Fresh & Easy team gets moving!

From our home office to our stores, we’re an active group here at Fresh & Easy. A week and a half ago, a number of the Fresh & Easy team participated in the grueling Solvang Century & Half-Century Bike Ride and this past weekend in the world-famous Los Angeles Marathon!


A dozen Fresh & Easy bikers set out in Solvang, choosing either a half-century or a century ride. Of course most of our team biked the full 100 miles! Despite windy conditions, everyone finished.


On Sunday, members of the Fresh & Easy team joined the roughly 25,000 runners in the L.A. Marathon. The 26.2 mile course started at Dodger’s Stadium and finished at the Santa Monica Pier. Happy to report everyone made it into work on Monday, despite the sore legs!


We think it’s important to live a healthy lifestyle from eating right to getting out there and exercising. Congratulations to our team members on these accomplishments!

Cheers!
~ Sallie

We’re thankful for good friends and good food

In an early celebration of the season of connecting with friends and family, last week the Fresh & Easy team traveled to Phoenix and Las Vegas to reconnect with some of our blogging friends, make some new ones and of course enjoy some great fresh&easy holiday food.



With Chef Cindy’s expert guidance, we all pitched in to help prepare a complete Thanksgiving dinner with all the fixings, including some different takes on the classics – such as an easy, healthy and very tasty sweet-potato-spinach-salad.



(For the full recipe check out Noshtopia’s post)

Chef Cindy also wowed us with her simple tips to make fresh&easy readymade meals unique, such as the mashed potatoes, by adding your own spin to them. She incorporated garlic and parmesan cheese into her recipe and someone mentioned even adding bacon or chives to the potatoes. Not only is it simple and time saving, but because our fresh&easy prepared meals only use ingredients you can pronounce, the potatoes tasted just like homemade.



The no fuss fresh&easy dip trays and vegetable platters make a delicious and simple starter that will keep your dinner guests at bay and out of the kitchen until the turkey is done. And you won’t have to deal with prep or cleanup. As for the desserts and wines, well all I can say is they were a hit!



We had a great time with all of our lovely friends in Phoenix and Las Vegas. By the end there were full stomachs, empty glasses and lots of laughter.


For more pics of the event check out our Flickr page.

Very special thanks to our friends who joined us :
Loosing It in AZ
Noshtopia
Mom Memos
The Crepes of Wrath
Vivian Nelson Melle
Tim Swearingen
The Traveling Rose
Megan
Concoctions of a Wanna be Chef
Fresh & Easy Wine Review Blog
Chef Mona
Steve, Sam, Steve and Andy from UKLV.org
Carlo and Alex from Recession Recipes
Sparkle Power
The Deal Fanatic
Coupon Chic

From our team, to you – we wish you a happy Thanksgiving full of great food and great friends!

Cheers!
~SallieB