Seattle Sutton's Healthy Eating Franchise News

April 25, 2012 // Franchising.com // Seattle Sutton's Healthy Eating (SSHE) is sponsoring the Seattle Sutton's 2012 Slim Down Contest to help 10 lucky DuPage County residents lose weight and improve their health. One grand prize winner who loses the most weight will be packing their bags and heading to Riviera Maya, Mexico.
SSHE will provide 10 contestants a chance to make a lifestyle change once and for all. For 15 weeks contestants will receive SSHE meals for FREE, beginning on June 4, 2012 and concluding the week of September 17, 2012. Meals provided include 21 meals per week -- every breakfast, lunch and dinner for the contestants, a total of 315 meals in all.
Registration for the contest takes place between April 25, 2012 at 10 AM and May 9, 2012 at 10 AM at seattlesutton...

January 11, 2012 // Franchising.com // Seattle Sutton's Healthy Eating (SSHE), the premier meal replacement company in the country, kicks off its La Salle County weight loss contest called Seattle Sutton's 2012 Slim Down. For 15 weeks, the 10 contestants will compete for prizes and improve their health by making a positive lifestyle change.
Seattle Sutton's 2012 Slim Down contest is the first of its kind for the local community, having had its first successful weight loss contest for the Chicago area in 2010, when 10 contestants lost a total of 372 pounds in 14 weeks.
"I'm overjoyed at the possibility of helping these 10 people change their lives for good. Healthy eating is essential in overall good health and good health is the most important asset one has in life, without it, nothing else matters," said Seattle Sutton, RN, BSN, Founder and President of Seattle Sutton's Healthy Eating...

October 27, 2011 // Franchising.com // Seattle Sutton's Healthy Eating (SSHE) is sponsoring the Seattle Sutton's 2012 Slim Down Contest to help 10 lucky LaSalle County residents lose weight and improve their health in 2012. One grand prize winner who loses the most weight will take home the $1,500 cash prize.
SSHE will provide 10 contestants a chance to make a lifestyle change once and for all. For 15 weeks contestants will receive SSHE meals for FREE, beginning on January 9, 2012 and concluding the week of April 23, 2012. Meals provided include 21 meals per week -- every breakfast, lunch and dinner for the contestants, a total of 315 meals in all.
Registration for the contest takes place between October 26, 2011 at 10 AM and November 15, 2011 at 10 AM at seattlesutton...

Company has made approximately 80 million meals since 1985 OTTAWA, Ill. /PRNewswire/ -- Today Seattle Sutton's Healthy Eating (SSHE) celebrates 25 years of business by opening its corporate headquarters' doors to the public and providing tours of its kitchen facility. The day is also an opportunity for people to meet the woman behind the healthy eating phenomenon, Seattle Sutton. Guests may also enter prize drawings and take home a healthy, delicious SSHE lunch.

SSHE was started by registered nurse, Sutton, in 1985 as a way to help improve people's eating habits and their health. The idea was born from her work as a nurse in her physician husband's medical practice. They often counseled patients on the importance of eating a healthy, well-balanced diet...

14-Week Weight Loss Challengers Lose Total of 372 Pounds April 15, 2010 // Franchising.com // Seattle Sutton's Healthy Eating (SSHE), the premier meal replacement company in the country, is proud to announce its Seattle Sutton's 2010 Slim Down contest winners. Paul Quaglia of Westmont, Ill. lost the most weight based on percentage of body weight, making him the grand prize winner. He lost a total of 26.50 percent of body weight in just 14 weeks. And, besides the prize of improving his health, he also won a trip for 4 to Universal Orlando Resort for his family.

Quaglia was interested in the challenge as a way to re-gain his health, become more active and prepare for a planned trip to climb Mt. Rainier this June. Now 53 pounds lighter, he's more fit than ever before -- even when he used to run marathons -- and now he's up for the challenge to climb the 14,411 foot mountain with his brother-in-law...

Freshly Prepared Meals Now Available for Pick Up or Delivery July 16, 2009 // Franchising.com // Seattle Sutton's Healthy Eating (SSHE) is pleased to announce the opening of its newest franchise, Seattle Sutton's Healthy Eating of Arizona. SSHE provides healthy, portion and calorie-controlled meals that are ideal for health conscious desert living. Previously, Arizona was served by SSHE's national Home Delivery program. Now, the area has a franchise kitchen located in central Phoenix that services local distributorships and clients throughout Metro Phoenix.

SSHE, a unique meal replacement program since the meals are nutritionally balanced, freshly prepared and include salads, fresh fruit and vegetables, offers two portion sizes to choose from, 1,200-calorie per day plan or 2,000-calorie per day plan...

Freshly Prepared, Portion Controlled Meals Now Available for Delivery throughout State Ottawa, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Seattle Sutton's Healthy Eating (SSHE) is proud to announce its newest franchised area, Ohio, is now open for business. The freshly prepared, delicious meals are now available for delivery to home or office throughout Ohio.

The new Ohio franchise serves freshly prepared, portion and calorie controlled meals to customers via shipping next day service through UPS. To do so, special packaging is used to ensure optimal freshness and the quality of the meals remains the same as when they leave their Michigan kitchen. Previously, Ohio was served by SSHE Corporate's national Home Delivery program operating from its Illinois Headquarters...

