Shivashakti

-6 days a week and would regularly order not one but two double Big Macs; she was a farmgirl who grew up on meat and potatoes and would joke (we use this term loosely haha) about “not believing in vegetables.”

Every year, we would fast from meat for the week of Diwali (the Hindu Celebration of Light). And every year, we would be counting down until we could order our favourite pizza or run to McDonald’s. Well every year, except for 2014. Nothing particular happened that Diwali, but something shifted in us. That year, when it came time for us to chow down, neither of us wanted meat. Keep in mind, we had never (and I mean never) discussed becoming vegetarians. I would say it was actually unfathomable for us at that point. We decided that this wasn’t by chance that we were both feeling the same way and decided to let our intuition guide us. We took it day by day and it became clear that we felt better on a vegetarian diet. Not too long after that, we became vegan. Since then, we’ve lost more than 160 pounds together, Shan kicked her thyroid disease and we feel awesome! Through this, we also discovered a new passion - cooking!! This took some adjusting but lucky for both us, Trini (as you may have guessed by the name) is from Trinidad where many of the traditional Caribbean dishes he grew up with were vegan. In the beginning, if we had to rely on Shan’s cooking, we would have been living off of carrot sticks and rice. But as time went on, Shan started exploring in the kitchen too and discovered there were ways to make some of the meals she missed most...like Mac n’ Cheese. And so the love affair began - we started cooking more and more for friends and playing around with different vegetables, beans and flours. Then one day, it hit us: we KNOW how hard it is to find yummy GF, vegan food on the go; we have lots of yummy recipes that we cook...we NEED to share this with people!! And there you have it, Shivashakti was born :D Thank you for taking the time to get to know us a little better :D We’re so grateful for this opportunity to serve in our community! Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for your support - we truly love and appreciate it! Thank you! God Bless!