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Ivy‘s cooking is tops!
Her food is healthy and yummy and great to serve at gatherings , or simply to enjoy my own simple meals at home.
Ivy’s meals are easy to store as leftovers in the freezer for quick healthy meals later
I often add a fresh salad on the side, but her casseroles are already a perfect complete meal!
The added bonus for me is that they come in easy to recycle containers ! It is tinfoil on top with an aluminum baking dish, and that’s so easy for transport to a potluck and for freezer storage , plus easy to reuse and most important …..very easy to recycle here in Eugene.
Reusing or recycling containers is very important to me , I rarely buy anything in a single use container, even the cardboard that is common nowadays , it has a plastic coated lining, that is not recyclable.
InJoy Ivy’s scrumptious home meals!
Cathy Ellis
Eugene
"Ivy,
A huge thank you for being part of our wedding weekend! It was so nice not having to worry about what everyone was going to eat while getting last-minute details in order. Your food is delicious and healthy... which is great when you're eating cake constantly😋
We even took some to the coast so we didn't have to cook while there.
You were deeply appreciated this past week. Thank you for what you do."
Leah G. Leah's Mobile Notary, LLC
"I am a mom from Liberty Lake Washington and my oldest daughter is a student at UofO in her second year of her PhD Program in Physics. Her program is quite intensive with her own classes, teaching and grading for classes she is teaching in, as well as being on a Physics Research team I have felt helpless when I hear her struggles to find the time to grocery shop let alone prep and cook healthy meals. With the pandemic, she has also found it difficult being alone and doing the online teaching/classes/meetings, rather than the typical gathering with people for meetings etc while enjoying fine dining. I have tried personally giving some guidance of meal prepping on the weekends so she doesn’t have to find the time to daily cook a meal for herself that is healthy and tasty (she has a pallet for wonderful tasting foods). With her being a vegetarian and I am not, it has been difficult for me to send her ideas and recipes. I googled and found many of the national, flash frozen individual meal programs and none of them looked appealing, fresh, or honestly looked like frozen meals from the grocery store. Until I scrolled down and found IVY’S COOKIN’ and was thrilled to see that it was Vegetarian options and the meals sounded AMAZING. I decided I would order for 2 weeks and have my daughter pick up, see if she enjoyed the quality of the meals and she was soooooo happy! The meal is larger portion for an individual but this works out wonderfully, she can either enjoy it for lunches, or 3 meals in a row, or invite her roommates to enjoy with her for an evening. So right away, I paid for the rest of the 2 months of menus so I know she can have something weekly to look forward to and enjoy. For a mother, who lives so far away and can’t help personally I am happy to know for $27 a week my daughter is enjoying a few days of WONDERFULLY, fresh ingredients and home made meals. Ivy also provides other items that we have tried (like her apple butters) and we look forward to ordering fresh vegetables from her in the summer. I have spoken with Ivy on the phone a few times and she keeps me informed of new items she made that relates to what my daughter has enjoyed in the past and I feel like Ivy is a family friend looking over my daughter. She is wonderfully kind and greets my daughter with warmth when they first met which gives Valerie a nice familiar face to pick up her food each week. I can not say enough how Ivy’s Cookin’ has made this mom and this hard working young adult made a difference in our lives."
Teri Finch
"Ivy's Cookin' has been a wonderful support to my family during the last year when we have not felt safe to eat in restaurants, and healthful plant-based meal options have been more limited. I especially appreciated Ivy's home delivery of hearty and delicious casseroles as my husband recovered from a bike accident (a sport he took up briefly as something healthy to do with family and friends during the pandemic, lol). "
Lisa Sieracki
"Thank you so much for providing amazing vegetarian options for people like my daughter, I am so happy I have found this option to help her crazy PhD weeks of grad school better. She was able to get 3 meals out of the one and she said with a smile 'it's wonderful'! "
Teri Finch
"I am so grateful to you for providing healthy, delicious foods. I especially loved the asparagus bread pudding and basically, all of the enchiladas! This has been such a lifesaver for me during this CoVid emergency and previously when I broke my ankle. You make is to easy and are so accommodating and flexible with changes. I always mention you to friends who I think could benefit from your very fine cooking and the home delivery. Keep up the wonderful work!"
Vicki
"Ivy's meals are so good! We have not had a dinner yet that we don't love. The ingredients are fresh and wholesome, vegan or vegetarian, depending on your diet and a such a great meal to pop into my oven after a long work day!"
Thanks Ivy! I ♥ your craft!
