To us keeping it fresh just isn’t a statement it’s a life moto. A motto that we feel so strongly about that we figured we should share our ideas and inspirations with you. Through our system of ideas we can assist with refreshing, rejuvenating, and restoring your employees’ wellbeing and overall health.
Engage:
We suggest that you choose at least three challenges or campaigns per quarter. Make sure there’s something for everyone who wants to participate and engage with Shantiswag. We have plenty of ideas and products for a well-balanced and happy life.
Local Pride. Your employees choose to work at your company for a reason, so serve up the culture they know and love. Keep activities fresh, fun, and relevant to your company. Consider a promotion that builds teamwork. This can be anything from attending a local farmers market to local artists art showings.
Fresh idea: Start an Incentive Rewards Program centered around healthy eating
Nutrition,
Exercise,
Weight Management,
Stress Reduction
Each of these factors has a huge effect on your employees’ day to day interaction.
We suggest that you start and end the promotion within one quarter. This way it’s easier to track and keep employees motived. If the promotion last too long the employee may grow bored with the program.
Let’s focus on Nutrition
https://www.fitness.gov/eat-healthy/why-is-it-important/
Did I say Fresh? Nothing says Fresh like buy locally gown fruit and veggies from a local farmers market. Fresh, organic, and yummy! This is something that both of our families do on a weekly basis. It’s amazing to get to see where our foods are coming from. Farmers markets are a great way to see touch and taste new and exciting vegetables and fruits grown in your area. The Markets have a very cool vibe. Enjoy the many fun new foods to taste; great music and most markets are dog friendly. You will always meet very nice friends and neighbors.
We love the social atmosphere, the hustle and bustle of the market.
Ideas: Team up with a local farmer who sells his products at a market close to your office. Every time the employee stops by this specific vendor he-she can earn extra points.
Invite chefs into the workplace. Pick one day of the week and invite a chef into the office. You could also have employees sign up to learn how to cook their favorite items. This would also work with a “potluck style” day with all the employees bringing the recipes. At the end of the class put all of the recipes from the quarter on a flash drive as an ending gift.
Each week can be Different categories for the class, i.e.: All centering around new and different vegetables.
Super Foods
A nutrient-rich food considered to be especially beneficial for health and well-being: Chef Benjamin touts broccoli sprouts and salmon as two of the most perfect superfoods.
Brain Foods
Are you regularly called smarty-pants by your friends and coworkers? Well it has less to do with your pants and much more to do with what you put into your mouth. Add these 'superfoods' to your daily diet and you will increase your odds of maintaining a healthy brain for the rest of your life.
Spinach, broccoli, eggs, walnuts, yerba mate tea, beets, oats, blueberries, wild salmon, avocado, legumes just to name a few. All organic are at Farmers Markets.
Smoothies
The best part of the farmers markets is that you can savor the flavor of seasonal vegetables. This gives you the best opportunity to try new veggies that you may have never tried. It is a great family outing that benefits everyone.
HAVE WE MENTIONED THAT WE LOVE TURMERIC?
If you are looking for a tasty, versatile, and healthy way to kickstart your week, consider turmeric! It's so much more than a vibrant-colored spice. It aids anti-inflammatory efforts and can even help keep those sniffles at bay!
If you're looking for a natural way to battle many of life's ailments, I highly recommend reading up on the benefits of turmeric.
http://dailyhealthremedies.com/18-foods-that-actually-boost-metabolism/1/
Some different ideas to promote wellness are:
- A cool new sustainable bag,
- This is one of our favorite styles of bags. Both Kathy and I own them and use them weekly on our trips to the market. These can be customized, what about fun words on the bag: Eat, Thrive, Sustain or Farmers Groupie…
- Heavy-duty Tyvek® lining and soft embossed Tyvek® exterior
- – Thick, 100% cotton straps
- – Lined large pocket
- – Can be reversed to show either pattern
- – Recyclable, water-resistant
- – Dimensions: 25 x 18 x 6″
- A logo dinner plate
http://www.hitpromo.net/product/show/2170/10-melamine-plate
- A food journal
- https://www.themagnetgroup.com/en_us/product/appeel-pico-journal-2
- Fun Fact: The journal we sent to you last month was made from recycled apples and could become an autograph book (the local farmers) or food & recipe journal. Everything can be customized to fit your needs.
