martin, and Amy Gordon. 

Great Sale on 3 Month Food and Water Supply Package

Great Sale on 3 Month Food and Water Supply Package

Shelf Reliance has an amazing sale on one of their best food storage packages coming up from March 28th-April 17th.  This is perfect timing for everyone that is looking to get started or bolster their supplies with tax returns or in response to the tragedies happening in the world.  The package includes enough food (96 #10 cans) for 2 adults to live for 3 months, eating over 2,000 tasty calories a day.  There is also a wheat grinder, and everything you need to store 55 gallons of water.  I have been with Shelf Reliance for a year and this is the first sale I have seen on food a storage package.  This really is a great package at a great price.  

Shipping is only $15.99 for an entire palette of food and emergency supplies.  To make this deal even sweeter, if you are outside of Utah and order before April 1st, you will not pay any sales tax.  That is 2 months of food for under $1,000.

This deal is only available if you order directly through a shelf reliance consultant.  If you want to purchase, wait until Monday when the sale goes live and then you can go directly to my online store or email me heather@teamshelfrelinace.com.

Complete 3-month, 2-person Food Supply with 55-gallon Barrel Water Storage System

Normally $1399

Sale price $973


4,251 Total Servings
Averages Over 2,000 Calories
Per Person Per Day
96 #10 Cans

Shelf Reliance is known for providing unsurpassed quality in all of its products, and their line of food storage is no different. THRIVE Food Storage is a premium name you can trust. Every THRIVE product has been carefully selected based on taste and quality. We are confident that you will look forward to using THRIVE in your everyday meal planning and emergency food storage.
The Shelf Reliance Complete 3-Month, 2-Person Food Supply with Water Storage System was designed to provide you with a package complete with a supply of both food and water. This package provides two people with over 2000 calories per person/day for up to 3 months. Contents for this package were based off of the USDA Food Pyramid to provide a well-balanced diet. With the wide selection this pack presents, you'll get a taste of the best foods THRIVE has to offer. Each can contains usage suggestions, recipes, and helpful information about re-hydration. This package also includes other useful tools to help you to become better prepared.
The Complete 3-Month, 2-Person Food Supply with Water Storage System comes complete with 96 #10 (gallon size) cans of grains, fruits, veggies, protein & beans, dairy and baking essentials and also includes a 55-gallon barrel water storage system. With over 4000 servings and many foods with a shelf life of up to 25 years, this package will give you variety, nutrition, and peace of mind.
  • 4,251 total servings
  • Shipment arrives on a pallet
  • Simple re-hydration instructions and recipes included on each can
  • Foods are contained in 96 #10 (gallon size) cans
  • Over 2000 calories per person/day for up to three months
Grains/Starch
  • 6 Hard White Winter Wheat (44 servings per can/170 calories per serving)
  • 4 Potato Chunks (42 servings per can/80 calories per serving)
  • 6 Elbow Macaroni (25 servings per can/210 calories per serving)
  • 6 Six Grain Pancake Mix (46 servings per can/140 calories per serving)
  • 3 Cornmeal (48 servings per can/150 calories per serving)
  • 3 Quick Oats (24 servings per can/170 calories per serving)
  • 6 Instant White Rice (48 servings per can/80 calories per serving)
Fruits/Veggies
  • 6 Sweet Corn – Freeze Dried (46 servings per can/35 calories per serving)
  • 6 Green Peas – Freeze Dried (41 servings per can/50 calories per serving)
  • 3 Broccoli – Freeze Dried (52 servings per can/10 calories per serving)
  • 3 Raspberries – Freeze Dried (48 servings per can/20 calories per serving)
  • 2 Strawberries – Freeze Dried (45 servings per can/20 calories per serving)
  • 6 Apple Chips (47 servings per can/35 calories per serving)
  • 3 Carrot Dices (49 servings per can/90 calories per serving)
  • 3 Mixed Bell Pepper (42 servings per can/50 calories per serving)
  • 3 Potato Beads (44 servings per can/20 calories per serving)
Dairy/Cheese
  • 6 Non-Fat Powdered Milk (43 servings per can/110 calories per serving)
  • 4 Chocolate Drink Mix (48 servings per can/190 calories per serving)
  • 2 Cheddar Blend (52 servings per can/140 calories per serving)
Meats/Beans
  • 2 Bacon TVP (47 servings per can/80 calories per serving)
  • 2 Beef TVP (45 servings per can/100 calories per serving)
  • 2 Chicken TVP (45 servings per can/80 calories per serving)
  • 2 Taco TVP (42 servings per can/130 calories per serving)
  • 2 Pinto Beans (58 servings per can/60 calories per serving)
  • 2 Black Beans (65 servings per can/70 calories per serving)
  • Kidney Beans (44 servings per can/90 calories per serving)
  • Whole Eggs (236 servings per can/35 calories per serving)
Discretionary Calories
  • THRIVE Orange Drink (88 servings per can/110 calories per serving)
Other Tools Included:
  • Deluxe Wheat Grinder
    • Sturdy and compact
    • Cone shaped burrs are self-aligning
    • Smooth, even milling
    • Creates 1/2 cup of fine flour per minute
    • Create grains at a fraction of the cost of store-bought
    • Stores easily in drawers, cupboards, and other small spaces
    • Adjustable texture settings
    • Stainless steel construction
The Shelf Reliance Water Storage System includes the following:
  • 55 Gallon Water Container
    • Barrel is made from high-density polyethylene (food grade/ BPA Free).
    • Barrel comes in blue color to restrict light, which helps to control the growth of bacteria and algae.
    • Barrel weight when full is approximately 480 lbs.
  • Water Pump - (45" long, 3" wide) Hose (47" long, 1"wide)
  • Sturdy Bung Wrench - doubles as a gas shutoff tool and provides access to storage barrels of all sizes.
  • Water Treatment Solution - easy to follow instructions that allows water storage for up to 5 years.
  • Detailed instructions of how to prepare your water storage.

