Nutritional Weight and Wellness (St. Paul and Minnetonka). Nutritional Weight & Wellness believes that food is the most powerful substance that you can put in your body. Their dedicated staff understands the biochemistry of food in the body and teaches clients to eat real foods in balance for health and well-being. Nutritionists work with clients individually to create eating plans to meet their specific health needs and lifestyles. Nutritional Weight & Wellness also offers classes that teach people to use nutrition to look and feel their best.

Let’s Dish (Apple Valley, Eden Prairie, Maple Grove, Woodbury - and in 5 other states). This revolutionary new way to solve the dinner dilemma allows you to create many family-size dishes in just two hours at our store. Each meal serves 6 people, or can be split into smaller packages for smaller families. They've created family-friendly recipes specially designed to be frozen and heated when you need them. After two hours with them, you can stock your freezer with a number of "ready-to-cook" dishes you made and that your family will love throughout the month – all include nutritional information. Their price per meal is cheaper than fast food!

Mix It Up Meals (Mall of America, Maple Grove, White Bear Lake) an exciting new way to prepare dinner for your family! They do all the hard work: the recipe research, the shopping, the chopping and the mopping! You come in and put together 8-14 entrees for your freezer. All entrees are designed to be frozen. You store them in your freezer and then prepare them the day you need a fast, easy, delicious dinner. Just bring along a cooler to transport your meals home and prepare for a month of ease.  Their menu changes monthly, and they plan their entrees around the seasons. All menu items are trans-fat and MSG free, and they provide a complete nutritional analysis of every item from their menu.

Simon Delivers. Tired of trying to find time in your busy week to grocery shop and buy those healthier items? Shop online in just a few minutes and come home to healthy selections – it’s that easy. When you select an item, it’s added to your shopping list until you purchase so you can add that last minute item. Most items allow you to select them and view the nutrition label so you know exactly what you’re getting. They also have a variety of organic products to choose from as well as many weekly specials.

Cooks of Crocus Hill (Edina and St. Paul). For the past 30 years, Cooks has been the Twin Cities’ industry leader in all things culinary. They were the first cooking school to bring nationally recognized chefs and cookbook writers to the Twin Cities, the first retail store to incorporate cooking classes and the first specialty gourmet store to directly import culinary products. They offer a variety of classes from “How to Boil Water” to gourmet classes. They also have a great selection of cookbooks and recipes. So stop making excuses for being stuck in a nutrition rut and let someone teach you new tricks!