It's Chocolate Season! The Box is Back.

Healthy Surprise is happy to announce the return of the Chocolate Box! Back by popular demand, this box contains 18 of our favorite delicious nutritious chocolates, all gluten, soy, and dairy free, and here for a limited time only (hot temperature = melted chocolate). 

As if anyone needed an excuse to eat more chocolate, this unique collection has healthy benefits too! Did you know that quality dark chocolate (70% or higher cocoa content) is rich in a variety of minerals including Iron, Magnesium, Manganese, Copper, and fiber as well as a variety of strong antioxidants? True story! PLUS: the cocoa in dark chocolate has flavanols which can improve blood flow. Oh, and did we mention that it tastes AMAZING?!

Enjoy a box for yourself and send one to a friend-- these boxes make wonderful gifts. In addition to the tasty collection of items we've personally selected, each gift box comes with a personal gift note, and a $25 gift card towards any future healthy surprise gift. After all-- what better gift can you give a loved one than the gift of healthy living?

So take a look at our Chocolate gift box, we know you will love it as much as we do.

source: http://authoritynutrition.com/7-health-benefits-dark-chocolate/

BLACK FRIDAY! Take 30% off ALL GIFTS!

It's Black Friday! This is our biggest sale of the year! Get all of your holiday shopping done by ordering Healthy Surprise boxes for your beloveds. Combine this with our multi-box orders for incredible savings! Use the code BF2014 at checkout.

New Years Resolutions: A Few Tips On How To Keep Them

It’s that time of year where we reflect on our life, our habits, and make decisions to improve our lives. The good news is that by eating the healthy snacks in this box you’re already doing better than most. Here are a few other ideas:

The Resolution is the Easy Part
When we make resolutions, we’re usually identifying something about our lives we want to change. Realize this identification is just the first step - you must also follow through.

Small Success > Large Failures
It’s always best to build upon successes. Don’t try to radically alter your whole diet or decide you’re going to work out for an hour every day. Start off with a 10 minute walk everyday. Better to have success with that and build upon it than give up if you don’t meet your goal.

Make it Measurable
While it’s great to say you are going to ‘work less’ or ‘eat better’, what does that really mean? Instead try “I am going to work 3 hours less per month and commit that time to taking a yoga class or learning to play the trumpet.” Or “I am going to give up breads and crackers for 30 days”. These are defineable goals that YOU can achieve. Then when you get there, you can crank it up a notch!

How to send multiple gifts to many people, fast and easy!

Do you need to send out a bunch of gifts quickly? Do you want to be able to:

• Send them a gift they'll enjoy and know you spent time picking out?
• Personalize each gift?
• Control its ship date?
• See tracking information?
• Change the address up until it ships?

Our gift dashboard let's you do all of this and more, in an easy to use interface designed for people needing to send and manage a large number of gifts. This post will walk you through using the Healthy Surprise dashboard to set up multiple gifts in just a few minutes!

About Healthy Surprise Gift Boxes

"The way to the heart is through the stomach"

Everyone loves food, but not every BODY loves food. Cheap ingredients, gluten and other low quality ingredients make people sick, have allergic reactions and put the pounds on. That's why the Healthy Surprise box makes a great gift - it's filled with delicious snacks everyone will enjoy, with no guilt! To learn more about what's in a Healthy Surprise gift box click here.

Sending the first gift box

To get started sending gifts to friends and family grab get the recipient's addresses.

Select your healthy gift box

Visit our homepage where we offer three different size boxes and each box can be sent for various durations: 1 time, 1x per month for 3 months, 6 months or 12 months. Click 'Send Gift' and create an account.

Entering the gift's details

Enter your first recipient's name and address in the Box Destination section.

Pick your gift's shipping date

Click in this field to select the date that the gift box will be handed to the Post Office, not the estimated delivery date. We ship everything USPS Priority Mail; boxes to southern California usually arrive the next day, almost everyone else the second day and rural areas the third business day. These are the USPS's idealized delivery times and are not guaranteed. In our experience they are really good and 95% of the packages make it on time. But it's not uncommon for it to take a few more days.

