About

Welcome!!!

I’m a Food addict…..I love food, well most food and I love creating dishes!!

It always hasn’t been a good or healthy one………now it is

I have always loved being in the kitchen right from a young age learning to bake bread with my grandfather to getting my brownie badges………I was so excited at the baking badge that I misread the recipe and added 1 cup of baking soda to the dough……..got most of it out in time but lets just say the cookies were big and flat……I still passed.

There were a few years of loving to cook, bake and create in the kitchen but never eating really any of it. I wasn’t really eating anything at that time.  I have always loved sharing my food with other people.

Even when I wasn’t having a ‘good’ relationship with food, I still tried to eat healthy and encouraged others to do the same.  Funny healthy food was always important.

I grew up watching my mom restrict herself constantly with food, yet she loved to also prepare food for others.  She left this planet at a young age and I sometimes think it was because she didn’t allow  herself the luxury of letting go and really enjoying food or maybe even life most times.

There was always one bite of a cookie in the cookie jar at her house.  She could make a box of turtles that she got for Christmas last almost 3 months.  I still remember as a kid watching her take one bite of a Turtle, savoring it enjoying it and putting the lid back on the box and walking away………seriously!!!

I went through stages of constant battle with eating, eating too much, eating too little, exercising lots and finding a way of eating that I could relate too whether it was vegetarian, vegan, macro or raw or whatever.

Didn’t like a lot of meat while I was growing up, but had to eat it anyways as the story then was” what about all those starving people in Africa”?  I always suggested we could mail my portions to them, but that didn’t go over too well.  Oh yeah, liver and onions……who the hell thought up that one????

Having bouts of stomach problems throughout my life, then  constant fatigue setting in later on, I was always trying to figure it out. By eliminating things in my diet, helped greatly, most dairy being one of them.  I know it can also be a mental thing….mind body connection……not being happy with what I was doing, when I changed that and do what I enjoyed and loved, my fatigue would go away…… go figure!!

I tried many things and even became a Raw Food Chef.  I studied many nutrition books, always searching for something. Many healing modalities, started several home based businesses, coaching and even got into helping with their debts……..searching.

I’m not a 100% raw and don’t plan to be, I like to eat an variety of good food to get nutrients from many delicious plant based or whole foods, but I do believe that we could use more raw in most of our diets.

I became proficient at EFT dealing with my own emotional issues, thinking maybe I could help others with their struggles.

I started with a 90 challenge hoping to reach people that thought the  Standard American Diet or SAD was the best thing, didn’t eat breakfast, hell didn’t eat all day and binged all night, thought the food groups were caffeine, diet pop, and twinkies, so teaching raw foods was a little hippy dippy.  The challenge also became about money for many people………it lost it’s integrity for me.

Spent a couple of years feeling like I was lost………I was searching…….yet I didn’t even know for what and really it was in front of me the whole time……..me.

I get such pleasure out of hearing someone love what I have created in the kitchen, I love it even more when it’s healthy and they love it and are surprised or don’t even know it.

I missed not taking photos.

I got my first camera when I was 11 years old from the same grandparents that I spent much time in their kitchen growing up.  I even studied Photography at school and had the priviledge of working at the Banff Centre for many years. I stopped when I moved to BC, didn’t have access to the darkrooms any longer ( I used to print on art paper black and white photos and hand color them…..with my hands), and the digital was coming in, I was resisting it.

If it wasn’t my grandfather concocting some great soup or new recipe, it was around the table eating……….many memories around that table with family over many years.  It was a house my grandfather built and I grew up in spending much time at their house.

Many memories around the dining room table at Christmas when we had to add on as the family grew.  It is so fun to look back over the years (starting in the 60’s) and seeing the photos of who was there, the great styles and hair do’s (oh us cousins were so cool in the 80’s…lol).

My grandparents have passed on, the house has been sold. But I have the good dishes and silverwear where I carry on the tradition in my family and whoever else wants to join us on Christmas or any other festival time.

I love being in the kitchen.

I love real food, real ingredients & real flavor not the fake crap.

I hate counting calories, fats, carbs or anything else…….I have better things to do with my time here!!

I love taking pictures of beautiful things including food.  I bought a compact digital camera several years ago but got my real digital camera about a year ago…..and love it!!!

This blog has changed a couple of times as I’ve searched for what was right, thinking it was but knowing it wasn’t ……now I do.

My blog is about food and you and my journey with it.  My recipes are healthy most of the time, and call it whatever you want, raw, vegan, gluten free…….but the dishes and recipes I am creating come from inspiration, passion and creativity that I am allowing myself to experience, that brings me joy, pleasure and have fun with.  I hope it does for you too so that healthy food doesn’t have to be boring, hard, or difficult.

I just moved to a beautiful house with a huge kitchen that has an amazing view with my 2 awesome teenagers, wonderful husband and my quirky dog Spirit.

I live on the beautiful Sunshine Coast BC.

Thank you for stopping by and I hope you subscribe to get recipes and updates

Have a beautiful day

Jodi Burke

nd Raw Food