not your typical little Debbie(10)

It was on a 2002 museum trip in Chicago with her sister Gwen Solberg and their families that Debbie Reynolds—shown here with her husband, Roger, and their children, Jennifer and Zachary—experienced her watershed moment for Healthy Handfuls, a line of organic, low-sodium, low-fat, convenient snacks that appeal to children, such as chocolate chip cookies and lemon-vanilla crackers.

“It was time for lunch,” Debbie explains. “We had packed our own, but noticed that other families were pulling highly processed foods from the vending machines. We turned to each other, and we knew that a new business had been born.”

Even before Healthy Handfuls was launched, eating healthfully had been standard for the Reynolds family: Gwen, born with a severe peanut allergy, had spent her life avoiding processed foods and reading nutrition labels to make sure food products were safe. Now everyone can benefit from the sisters’ vision: Healthy Handfuls snacks are sold at health-food stores throughout the United States and Canada as well as online.

For information on Healthy Handfuls, go to healthyhandfuls.com.