Wholesome consuming has lengthy been a lifestyle for Kaitlin and Ricky Weiers, and now it’s their native enterprise enterprise.
The spouses will maintain a grand opening from 4 to five:30 p.m. Thursday on the new storefront location of R. Klean Meals, 1307 Ligonier St., in Latrobe.
The Derry Township couple began the enterprise close to the tip of 2020 by taking on-line orders for personalized wholesome meals. Slightly over a month in the past, they added the storefront, supported by a brand new business kitchen, the place clients can decide up packaged grab-and-go variations of a few of their extra fashionable menu gadgets.
One of many prime sellers is a Cheeseburger Bowl.
“It’s all lean floor beef over rice, and it has diced tomatoes, diced onions and light-weight cheddar cheese,” Kaitlin Weiers defined. “We’ve a light-weight sauce with pickles.
“There are such a lot of other ways to slim down recipes. We wish to take a standard recipe and make a thin model of it.
”We use recent substances and we season every little thing, however we don’t use heavy oils and butters. All the pieces is usually gluten-free.”
Different fashionable gadgets on the menu embody hen meatballs, protein shakes in numerous flavors and protein pancakes for breakfast.
The pancakes, she stated, function “oats, egg whites and low-fat cottage cheese — all naturally high-protein gadgets — with vanilla and cinnamon. We serve them with turkey sausage.”
Weiers and her husband, who work out often, adopted wholesome diets to enhance their routine. She is a runner who moreover works half time as a finance supervisor.
He works as a railroad conductor when he’s not busy within the R. Klean Meals kitchen. A weightlifter and heavyweight bodybuilder, he was the general winner within the 2019 Nationwide Physique Committee Pittsburgh bodybuilding competitors.
Ricky Weiers has taken a break from bodybuilding to spend time on constructing the couple’s wholesome meal enterprise. His eating regimen necessities for the game helped to gasoline the enterprise.
“We had the concept for years, and we lastly had the appropriate alternative,” he stated. “I’ve had pals for years wanting me to do their meals for them, cook dinner for them.”
As they do for themselves, he and his spouse calculate the energy and protein, fats and carbohydrate content material for every of the dishes they put together.
“I realized loads by means of my coach and weighing out each meal, day by day, for a 12 months straight,” he stated. “We’ve accomplished it a lot that it’s grow to be pure.”
Since R. Klean Meals has by no means concerned a dine-in possibility, Kaitlin and Ricky Weiers prevented one of many main handicaps conventional eating places have confronted: coping with social distancing necessities in the course of the covid-19 pandemic.
For individuals searching for take-out meals, Kaitlin Weiers stated, “We assist to supply them with wholesome choices, so that they don’t should resort to quick meals.”
Patrons who wish to order personalized meals from the enterprise have to plan prematurely.
Orders for any meals a buyer wishes throughout a given week should be positioned by means of the R. Klean Meals web site by 5 p.m. the earlier Friday. The employees put together and package deal the meals on Saturday for pickup on Sunday.
Increasing its geographic attain, the enterprise schedules meet-up occasions to ship orders to clients for pickup at areas in Hempfield, Ligonier, North Huntingdon, Murrysville and Pittsburgh’s South Facet, in addition to the Latrobe web site.
Seize-and-go meal gadgets might be discovered on the Latrobe storefront on Mondays from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., on Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., Fridays from 11 a.m. to five p.m. and Saturdays from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Extra info might be discovered on the R. Klean Meals Facebook page, or by calling 724-787-8245.
Within the wake of New Yr’s resolutions, Kaitlin Weiers stated, “Persons are serious about their well being this time of 12 months, which is sweet for us.”
Jeff Himler is a Tribune-Evaluation employees author. You’ll be able to contact Jeff at 724-836-6622, jhimler@triblive.com or by way of Twitter .