the story behind healthy mama kris

I started exploring the world of food beyond the box as a teenager, as soon as my first friend got their license, driving a whole 20 minutes north to the local pan-asian restaurant for sushi and nime chow.

As a nutrition student in college, my knowledge of food expanded only as far as the labels on food- calories and fat grams, sugar and sodium. It wasn't until that beautiful summer spent in Calabria that I fell in love with food in a whole new way- fresh, real, whole food, food that came directly from farm to table- and started to appreciate that food is so much more than the label, food is nourishment- but it's also experience and love. 

A few weeks after that summer spent in Italy, I met my now-husband, (who happens to be Canadian) and less than two years after meeting, moved up to Toronto to attend culinary school and eventually- start a career in serving others nourishing, delicious food. 

After graduation, I worked as a kitchen manager for a small cooking school, teaching cooking classes and starting my private chef business. 

It was during that time I also discovered the power of food to heal- after dealing with over a decade of digestive issues and hormone imbalances, food was the main factor in helping me live a healthier life, free of digestive struggles and hormone symptoms. 

For many years I worked as a personal and private chef with a focus on healthy cooking, in catering and the occasional restaurant job (I even once worked as the head chef of a 200-foot tall ship) until weeks before giving birth to my now-10-year-old.

Soon after, Healthy Mama Kris was born.