Good Bowls are the creation of Chapel Hill nutrition professor Dr. Alice Ammerman. All bowls are frozen meals that are based on the Mediterranean diet and feature abundant, seasoned, roasted vegetables; whole grains; and healthy oils. The recipes are adapted for local taste preferences and include Tex-Mex styles, Asian influence, and traditional southern flavors.
Good Bowls are a ‘meal with a mission,’ with the goals of supporting the local food system and promoting food equity in North Carolina. Good Bowls sources as many ingredients as they can from local farms and are continually making new partnerships to help ensure they can get fresh local vegetables throughout the year.
Weaver Street Market and Good Bowls have recently partnered and all the bowls are now produced at the Weaver Street Market Food House. Both companies share many of the same values and are driven to support the local food economy and promote food equity in the community.
The team at Good Bowls is excited to grow with Weaver Street Market in the coming years as they continue to deliver the healthiest, best-tasting, frozen meals to communities throughout North Carolina.
Good Bowls works to support the local food system by locally sourcing as many of its ingredients as possible. Weaver Street Market is the ideal partner for this; now both companies are working hand in hand to build a network of local farms and producers across North Carolina.
Additionally, Good Bowls is working to promote food equity in North Carolina communities through a number of initiatives. First, the Pay-It-Forward program runs every other month throughout the year and works with local partners and locally owned restaurants to help provide frozen meals to families in need. Good Bowls collects online meal donations from people in the community and then prepares those meals at a locally owned restaurant, freezes the bowls, and then works with a community partner to distribute those meals to food insecure families.
In addition to the Pay-It-Forward program, Good Bowls uses a subsidized cost program to help distribute the healthy bowls to areas that don’t often or easily have access to nutritious food. Good Bowls is working to get their bowls into rural convenience stores at a reduced price as well as using frozen food vending machines to bring healthy meals at a discounted price into blue collar worksites.
If you’re interested in participating in the next Pay-It-Forward program, the October campaign begins on Wednesday the 20th. Go to www.EatGoodBowls.com page and click the link on the homepage.
