
03/11/2025
As we gear up for “festival & fair” season, we wanted to take a minute to recognize all the individuals behind the magic that is Royal Pantry!
Up first, meet Beth Armstrong!!! The brain and creativity behind all the delicious things we have to offer! I hear she’s one bad ass CEO too!
“Hey there! I’m Beth! A single mom with a dream!
At 18 years old, I left Louisiana and moved to North Carolina to attend one of the best culinary schools in the country.
My dream was to be a master chef.
After culinary school I moved back home to Louisiana and worked at Commanders Palace in New Orleans! It was exhausting but it was life changing, and i thought all my dreams were coming true!
In 2015, I got offered the opportunity of a lifetime. So I left my “big kid job” and packed my bags and moved to a 45 acre organic farm in upstate New York to be a private chef. I did everything you could dream of! Cooking daily for the most appreciative group of people to helping out for a “Marthe Stewart” wedding! Harvesting herbs, planting starts, and caring for livestock!
In 2018, I got married and started a family, bought a 5 acre property and began building our homestead from the ground up! Chickens, gardens, goats, cows, pigs. All of it!
So in 2021, I found myself in the grocery store looking at ingredients on the stuff I was buying and I was shocked. Most of my kids favorite snacks were filled with CRAP! Artificial preservatives, FOOD DYES, and things I couldn’t even pronounce! That’s when I set out on a mission, Make everything we eat! And while it has been no easy feat, we are doing it!
While not every part of the plan has worked out the way I thought it would, we are still here pushing on!
I am a single mom to 3 under 6! Who
Homeschools, raises chickens and rabbits, has a growing business, and is on a mission to educate people and provide good clean foods made from local ingredients. Good clean food doesn’t have to be BORING! I mean have you tried my jams?