Friday, March 25, 2011

Top 10 reasons I Don’t Have My Food Storage

Top 10 reasons (excuses) I Don’t Have My Food Storage 
This is targeted at a Mormon audience, but Mormons buy a lot of food storage so I thought I would share. Thanks Terry for sharing!

Top 10 Reasons I don’t Have My Food Storage
10. My neighbors have a TWO year supply! No, they don’t. They don’t have any food. Did you know that 85% of the members of the church don’t have any food storage at all? If your idea of food storage is to eat someone else’s food………..this is a really bad plan.

9. I’ve paid tithing for 20 years…the church can give me a little food. Many members believe that when the times get hard, the church is going to come through like Joseph in Egypt. Absolutely not true. All the church storehouses and welfare farms across the country would only feed 4% of the members of the church. The church has been asking YOU to store food for 75 years. They’re NOT storing food for you. Thus, another bad plan.

8. I’m moving in with my children / parents! Really….that’s just a bad plan all by itself. But it points out that most members don’t have a year’s supply because they’re PLANNING on eating someone else’s food! Of course, since no one HAS any food, we have yet another bad plan.

7. I have a year’s supply…and the bullets to go with it! I’ve heard time and again, “How dumb is that to go to all the time and expense of getting food…just to have some guy with a gun come and shoot my family to take it away?” Here’s a better question. Are you afraid of the guy with the gun? Or are you more afraid of BECOMING the guy with the gun? What would you do if your children were starving to death? Would you lie? Cheat? Steal? Would you shoot your neighbor for his food? I guarantee….if you were watching your child starving to death, you would do anything you had to to keep them alive. If you don’t have your year’s supply, you are putting yourself in danger of losing not only your temporal salvation, but your spiritual salvation as well.
So far, all the reasons we don’t have our food storage involve eating someone else’s food. Please, don’t put your family’s temporal salvation in other people’s hands. No one is storing food for you. Not your neighbors, not the government…not even the church.

#6. The boat and the 4 wheelers are taking up all my storage space! (priorities!)

#5. 3 letters….Y2K. Ok, that’s 2 letters and a number….but they’re always making way too much out of everything! This is never going to happen!  (Every prophecy that has ever been given WILL happen.)

#4. If anything DOES happen, the government will be here within hours! (insert laughter) Did you know the government has been telling us that we need to have food storage? They’re actually CALLING it food storage! We now have the government telling us to store food, water, medicines…whatever we will need to be able to stay in our homes for several months.

#3. I can’t afford scrap booking AND food storage. The average food storage can cost as little as a dollar a day. We live in the richest society in the history of the world, and while there are cases where money may be a problem, most of the time it is a matter of priorities. We have chosen bigger homes, nicer cars, more tv’s, computers, vacations …everything is more important than our food storage. If I asked, “Who has a cell phone?” most of you would say yes. You pay at least $30 a month to have a cell phone….that’s about a dollar a day…the cost of one year’s supply of food for your child. Is your cell phone really more important than your child’s temporal salvation? You have to make food storage a priority.

#2. I’m waiting for the cannery to sell Papa John’s dehydrated pizza! Food storage has always had a stigma attached to it. If it’s not wheat, beans and powdered milk, it’s not food storage. With the system I use, food storage can be sweet and sour chicken, tamale pie, chile and cornbread, beef stew, shepherd’s pie, minestrone…even chocolate chip cookies! Your imagination (and your pocketbook) are the only limitations you have.

