Children who are provided nutritious meals throughout the day are more likely to develop lifelong healthy eating habits.
What Children Eat Matters!
OUR MISSION
To serve early learning programs with fresh, locally-sourced meals.
OUR VISION
To prevent children from experiencing health related problems such as obesity and diabetes due to poor eating habits and unhealthy food consumption.
WHO IS IMPACTED?
CHILD CARE FACILITIES
– Convenient and easy to order meals and delivery service.
– Reduction in time spent meal planning, food shopping and cooking throughout the week allowing time for other personal and/or professional activities.
– Potential to increase your school’s enrollment by sharing the long term benefits of children eating fresh, local meals verse processed foods.
CHILDREN
– Quality food Increasing healthy brain development, and physical growth.
– Healthy habits developed by expanding their palate through experiencing different foods that might not be prepared at their homes.
– Teaching children the avoid eating fast foods, drinking soda, sweetened juice, too much salt, fat or any foods that make them feel sick or sluggish.
COMMUNITY
– Learning and understanding nutrition workshops and training through our Mentorship Program.
– Our partnerships with schools, non-profits, food producers, and suppliers to increase access to quality meals for children in their learning environments.
– Economic growth as we create jobs at livable wages and support local farmers and food suppliers.
What makes us the right food supplier for your children?
Over the past 17 years Owner, LaShonda has cared for, and taught children in various childcare settings, one including her very own center. It became a value of hers to ensure that each child would have access to healthy food options to maintain their energy, be provided a nutritious lunch and snack, and reduce the amount of time that the center’s staff have to cook.
In 2016 LaShonda participated in the Social Enterprise Pitch, facilitated by Lancaster County Community Foundation and Assets of Lancaster PA, to develop her vision of creating opportunity for more children and teachers to be positively impacted by our lunches.
In Dec 2016 5 Loaves Food Company was Founded to supply Healthy- Local- Ready Meals through delivery to programs like yours!