Healthy Eating Advocate Findings Reveal NutriSystem, Jenny Craig and Weight Watchers Lacking February 24, 2009 // Franchising.com // Ottawa, Ill. -- Seattle Sutton, healthy eating advocate, recently examined three popular weight loss plans for their healthfulness. Her findings reveal NutriSystem, Jenny Craig and Weight Watchers are severely lacking. Sutton knows a thing or two about healthy eating, after all this grandmother of fourteen is a registered nurse and founder of a healthy meal replacement company that bears her name, Seattle Sutton's Healthy Eating (SSHE).

Sutton determined to get to the bottom of infomercials and deceptive advertising, decided to examine NutriSystem, Jenny Craig and Weight Watchers to determine their healthfulness...

August 20, 2008 // Franchising.com // Ottawa, Ill. -- Anna Egofske recently joined Seattle Sutton's Healthy Eating (SSHE) as Communications Specialist for the Ottawa-based company. She's been assigned to help participate in event and Internet marketing, distributor relations, client follow up and various marketing related duties to help further the company's exposure.

Egofske most recently worked in advertising sales at Turner Broadcasting for Cartoon Network, a Time Warner company, in New York City. She was responsible for maintaining all aspects of account management.

Prior to graduation, she also studied abroad in Italy, Germany, The United Kingdom and Luxembourg where she studied advertising, language, art history and film...

August 11, 2008 // Franchising.com // Ottawa, Ill. – Erin Borgstrom recently joined Seattle Sutton's Healthy Eating (SSHE) as Communications Coordinator for the Ottawa-based company. She has been assigned to help with Internet and event marketing, advertising and conducting client follow up. She's also helping with direct mailings and distributor relations.

Borgstrom most recently worked as an intern at Clear Channel Communications for WLIT in Chicago during the summer of 2007. She worked in the radio station's promotions department assisting the promotions coordinator and director with day-to-day office operations.

She is a 2008 graduate from University of Iowa, with a BA in Communications Studies and a minor in Journalism and Mass Communications...

Freshly Prepared Meals Now Available for Pick Up or Delivery

OTTAWA, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Seattle Sutton's Healthy Eating is proud to announce its newest franchised area, Kansas City, MO, is now open for business. The freshly prepared, delicious meals are now available for pick up or delivery, depending upon location.

The new Kansas City franchise has a network of local distributor locations -- i.e., storefront retail establishments -- serving customers in the area, as well as provide customers meals via shipping. The distributors provide clients with freshly prepared, portion and calorie controlled meals. The franchise will gradually expand out to accommodate customers with additional distributor locations throughout the Kansas City metropolitan area, western part of Missouri and the state of Kansas...

Company prides itself with not using food dyes for the past 23 years

June 06, 2008 // Franchising.com // Ottawa, Ill. -- Seattle Sutton's Healthy Eating (SSHE) prides itself with not using food dyes in its meals and has done so for the last 23 years since the company's inception. Food dyes are potentially dangerous ingredients that are not needed in a healthy diet, however they are found in many foods today. This week the consumer health advocacy group, Center for Science in the Public Interest, petitioned the Food and Drug Administration to ban eight widely used food dyes: Yellow 5, Red 40, Blue 1, Blue 2, Green 3, Orange B, Red 3 and Yellow 6. All of which are not in any of SSHE's meals and have never been, along with artificial sweeteners...

May 09, 2008 // Franchising.com // Ottawa, Ill. -- Seattle Sutton, RN, BSN, Founder and President of Seattle Sutton's Healthy Eating, will appear as the opening speaker for the Smart Women Smart Money conference titled "Recession-Proof Your Finances" on Monday, May 12 at Heartland Community Church in Rockford, Ill.

The event is hosted by Illinois State Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias and sponsored by Dollars and Sense, Inc. -- a not-for-profit -- and by Family Credit Management.

Sutton's presentation, "Life's Lessons and Financial Responsibility," will begin with her upbringing in rural North Dakota during the Great Depression and move onto the lessons learned along the way to present day. Her unique story will cover her transformation from small town nurse and mother of five to entrepreneur and her journey for the past twenty-two years as a business owner...

Healthy Eating Meals Become Healthier and More Nutritious with Additions

May 02, 2008 // Franchising.com // Ottawa, Ill.-- Seattle Sutton's Healthy Eating (SSHE), the premier home meal replacement company, is once again ahead of the curve. The healthy, freshly prepared meal company recently became healthier and more nutritious by making more fruits, vegetables and whole grains part of their menu. The additions follow a recent, national study's recommendations, which reported lower heart attack and strokes for women who consumed more of those healthy foods. The study's results reaffirm the beliefs that company founder, Seattle Sutton, has held about healthy eating since starting the business more than 22 years ago.

SSHE began adding more of these healthy meal components to increase the healthiness of the meals and is in line with the company's ongoing process to continually improve the meals in order to serve the most nutritious meals possible...

OTTAWA, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Seattle Sutton's Healthy Eating (SSHE) is proud to announce the addition of its newest franchised area, Arizona. Currently, Arizona is served by SSHE's national Home Delivery program and will continue to be until the new franchise is operating in 2008.

The new SSHE Arizona franchise is expected to begin operations in the summer of 2008, since the new franchisee is currently in the process of scouting locations, as well as setting up business operations. The selected location will include a state-of-the-art production facility complete with a kitchen where healthy, freshly prepared meals will be made and business offices will house the administrative staff.

When open for business, the new SSHE Arizona franchise will have a network of local distributor locations -- i...