I’m back!

I started this blog in 2017 under the name Plant Powered Pea and used it to share everything I was learning about the whole food plant based diet. It became dormant after various other things dominated my time - a cross-country move, homeschooling during the pandemic, going in to business with my brother, being more involved in my aging father’s care and the day to day of life of my growing family.

My husband was diagnosed with stage 3c colon cancer early last year. This was a bolt from the blue because he has no family history felt perfectly healthy at the time and was not experiencing any of the symptoms that we associate with this cancer - blood, changes in bowel habits, nothing. He had been putting off his colonoscopy but finally went after being laid off, knowing that his health insurance would change. DO NOT PUT OFF YOUR COLONOSCOPY!

His diagnosis was an enormous shock but I was/am so grateful that I had all my knowledge from devouring books, and documentaries on the subject of diet and disease. Because of that rampant interest, I had also completed the Plant Based Nutrition Certificate at the Center for Nutrition Studies and the Forks Over Knives Cooking Course - so I felt well equipped academically and in the kitchen to give him the very best chance of recovery. After surgery and six months of aggressive chemo, I’m pleased to share that he is currently in remission and I am more determined than ever to ensure that my entire family eats as well as we can for the best possible health outcomes.

And I’m still learning! I finally got my Rouxbe Plant Based Pro Certification after several years of sporadic learning. This has given me an even deeper foundation of skills and knowledge to build and a few weeks ago, I enrolled in a certification course at the Food Coach Academy with the aim of fulfilling my dream of becoming a food coach and helping more people find their path to better health. This felt like a good time to get back to blogging and prepare for that.

I’m discovering new information, techniques, ingredients all the time and this the very core of what I love and hope to use to ignite a similar passion in others for delicious and health-promoting foods. I hope too that it will serve as launchpad to help those on a journey to a better relationship with food and an archive of good recipes and resources.

Through the magic of internet archiving I was able to find an imprint of my old and defunct plantpoweredpea.blog and copy what they had saved section by section into this new site. I changed the blog name to Better Through Food because I because I wanted it to be less about me and more about helping people. Better diet, better health. Better is a good word because it can meet everyone where they are and doesn’t have any kind of size or destination. A tiny weeny little step in the right direction is always better.

So whether you are running triathlons, are interested in doing what you can to prevent lifestyle diseases, or have even been diagnosed with one, I hope that there will be something here to inspire you to try something new.

Something healthy and delicious.