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

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

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You know the feeling when you live your everyday 
life

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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that, after all, I would benefit from it.

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

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I decided to become vegan.

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

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

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

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that let the Veganeeta be born.

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

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

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

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my clear desire was a teeny tiny restaurant.

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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

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

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

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

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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

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

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

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Well, this is my little story.