I am always looking for ways to earn a little extra money and ways to help people with their food storage and preparedness efforts. Rarely does an opportunity come along that fits both categories. I had been pretty sure that I didn’t have enough time to devote to anything more with the family and baby, home and church duties, yard work, and blog already. But the Shelf Reliance consultant opportunity came up and knowing I could help others and earn an income and get free and discounted food storage, well, I had to give it a try, right? It’s now been two months since I got started and let me tell you, I LOVE this company! Here is a short list of why.
1. Variety and quality. The number of different foods that are available through the Thrive line are simply unmatched by any other company. Products like freeze dried apricots, cherries, and grapes, green chiles, mushrooms, and red peppers. They also carry a large variety of freeze dried meats, cheeses, and even yogurt bites (my kids love these)! And they are strict about quality control. The food is picked fresh and freeze dried fast so you get the best tasting, freshest foods when you use Thrive foods. Plus they are constantly innovating and coming out with new products. This is not your grandma’s food storage. I promise you she didn’t have yogurt bites. ;)
2. Most of their products are single ingredients as opposed to freeze dried meals. I love a good quick freeze dried meal as much as anybody, but I don’t want my whole food storage to consist of 6 or even 12 different meals that I have to rotate over and over and over. With single ingredients, you can make your own meals, even most of your favorite meals that you make with fresh ingredients. You can mix and match them together to make hundreds of different meals or just snack right out of the can.
3. Meals. They do have full freeze dried meals in the Thrive Express line and they are good. Developed by Thrive’s own chef, they are not just some other brand’s meals with different packaging. Foods like Chili Lime Chicken and Rice, and Garden Vegetable Chowder. Yum.
4. Shelf Reliance has a food storage calculator that lets you know exactly how much you need to have on hand for specific caloric requirements for those in your family. You enter the family members, calories, and how long you’d like to have food stored for and the calculator does all the figuring!
5. Then they make it easy to get your food a little at a time through their automatic monthly shipment program called the Q. You enter your budget and either use your generated list from the calculator (which you can edit as much as you want) or enter your wishlist, and the Q automatically ships you food from your list up to your specified budget amount each month. Through the Q you always get the best prices plus free gifts and special discounts. It’s perfect!
6. They offer their foods in a variety of sizes. You can get them in pouches if you want to try it before buying a lot, small “pantry cans” which are about the size of a large soup can, #10 cans, and most of their product is also available in buckets which all have a gamma seal lid for a tight seal and easy access. Sweet.
7. Rotating shelves. These are really quite nice and available in so many different sizes they’ll fit somewhere in almost anyone’s house. They even have sizes that fit under your bed! The rotating shelves keep your food storage neat and makes sure you’re using the oldest foods first.
8. I think this may be my favorite one. It is easy to get food for half off and free just by hosting a party (which can be an online party for you who don’t live near a consultant–just email me and we can get one set up for you). It’s even better to get food for half off and free and get paid by becoming a consultant and sharing Thrive foods with others. And so you know how easy it is, I’ll add that I get paid more from my Thrive sales with fewer hours put in than I receive from advertising and other sales on my blog in an average month. This is an especially perfect income opportunity for anyone who loves food storage or preparedness, but really anybody can do this. You’re selling something everybody uses every day–it’s not a product that only appeals to some, everyone eats.
Shelf Reliance is a national company that has recently expanded to Canada and is working on expansion to other markets as well, so what are you waiting for? Head on over and check out their products, and if you’re interested in earning money and/or building your food storage, contact me and we’ll get you set up with a party or signed up as a consultant for Shelf Reliance!
Keep preparing! Angela
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Joe says
Sorry, your write up is obviously pure propaganda. No doubt you have a vested interest in this yourself, but you could have at least tried to mention your own personal experience. Since you didn’t, and instead have made a sales pitch, it’s pretty clear your only interested in selling the food.
Thrive is one of the more expensive lines (really), there are far better alternatives at lower costs out there. The multi-level-marketing scheme they employ makes it a poor choice for the consumer who’s really trying to watch their dollars.
Not sure why you bother having a comment section. You censor the comments on your articles.
