Questions moms ask

She is. Miss Kay is a real great-grandmother in Oklahoma, and she's 85. She was a school lunch lady for twelve years starting in 1966, and every kid who came through her line called her Miss Kay. It stuck. She's been cooking for her family since 1958: her two children, then her grandkids, and now her great-grandkids. Four generations, one kitchen.

Seven things, and that's the whole list: 100% grass-fed beef, water, coconut sugar, sea salt, citric acid, spices, and celery juice powder, in a beef collagen casing. No refined sugar, no fillers, no binders. Every ingredient, explained.

Yes — 100% grass-fed beef, and it’s the first thing on the ingredient list.

Two grams of coconut sugar in a full-size Classic. The minis are the same recipe — coconut sugar is on their label too, there’s just little enough per stick that the panel rounds to 0g. No refined sugar in either. Coconut sugar is still sugar, so it’s right there on the label.

They’re listed as “spices” on the label, and the exact blend is the one part we keep to ourselves. If you’re avoiding a particular spice, email us at info@misskays.com and we’ll check it for you.

No dyes, no gums, no maltodextrin, and no “natural flavors” line hiding anything. The flavor is spices, and spices is what the label says.

None. There’s no oil in the recipe at all — no canola, soybean, sunflower or vegetable oil. Those seven ingredients are everything that goes in.

Yes. There’s no wheat, barley, or rye anywhere in the seven ingredients.

Fair question, and we’d rather answer it than dodge it. Our sticks are cured with celery juice powder, which carries naturally occurring nitrites from celery. So we won’t tell you there are no nitrites. We’ll tell you exactly where ours come from.

It keeps a shelf-stable stick fresh and tasting bright. One honest note while we’re here: food-grade citric acid is made by fermentation, not squeezed out of a lemon. Better you hear that from us than find it out later.

Beef collagen. It’s edible, it’s what gives the stick its snap, and it’s the last line on the ingredient list.

A typical stick is 1 ounce. Our full-size Classic is 1.5 — that's 50% more real beef. The Minis are 0.65 ounces, sized for lunchboxes and little hands.

The Mini (0.65oz) is lunchbox-sized, for little hands and on the go. The Classic (1.5oz) is the snack-drawer staple for the whole family. Same honest recipe, just a different size. Feeding a mix? The Family Bundle is one bag of 20 Minis and one carton of 10 Classics.

The minis are sized for little hands at 0.65 ounces. For toddlers and the very young, cut it into pieces and sit with them while they eat, the same as you would with any firm food. You know your child better than I do.

For now, yes: one honest savory flavor, done right. No novelty spice, nothing candy-sweet.

No. A wrapped stick is shelf-stable — no fridge, no cooler pack. Toss them in a backpack or a purse. Once you open a stick, eat it that day or pop it in the fridge.

Pick every 2, 4 or 6 weeks and we'll send your order on that schedule, 10% off every order, and every subscription order ships free. Skip or pause anytime from your account. New subscriptions have a 2-order minimum, then you can cancel anytime — no fees, no phone calls. Every pause has an end date you pick, and your deliveries start back up on its own after — we’ll email you before it ships. One-time deals are for one-time orders, so they don’t stack with that 10%.

New Join the Family subscriptions have a 2-order minimum: your first order and one more. After your 2nd order is paid, you can cancel anytime online at My Subscription — no fees, no phone calls. You can skip or pause during your first 2 orders too. If you joined before the 2-order minimum started, nothing changed for you.

Every Join the Family order ships free. One-time orders ship free on eligible rates when the items come to $75 or more after discounts. Under $75, you pay the carrier's rate, and checkout shows it before you pay. The shipping policy has the fine print.

We pack and ship within 1–2 business days, and most orders arrive 3–7 business days after that, depending on where you live. Every order ships with tracking. We ship within the United States.

If your order arrives damaged, wrong, or missing something, email info@misskays.com or use the contact page within 7 days of delivery and we'll look into it. If something went wrong on our end, we'll replace it or refund it at no cost to you. Because it's food, we can't take returns. The refund policy has the details.