Papa Lena's Healthy foods Inc. (312-455-8100) Handmade specialty gourmet, Gluten-Free food products, our "Snack Chips" are 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, slow down and 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!
Menu for pickup at the Papa Lena's gourmet shop at 1438 W. Chicago Ave. printable .pdf format
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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Healthy Gourmet Vegetable Snack Chips
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These gluten free vegetable snack chips are 100% the real deal.

Healthy hand made specialty gourmet, Gluten-Free food products unlike anything you've ever tasted. Unique, different, delicious..with absolutely NO Trans Fat or hydrogenated oils!

Menu for pickup at the Papa Lena's gourmet shop at 1438 W. Chicago Ave. printable .pdf format

Beet Chips
VIDEO

Sweet Potato Chips
VIDEO

Roasted Red Bell Pepper Chips

 Spicy Hot Poblano Chips

Chicago Originals


CENTERSTAGE ARTICLE

Chicago Metromix and Tribune's Red Eye

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Papa Lena's
in the Chicago Tribune
Papa Lena's Healthy Foods receives a little press coverage in the GOOD EATING section of the Chicago Tribune Newspaper




Specially sliced veggies are roasted then given a light coating of olive oil and a light sprinkle of Mediterranean sea salt and spices.

Many other products on the market are merely juice-colored root vegetables. or tasteless versions of the real vegetable.

Papa Lena's crunchy healthy gourmet vegetable snack chips are natural products with no starch fillers, synthetic additives or preservatives. Each crispy snack chip is a Gluten-Free unique taste experience and will be unlike anything you've ever had. It's a healthy addiction!

 

I know it is healthy for me to eat Papa Lena's Beet Chips...
Is it healthy for my Dog to eat them, and are there any
other products that you suggest with vitamins or
antioxidant benefits or fiber in beets.
Papa Lena's makes all their healthy gourmet products fresh, and in many cases "to order". The kitchen and gourmet shop with a tasting room is located on 1438 W. Chicago Ave. Chicago, IL 60622 in Chicago's trendy East Village. Just down the street and minutes from Chicago's famous magnificent mile and Water Tower Place.

Papa Lena's gourmet specialties are also being sold at the following fine food stores:

Foodstuffs Gourmet Shops

(all locations)

 - Evanston, IL

 - Glencoe, IL

 - Lake Forest, IL

 - Glenview, IL

East Bank Club
500 North Kingsbury Street
Chicago, Illinois 60610
(312) 527-5801

website
info@eastbankclub.com


 
Sam's Wine & Spirits Chicago
1720 North Marcey Street
Chicago, IL 60614
Store Hours:
Monday - Saturday 8am-9pm,
Sunday 11am-6pm 
PH: 312-664-4394

Sam's Wines & Spirits Downers Grove
2010 Butterfield Road
Downers Grove, IL 60515
Store Hours:
Monday-Saturday 9am-9pm,
Sunday 12pm-7pm
PH: 630-705-9463

Sam's Wines & Spirits Highland Park

1919 Skokie Valley Rd.
Highland Park, IL 60035
Store Hours:
Monday - Saturday: 9am-9pm
Sunday: 11am-6pm
PH: 847-433-9463

Sunset Foods    http://www.sunsetfoods.com/


Highland Park  - 1812 Green Bay Road

(847) 432-5500
Northbrook   1127 Church Street

(847) 272-7700
Lake Forest 825 S. Waukegan Road

(847) 234-8380
Libertyville 1451 West Peterson

(847) 573-9570

Hyde Park Produce
 1312 E. 53rd St.
Chicago, IL 60615

Phone: 773-324-7100

Binny’s Liquors Lakeview

Gourmet Grocery
3000 N. Clark

Chicago, IL 60657

Phone: 773-935-9400

 

 


Papa Lena's Healthy Foods

1438 W., Chicago Ave.

Chicago, IL 60622

312-455-8100

www.papalena.com

 
Map to Papa Lena's  1438 W. Chicago Ave

map to Papa Lena's
 
Experience a burst of flavor in every bite. The most amazing vegetable snack chips you will ever taste. Pictured below are Papa Lena's healthy Authentic Italian . Crunchy Sweet Italian Roasted Red Bell Pepper Chips.

