Reel 'Em In Profit from: live bait, mobile meals, nutrition network.

Here's your opportunity to start reeling in some money:Vending Consultants Inc.'s Live Bait Merchandiser, a live baitvending machine you can own and operate.

The Live Bait Merchandiser can be set up at bait shops, gasstations, campgrounds, boat launches, sporting goods stores,grocery and hardware stores, and popular fishing locations with anyvariety of live bait. The machine costs $3,825 and is equipped witha security door, controls that allow individual pricing perselection, environmentally safe refrigeration, lighted graphics,built-in auditing controls that compute unit sales and a cashmeter. Start-up inventory costs $200.

An optional heating kit, which is activated when outsidetemperatures are in the single digits, allows the vending machineto operate year-round, even through sub-zero weather.

Vending Consultants offers factory-direct financing and leasingprograms to lessen the upfront capital needed to get started. Thecompany also helps you locate stock at wholesale prices.

For more information, call Vending Consultants Inc. in DesMoines, Iowa, at (800) 255-0133.

Have Dinner, Will Travel

A steady diet of fast food and TV dinners can make anyone longfor a homestyle meal cooked with love. Annie's Kitchen offershomestyle meals complete with all the fixings, from Swiss steak orvegetable primavera to Mexican lasagna. The meals are flash-frozenand delivered by refrigerated trucks to those who can't ordon't want to cook for themselves, whether they be busyfamilies, senior citizens or people with disabilities.

You can purchase Annie's Kitchen meals wholesale to sell inyour own community. A one-time $185 administration fee includesstart-up brochures and training materials. You can purchase menusfrom Annie's Kitchen or print your own if you decide to carryonly part of the company's line of meals. Additional start-upcosts include $4,000 for start-up inventory and $5,000 to $6,000for home freezers to store the meals. (Annie's Kitchen suggestsyou purchase six upright 20-cubic-foot home freezers.)

For more information, call (800) 611-5252.

Healthy Profits

Consumers' fascination with good nutrition has created athriving market for products that promote health. Helping yourfamily and friends bulk up, slim down and stay healthy can alsoimprove the health of your pocketbook as a Relìv InternationalInc. distributor.

Relìv manufactures a variety of health products, includingnutritional supplements, weight management products, nutrition barsand sport drink mixes, through network marketing.

As a distributor, you earn a percentage of the retail price ofeach product you sell, ranging from 25 percent to 45 percent,depending on your total monthly sales. You may also recruit newdistributors and earn a percentage of their sales.

A $40 Relìv distributor kit includes a training manual andpromotional materials. Distributors are not required to maintain aninventory; you can order products directly from Relìv aftertaking customer orders. There is an annual renewal fee of $20.

For more information, call (314) 537-9822 or visit http://www.reliv.com