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Eat Right Meal Prep
1116 Cowan Rd.
Gulfport, MS 39507 228-456-3677 www.EatRightMealPrep.com
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IN BUSINESS
Michele Clarke
Michele has operated several businesses over her life time, from jewelry stores to a real estate brokerage. It was in the last several years while managing Bayou View Fitness, which she and her husband Joff Clarke own, that she came up with an idea.
While listening to her gym members who always wanted to know how to eat healthy and maintain a good diet, Clarke started thinking of ways
to help them with their struggles. Their issues stemmed from not knowing how to cook healthy meals for weight loss and the inconvenience of taking the time to grocery shop. Between reading labels and finding healthy products, it was very difficult for individuals to eat right.
Her research told her that 70% of your weight was determined through diet. Hearing a lot about different ideas on meal prepping, she started researching the options and interviewing meal prep companies, hoping to choose one to sell their meals to Bayou View Fitness members in order to help them with their diet and nutrition goals.
Clarke encountered different problems with each meal prep company she looked into and began thinking of ways to find their own kitchen and manufacture their own meals. During
this timeframe, the Clarkes stopped in Salute Restaurant one Sunday for brunch and started talking about it with friend and owner Rob Stinson.
Immediately, everything just fell into place. Since Stinson already had the kitchen and staff in place, they partnered with Stinson and started making recipes and designing the website.
The business took off like gangbusters, and the company started making 1000+ meals per week since the beginning and has been growing ever since.
Eat Right Meal Prep is about to start the next phase of the business, in which they will be delivering people’s meals directly to their doorstep and shipping nationwide. Clarke is committed
to losing weight herself, and in only three and a half months has dropped 25 pounds by following her diet. She always worked out, but now understands that “you can’t out-work a bad diet.”
Michele is making it easy to EAT RIGHT.
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