Personalize your gift note

We print a 8.5" x 5.5" color gift card and include it in every gift box. You can leave a long note and we'll make it work, as we make each gift box by hand every morning. If you don't leave a note, the box will show up rather anonymously - what a great surprise!

Review and confirm

Look everything over and click Send Gift.

Once you've done that your first gift will be set up and you will be redirected to your Healthy Surprise dashboard. Here you will see your Address book:

As you send more gifts, Healthy Surprise will remember your recipients and automatically add them to your Address Book. You can also add contacts without sending a gift by clicking the 'New Contact' button.

Managing your first gift

You can see that the status is listed as SHIPPING ASAP. This means that your order will be mailed in the next shipment. Shipments go out every business day, Monday through Friday at 2pm EST. So yes, if you order by 2pm EST your gift box will ship the same day!

1. Shipping date - You can choose a new date for your gift to ship by clicking it on the calendar
2. Recipient - Need to update the address or want to change it completely? Click the address dropdown and select anyone in your address book, or add a new gift address.
3. Billing history - Review the transaction by clicking 'Billing History'.

Sending multiple gifts

To send your next gift, click the big 'Send Gift' button up top (the smaller 'Send Gift' button next to each contact will create a gift with them as the recipient). Choose your gift box and review the details:

1. Enter your recipient's details
2. Choose your ship date
3. Customize your gift card
4. Click 'Send Gift'

That's it! Repeat for each additional gift you want to send.

Even easier the next time

Now that you've sent gifts to all of your friends or coworkers, it's even easier to send them gifts next time. You won't have to enter their name and address again, just click the 'Send Gift' button next to their name in the Address Book!

We hope you love the service. If you have ideas on how we can make it even better, or other gifts you'd like us to carry, please let us know in the comments below!

Visit Healthy Surprise to get started now! 

Get all of your holiday shopping done in 5 minutes right now

Stabbings, fights and even shootings! When did Holiday shopping become a contact sport?

This got us thinking ... what would be the ideal experience when shopping for gifts?

• Safe - no risk of being trampled or shot
• Convenient - No parking lots, traffic or large crowds
• Quick - Done in minutes, no waiting for hours in a freezing line outside.
• Personalized - Each gift should have a beautiful custom note
• Fast - For those of us who wait until the last minute
• Fun - Great experience, easy to use interface and friendly customer service

We looked around and couldn't find it - so we built it ourselves! Healthy Surprise's new dashboard does all of that and more. Here's how you can easily take care of all of your holiday gifts in 5 minutes or less. Head on over to Healthy Surprise's gift section:

1. Choose the gift box and size you want to send (and if you want it to recur)
2. Create an account and enter standard billing and shipping info
3. Enter a custom gift message and choose the date you want your gift to ship

Now you've set up your first gift. This contact is saved to your Healthy Surprise address book, so you can easily send them a future gift with one click!

Now that your account is set up and your billing info updated, you can create the rest of your holiday gifts quickly and easily.

1. Click the 'Send Gift' and choose the gift box and duration you want to send.
2. Enter your recipient's details
3. Enter a custom gift message and choose the date you want your gift to ship.
4. Smile because you've just gotten another gift taken care of in less than a minute!

As long as you're setting up gifts - why not schedule gifts for friends and family member's birthdays, anniverseries, Mother's Day, or Valentine's day gift ... this way you won't 'forget'!

Have an idea of how we can make this even better? Want to see other types of gifts? Let us know in the comments below!

Visit Healthy Surprise now!

Note about timings: Orders placed by 11am PST ship the same day, priority mail (fast service!) Southern CA arrives in 1 business day, most of US 2 business days, rural US 3 business days. Those are USPS delivery estimates, if you want to make sure your gift arrives in time for Christmas, schedule it to ship on Dec 20 or earlier!