Navigating the overwhelming role of feeding your children healthy food is difficult to say the least. Once you get past the pureed baby food stage and graduate to real food, there are seemingly endless decisions that impact your child’s health and help create eating habits that will last a lifetime. So, no pressure, right?

Like many women, I am a busy working Mom who likes to think of myself as a health conscious foodie. Facing the new challenge of providing healthy food for my young daughter, I quickly realized that, in fact, I had a lot to learn about the type of foods that she needed, and how much she should eat. I spent months researching and learning all I could about healthy, nutritious, and great tasting foods that my little girl would eat. I visited local farmers market and tried out endless recipes on friends, their kids, and my family. While there are an increasing number of convenient “healthy” food options for adults, other than perhaps a “smaller” version of an adult meal, there were few choices available that were nutritious, natural (no artificial ingredients), fresh and ready to eat for children. Green Plate Kids was born from the idea that there had to be parents, just like me, who didn’t have the time to provide their children with healthy, fresh, and nutritious meals.