Introducing Appetit Restaurant, Catering & Party Rental
Introducing CM Designs The Business: CM Designs is an outlet of paper crafts and other handmade elements that have inspired me from fellow scrapbook enthusiasts and other individuals who share the same passion to create as I do.
The Business: Appetit , owned by Tania
This venture really began as a hobby and passion I have for anything ―artsy‖ and creative-which is the essence of expressing my creative potential-rather than a business. I love to create and use different mediums. This has served as a creative outlet for me during my spare time. After having my three children, I started creating scrapbooks for them and of our family happenings. Since I also enjoy taking pictures I also started sharing my creations with others. What good is an idea if it isn't shared? So I also started a blog to serve as an on-line journal of
Ancira de Galindo, specializes in healthy, low calorie, low fat and low sugar food. We use all natural and organic products. We have an ample restaurant and catering menu as well as custom designed dishes and canapés. We also offer cooking classes for kids and adults. Our objective is to teach everyone inhouse recipes as well as to show that you can eat delicious meals that are good for you. Appetit opened its doors in July 2009. I decided to create a restaurant with healthy food in mind due to the alarming statistics of people (babies, kids and adults) with health problems linked to poor nutrition like diabetes, cholesterol, obesity, etc. I know it's difficult in this day and age to go home and cook due to the lifestyle much of us lead. We don't have time for that so we turn to fast food. My idea for this venture was to offer the opportunity to eat a delicious and healthy meal. Eating healthy does not consist in dieting for a week or three days or event to stop eating. Eating healthy is day to day, choosing the best nutritional option for our bodies so that in the future, we can enjoy good health. In Appetit, we serve food to those who are looking to reduce calories or sugar and also for those choosing vegan and organic food. I also think its important to take care of our environment so we use utensils, bags and napkins made from recycled materials.
Challenges & Rewards: In regards to the concept, I have heard people say, what do they sell? Diet tacos? Salads? This has been my greatest obstacle, to erase the idea that eating healthy means that you should only eat salads. The idea is to become more open -minded and to know there are tastier alternatives. My greatest reward is to see my customers happy and to have them tell me they have reached their goals by making us part of their meal plan.
Appetit Restaurant, Catering & Party Rental
what I do. I hope to inspire others who share the same passion and want to take their natural ability to any level they aspire in life. I didn’t know (actually, think) that this type of hobby could actually evolve into my personal small business. But with the unconditional support of family & friends (and through them), I have received several suggestions and endless encouragement to do just that. I am blessed with a career that I love and this is another venue that is also self rewarding for me.
Challenges & Rewards: Being a mother of three, having a full time job as an educator and trying to pursue my masters is not exactly what I had in mind along the way with this new venture. However, in the midst of everything that I do with and for my children, I always try to find the time to secure those special moments in their life by scrapbooking them in what I hope will be heirlooms in the future for our family one day. I have been very blessed and fortunate to have encountered several rewards along the way. I have gotten closer to my children and they in turn love what I do for them and appreciate the books I create for them. Most, if not all, of my creations have been gifts I have made for very special individuals that have touched my life in one way or another. It is the ―gift of giving‖ that I like to share with them. That in itself is selfrewarding and the only thing that matters to me and that makes me happy just doing it.
956.740.0522
CM Designs
107 Calle del Norte Suite 2a
Carmen Castro Martinez
Laredo, TX 78041
E-mail: ccastromtz@yahoo.com
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June 2011