...arises Burt Family Food Services

Most of you probably already know that The Red Avocado is now out of business. This is the last newsletter to inform you of continuing services from Chef Dave. Please follow the links to find out more about any particular subject. We hope you will support us by following our new blog and "liking" our new Facebook page.

We have started a new business called Burt Family Food Services. Chef Dave is preparing weekly meals for pick up once a week - standard is 4 meals for 2. This service continues the successful Meal Plans that were available the last few years at The Red Avocado. All meals are vegan and 99% organic.

Cooking classes are ongoing through Kirkwood Community College and New Pioneer Food Co-op. These focus on vegan and seasonal cooking including a 4 part vegan whole foods series, vegan 3-course meals and intensive classes focusing on one particular ingredient. We will also be presenting free cooking demos throughout the year at various locations. Look for us at the market this summer, at the Field to Family Festival in September and at Willowwind School in the Fall.

Our original recipe veggieburgers are available locally and larger shipments can be arranged nationwide. Email burtfamilyfoodservices@gmail.com to arrange an order. If you are outside of Iowa City, our teas, frozen veggieburgers and other dried goods can be shipped. Within a month or so we should have online ordering available via PayPal.

Around town, veggieburgers are available at The Wedge Downtown, New Pioneer Food Co-op delis and The Trumpet Blossom Cafe. In the future we hope to have the veggieburgers available from the frozen section of the Co-op again as well as the tea blends that were so popular.

We hope to be shipping veggieburgers via Buykind, a website that specializes in delivering vegan foods from restaurants around the country.

Private Nutritional and cooking consultations are also available. Email burtfamilyfoodservices@gmail.com to arrange an appointment specific to your needs.

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Again, please visit our website and our Facebook page, as we continue to grow.

Thanks for your ongoing support.

Friends of The Red Avocado

You may have heard that our building (and a couple more) have been scheduled for demolition on January 29th. We were served 30 days notice. If we can't postpone the demolition, we are most likely out of business. The Haunted Bookshop started a petition. If you have a minute please sign.

http://www.change.org/petitions/save-the-red-avocado

If you have another minute please forward to all who may be able to help spread the word to as many people as possible. There are paper petitions out there too but this is the easiest way to amass numbers. We are aiming for 3000 by January 10th. It began yesterday and currently has 700+ paper signatures.

Paper petitions are out there at The Haunted bookstore, New Pioneer Co-op, White Rabbit, Record Collector, The Motley Cow, The Red Avocado, and more if you're talking to folks.

Thanks in advance

From all of us at The Red Avocado
Reservations are available for our Autumn Beer Dinner next Week on Wednesday 21st at 6pm. We will be featuring Madhouse Brewery from Newton, Iowa. Visit website for menu updates. It will be an all-Iowa meal with all produce being local. Call (319) 351 6088.

We will raffle off two 50% vouchers for the beer dinner. Simply reply to this email with beer dinner raffle in subject line before midnight on Saturday 17th. Each voucher is for 50% off a beer dinner for two.

On Wednesday 28th we will donate 10% of dinner proceeds to The Iowa United Nations Association. 5:00-9:00pm

We will continue lunch/brunch Tuesday-Sunday through Hallowe'en. From Hallowe'en to Spring we will be open for lunch/brunch on Friday, Saturday and Sunday and for dinner Tuesday-Saturday.