April 15, 2024
Cardboard kai off menu as chef slims down
Australia-based Māori chef Bridget Foliaki-Davis wanted to encourage Māori – and everyone else – to lose weight by eating better food.
She’s developed online resources to help people cook delicious diet food.
She got the idea from coming to terms with her own weight-related health problems after a lifetime spent in kitchens – and applying some lessons from her later training as a nutritionist..
“Even though I’ve been cooking for over 35 years as a professional chef I always thought diet food was boring and tasted like cardboard and I was like ‘get over yourself girl, go out and do it!’ so I did. I started to cook food that was delicious that just happened to be really good for my body and I got healthy, lost heaps of weight, it’s been awesome,” Foliaki-Davis says.
Bridget’s Healthy Kitchen now has more than 350,000 followers on a range of streaming platforms, and she find’s it’s a seven-day a week operation coming up with fresh content.