The Home Salad Bar ( Patent Pending 14/5333,288)

Submitted 9 years ago

The Home Salad Bar
Summary

The Home Salad Bar is a sleek and simple food storage unit made of a rack system with removable compartments. This unit is used to store prepared vegetables and salad bar items within a refrigerator. The product enables the user to pull out the entire unit and its containers for quick and easy preparation of a salad.


Background

Preparing healthy meals in today's busy lifestyle has always been a struggle for families. People are busy working all day, attending late day meetings and appointments, as well as attending their children's after school sports games and activities. These late days often prevent people from getting home early enough to prepare healthy meals. Lessons, games, and meetings run into suppertime, and when family members arrive home, they are hungry and want to eat right away. Meals have to be prepared quickly to prevent pre-meal snacking and eating of fast food items. It is obvious that preparing healthy meals at the end of a busy work/school day is a struggle for many families. It is easier to make a quick trip through the drive through at a fast food chain than to get home and have an army of hungry animals whining, "When is supper going to be ready?" When dining at a sit down restaurant family members can be placated with a trip to the salad bar while waiting for the main course. Not only does this curb their hunger, but also is a healthy way for them to fill up on the fresh vegetables they love. If only each household had a salad bar at home! It is for this exact reason that the quest to design a home salad bar began!
Research shows us that more than one-third (34.9% or 78.6 million) of U.S. adults are obese. Approximately 17% (or 12.7 m

Problems Solved
The Home Salad Bar solves many of the problems that lead to childhood and adult obesity:
• It helps to reduce the time it takes for daily preparation of healthy salads
• It reduces the amount of money spent on fresh vegetables that go to waste.
• The Home Salad Bar allows the user to prepare vegetables once a week instead of every time a salad is desired.
• The home salad bar prevents vegetables from becoming cluttered and lost in the bottom of the refrigerator by allowing the user to store vegetables in an organized manner for easy access.
• The Home Salad Bar encourages children to prepare a healthy meal by themselves when parents are not home to cook.
• The Home Salad Bar allows each family member to create their own salad with the fixings they like to ensure that each family member is happy and content.
• The Home Salad Bar is a perfect tool to help busy moms feed their children a healthy snack or pre-meal before the main course is served.
• The Home Salad Bar prevents snacking on high calorie and non-nutritious fast foods.
• Ultimately, The Home Salad Bar provides a fast way to feed your family nutritious food with little daily preparation.


Detailed Description
The Home Salad Bar is a convenient storage unit designed to store fresh vegetables. The Home Salad Bar is different from other multi-compartment containers in that each container is independent from the other and sits in a frame. This design allows the user to remove and insert the containers independently from each other while being able to move the entire Home Salad Bar as one unit when taking it from refrigerator to kitchen counter. Each container has its own lid to seal in the freshness of salad bar items like lettuce, carrots, cucumbers, tomatoes, broccoli, cheese, olives, onions, and peppers. Each container is dishwasher safe and can be easily removed for cleaning.
The user can fill The Home Salad Bar on Sunday evening in preparation for the week's meals. The user buys vegetables and slices them up, puts them into the individual containers, and then places the containers in the frame of the unit. Throughout the week as needed, family members can remove the whole unit from the refrigerator, uncap the containers and select the items they want in their own individual salad. When done, the container lids are snapped back in place, and the whole unit is placed back in the refrigerator until another member of the family needs a quick healthy snack or meal!
• No daily preparation necessary!
• No searching through the refrigerator to find vegetables.
• No vegetable items lost in the drawers of the refrigerator only to be found rotting weeks later!
• No wasting of hard earned money spent on unused items lost in the refrigerator!
• No long wait time for a healthy meal!
• The Home Salad Bar is exactly like going to the salad bar in a restaurant, but in your own home! It provides you healthy nutritious food for a quick and delicious meal in minutes!

This new product would be part of an innovative marketing tool for Haier Refrigerators. Everyone is looking for ways to eat healthier! Can you imagine being able to buy a refrigerator that already has a salad bar incorporated into the design? Everyone will want a refrigerator with a Home Salad Bar as part of the design! Let me share my product with Haier!
I look forward to hearing from you!
Ellen Trask
Inventor
The Home Salad Bar

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