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Success With Organic Kids Meals

By on September 25, 2012 in News

Heather Stouffer wants your kids to eat healthy, and her business makes it easy for you to pull together a meal while in a rush. Her company is called Mom Made Foods. She makes frozen, organic meals that parents can heat up and serve to their children without sacrificing a healthy diet in the process.

Stouffer, a 37-year-old Alexandria resident, started the business five years ago when her son Emory was about 1 year old. She and her husband were both working full-time — she in the technology industry and he as a newspaper reporter — and they were struggling to get dinner on the table each night before 9 p.m.

In search of an easy, quick and nutritious dinner option, Stouffer realized there wasn’t one.

“I am often very busy. But I won’t cut corners when it comes to my kids,” she says. “I quit my job, I kept my child in full-time day care, and then I did full time business planning for seven months.”

In June of 2006, Stouffer launched Mom Made Meals at the Del Ray Farmers’ Market in Alexandria. She stood behind a card table that morning peddling the four baby food products she’d created over the last year, and began her sometimes challenging climb to CEO of a national food brand.

Today, Stouffer specializes in healthy frozen foods for kids. Her products include Cheesy Mac, which is made with sweet potato and butternut squash puree, Bite-Size Turkey Meatballs, Cheese Pizza “Munchies,” and Bean Burritos, to name a few.

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