Since opening Healthy Tummies Pantry, she has added a café to the side-by-side shopfronts of the travel agency and the pantry.
“We found people were coming in to buy food but then they couldn't find anywhere to eat,” Mrs Kitt said.
“People who were coeliac had to go home because it was hard to find other things to eat in town, but now they can eat and know they're safe."
She said she wasn't planning to fit out the café with an industrial kitchen, instead keeping it simple.
“We're keeping it basic, just toasted sandwiches, soup, pies, sausage rolls and on Sundays we might start doing egg and bacon rolls, but we're sticking with basic food,” she said.
“We're not going as a full café because that would require a full kitchen.”
As with the store, everything on offer is gluten-free, with the cakes coming from a business in Shepparton and a bakery in Melbourne bringing orders of gluten-free bread up once a week.
Not even the recent lockdown could slow them down.
“The support’s been really, really good,” Mrs Kitt said.
“Even after lockdown I thought that might have stopped us as we only had locals, but nope, people kept coming in from Shepparton, Nathalia, Bendigo and more.”
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