OUR STORY

We didn't set out to build a food company.

We set out to answer one question every parent asks at 6 AM: "What do I pack today?"

Dr. Janet Daniel ran a kitchen the way most mothers do — tasting everything, trusting nothing she didn't make herself.

Friends started asking if she could pack a lunch for their kids too. Then their friends asked. Then a school asked. Somewhere between the third dabba and the three-hundredth, JD's Kitchen became a real kitchen with an FSSAI certificate on the wall — and SchooFoo became its promise to parents.

Here's the thing about school lunches: children don't eat "nutritious". They eat tasty. The trick — the entire trick — is making the tasty thing and the healthy thing the same thing. That's why a dietitian plans every menu, and a mom's palate approves every dish.

The six things we will never do

  • No colouring agents — food should look like food
  • No preservatives — because it's eaten hours after cooking, not weeks
  • No palm oil — ever
  • No reused oil — yesterday's oil goes out with yesterday
  • No overnight cooking — your child's lunch is made the morning it's eaten
  • No mystery — the menu, the portions and the kitchen rules are public

Every morning our kitchen freezes its count at 7:01 AM, cooks immediately, packs into food-grade three-compartment boxes with your child's name on the label, and reaches the school gate before 11:30. The box comes home empty. The next morning we do it again.

Trust isn't a tagline. It's a routine, repeated every school day.

7:00 AM

Orders lock and the count freezes at 7:01. The kitchen knows exactly what to cook — down to the last chapati.

7:15 AM

Cooking starts fresh against the frozen count. Every dish portioned by pack.

11:30 AM

Hot boxes at school, matched to your child's lunch slot. Every single day.

Put us to the test — one meal, ₹130 →