Tera Dschaak-James
"Just started receiving Ivy's weekly meals and they're great (spanakopita was to die for)! I'm a single person, so get the smaller quantity and there's enough to both share with a friend and also have two meals for me! High quality, vegetarian fare, just make a salad and dinner is done!"
Laura A.
Ode to Ivy:
It was a dark and stormy night.
After a day long with multi-tasking.
But arriving at Ivy's light,
I find hearty comfort food waiting to
Warm me and always available just by asking!
Vern Arne
"It's the best for me, it's an excellent value because my time needed to be used in other places besides fixing meals. Delivered to my door, what could possibly be better service than that! I feel so pampered when Thursday morning comes and Ivy's Cookin' arrives at my door. I save so much time, which I can use towards billable hours by having Ivy fix my meals for me. If that wasn't enough, the flavors and textures are a fabulous mouth-watering surprise every time. Zippy, tasty, wholesome, and low-fat. Superb! I love everything about Ivy's Cookin'!
Cathy Veret
"It's like magic! The sheer convenience along with the good food quality makes the price well worth it! Most Thursday mornings I put my check or cash outside my front door and place a little bell on it to keep it from blowing away. Within a short while (as I am getting ready for work), I open the door, and "presto!" there is a lovely casserole from Ivy's Cookin' for our enjoyment. Ivy combines wonderful spices with a variety of vegetables in various combinations of enchiladas, pasta, rice and other casseroles. I enjoy Ivy's enthusiasm for her craft and encourage anyone who likes creative vegetarian casseroles to give her a try!"
Julia Linebarger-Taylor
"Have to promote you from purveyor of yumminess to artist of astronomical, gastronomical delight. The lasagna was fabulous! I'd have to say probably the best lasagna I've ever had and I've had some pretty good lasagna. I request your Suizas on the menu every month - it was insane... so good I thought I'd died and gone to heaven... could eat them every week, if not every day of every week. They were outstanding!" Nicknames: "Purveyor of Yumminess" "Countess of Culinary Delights"
Charlene Simon
"Congratulations on your magnificent lasagna. We drank a toast to you and your lasagna as we ate it. Unequivocably the best lasagna we ever ate. ....ordering now for next week...don't even know what's on the menu...."
Jenny Grant
"The asparagus pesto is of another world, El pesto esparragus es de otro mundo!"
Linda Despain
"I appreciate your professional approach to your business."
Maradel Gale
"Thanks for making my life easier and healthier! Your food tastes so good! I like the fresh vegetables and I like the delivery."
Suzanne Mann
"We order 2 shells and freeze 1 because we like them so much! Just had your Baked Pasta with Broccoli and Gorgonzola and it was fabulous! Thanks a lot for making our Thursday night really nice (and Fridays too)!"
Mary Anne Bearden
"Oh my gosh! I am in hog heaven! I absolutely love those stuffed shells! Superb! Thanks you for bringing Nirvana to my house today!"
Cathy Veret
Happy to see you on FB. Love your cookin', consistently top quality, and that last broccoli-mushroom stroganoff was amazing. Should have ordered two. Or three.
Ted Taylor
I purchased one meal per week (sometimes 2, so I could take 1 dish to a potluck) for the entire year of 2009 and was very pleased with the service. Ivy prepared something completely new each week from the best vegetarian ingredients, including many from her garden and delivered the dish right to my door step. I am a frequenter of restaurants, especially Laughing Planet, Jade Palace, Taco Loco and Sweet Life Patisserie. I found Ivy's price and quality favorable compared to these brick and mortar establishments and I didn't have to tip, wait for food or travel in order to enjoy something different than I ordinarily prepare for myself. Ivy has been in business since the mid-80's and I can't believe there are not more services like hers. I know the Sacramento Delta area has a few but not necessarily vegetarian. I have purchased sauces and jams from Ivy, as well as very reasonably priced seasonal veggie baskets from her garden and enjoyed those also.
Kelly Bell
Oh Ivy! It was scrumptious! Heavenly! Delicious! And not overly salty, like they usually are. Do I really have to wait a whole year for another one (spanakopita)?
Ann Douglas
We really enjoyed the fresh corn enchiladas! Wow. You did yourself proud.
Donna Carter
We had your stuffed shells for dinner tonight, and they were fabulous! I've never had shells stuffed with broccoli; it tastes great! Great combination of flavors with the basil and blue cheese and your marinara is flavorful. Thanks for a great entree.
Veronica Lamb
"Ivy's Cookin' has taken 2 persnickety teenagers introduced them to good eating!"
"Wow! Her Enchiladas Suizas are superb!"
"Ordering is so easy! It can't get much easier!"
"That is the best apple butter I've had in years! Even better than my Grandmoms'!"