Stealthy Foods started in our kitchens. We were blending vegetables with protein and freezing them into molds so we could quickly add extra nutrition into the meals our families were already eating. It worked, but the shopping, chopping, steaming, blending, and freezing took hours we didn't have. The store-bought option came with its own waste: a full jar of sauce opened for one small bowl of pasta, which was then forgotten at the back of the fridge.

One day we looked at each other and thought: why doesn't this exist? Delicious, ready-to-eat sauces with real ingredients, vegetables, and protein.

Stealthy Foods started as an idea for feeding kids, but somewhere along the way we noticed that we were eating and enjoying it just as much as our kids were. That's when we realized that Stealthy Foods isn't a kids' brand: it's a busy-person brand.

We had created a better, faster answer to the part of cooking that takes the longest, wastes the most, and has the greatest power to make a meal genuinely delicious: the sauce. We don't want to take anyone out of the kitchen — we want to speed up the part that does the heaviest lifting. The part with the most potential to deliver real nutrition and turn a simple meal into something worth sitting down for.

The sauce was the problem, but also the solution. And because it didn't exist, we made it ourselves (and then put it in the freezer aisle so you could have it, too).