Preparing healthy meals can be time-consuming and complicated. Rachael Lewis, owner and founder of A Perfect Fit, can help. Since 2019, she has been providing culinary school-trained chefs who craft nutritionally balanced gourmet meals tailored to clients’ tastes, dietary needs, and wellness goals right in their own kitchens.
With a Bachelor of Science in Health and Kinesiology and a background as a fitness professional and personal chef, she has the knowledge and experience to ensure that her clients are highly satisfied. Rachael is proud of the impact she and her team are having on families' overall health.
“We started in St. Louis and now we get to help families, young entrepreneurs, professional athletes, and others in the Dallas and Nashville areas as well,” she says. “And, we're not just cooking meals—we're teaching people how to live healthier lifestyles and showing them that it can be possible.”
Rachael understands that people often set out with the right intentions when it comes to healthy eating, but they frequently get overwhelmed and give up. “We’re trying to make living a healthy lifestyle as effortless as possible for them. What separates us from other personal chef companies is that we involve nutrition heavily into everything we do. We are a health-focused personal chef company, so we have dietitians on staff who work with our chef manager every single month to create the right menus for our clients.”
For clients interested in optimizing their health, A Perfect Fit also offers a proprietary performance bloodwork panel that assesses every major physiological system. “We can take the clients’ lab work and have a dietitian look at it. We can then see what meals would be beneficial to our clients depending on what their labs are showing.”
A mother of two young boys, Rachael also believes it’s essential to bring the kids into the meal planning process. “Our children are in a health crisis—40% of them are suffering from chronic health conditions such as obesity, asthma, allergies, and autoimmune diseases, and the majority of these are linked to diets heavily reliant on ultra-processed foods.”
Her new, expanded mission is to impact the next generation and help entire families learn how to implement healthy eating habits. “Your children get excited for the meals because our chefs are coming into your home, teaching your kids about cooking, and providing the food for the table that everyone enjoys,” she says.
Chef Casey heads up the Nashville location, and she's very comfortable around children. “She will make sure that the kids also like what's being cooked, not just the parents, which tends to make everyone happy.”
“I always tell clients that we're there to make your life easier, so your chef has to be on top of things. Chef Casey also has a vast background in making high-quality, nutrient-dense meals, which is something that we really like our chefs to have.”
Menu planning is a collaboration between the client and their chef, and everything is customizable to the client’s needs and preferences. People can sign up for a one-month, three-month, or six-month term, or a no-commitment term, which is usually for a dinner party or other special occasion. “We have a minimum of once a week for the one-month period, but some families have their chef come twice a week, three times a week, or more,” she says.
Depending on the time of year, A Perfect Fit also offers special menus. For example, there is a fun back-to-school menu with hidden veggie recipes and high-protein options like protein pizza bites.
“A lot of our clients want their chef to help with holidays too because it makes it a whole lot easier when you don't have to worry about being the cook,” says Rachael. Clients can even share favorite family recipes for the chef to make.
A Perfect Fit not only prepares the food, but can put together a grocery list at no extra cost and, if preferred, do the grocery shopping too for an additional fee.
“When I originally started this company, there was a huge gap between what people were eating at home and what their dietician or nutritionist was telling them to eat,” she says. “That's where we come in—we bridge that gap.”
Rachael, who lives in St. Louis with her husband, Jason, and sons Taytum and Landon, enjoys using her healthy cooking skills at home. “My boys also love to cook, and I love that I get to teach them the culinary skills they need for long-term health,” she says.
To learn more or to schedule one of their personal chefs to come to your home and prepare delicious and nutritious meals for you and your family, visit their website.
"...we're teaching people how to live healthier lifestyles and showing them that it can be possible.”