And the #1 reason why I don’t have my year’s supply of food? A year?? I thought it was 72 hours!!
You KNOW you should have your food storage. You WANT to have it, but it can be so overwhelming! How much do I buy? Where do I store it? How do I cook it? It seems like an impossible task…. but it’s not. It doesn’t matter if you use my system or just start buying extra food, the important thing is to do something.
Good luck in your efforts!

Source: http://everythingunderthesunblog.blogspot.com/

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Home Parties are comming to Canada!

Home Parties is coming to Canada!

Jason Norton, Seth Adams, and Jeremy Taeoalii will be in Calgary, Alberta Canada on April 7th for a pre-launch opportunity meeting! Please invite your friends and family in this area to participate in this very exciting event! The meeting will take place from 6:30pm-9:30pm.
Acclaim Hotel Calgary Airport
123 Freeport Boulevard N.E.
Calgary, Alberta T3N 0A3
Phone: 403.291.8000  
Toll-free 1.866.955.0008
http://www.acclaimhotel.ca
If you have any contacts in Canada let them know about this incredible and truly exciting opportunity. This is sub ground floor and a great way to build your team and extend internationally!

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Last Week

This is the LAST week to take advantage of two great deals. 

Last Chance to Order and Avoid Sales Tax:
Shelf Reliance is changing its tax policy.  Customers outside of Utah have not been paying sale tax or food tax on their purchases.  Corporate Shelf Reliance has been paying the tax on all orders placed by customers outside of Utah. But as of  April 1st all of that is changing, and all customers will be paying their own tax.

So get your orders in now. Especially if you have been thinking about making a large purchase with your tax return, do it this month and avoid the tax. 

New Consultant Special Ends March 31, 2011
When you sign up as a new Shelf Reliance Consultant in march you receive a FREE box of party favorites  including; (those of you who are consultanat under me this is the last week to sign up a consultant and be entered to win)


Including:
Freeze Dried Strawberries       
Retail price $24.59
Freeze  Dried Chicken    
Retail price  $37.09
Taco TVP                  
Retail price  $13.89
Fudge Brownies
Retail price $14.79
Macaroon Cookies                       
Retail price $16.59

Total Retail Price  $106.59
Your Price: FREE


As a Consultant What Are My Commitments?
1.  A one-time starter kit $200.00
2. $50 monthly personal Q order

There are no quotas for parties or sales

Benefits of being a Shelf Reliance Consultant
1.     Party Commissions: 10% of Party Sales
2.     Recurring Commissions:  20% the first month and 5% ongoing.
3.     Host Benefits: As a consultant you are eligible for host benefits for any order that comes in outside of a party. 10% of the purchase in free product.
4.     Party Supply Benefit: As you conduct a party that reaches $1000.00 is sales you are eligible for $100.00 in product at ½ off.
5.      Build a Team: Enroll others on your team as consultants and earn $50 each time! As your team grows, you will also receive commissions from all of your consultants' parties, sales, and THRIVE Q signups for up to 3 levels below you.

I’m ready! What Now?
1.     Go to the website:  http://www.shelfreliance.com/parties/index/getstarted and click on the START HERE button.  It will ask for the Enroller information.
Heather Lorimer, 435-535-1470, hlorimer@gmail.com,
Consultant number #1209
Or give me a call and I will walk you through the process.

New Everywhere but Utah Presentation and Quiz

Anytime I am giving a party outside of Utah this is the Quiz and  Presentation that I use.   You are welcome to use any of my stuff or to change it however fits your style.  I hope these help.



Food For Thought Home Store Quiz
1.     What is your least favorite food prep job?

2.     How many servings of fruits and vegetables are recommended per day?

3.     Why is family meal time so important?

4.     What has more nutrition, freeze dried produce or fresh produce?

5.     How long does it take to prepare a typical home cooked meal?

6.     If you could make a healthy, tasty dinner for your family in 10 minutes would you?

7.     What are the 5 main food storage concerns that prevent people from building a home store?

Food For Thought Home Store Presentaion
While you finish the quiz I want to introduce my shelf.  My name is Heather Lorimer, I’m from Smithfield Ut.  I’m a shelf reliance consultant; I teach people how to prepare healthier meals, save time and save money.  I LOVE what I do.   I have been a consultant with Shelf Reliance since the company officially started home parties last April.  That is right we are a very young company, with a lot of growth ahead of us.  If you would be interested in getting in on the ground floor talk to me after. 
I wanted to thank Elise for being such a great host and deciding to be a consultant.  As a host she will earn 10% of all sales in free products and 50% off $100.00 for each class that is booked off of this class.  So let’s see if we can help her build her food storage.
As we go though tonight’s class please use your price list as a wish list. Please write down the things we talk about and taste that you like.
Serve Fruit Cup:  Elise is passing out our first sample of the night. This is a fruit cup filled with some of our freeze dried fruits.  Freeze dried fruits and vegetables, can be eaten dry like this or rehydrated and used as you would fresh.

