How it all started? What inspired me? What was my true motivation for creating Veganeeta?

These are all questions we need to travel a bit back in time to answer.

You know the feeling when you live your everyday life

and a little tingling in the back of your mind always whispers something else.

In this life, I believe my personal development began in my early 30s with me finally seeing the light.

In the spiritual dissatisfaction I experienced in my few years of legal career after finishing law school,

perhaps the most beautiful and forward-looking thing was that I found what I thought was true to my heart,

something I had loved doing ever since I was a little girl and it is nothing but spending time in the kitchen.

I absolutely loved the flavours. I loved creating the dishes and I loved the sparkle in my loved ones’ eyes

when they said ‘hmm, that’s good’, or that ‘uh, well, I’m sorry, but it isn’t your best’.

When in my early 20s I was diagnosed with a malignant ovarian cancer, I had no idea

that, after all, I would benefit from it.

And I did, because almost 8 years later, when, then again, my tumour marker results weren’t showing their best form,

I decided to become vegan.

I think I can say this without exaggeration, but I saved my own life when I became vegan.

When you ask me, what veganism means to me, I can only answer with one word: my life.

It’s all based on my love of cooking and communicating with people, which all contributed to the little puzzle pieces

that let the Veganeeta be born.

I started writing the blog a few years ago to give a helping hand to those who are in the same boat.

Then I learned that a lot of people are in that boat that they can’t have children, that they had a malignant ovarian lesion and

today I know how much a diet can help with these things. That's how I started.

That's how it started. Then when we moved to Balatonalmádi, this great little town on the shores of Lake Balaton,

my clear desire was a teeny tiny restaurant.

By then, it was already crystal clear that a vegan restaurant was going to be here, as I had been on a vegan diet for years

and I went for it without even knowing what I was talking about.

And slowly, after more than a year and a half, I can say that I see daylight.

And the most beautiful thing about it all is that I extraordinarily enjoy every single moment of this learning process.

And do you know what else I truly like? I like being with you. I love it when you visit me at the restaurant and we just simply are, just talk

and I listen to you and you listen to me too and we exchange ideas,

and, in the meantime, we unknowingly give each other a little bit of ourselves.

And that's why I love my cooking clubs. Especially when there’s only a few of you and I can focus on each of you to the max.

And of course, to pass on what I have experienced so far and to evolve together with you, to learn by you.

I think I have chosen the most beautiful profession I could choose for myself for this life.

One of my favourite films is The Pursuit of Happyness, starring Will Smith. In that film you can hear the phrase

"Don't ever let somebody tell you you can’t do something. You got a dream, you got to protect it.

People can’t do something themselves they want to tell you you can’t do it. You want something, go get it."

Perhaps this perception of life was the best pairing with the positive mental attitude I have in my blood.

Well, this is my little story.