Well being-conscious mother begins native natural child meals enterprise

Well being-conscious mother Jennifer Giorgianni spent a lot of the lockdown looking out the web for a pancake combine that might be appropriate for her child to eat and remembered being shocked that this didn’t exist.

“I believed, ‘Wow, somebody ought to actually do that,'” mentioned Giorgianni, proprietor of Riley’s Kitchen, a enterprise designed to assist mothers present wholesome meals for his or her infants.

The Riley’s Kitchen’s story began in early 2021 when Giorgianni struggled to feed her 11-month-old daughter stable meals. After doing ‘baby-led weaning’ for a number of months, she began taking a look at pre-packaged choices to make cooking a bit simpler.

“I used to be searching for a pancake combine that was wholesome and didn’t include any sugar in order that I might give it to my daughter and save myself the effort of at all times making them from scratch.”

However then Giorgianni realized she couldn’t discover what she needed.

“Basically, every little thing made to make cooking a bit simpler comprises added sugars or salt, that are inappropriate for kids underneath 12 months.”

That’s when Georgianni began to make her personal combine in bulk in order that it could be simple for her to make on busy mornings.

“I started to share my combine with buddies who rapidly grew to become devoted prospects.”

A number of months later, Giorgianni’s thought took on a lifetime of its personal and now could be out there in native shops in and round Barrie, together with Serenity Start Studio, Oh Beehive Eco Items, Blueberry Moon, Nicholyn Farms, Sobeys, in addition to on-line at rileyskitchen.ca.

Riley’s Kitchen provides pancake combine and muffin combine. Every combine is made out of natural, plant-based substances and is sugar-free and salt-free.

Giorgianni mentioned the general critiques are optimistic, and folks appear very completely happy to help a neighborhood enterprise.

“I’m at all times excited once I get a message from a brand new buyer saying how a lot they love the product.”

Having labored as a cashier at Sobeys on the age of 14, Giorgianni appears like issues have come full circle to now have a product at markets and at Sobeys particularly.

Giorgianni additionally labored at a farmers’ market stand as a pupil, which is one motive why she feels very strongly in regards to the environmental impression of the meals we eat.

“I feel Riley’s Kitchen is filling a gap in what’s at present on the market. Persons are searching for extra whole-food merchandise with easy substances to feed their households.”

Trying again, Giorgianni says the suggestions from her older sister, additionally a mother, performed a big function in her resolution to begin the enterprise.

“I knew she wouldn’t maintain again and could be 100 per cent sincere, and he or she can be a little bit of a skeptic. When she gave me the inexperienced mild and beloved the combination, I felt assured to go ahead with it,” mentioned Giorgianni.

Whereas elevating her daughter, now two years outdated, and her nine-month child, Giorgianni appears ahead to the following steps in her enterprise.

“I’m hoping to roll out a cookie combine that’s prepared for retail shops within the subsequent yr. I’m additionally hoping to develop into extra shops throughout Ontario.”