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player ready...The former registered nurse is about to go national with her 17-year-old diet business, Seattle Sutton’s Healthy Eating, which delivers meals from 12 Chicago locations.
How did you get started? After our five children got older, I went to help my husband in his family medical practice. He’d tell me to put [a patient] on a 1,200-calorie diet, and I got to know which ones wouldn’t or couldn’t do it. Some of them would tell me that if I did it for them, they would stay on. And I thought, “I bet that really would work.”
Why do people come to you? Because we’re never going to get people back in the kitchen. There’s so much else to do. Yet people want to eat healthy and they want fresh meals. So we do it all for them.
Has that been a long-term trend? Definitely. When I started this in 1985, The Wall Street Journal had an article about what’s going to happen in 2002 or something; people will hardly need kitchens.
You have an interesting name, by the way. Seattle was an Indian chief. I was born in North Dakota, in Indian country, but I’m not Indian. I think my parents wanted a boy.