Papa Lena's Healthy foods Inc. (312-455-8100) Handmade specialty gourmet food products Roasted Sweet Red Bell Pepper Chips®, So-Good Sweet Potato Chips® 100% REAL SWEET POTATO, Sweet Bodacious Beet Chips® and Spicy Hot Roasted Poblano Chips® are unlike anything you've ever tasted. Our kitchen and gourmet shop is located at 1438 W. Chicago Ave. Chicago, IL. Papa (Grand-Pa) taught us how to make foods that were unique, different, and delicious. We want you to have a burst of flavor in every bite. At Papa Lena's Healthy Foods Inc. we have found so many versatile uses for the crispy chips that we have added a line of products including giardinera, salad dressings, pasta sauce, tapenades, caponetta, and dips. Our latest and most exciting addition is our Sweet Bodacious Beet Chips®. We welcome you to try our healthy gourmet vegetable snack chips.On a personal note, please remember to Live, Love and Laugh!
Papa Lena's Healthy foods Inc. (312-421-7788) Hand made specialty gourmet food products Sweet Red Pepper Chips® and Bodacious Beet Chips® are unlike anything you've ever tasted. Unique, different, and delicious. A burst of flavor in every bite. At Papa Lena' s Healthy Foods Inc. we have found so many versatile uses for the crispy chips that we have added a line of products including giardinera, salad dressings, pasta sauce, tapenades, caponetta, and dips. Our latest and most exciting addition is our Bodacious Beet Chips®. We welcome you to try our healthy treats! Click here to purchase our Healthy handmade Italian . Crunchy Sweet Italian Red Bell Pepper Chips Click here for a video clip on why we use red bell peppers. Click here to read the story of how Danny started Papa Lena's, how his Grandpa taught him how to make . Click here to purchase our Healthy handmade Italian Bodacious Beet Chips Click here for nutrition facts about Beets Papa Lena's Healthy foods Inc. (312-421-7788) Hand made specialty gourmet food products Sweet Red Pepper Chips® and Bodacious Beet Chips® are unlike anything you've ever tasted. Unique, different, and delicious. A burst of flavor in every bite. At Papa Lena' s Healthy Foods Inc. we have found so many versatile uses for the crispy chips that we have added a line of products including giardinera, salad dressings, pasta sauce, tapenades, caponetta, and dips. Our latest and most exciting addition is our Bodacious Beet Chips®. We welcome you to try our healthy treats! Click here for Nutrition Facts
  
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Last update   August 18th 2006



 
   


February 11th 2006
Papa Lena's products start selling at Caputo's Fresh Markets Addison, IL Super Store.

Complete Success once again! 

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#1 		Marie, Danny and Jorge Quintana were all manning the tables together ready for the usually massive crowds going thru the Caputo's Fresh Markets Addison store.
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#2		 The crowds came and tasted all five items being presented by the The Papa Lena's team. The crispy, earthy, beet chip was the healthy vegetable snack chip of choice. Once again with a 2 to 1 ratio over the other great gourmet chips the Beet Chips were the number one "mover". The Papa Lena's loves seeing the reaction on people's faces as they crunch down on their Sweet Bodacious Beet Chip.
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#3		 Chef Jorge came out of the Papa Lena's kitchens and came to the Addison Illinois Caputo's Fresh Markets to experience first hand the reactions the Papa Lena's products were having. Here he is having some fun with Marie after showing that the Spicy Hot Poblano Chips could draw a crowd of their own.The group of customers was presented with a tasting of the Roasted Spicy Hot Poblano chip. Then Chef Jorge instructed them in a few easy ways to create a Poblano Salsa, Poblano Chip Quesadillas and Crushed Poblano chip Guacamole.
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#4 & 5# 		Here you see are 2 great pictures of little Eric who loved his beet chips from the very first bite. Each week since starting the product launch the Papa Lena's team members have witnessing how small children also love the healthy flavor packed vegetable chips. Parents are saying; "I have finally found a vegetable my children will eat" many say their children ask for more once the bowl is empty.
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#6 & 7# 		In these two slides we are witnessing something very special for all of us at Papa Lena's. After 2 years of working on and testing the correct process, Danny finally perfected the taste and crunch he was looking from the Sweet Potato Chips. The response is one of pure joy. Over and over the crew heard"Oh yea, I have had sweet potato chips before" and their response is try one of these great chips and then tell us how they compare to what you have tasted before. Here in this slide we see Barbara Sloan of Elmhurst, Illinois becoming a new friend to Papa Lena's. Barbara is a customer of Caputo's Fresh Markets on a regular basis and was so happy with the new product her and Marie stopped and took a picture together toasting with a crispy sweet potato chip, "cheers".
Slide #8 Kenny Lena came out to the Caputo's Fresh Market event to help his brother Danny. The brothers lived in Elmwood Park, Illinois as children and remember going to Caputo's 2 or 3 times a week for the great Italian specialty foods.  Danny now 50 years old finally was able to see his vision of Grand-Pa's (Crispy Peppers) being sold in the store he grew up with. It was amazing to see the facial reactions on the many customers who focused in on the crispy Roasted Red Bell Pepper chips as their favorite. The pepper chip lovers group were about 75% Italian to 25% other nationalities. There were even a few debates between the Caputo's Fresh Markets customers on which product was the best and why.
   
The food demo / tasting was a complete Success
and the customers went home with a new food.

So all in all it was an an amazing day...





