Please your customers with healthy options
It is noticeable that restaurants and cafes in Marbella, Estepona, San Pedro and other locations are waking up to the fact that the demand for healthier menu options is increasing.
Some owners may look at some of the new outlets that have opened in the last year and observe that they are completely dedicated to serving healthy food, with an emphasis on vegan and vegetarian dishes. Perhaps you are wondering if you should leave these cafes to cater for the ‘health conscious’ crowd, but we would urge you to consider adding healthy options to your existing menu and by doing so, not only offer your existing customers new choices, but also attract new clients who are looking for healthy dishes in a more, let’s say, traditional setting.
At Leo Foods we are aware that venturing into the healthy eating market sector might be somewhat daunting at first. You may be wondering what to put on your menu that will appeal to the widest number of people. Not everyone wants kale with everything.
Get your healthy breakfast bowl ingredients at Leo Foods
We would suggest starting with some simple vegetarian and vegan recipes that are crowd pleasers, even with the confirmed meat eaters. For example, a healthy breakfast bowl is simple to prepare. Take a look at these 11 Breakfast Bowls to Inspire Healthy Eating and you’ll see why. We stock all the products used in these recipes, including frozen fuits, Acai berries, chia seeds, flax seeds, coconut milk and spirulina, as well as a huge range of other ingredients that could be used for both vegan and vegetarian options. You will notice that not all the recipes here are fruit based; there is one bowl that combines chickpeas with avocado, sweet potato, roasted cauliflower spiced with turmeric.
Cater to the flexitarian trend and keep your customers
We’re also quite keen on these vegan lunch recipes from BBC Good Food and we have found out from talking to both our retail and trade customers, that more customers are opting to try something vegan or vegetarian, simply to cut down on their weekly meat consumption. This ‘flexitarian’ trend is growing, as people don’t necessarily want to commit to being meat-free every day, but want to cut back on meat a bit. This customer is one that you can keep by making healthier dishes available, so they have all their needs covered in one place.
Why not bring your chosen recipes to us and we’ll help you put them together. We are very proficient at assisting our trade customers with differentiating between what is vegan and what is vegetarian, and guiding you to the product ranges that you may not be so familiar with. We see the addition of healthy choices to your menu as a win-win for your business and for your customers, and we’re here to help you achieve that goal.
If you are in the restaurant, bar or café trade and haven’t yet discovered Leo Foods, contact us today to find out more about our full product range.
We are the coast’s healthy, vegetarian and vegan food supplier of choice.