Angela says
Joe,
I do have a comment policy in which I censor out any comments that are spam or obscene. That’s it. Take a tour through my blog and you’ll find preparedness options for any budget, but primarily for those who are watching their dollars as that is the boat I am in. If you are not interested in purchasing Thrive or any other freeze dried foods, that is fine. No brand of freeze dried food is cheap, but Thrive actually has very competitive pricing and on many items is one of the least expensive brands of freeze dried food. If you want a less expensive way to store fruits/vegetables/meats, check out my canning and dehydrating sections. I’m all about providing options for you to become better prepared through whichever methods you choose.
Thrive is sold through direct sales, much like any number of other “home party” companies that pay their consultants a commission for their sales. I stated right at the start of the article that I am a consultant for Shelf Reliance, so yes, I have a vested interest here. I also want other people to have an opportunity to work with a company that has a fantastic compensation plan if they might be interested. Hard to know if you’re interested if nobody introduces the opportunity to you. I have many other companies that advertise or have affiliate links on my blog. I have vested interests there as well. No secrets here.
Hopefully you actually read my post and the personal experiences I shared, but I’ll add a couple more just for kicks. Sweet husband requested I empty off my junk shelf in the kitchen so he could keep the freeze dried peppers, mushrooms, and other vegetables there so he didn’t have to dig out the boxes from under the crib every time he wanted to use them (which has been pretty frequent). So I did, and now we have easy access to peppers and other veggies, but especially peppers, any time we need them. And the fruits, corn, and yogurt bites make fantastic baby snacks, but not the peppers or tomatoes, and only if you can keep the other kids out of them! They are healthy, and easy to transport. A week in the diaper bag has far less effect on a freeze dried banana than a fresh one! Trust me on that one. I’m sure I’ll have more personal experiences for you as time goes on, but really, this comment has probably gone on long enough as it is.
Angela
Angela McMillan says
I just wanted to say I loved your response! Thrive is expensive, but we’ve got a pretty good stock on the basics, so now we can slowly add a little more variety. I like what I’ve tried. They do seem like a good company. Thank you for introducing me to it.
dee says
I have been on the Q for the last three months. But most importantly, incorporating and using my cauliflower, peppers, blueberries in our daily lives. I make a portion of my food budget monthly. Yeah, I have much more long term food storage in other forms and use it, but what I choose helps flesh it out for daily use. I get the peace of mind of adding to my preparedness, and help my friend who is a consultant, and the friend who hosted the party.It’s your website, keep tooting your own horn!
Emily says
I have sampled the Thrive product and can see how the advancement in technology can help us store foods in a different way. My only concern is how munching on the can isn’t really cost effective. The convenience is nice but I have to wonder if one carrot from the store, costing say $.20, is going to be the same price or thereabouts, from the can. After a while, if it is significantly more, say $.50 from the can, I think it might be best not to open the can, unless I have to. I can see myself buying Thrive so that I have celery and meat in a different form, but I think I will hesitate to using it daily because I don’t think it will save me money. I think it will be convenient if I don’t have a certain ingredient, but I may still ask my neighbor if she does, rather than opening that can and knowing I need to use it by the end of the year. What about the prices on Amazon? I hosted a party and can get a fruit pack for half off but the Amazon price is $100 less than that. I wouldn’t order it there but I get concerned about huge price discrepancy. It is like shopping at Kohl’s, where they keep giving you coupons, and as long as you keep coming back the deal could get even better. I like one fair price for everyone because otherwise I feel sucked in. I know Thrive is trying to get more people aware of its product and establish a base of customers. I think it can fill a need for me but I am skeptical and unsure how much to invest.
Karl says
I’ve been combing the net looking for a better deal other than Thrive. I find Thrive to be very expensive through consultants. But it’s way cheaper at Costco, go figure. I mean, It costs only $98 Canadian and that includes shipping and handling for 6 #10 cans of the basic Veggie varieties. The shipping alone probably costs $20. Subtract that from the 98 equals $78. 78 divided by 6 cans equal $13. Thrive must be selling their products to Costco at AT Cost prices. The drawback to buying from Costco is that you can’t select individual cans. But buying from Thrive’s website the prices are ridiculous. I most likely will buy from Thrive eventually, because what I want I might not be able to get anywhere’s else.