 
   

February 4th 2006
The Lenas start their 6 week product launch at Sams Wine and Spirits.
February 4th 2006 The Lenas start their 6 week product launch at Sams Wine and Spirits. Papa Lena's Handmade specialty gourmet food products Rosted Red Pepper Creamy Garlic Dip, So-Good Sweet Potato Chips® 100% REAL SWEET POTATO and the big hit Sweet Bodacious Beet Chips® are now on the shelves in both the Chicago and Downers Grove, IL locations.
Papa Lena's handmade specialty gourmet food products;
Rosted Red Pepper Creamy Garlic Dip, So-Good Sweet Potato Chips®
and the big hit Sweet Bodacious Beet Chips® are now on the shelves
in both the Chicago and Downers Grove, IL locations.

Beet Chips
 Sweet Potato Chips
Roasted Red Bell Pepper Chips

More about Papa's Healthy
Red Bell Pepper Snack Chips

Spicy Hot Poblano Chips

 
   

October 3rd 2005

Marie and Danny stop and pose with the amazing food service crew at
Marie and Danny stop and pose with the amazing food service crew at Chicago's exclusive East Bank Club Gourmet Food Shop
Chicago's exclusive East Bank Club Gourmet Food Shop
Chicago's exclusive East Bank Club Gourmet Food Shop
The event was a total success and all the Roasted Red Pepper Chips
and Bodacious Beet Chips sold out in record time.


  
   

Brandi at the St. Charles Farmers Market
Now every Friday until the end of Summer you can purchase the Sweet Red Pepper Chips, Bodacious Beet Chips and a list of other Healthy Italian "Ga Ga" from Papa Lena's over the table at the St. Charles Farmers Market Baker Methodist Church 4th Avenue and Main Street St. Charles, Illinois Fridays, 7 Am - 1 PM June,10 - October,28, open air/seasonal contact: Rob Murphy, market manager robbm5920022yahoo.com 630 584-6680

We will have Roasted Red Pepper Chips and we have
Bodacious Beet Chips every Friday during the summer.


  
   
Papa Lena's Peppers and Beets covered in the
Chicago Tribune GOOD EATING section

JUNE 1st 05

  
   

Thank you to everyone who made the
Fer Forge event on April 15th at Architectural Artifacts
a complete SUCCESS!

(click the graphic below for the picture gallery)
   


 
   


Danny and Marie to be interviewed on the Radio
about their amazing PapaLena's Sweet Pepper Chips

The Interview will be today Friday April 15th about
tonight’s  Fer Forge  event at Architectural Artifacts
the radio show host is Kiki Vale and her show can
be found at http://www.kikivale.com/  

Danny & Marie will be on live from 11:45 to Noon CST

 

"The Kiki Vale Show", formally Entertainment Plus
is heard live on WJJG AM 1530 in the Chicagoland area.
We are happy to report that our listening audience has
grown to nearly 1 million households in the metropolitan area!

We welcome local, national, and international callers
to chime in and interact during the program by calling
708-493-1530.

We are big on contests and fun! her audience is…


Network :
UPI/United Press International;
United Broadcasting Network;
Salem Radio Network;
TRN/Talk Radio Network

 

  
   


Fer Forge event April 15th 2005
Fer Forge April 15th 2005 Architectural Artifacts, Inc. 4325 N. Ravenswood Chicago, IL 60613 Architectural Artifacts, Inc. was founded in 1987 by Stuart Grannen. The focus has always been on pieces of intrigue, objects of a lost world, the aesthetic and the beautiful. Now, with the expansion of the showroom from 30,000 square feet to 80,000 square feet and the completion of our 15,000 square foot Museum of Historic Chicago Architecture, the chances of seeing something that you've never seen before is even greater
It is the Fer Forge Architectural Artifacts event this Friday night April 15, 2005    

Location:
Architectural Artifacts
4325 N. Ravenswood
Chicago, IL 60613
Tel: 773.348.0622

 
   


American Heart Association of Chicago event April 16, 2005



Private (by invitation only)

  
   
   

Great Wine's of Italy

LUX-HOME, CHICAGO
Merchandise Mart

A very special THANK YOU to VALCUCINE for hosting this outstanding event!

VALCUCINE
Suite 106
Luxe Home
The Merchandise Mart
Chicago, Illinois 60654
(312) 755-0356

The event was outstanding! 

The wine was delicious and the Papa Lena's Roasted Red Pepper Chips family made hundreds of new friends!

Stop by our online shop and see what all the fuss is about!


 
 
 
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Papa Lena's Healthy foods Inc. (312-455-8100) Handmade specialty gourmet food products Roasted Sweet Red Bell Pepper Chips®, So-Good Sweet Potato Chips® 100% REAL SWEET POTATO, Sweet Bodacious Beet Chips® and Spicy Hot Roasted Poblano Chips® are unlike anything you've ever tasted. Our kitchen and gourmet shop is located at 1438 W. Chicago Ave. Chicago, IL. Papa (Grand-Pa) taught us how to make foods that were unique, different, and delicious. We want you to have a burst of flavor in every bite. At Papa Lena's Healthy Foods Inc. we have found so many versatile uses for the crispy chips that we have added a line of products including giardinera, salad dressings, pasta sauce, tapenades, caponetta, and dips. Our latest and most exciting addition is our Sweet Bodacious Beet Chips®. We welcome you to try our healthy gourmet vegetable snack chips.