Eats and Treats

Really, I eat out too much...like many of us.  Now, I'm not a high roller but Poutine, Shawarma, and Pizza adds up when combined with a night out and cab fair.  However, whether its a fresh date or your bag of potatoes has ran out, eating out can be a great way reward yourself for a good week.  I'm on the hunt for meal deals that will satisfy my pallet and not slow down my heart!


Eats and Treats Summary:
1) Firstly, Web Coupons!





Firstly, Web Coupons!

How do these deals sound?

$19.99 for $150 worth of Personal Fitness Training at Endorphin Junkie
$15 for $30 worth of Mexican Food and Drink at La Casita in Gastow
$65 for $130 worth of Craft-it-Yourself at Valley Estates Wine U-Brew

Personal fitness, food, spirits!  Online coupons are awesome!  

Typical 'Groupon' website image.

I only started to sign-up for these coupons once I moved to Vancouver.  The advertising companies behind this business seem to have set up these deals in most major cities.  Great business idea for the advertisers.  For us, we get very good deals right into your inbox and they are geographically tailored to your particular city, for them its super easy to administer - all they really need is some Sales people looking for companies to advertise for and some tech-savy people to run the site.  

Even get a 'Onespout' app for your phone.

Basically this is how it works.  You go to a site like Groupon.com and sign up to receive mail, selecting your city and the type of adds you like - ranging from fitness, to massage, to flowers, and more.  I chose fitness, yoga, food, drink, and adventure type coupons generally speaking.  Then they send you email updates daily or weekly, whichever you choose.  Once you find one you want, you have a certain amount of time to buy it.  Like that U-Brew one above, for example, is due in...2days 18hrs 13minutes (I seriously just looked).  This one in particular is restricted to a certain number (of which you don’t know), so it might sell out.  On the other hand, some deals have to get a certain number of people signed up to actually go through.  Yoga is a good example, to make it somewhat profitable you have to have at-least 10-15 people register for a class or it won’t go through and your money will be refunded.  That’s pretty much it in a nutshell.  

Check out your city and see if they have it there!  Here are some main sites: Onespout, Groupon, Goodnews, Wagjag, Swarmjam, Indulge Living, Living Social, Hot Deals Live, Deal Ticker, Dealathons, Ethical Deal, and Teambuy.  And I am sure there are way more I don’t know about, please share them if you find some goodies!  I am sure I will find some great ones that fit my lifestyle that I will do an blog about...the trick is to only use what you need still as it will be hard to say ‘No’ when enticed with a savings of 50-90%.  Good luck.