Heart to Home Meals
That’s the premise behind Heart to Home Meals, which aims to empower individuals with healthy food choices and bring meals to your door.
The business, launched in Victoria in June of 2022 by Scott & Debra Downton, offers more than 200 meals, soups and desserts prepared to the highest standard.
“Our chefs follow the Canada Food Guide, and we have a global executive Four Seasons chef who has travelled the world, cooked for celebrities, and makes nutritious food taste really good,” said Scott. “He creates all these options and then at the peak of cooking, the meals are flash frozen to lock in the nutrition and flavour.
You get the meal, put it in the oven for
30 minutes or in the microwave for 10 minutes, and it’s almost as though the meal was just cooked.
The smells fill your kitchen, the flavour bursts in your mouth.”
Serving Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands, the business has rapidly grown, with approximately 1,800 customers, including a network of veterans. Meals come in three different sizes: mini, standard and hearty for larger appetites.
Nutrition options are colour coded for easy classification. They include meals for limiting sodium and carbohydrates, gluten, saturated fat, high-fibre diets and additional protein, to name a few.
“The COVID-19 pandemic drove the ‘aging in home’ concept, where people preferred to stay in their homes and communities,”
explained Debra. “This exacerbated the “tea and toast syndrome,” where people would have a piece of toast and cup of tea for supper.” Your body doesn’t get the nutrition it needs and, just say after surgery, the hospitals will tell you that one of the things that brings people back is malnutrition, and the rising price of food and everything else makes it worse.”
The “aging at home” group is the business’s main customer base, followed by individuals coming out of the hospital..
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