I have always been very passionate about healthy living. I was raised in a household where we always ate our vegetables, but I think when I was diagnosed with an underactive thyroid at age 11, that is when my real passion for healthy eating started to develop. As I grew up I noticed how, not only with myself, but with my Gran who beat cancer purely with diet, and with my mom, who had radical improvements in her health when she changed what she ate that healthy eating DOES make a difference. It made me really interested in why certain foods are good for us and what following a healthy diet can accomplish. Along with my passion for health, I’ve also always been incredibly organised. So when I started working full time I had a strong desire to be organised enough to stay eating healthily, no matter how busy I got. That’s when the salads in a jar started. My favourite part of a Sunday evening was meal prep and then starting Monday with a fridge full of pretty salads in a jar. Before this all began, I worked in the travel industry for years, my other passion. So when 2020 hit us with a worldwide pandemic and I was forced to look for new work, I knew I couldn’t do something I wasn’t passionate about. I have also seen for years, how people want to eat healthily, but then life catches up with them and all their health goals go out of the window. Basically unemployed, I decided to combine my first love of health and my desire to want to help people live a healthier lifestyle and so Gisele’s Healthy Kitchen began.