The Great American Road Trip

July 6, 2009

I love road trips. We recently came back from another road trip with our kids, aged 4 and 6…we went to North Myrtle Beach, SC (we’re based in NJ, about 13 hours from there by car.) You may all think I’m nuts to love road-tripping with the family, but you should really try it before [...]

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Why I Work for First Juice

June 29, 2009

This is my first blog entry, so go easy on me! J My name is Cheryl Thomas, and I’m the VP Marketing for First Juice, Inc. I worked for 14 years at a big company, and I enjoyed it. Then I had kids, and  I decided to take some time out for awhile.  A  few [...]

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If you like First Juice, Please Tell a Friend

June 22, 2009

Being an 8 person company competing for space in stores against giants like Gerber (owned by Nestle), Earths Best (owned by Hain Celestial) and Beech-Nut (owned by Hero (Swiss)) is extremely difficult.
Our special niche is that while we all focus on infants & toddlers, only First Juice has focused on juice.  Juice for your child is all we do, it’s not [...]

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Rules at First Juice, Inc. Versus “The Other Guys”

June 15, 2009

We ONLY make products we will consume ourselves and feed our own children.
Shouldn’t that be a rule in a society where we put the children first? Wouldn’t any sane society look out for its children!? Otherwise we could end up in a childhood obesity epidemic or a childhood diabetes epidemic or something HORRIBLE like that…
Now, [...]

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First Juice - A One Stop Shop for Children - Guest Blogger Susan Lee Chimes In

June 10, 2009

I think the hardest thing as parents is to give our children a well rounded diet.  Whether it’s being busy, or having our child being too picky, we all come up against walls and go through some obstacles.  When I discovered First Juice, I was super-excited to find out that my daughter got some of [...]

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Product Labeling

June 8, 2009

I hope you will enjoy this mini-brain dump of a few factoids I have learned since diving into the kids juice business.  Some of this stuff is unreal– and you have to know, so you know what you are buying.
 The word NATURAL means NOTHING.  Absolutely nothing!  There is no legal definition of NATURAL that is [...]

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Doses of Nourishment - Guest Blogpost by Amanda Bretthauer, RHN, RNCP

June 1, 2009

This is a guest blog post from a wonderful writer! Read below for some great stuff about teaching kids about healthy eating habits!
 
It is so important for children to develop healthy drinking and eating habits as early as possible.  Case in hand are my niece and nephew, who started their lives not being introduced to [...]

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Childhood Obesity

May 26, 2009

I love this debate.  (see link: http://blog.nutritionbusinessjournal.com/nbj/2009/04/27/who-is-to-blame-for-childhood-obesity/)
Thank you for publishing it.
Fingers can be pointed at the food co’s and the fast food co’s and at parents, too.
It is correct that there are not enough healthy options available for young children, and it is correct that it is far easier to start a good habit than [...]

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The Inspiration for My Company

February 10, 2009

I’m 43 years old, happily married for 17 years, the father of two girls I adore, and the Founder and CEO of First Juice, Inc.  Thank you for reading my first ever blog posting.
I started First Juice because I felt that my young children, and yours if you have them, and everyone else’s children were [...]

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