Papa Lena’s Sweet Red Pepper Chips are Healthy and bursting with flavor from fresh Garlic, Extra Virgin Olive Oil and Sea Salt and spices. A specialty gourmet food product unlike anything you've ever tasted. Unique, different, and delicious.
Papa Lena’s Sweet Red Pepper Chips are Healthy and bursting with flavor from fresh Garlic, Extra Virgin Olive Oil and Sea Salt and spices. A specialty gourmet food product unlike anything you've ever tasted. Unique, different, and delicious.
Papa Lena’s Sweet Red Pepper Chips are Healthy and bursting with flavor from fresh Garlic, Extra Virgin Olive Oil and Sea Salt and spices. A specialty gourmet food product unlike anything you've ever tasted. Unique, different, and delicious.
Papa Lena’s Sweet Red Pepper Chips are Healthy and bursting with flavor from fresh Garlic, Extra Virgin Olive Oil and Sea Salt and spices. A specialty gourmet food product unlike anything you've ever tasted. Unique, different, and delicious.
Papa Lena’s Sweet Red Pepper Chips are Healthy and bursting with flavor from fresh Garlic, Extra Virgin Olive Oil and Sea Salt and spices. A specialty gourmet food product unlike anything you've ever tasted. Unique, different, and delicious.
Papa Lena’s Sweet Red Pepper Chips are Healthy and bursting with flavor from fresh Garlic, Extra Virgin Olive Oil and Sea Salt and spices. A specialty gourmet food product unlike anything you've ever tasted. Unique, different, and delicious.
Photographer: David Wilks   Food stylist - Doris Ayres    Location: Architectural Artifacts - Chicago
 

Healthy Sicilian Pizza is here
 Can pizza be healthy?

All Papa Lena’s Sicilian gourmet pizzas are handmade hand-rolled, using only unbleached flour, imported Italian San Marzano tomatoes infused with Papa Lena’s Pepper Chips, imported Italian Pecorino Romano, Mozzarella, Scarmoza and Provolone cheeses, imported Italian extra-virgin olive oil, fresh fennel, onions garlic, Mediterranean sea salt and the finest blend of spices.
All Papa Lena's healthy gourmet Sicilian Pizza's are made with
our Italian Sugo containing Roasted Red Pepper Chips
Papa Lena's is at 1438 W. Chicago Ave.
in the East Village & Wicker Park area.
For pick-up only. Full-pan pizza and special orders will require a 24 hour advanced notice.
 
more nutritional information
about why we all need to be eating more healthy vegetables

Have you heard or read about slow food?

Here is a little text from the Slow Food USA website.

As each of us changes our pace in life, slowing down, we will have an effect on the whole.

Everyday can be enriched by doing something slow - making pasta from scratch one night, seductively squeezing your own orange juice from the fresh fruit, lingering over a glass of wine and a slice of cheese - even deciding to eat lunch sitting down instead of standing up.

A message from all of us at Papa Lena's, slow down and please remember to Live, Love and Laugh!

Snacks: The good & the bad
By Peggy O'Farrell
Enquirer staff writer

Tuesday, August 31, 2004

Back to school means back to packing lunches.

Along with the PB&J, it's nice to throw in a snack or two, but as America's kids get fatter, think about healthier snacking options that are lower in fat, calories and salt but still high in yum.

We asked registered dietitian Lauren Niemes, executive director of the Greater Cincinnati Nutrition Council, for her take on good and bad snacks, and here are her do's and don'ts for healthy munching:

• Chart: Good and bad snacks
• Healthful, homemade recipes
• Pack your kid's pail with a healthy lunch

Great article "Good Fats,
Bad Fats, Transfats"
by Kate J. Chase

 

 

 

Maryland Medical Center
Beets & Betaine

Center for Integrative Medicine


Beets   Beets  Beets
Healthy Veggie Snack Food


     Beets are a colorful source of anthocyanins, the purple pigments also found in blueberries, red grapes and red cabbage. They are powerful antioxidants and may help protect against cancer and heart disease. Andrew Weil, M.D.

Beets are a colorful source of anthocyanins, the purple pigments also found in blueberries, red grapes and red cabbage. They are powerful antioxidants and may help protect against cancer and heart disease.  Andrew Weil, M.D.

source: Dr.Weil newsletter

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Antioxidant Power
by Ivy Greenwell for the
Life Extension Foundation 

Sometimes these complex flavonoids are referred to by an older term that seems to be regaining popularity, namely "condensed tannins." It is these tannins that give flowers, vegetables and fruit hues that include deep red, purple, mauve, blue, all the way to the extremely dark blue of Northern European bilberries, which can appear practically black. Thus, the redness of strawberries and raspberries and the blueness of blueberries are due to the same class of compounds. Elderberry, persimmon, tart red cherries (tartness indicates the presence of condensed tannins), red and purple grapes, beets, purple cabbage, and the peel of the purple eggplant also contain anthocyanins and proanthocyanidins.

 

 
Papa Lena's Healthy foods Inc. (312-455-8100) Handmade specialty gourmet, Gluten-Free food products, our "Snack Chips" are 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, slow down and please remember to Live, Love and Laugh!