Ochsner Health is a system that delivers health to the people of Louisiana, Mississippi and the Gulf South with a mission to Serve, Heal, Lead, Educate and Innovate.
Eat Fit 318
Eat Fit 318 partners with local restaurants to offer delicious, healthy dishes across north Louisiana, from Shreveport and Bossier all the way to Ruston, Monroe, and West Monroe. A statewide initiative to spark a culture of health in Louisiana at the grassroots level, Eat Fit simplifies eating well while dining out.
Meet Our Team
If you own a restaurant and are interested in joining or would like more information about Eat Fit 318, let us know! Send an email to our team at staff.eatfit@gmail.com.
Hope Frugé, RD, LDN
Eat Fit Monroe Registered Dietitian
Hope Frugé is a Vanderbilt-trained dietitian whose mission is to empower people to eat + move + live WELL. Hope’s career has seen exciting heights: she combined her communications and nutrition backgrounds while working as Edible Nashville’s Associate Editor; she has shown clients how to balance wellness with everyday life in the private practice realm; she created an artisanal whole foods bar called HOPE bars that ships nationwide; and she has served as the dietitian for the Nashville Ballet Company and the past five Miss Louisiana's. Hope currently heads up Eat Fit Monroe, a non-profit Ochsner Health initiative that partners with restaurants to make healthier menu options available. Since becoming a dietitian, Hope has been recognized as a Top 20 Under 40 business professional and was awarded the Women Symposium’s 2017 Rising Young Professional Award. In addition to photography, Hope enjoys hosting dinner parties, baking sourdough bread and teaching the world how to love beets. But, above all else, her favorite thing is to simply be anywhere with her husband, Heath, and their daughters, Landry and Marienne.
Molly Kimball, RD, CSSD
Director of Lifestyle Nutrition, Ochsner Health
504-842-9572 | mkimball@ochsner.org
Molly Kimball is a registered dietitian and nutrition journalist with a passion to make it easy for people to live their strongest, healthiest lives. As a lifestyle dietitian and founder of Ochsner’s Eat Fit nonprofit restaurant initiative, Molly has managed the nutrition program at Ochsner Fitness Center in New Orleans for over 20 years, working with thousands of clients, ranging from people like you and me to professional athletes. Through it all, she learned what drives us and motivates us, what works and what doesn’t, and what derails even our best intentions. Having the ability to dial into these behaviors and challenges has fueled and inspired Molly’s entire professional career. As a regular contributor to national and local publications, Molly covers all things related to nutrition and wellness. She has been a columnist for the Times-Picayune | New Orleans Advocate since 2006 and has been the nutrition expert for New Orleans’ ABC affiliate WGNO since 2009, with weekly TV segments on WGNO’s Good Morning New Orleans, "Get FUELED with Molly." She also hosts a weekly podcast , FUELED wellness + nutrition with Molly Kimball, where she addresses the latest health trends and interviews some of the country’s leading experts.
Download the free Eat Fit App
(and we don’t mean appetizer).On the go? Find an Ochsner Eat Fit restaurant with Eat Fit menu options and full nutritional facts here, along with shopping guides, recipes and more.
Eat Fit Cookbook
Molly Kimball, Registered Dietitian and Nutrition Journalist, collaborated with award-winning chefs and restaurateurs to create crowd-pleasing, good-for-you recipes you can make at home. Learn More
The Eat Fit team loves getting out in the community educating and empowering others to live their strongest, healthiest lives possible by providing easy-to-access real-world education, inspiration and resources on wellness and nutrition. To request Eat Fit to attend your event, please fill out this form and an Eat Fit team member from your region will get back to you soon!
Restaurant Sign-Up Form Community Event Request Form
Apply to be an Eat Fit Ambassador
Fill out the Eat Fit ambassador application form and email to eatfitnola@gmail.com
Download Eat Fit Ambassador Application
Donate to Eat Fit
Help us support our Eat Fit partners in the most meaningful way. Ochsner’s Eat Fit nonprofit initiative collaborates with restaurants to help make the healthy choice the easy (and delicious) choice! Your generosity supports the nonprofit work we do for our partners and for our community. Thank you for supporting our Eat Fit mission to inspire our community to live their strongest, healthiest lives.
