Native Obecian Carly McHenry has found a new career direction after having turned the corner on salads.
\nMcHenry has become a superstar with the Mason jar on the local culinary scene.\u00a0
\nShe\u2019s marketing her handmade, healthy, convenient and affordable layered salads through her 10-month-old business named Car\u2019s Jars. Not only that, she delivers.
\nA graduate of Chico State with a degree in exercise physiology, McHenry was working locally with autistic children. The homemade salads she\u2019d bring for herself and others at work were just so good that friends convinced her to take it to the next level.
\nAnd she did, with a lot of patience, effort and more than just a little fine-tuning.
\nFirst, McHenry needed to find the proper container.
\n“I started out with Tupperware, but it wasn\u2019t lasting long, so I moved to Mason jars,” she said.
\nThen she had to find a kitchen to operate out of, since her home didn\u2019t qualify under the guidelines for operating a cottage industry.
\n“I have a twin sister whose roommate worked with a catering company,” McHenry said. “I went out there and walked into his huge kitchen and just couldn\u2019t believe my eyes. They offered to rent it out to me, and it wasn\u2019t a bad price.”
\nProduct development came next and had to be grappled with \u2014 and mastered.
\n“That was the longest phase, test marketing, which took about five or six months,” McHenry said. “I was experimenting with recipes, the best way to layer and season the food, et cetera.”
\nNow she was hooked. McHenry just had to make it happen as a business. But there was a question about investors for her startup.
\n“My parents believed in my idea and supported me,” she said. “If it was any other kind of business, they would have said, \u2018I don\u2019t know about this.\u2019 I was willing to take the risk. And I was in a position to do so.”
\nThough her career may have deviated from the path she\u2019d originally intended, McHenry said she is happy to be promoting healthy lifestyles by providing a nutritious diet.
\n“We\u2019re encouraging people to plan ahead for healthy meals so they\u2019re not in a situation where they\u2019re eating fast food or grab-and-goes,” she said. “My salads stay fresh in the fridge for five days. They\u2019re convenient, affordable, healthy and delicious.”
\nCar\u2019s Jars uses seasonal, fresh local-sourced produce and homemade vinaigrettes. The homemade salads can be eaten as is or prepared completely differently by warming them up as stir fry or wrapping them \u00a0up.
\nMcHenry makes all of her deliveries for Car\u2019s Jars on Mondays to a 20-mile area that includes Mira Mesa and San Diego\u2019s beach communities.
\n“I bought an SUV and I do it by myself,” said McHenry, adding customers don\u2019t have to even be there when their food arrives.
\n“I tell them to leave out a cooler, and I bring along ice,” she said. She added she delivers to commercial and office buildings and residences.
\nHer salads cost $8 a pint or $10 for a pint and a half. And she rewards customers willing to return her Mason jars to her.
\nFor more information, visit www.carsjars.com.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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