A little about myself..

I don't remember the exact time when I decided to become a vegetarian, but I know it had been a long time coming. I have never enjoyed eating meat, and since I was about 17, I have gone through phases of being vegetarian, vegan, and pescetarian. I gave up eating fish and seafood as I could not deal with the fact that I was eating something that was once a living animal, and I ditched the vegan diet because it was FAR too restrictive and I found it too hard to enjoy food. I am now a lacto-ovo vegetarian, and am finding that this is sitting very well with my body and mind.

I was introduced to clean, organic living by a naturopath during a period of serious illness. I was exhausted, run down, and tired, and having serious digestive troubles, and my Mum took me to a naturopath. He put me on a myriad of supplements, including digestive enzymes, flaxseed oil, olive leaf, probiotics, protein powder, and spirulina, all of which I still take to this day. However, he stressed that the key to my healing was food. He told me to buy mainly organic, and educated me about the importance of protein in my diet. At first I was like "I can't do that, it is too expensive", "where do I buy that sort of food in little old Toowoomba?". But I went investigating, and found a couple of local shops that stocked organic foods. It was difficult to buy absolutely everything organic, but I stuck to the 80:20 rule that my naturopath had told me about, and managed quite well. We now have an organic supermarket, Wray Organic,  here in Toowoomba, which is amazing! I could easily set-up camp and live there ;).

I started to feel better, and get stronger, and developed a passion for clean, healthy, organic living. I moved to Brisbane for university and worked part-time in an organic supermarket. This is where my passion really developed and I was introduced to so many new, exciting foods. After university I moved back home, and am now training to be a personal trainer. I am doing my Body Balance training soon, and hope to do my pilates and yoga training in the near future.

I hope use this blog as a platform to share the many recipes I have developed and/or used (obviously with credit to the creator!), and to educate about clean, healthy, organic living. Oh, and I also hope to dispel the myth that vegetarian food is "rabbit food", because it can be, but certainly doesn't have to be!