Freshateria.com Offers Healthy Alternative to Sacramento School Lunches
Freshateria.com, a website offering healthy alternatives to be served at elementary schools for lunch in Sacramento and surrounding areas, launched March 15. The website offers more nutritional options to be delivered to a child's school for $3.75 per meal and is served from the cafeteria at lunch time.
The meals are USDA-certified for portion size and calorie-to-fat ratios and consist of organically grown fruits and vegetables, whole-grain breads and naturally raised meats.
Freshateria.com is an outgrowth of 15-year-strong Sacramento catering company Jealousy Catering, run by entrepreneurial duo Mike Souza and Rick Reynolds. According to Souza, the idea sparked as a way to diversify business and stay afloat in tough economic times. With some investigation, though, the real benefit of the program became clear.
Similar programs exist in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., but Sacramento is new to the healthy school lunch option. Souza and Reynolds are also new to the process, but have gained much ground on implementing the program.
They have received nothing but help and positive feedback from PTA groups and school boards.
According to Souza, Kit Carson Middle School and Pheobe Hearst Elementary School of Sacramento City Unified School District are two