Chanda ranga: Healthy Meal Delivery Miami

Tuesday 7 August 2012

Healthy Meal Delivery Miami

Veronica Rives wanted to start her 3-month-old daughter, Gabrielle, on solid food, but didn’t like the choices available at the supermarket.

         “It was organic, but it wasn’t fresh. Everything on the shelf had preservatives,” said the Palmetto Bay mom. “I just didn’t want store bought baby food, I wanted to make it myself.”

         Rives, who had suffered with food allergies and asthma as a child, said she wanted to minimize Gabrielle’s risk of a food reaction. So she started steaming and pureeing organic vegetables and fruits in her own kitchen.

         Now, two years later, Rives runs Petit Cuisine, a delivery service of fresh organic meals for babies and toddlers. Here’s how she did it:         Petit Cuisine serves parents who want to serve their babies healthy meals, but don’t have time to prepare them. The company offers organic meal delivery service in Miami-Dade and Broward counties.
         Stage One meals are single-ingredient dishes for 3- to 6-month-olds. Stage Two includes proteins and veggies for 6- to 8-month-olds and Stage Three includes family favorites such as meatloaf and macaroni and cheese for 18-month-olds to school-age children. Rives, a real estate attorney, had taken a six-month leave after Gabrielle, who is now 2½, was born. She began making Gabrielle’s food at home, pureeing veggies and fruits in her kitchen. Then she started making bigger batches, and giving food to friends with babies. When friends of friends started contacting her, she decided to form a business.

         “I saw a show on E! News about how much celebrities spend on organic food for their babies, and I thought, 'Hey, that’s what I’m doing,' ” she said. “That’s when I knew I could make it into a business.”