LETTER ARCHIVE 2006

Dear Amy,
I have one of your frozen entrees just about every day at work.  I JUST LOVE THEM!  I've tried all the other brands that my co-op carries, and you out shine them all.  Keep it up! 
Carole Broad

Dear everyone at Amy's Kitchen:
Thank you for making such wonderful spinach pies!  My son, almost two, LOVES them!  He recently had a bad cold and cough.  He refused to eat all food, except your spinach pies!  Thank you for making them so yummy!
-J. Gustafson, thankful mom

Dear Amy,
Rarely do I have or take the time for product feedback, but after serving your Spinach Feta snacks to my 19 month old daughter today(her favorites) I was compelled to tell you how much we love and appreciate your products.  It's a challenge to cook in a healthy, organic manner all the time, but your products make it easier. Your snacks, cooled and cut up in bite size pieces were some of her first finger foods.  Great to pack up and travel with. We LOVE all of your "snacks" and toaster treats.  I have told so many people with kids about them and they are all hooked, even my nephew aka "pickiest eater in Michigan." Keep up the great work!!!!  Ever thought about marketing/creating these products for kids???  As far as I know there aren't any frozen, organic "made for kids" products in the grocery stores. 
Thanks again,
Cathy Lee Essig

Dear Amy,
I wanted to say thanks for making great tasting products that interest my children.  We find it hard to get them to eat a lot of other veggie products. 
Thanks again,
Trudy Smith

Dear Amy,
With mom not around to cook dinners anymore a young woman must learn to cook! Unless of course they are working and going to school at the same time. Cooking isn't much of an option, besides, I'm a very picky eater. I'm the only vegetarian in my family, and meat has never made it past my  mouth. (When I was little I spit it out.) Finding something to eat is hard! I decided to walk the health food aisle at Bel-Air and first saw the name "Amy", next I saw the date. Your Amy and I are the same age. So I bought it and brought it home to show my boyfriend, also a veggie eater, and we made your "no chicken noodle soup" I have one word to say: "YUMMY!" We can't wait to try the rest of your food! It makes it easy for us to fix dinner, and it’s healthy too! I just wanted to say thank you for the good food! – Amy

Dear Amy,
I love your products, and my absolute favorite is your low fat tomato soup.  I look forward to having the whole can for lunch. I've never tasted a better tomato soup and to know that it's also low fat and low sodium makes it all the better.  Your products are incredibly delicious!!!  I shop at Whole Foods, but my local market-Boardwalk Market in Tiburon, carries a lot of your products. This is great since it's much easier for me to shop there on a regular basis. Thanks for what you are doing.
From Diana Chiarabano

Dig Potato!
Dear Amy,

For those of your readers who don't know me, my name is Billy and I am a three-year-old vegetarian Chesapeake Bay Retriever who was born on the Chesapeake Bay.  I live in upstate New York with my human parents who have been friends of Amy and her family since 1975, even before Amy was born!

I am writing to the "Amy's Website" because Amy's believes in and supports us vegetarian dogs.  In order to help other dogs eat raw fruits and vegetables I want to tell them about a game my human parents play with me which is so much fun and ends in my eating a wonderful treat.

My humans grow and/or buy organic fruits and vegetables (it helps that they are organic vegetable gardeners) and when we go for walks they bring them along.  For instance, the game called "Let's play APPLE!" goes like this:

My human mother says, "Let's play APPLE!"  I jump and race around, grinning from ear to ear.  She then throws a delicious, washed, organic apple as far as she can and I run and get it.  (Sometimes she will throw it into the air and I will just jump and catch it in my mouth.)  I run and fetch the apple and come back into range so that she can try to get it from me.

I am actually not very good at bringing things back, so that brings me to the second game, "Let's play SWEET POTATO!" which we often combine with the game of APPLE.  When I drop the apple, my human throws the sweet potato and I run to fetch it and bring it back close to her.  She then throws apple again; when I bring apple back, sweet potato is thrown.  And so it goes.  Often I sit down on the grass and eat part of apple or sweet potato.  My human gives me the necessary breaks to do this.  Naturally, the game is over when the fruits and vegetables are all eaten.  She continues to throw the pieces until they are all gone.

In addition to APPLE and SWEET POTATO, I love playing "Let's play CABBAGE; SWEET CORN -- in the husks and all; CARROT; SQUASH -- summer or winter squash; NEW POTATO, etc."  It is fun to chase the fruits and vegetables and end up eating them!

The other raw vegetables I love are STRING BEANS -- yellow and green -- which I snap off their stems in the garden while my mother picks them; SUGAR SNAP PEAS -- my dad picks one for the basket and then one for me; and  ESPECIALLY PEPPERS!  I also enjoy watermelon, even the rind, which is why my parents only give me "ORGANIC" pieces.

My parents had to cut down on my intake of peppers (I was getting one a day) when I got sick from too many of them.  I went to the Vet and he said, "Peppers and onions are not good for dogs."  However, my parents still give me peppers, just less frequently.

They take me to the garden where the pepper plants grow and I pick them right off the plant.  Before I did this the first time, I sat down next to the pepper plant and looked at my human to see if it was okay.  I waited a long time for permission; FINALLY, she noticed me and said, "Billy, pick PEPPER!"  She was so happy when I did and laughed a lot.  Now I don't ask, I just go and examine the pepper plants when we go to the garden and "Pick PEPPER" on my own.

My parents are happy that I pick my own vegetables.  They are trying to train me to "DIG POTATO" but I haven't figured that one out yet.

While in the garden, I also pick broccoli and cabbages off their stalks, and my humans throw me cherry tomatoes to catch in midair.

My humans try to play "Let's play BEET!" but that is definitely taking it too far.  Occasionally I will respond to "Let's play LEAF!" and will run after lettuce, kale, collard or chard leaves, but that, too, is a little "much."

I hope other humans will read this letter and play these wonderful games with their dogs.  Remember, animals in the wild eat lots of raw fruits, vegetables and plants.  Why shouldn't domesticated animals enjoy the same foods?  Humans should not be discouraged if their pets don't respond right away to these games.  It took me awhile to enjoy these foods and running after them!  Just keep on trying.

Bye, Amy. Please give my love to Stormy.
Love, Billy