Seattle Sutton's Healthy Eating Offers Braille Menus

Seattle Sutton’s Healthy Eating (SSHE) is now offering Braille menus for its clients. The new menus address a need that founder and president, Seattle Sutton , RN, BSN, discovered earlier this year when she learned about a couple from California that ordered meals for the first time and the idea was born.

I learned we had a blind couple from California who had signed up to receive our meals and I thought it would be nice to provide them with a menu that they could read. That’s how the idea of the Braille menu was born. These menus are just one more way we continue to help serve our clients needs and have done so now for 22 years, said Seattle Sutton.

Each Braille menu contains 50 pages, since one menu item takes a half page to print in Braille, including the item, description of meal and preparation instructions. The spiral bound menu is printed double-sided to reduce number of pages. Each menu contains a table of contents that corresponds with Braille meal labels that are affixed to each meal container to allow customers to distinguish between the meals, ” says Sutton.

Sutton continues, “ Prior to the completion of the Braille menus, we first began to help address a need for visually impaired and blind clients by affixing a raised Braille meal label to the meals to help differentiate the meals from one another. From there, we enlisted customer service representatives to contact the clients and walk them through the week’s worth of meals twice a week when they received the meals. Since customers receive 21 meals per week (7 breakfast, lunch and dinner), that addition was found to be quite helpful. Clients receive their meals on Mondays and Thursdays to total the week’s worth of meals.”

How to Obtain Braille Menu

Customers ordering via the phone who inform customer service that they would like a Braille menu will receive a copy of it with their new order. For current clients, to obtain a copy of the Braille menu, please call 1-800-442-DIET (3438).

The menus were printed by Horizons for the Blind, a not-for-profit organization that was founded in 1977 to improve the quality of life for people who are blind or visually impaired by increasing accessibility to culture, education, recreation and consumer information on a national basis. More than 70 percent of the staff of Horizons for the Blind is made up of people who are blind or visually impaired. Working as a team with sighted members of the staff, they strive to improve quality of life and assist people to achieve their full potential. For more information, visit

Seattle Sutton's Healthy Eating (SSHE), a family-owned, Illinois-based healthy meal replacement company offers a no-gimmick approach to convenient, healthy eating nationwide. The meal program is scientifically designed and taste-tested. Founded by Seattle Sutton, RN, BSN, in 1985, SSHE helps to address patients’ desire to lose weight and improve overall health. Seattle Sutton's dedication to health continues today, since all SSHE menus are analyzed on an ongoing basis and adhere to recommended dietary guidelines. SSHE prepares thousands of fresh meals weekly and its innovative approach has helped thousands of people achieve and maintain weight loss without planning, shopping or cooking for themselves.