1.     What is your least favorite food prep job?
Chopping onions is mine.  I love onions and my husband wants then chopped tiny.  I do not have the patients to chop onions into miniscule pieces.  Freeze Dried Onions have saved us.  No I don’t have to chop onions I just throw a hand full of our Freeze Dried onions in and tada. No tears, or stinky hands, and best of all my husband and kids don’t freak out when they see an onion.
Pass around onion bag
2.     How many servings of fruits and vegetables are recommended per day?
7 On average how many servings to we get? 3
With Thrive you will always have the healthy foods you need to bring the family together for meal time. Studies have shown that family meal time is key to a healthy diet as well as a happy family.
3.     Why is family meal time so important?
            Harvard researchers looked at which activities most fostered healthy child development: play, story time, events with family members and other factors. Family dinners won out.
How many times a week do families sit around the table for dinner? 3-4
Why aren’t we having nutritious family meals as often as we should? Research shows that the #1 reason families don’t eat together is no time to shop and cook. This is where Shelf Reliance comes in!!! Soo exciting!!

Point #1- Nutrition
So what are we doing instead of eating nutritious family meals? -Snacking on junk food.
-Eating expensive, processed convenience food. -Eating fast food or picking up take out.
*Shelf Reliance offers a much better alternative:
Instead of snacking on empty calories…snack on Thrive fruits and veggies
(Serve fruit or yogurt samples)
What percent of foods in your grocery store is processed? 90%
It is easy to eat processed (any food with additives and preservatives) convenience foods especially when 90% of all foods in a grocery store are processed.
What percentage of Thrive foods is processed? Maybe 10%; I like that number much better!
A typical home cooked meal has about 600 calories. How many calories are in fast food meal? 1000 to 1500, which is 2 to 3 times as much! Also, compared to a Thrive meal fast food has two times as much sodium and fat and half as much protein and fiber.

Let’s talk a little bit more about nutrition.


4.     What has more nutrition, freeze dried produce or fresh produce?
Freeze Dried: Pass around veg cup.
Freeze-dried foods are lightweight and easy to store in a handbag or backpack, making it convenient to eat healthy on the go. Freeze-drying involves removing 98 percent of the water and oxygen from foods to preserve them. The American Institute for Cancer Research suggests that while the water and oxygen are removed from foods, the nutritional value of the food is not decreased or altered.
Fruits and vegetables chosen for freeze drying tend to be processed at their peak ripeness, a time when―as a general rule―they are most nutrient-packed. Freeze-dried fruits and vegetables contain the same amounts of antioxidants as their fresh counterparts, according to the American Dietetic Association.
Researchers at the American Institute for Cancer Research have been studying the effects of the phytochemicals and antioxidants in freeze-dried foods on cancer cells found in the colon and esophagus. The researchers suggest that the antioxidants and phytochemicals in freeze-dried fruits and vegetables reach and travel through the blood stream just as they would if they were consumed fresh.
Fresh:
#1 Produce starts to lose nutrients and flavor as soon as it is harvested, so when food has to travel hundreds of miles before arriving at the supermarket, a lot of nutrients and flavor are lost. Furthermore, since manufacturers want the food to look fresh and ripe when it hits the shelves, produce is often harvested too early and then later sprayed with plant hormones to speed up ripening. Since the ripening occurs so quickly and often in some crowded box, the plant
cannot accumulate as many nutrients and as much flavor as it would if it slowly ripened on its own. This explains why a strawberry can have a beautiful deep red color but taste like nothing.
#2 Studies have shown that freeze dried food has more nutrients than fresh food that has been sitting at the grocery store for only three days.
#3: When it comes to eating produce out of season studies have shown that vitamins are reduced by up to 50%. Also, food still loses nutrients even when in the fridge. With Thrive you can eat a variety of fruits of veggies at any time of the year and get the optimum nutrition!!
Canned:
The American Dietetic Association suggests that freeze-dried foods do not require the addition of preservatives to maintain their shelf life. The Mayo Clinic says that this is a significant health benefit when compared with canned foods. Large amounts of sodium or potentially harmful chemicals are used to extend the storage life of canned foods, according to the Mayo Clinic. Canned foods can contain 30 to 46 percent more sodium freeze-dried foods, according to the American Dietetic Association. The heating process during canning destroys from one-third to one-half of vitamins A and C, riboflavin, and thiamin. For every year the food is stored, canned food loses an additional 5 to 20% of these vitamins.
Note: There are nutrients that occur naturally in plants, that can’t be replicated. This is one reason why popping a vitamin pill cannot replace eating fruits, vegetables, whole grains and legumes.
Point #2- Saving Time: We’ve discussed how Thrive foods can help us eat healthier now how can it save us time?


