LOCAL PRODUCE NOW OFFERED AT ONTARIO SUBWAY® RESTAURANTS

This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of SUBWAY® Restaurants for IZEA. All opinions are 100% mine.

My husband and I were eating dinner at a resort in Northern Ontario.   I was eating grapes and cheese, I looked at the grapes and said, “How did these get here?” My husband looked at me like I had three heads and said, “It was driven here just like everything else that comes here from the States”. 

I sat there and thought about the long trip the grapes made.  I thought about how much further a truck would have to travel to northern Ontario. I pondered about our food (take into consideration I was without children so I had a lot of uninterrupted time for deep thoughts!) 

I love fruit and produce all year round, but in that moment I truly realized how “unfresh” imported produce really is.  My husband was like “Really you are just realizing this now??” Of course we proceeded to have a long intellectual conversation about food and the world because, isn’t that what parents do when they’re away from kids and want to feel like intellectual superiors?

We may have also had a food fight with the grapes.

Buying local is becoming more important to us.  I work online, which means I am connected to the world.  When I meet with clients they often ask who am I writing to and what is your mandate?

I tell them this, “My content is mostly created locally, but the underlying issue or cause is global”. What I mean by that is, my readers and viewers could be reading and watching from anywhere in the world but should learn something from my blogs or VLOGS. We are all connected by the same issues. 

Why does my family care about buying and supporting local?  Because we believe it’s the foundation of our community, and without thriving communities there’s no world.

The idea of buying and supporting local is fortunately, for many small businesses, becoming much more  mainstream and popular.  Think of local communities like Lego.  Each community is a Lego brick, without each individual brick we can’t produce big Lego structures.

I was thrilled when I was offered an opportunity to tell the world that SUBWAY® Restaurants has partnered with Burnac produce to bring locally grown produce to Ontario’s 1,300 SUBWAY® Restaurants.SUBWAY® Restaurants

SUBWAY® Restaurants is a global organization that has embraced the buy local initiative.   SUBWAY® Restaurants can now say, “Eat LOCAL Fresh Produce”, which I think, deserves a high five to the marketing team.

Our family does eat at SUBWAY® Restaurants often. The top sub picks in our house are:

1. Meatball
2. BLT (both on Italian bread)

And now for me, gluten free veggie!  (Full Subway Restaurant nutrition information here)

The fact that the produce at  SUBWAY® Restaurants is now local is really attractive to me on a lot of levels. 

I told the kids about the new local produce and it started a great family dinner conversation. nutrition

Kids are so much smarter than I am.  My kids knew that it was better for the environment to use local produce because less gas is used which is less emissions into our air!

They also told me that because SUBWAY® Restaurants is using local produce, it would be better for our farmers, because they would need to make more produce, which would make them more money. 

Kids might be professional interrupters, but they are also really smart.  Great job SUBWAY® Restaurants, we’re thrilled we can “eat local fresh produce” in your Ontario Restaurants! Find a store here: find a store

MF

*This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of SUBWAY® Restaurants for IZEA. All opinions are 100% mine.