Most Delightful Foods’ Spinach Mushroom spread. Courtesy Most Delightful Foods
Dipping into Most Delightful Foods’ flavorful cheese dip mixes—made right here in Baton Rouge
Marlene Most grew up baking treats in an Easy-Bake Oven and eagerly cooking alongside her mom at home.
Fast forward to 2015 and she has self-produced gourmet products in grocery stores all around Baton Rouge.
Most is the founder of Most Delightful Foods, a company she describes as small but innovative and appetizing.
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After a 20-year career as a heart-health dietician, she says she knew there were ways to make healthy food taste great. So she set out to create the small specialty food company.
Most Delightful Foods provides a line of cheese spreads, dip mixes and healthy “munching” snacks like Almond Blueberry and Macadamia Mango trail mixes.
She started out by selling her snack mixes at local farmers markets in 2011.
In 2014, she created Taste the Seasons, a product line of five cheese spreads and dip mixes, with a goal to get them on the shelves of local grocery stores.
The five varieties of cheese spreads and dips—Cajun Trinity, Gazpacho, Spinach Mushroom, Tzatziki and Vegetable Tray—can now be found at Calandro’s Supermarket, Alexander’s Highland Market, Red Stick Spice Co. and Bet-R Grocery.
While her snack mixes aren’t sold in stores yet, Most sells those at farmers markets.
Working out of a small commercial kitchen, she created the mixes combining dried vegetables and spice blends she developed through trial and error.
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“My mixes are a little different because everything you need is already in them,” she says. “You don’t have to buy mushrooms for the Spinach Mushroom mix or tomatoes for the Gazpacho mix.”
For the holidays, she will sell sweeter dips like Cranberry Almond and Chocolate Mint at the Mistletoe Market and the farmers markets.
Most also blogs about recipes using the spreads and mixes. Cajun Trinity cheese biscuits? Yes, please.