5.     How long does it take to prepare a typical home cooked meal?
40min-1hr
How long does it take to prepare a Thrive meal? 10 to 30 minutes
No defrosting, chopping, or cooking not to mention the extra time you won’t have to spend on clean up! My top 3 products that save time in the kitchen are freeze dried onions, freeze dried celery, and Freeze Dried chicken.  The next time you are thinking about picking up some take out you’ll remember the convenient, healthy, less expensive Thrive food you have at home!!
6.     If you could make a healthy, tasty dinner for your family in 10 minutes would you?
10 minutes to Dinner: 
We are all so busy, with our own commitments; we work, take kids to soccer, do the laundry, exercise, take care of the house and car, volunteer in our communities, read with our kids, and let’s not forget homework.  and suddenly it is dinner time and you have no idea what you are going to feed your family.  Often when this happens to me, we would go out to dinner. spending more money then we should, eating more calories than we should and not really eating anything that we loved.  With Thrive foods you can have a nutritious home cooked dinner at home in as little as 10 minutes.  It takes longer than that to get take out.  
A few of the options to get dinner on the table in 10 minutes are:  Minestrone soup, Chicken Salad Sandwiches, Tacos, Chicken Noodle Soup.
Tonight you are going to make chicken salad sandwiches so let’s set the timer and here we go:

Chicken Salad Sandwiches
Ingredients
3/4  cups Thrive freeze-dried chicken
1/4 cup Thrive celery
1/4 cup Thrive onion
1 1/2 cups water
1/4 cup mayonnaise
Salt and pepper

Directions
Combine chicken, celery, onion and water in a sauce pan over high
heat. Bring to a boil and reduce heat to low and simmer until
reconstituted (about 5 minutes). Put the mixture into a colander
rinse with cool water until meat is cool to the touch. Let the water drain. Make sure to get all
excess water out. Combine the cooled chicken mixture with mayonnaise. Season the
chicken mixture with salt and pepper to taste. Spoon onto bread or
crackers.
What do you think do you think you could make dinner in 10 minutes?
What about the time we spend at the grocery store? How many years of your life will you spend shopping and waiting in line? 7 years; I can think of much more valuable things to do with my time!! How much time does the average family spend together in one week? 7 hours...enough said.
****With an innovative program called The Q we will be able to spend less time in the grocery store and more time focusing on what matters most! More details in a minute!
Point #3 Reducing waste and saving money: Now we are eating healthier, saving time…how can Shelf Reliance help us save money? How much do we spend on food every month? About $100-$150 per person per month. A family of four spends about $6000 on food a year. How much food to we throw away every month? 25%; that equals $1500 thrown away in one year. The most expensive food is the food we throw away. Most Thrive foods have a 25 year shelf life. There are many foods that you will never have to throw away again!

7.     What are the 5 main food storage concerns that prevent people from building a home store?
Don’t know where to start-Thrive Planner and Q
Don’t know what to buy—SR has a planning calculator to help you know.  100% free to use.
Don’t know how to afford it—THRIVE Q , you decide what you want and how much you want to pay and it is all done automatically. 
Don’t know how to use it/cook with it—start using it in your daily life. SHOW CAN
Don’t know how to rotate so it doesn’t go bad.
Point #4 Creating a Home Store with the help of the Q
The Q is essential to reap all the benefits of having a Home Store. Ask yourself if all the points we discussed are important to you.
-Do you want to live a healthier lifestyle?
-Do you want to save time in the kitchen?
-Do you want to spend more time with your family?
-Do you want to save money?
If you answered yes to these questions Shelf Reliance can help you and the best part is that you can do all these things without spending one penny more than you already are!!!
(Show Q movie)
How to make your Home Store work for you:
1. Buy 25% less when you go to the grocery store.
2. Stop buying overpriced, processed foods.
3. Replace one grocery trip with the Q.
4. Instead of picking up take out, use the convenience of Thrive foods.
5. Use your Home Store rather than going to the grocery store for one item.
6. Use Thrive ingredients in your meals or snacks once a day.