- USB of all of the recipes
- http://iclick.com/Concord
- Cool new piece that has the C drive, a new piece for the future
- Food Storage Container- Motivate employee to bring lunch. This is one of our many awesome lunch box ideas that we can do.
Provide an an app (farmstandapp) for the employees’ phones so they can find places close to their area that serve local produce. Use twitter or instagram to have employees post eating fruits and vegetables from a farmers market. Share recipes; show eating at a local restaurant that serves local produce and meats. At the end of the promotion use all the recipes and pictures from the postings for an Employee Wellness Calendar.
Create a Calendar Contest for all employees.
Pick some of the best pictures to add to calendar and make it look like a collage. The front cover of the Calendar could be the plate artwork. . The plate should be a conversation starter so the art should be funky. Use a local artist to design or start a contest for the employees to design; Pick four photos whose winners get extra points Have the employees bring the dinner plate to a restaurant or farmers market and have it signed by the chef.
Instagram contest:
Employees use a special hashtag on their photos. At the end of the week pick 2 different winners. The more you post the better chances you have to win a new plate. Our suggestion would be to create a large plate, small plate, bowl and mug or a set of 4 plates with the art being different on all the pieces.
The local farmers market vendor can sign his-her bag. Add a logoed sharpie. http://www.sanfordb2b.com/US/Pages/Product.aspx?product=FPM
- Win with Water! Log your water intake. We all know how important drinking water is to our overall health and wellness. This bottle is amazing and a great tool for employees, it promotes drinking tap water and helps with the environment Make sure to watch the video on the site.
2. Here is a version of a smart water bottle. This comes with a terrific app for your phone so you know exactly how hydrated you are and can make specific water goals for yourself.
We use this bottle daily. We really like this one which lots of great features.
http://www.gemline.com/us/thermos-connected-hydration-bottle-with-smart-lid-24-oz-p80230.html#item=80231
- Start a Smoothie Club: greenblender.com
http://www.adnart.com/US/product.php?id=383
Other extra points:
Attendance at Cooking Class (outside of work)
Field trip to a Farmers Markets
Bring in Healthy Snacks and post to Instagram
- Snack Idea: Unsalted nuts and unsweetened dried fruits, fresh vegetables, or fresh fruit.
- http://people.com/food/healthy-snacks-food-2017/pure-growth-spicy-salsa-veggie-chips/
This is a nice retail piece that can be given as an Incentive to bring in healthy snacks.
Extra Points:
Attendance at Cooking Class
Field trip to a Farmers Markets
Share a favorite Recipe with fruits and vegetables
Reward and incentive Ideas for completing the Program: All can be customized with your logo and with employees’ achieving his-her Individual Goals.
1. Logoed Card to redeem –E cards, movies, restaurants, e- books, magazine subscription to favorite new healthy living or cooking magazine.
http://www.rockyourbrand.com/products/
2. Vita mix blender: We use this blender everyday. It is so wonderful and amazing for smoothies, soups, making all your own salad dressings. We both can’t cook without it! So worth the investment!
Enjoy the only blender trusted by the Culinary Institute of America uses to train the next generation of chefs. We are by no means professional chefs just healthy nuts who love to use this piece.
3. Yeti: We can now “brand “yeti . Lots of fun Incentive Products
http://gopremco.com/Portals/15/YETI%20Catalog%20FINAL.pdf
We could write a novel on of our ideas that can be put into action on this topic. Like a great novel we can take this idea and add many creative twists and turns.
We believe this campaign is really fun and will be successful because it hits on all senses.
This is Chef Barb- with her pate of local grown fresh veggies at dinner! We all love to eat!
