Food for the youngest eaters is coming out of the jar. Fresh and frozen offerings, many featuring upgraded nutrition and convenience, are driving innovation while feeding the next generation.

Chicago-based lil'gourmets, a women-owned and minority-owned, organic food start-up, is is bringing their veggie meals to Whole Foods Market stores across Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Oklahoma. Available now in the store’s refrigerated dairy case, the brand strives to cultivate curiosity in lil’ones by exposing them to veggie-focused, global cuisines to help foster a love of vegetables and diverse foods for life. Furthering the brand’s commitment to providing the highest-quality food for babies and toddlers, lil’gourmets now boasts the Clean Label Project certification for its standard of purity.

Little Spoon, the national brand best known for direct-to-consumer baby food, is continuing its mission to make parents’ lives easier with its newest product launch, Little Spoon Plates. Just in time for one of the most unusual back to school seasons ever, new Little Spoon Plates are a reinvention of healthy, nutritious, ready to heat-and-eat meals, built with the highest quality ingredients for eaters from 1-10 years old.