Eat Happy Kitchen Cheese Bites are now available nationwide at HomeGoods, marking the first time the women-owned, clean-label brand’s snack line has landed in national brick-and-mortar stores. The high-protein, gluten-free bites arrive alongside a separate expansion of the brand’s seed-oil-free pasta sauces and filler-free spice blends into 120 Hy-Vee stores and all Raley’s locations across Northern California and Nevada.
Eat Happy Kitchen Cheese Bites: What Was Just Announced
Santa Ynez, California-based Eat Happy Kitchen confirmed the expansion in a press release distributed via PR Newswire on September 22, 2026. According to the company, the rollout touches all three of its core product categories at once:
- Cheese Bites — the brand’s high-protein savory snack, introduced in 2025, is now stocked at HomeGoods locations nationwide, its first national brick-and-mortar placement.
- Pasta sauces — Seed Oil Free Certified and gluten-free, with no added sugar, now on shelves at 114 Raley’s stores in Northern California and Nevada, plus 120 Hy-Vee locations.
- Spice blends — packaged in the brand’s signature vintage-inspired tins, also gluten-free and filler-free, joining the Hy-Vee rollout in the retailer’s health food section.
“There is tremendous momentum behind Eat Happy Kitchen right now, and this expansion reflects the strength of the brand across our entire product portfolio,” said Anna Vocino, Founder and CEO of Eat Happy Kitchen, in the company’s statement. “The addition of HomeGoods, Hy-Vee, and Raley’s gives us an opportunity to introduce those products to significantly more consumers across the country.”
Read the full announcement directly from the source: Eat Happy Kitchen’s press release on PR Newswire.
Does This Affect a Recipe You’re Planning to Make?
If you’re already leaning on jarred sauce to speed up a weeknight pasta night, Eat Happy Kitchen’s seed-oil-free, no-added-sugar sauce is the kind of clean-label swap that fits right into our Cottage Cheese Alfredo Sauce — both lean on simple, high-protein ingredients instead of heavily processed shortcuts, so it’s an easy pantry pairing if you spot the new stock at Hy-Vee or Raley’s.
Is This Common?
A clean-label snack or condiment brand landing in HomeGoods specifically is a less common pairing than a standard grocery launch — HomeGoods is primarily a home-goods retailer, and food placements there tend to be smaller, curated selections rather than full grocery rollouts. Pairing that unusual retail channel with a simultaneous regional grocery expansion (Hy-Vee, Raley’s) is a broader multi-retailer push than a typical single-store product debut, though the underlying products (protein snacks, pasta sauce, spice blends) themselves are common categories for a growing CPG food brand.
Quick Questions
Where can I buy Eat Happy Kitchen Cheese Bites? As of September 22, 2026, they are stocked at HomeGoods stores nationwide, per the brand’s official announcement.
Are Eat Happy Kitchen’s pasta sauces available near me? They are now on shelves at all Raley’s locations in Northern California and Nevada, and at 120 Hy-Vee stores, according to the company.
What makes the sauces “clean label”? The brand states its pasta sauces are gluten-free, contain no added sugar, and are Seed Oil Free Certified.
Update Log
September 23, 2026: Article published based on Eat Happy Kitchen’s September 22, 2026 press release announcing nationwide HomeGoods distribution for Cheese Bites and expanded Hy-Vee/Raley’s distribution for pasta sauces and spice blends.
