About

Hey! I'm Bonnie.

I’m a cook, a food lover, a lifelong learner, and the person behind Foodivore.

I’ve been cooking for as long as I can remember, but I didn’t go to culinary school. I’m self-taught, and I’ve spent a lot of years learning by doing, experimenting, screwing things up, figuring out why something didn’t work, and then trying again.

I’ve always believed that good food doesn’t have to be complicated. It doesn’t have to be expensive. And it certainly doesn’t have to be perfect.

It just has to be real.

For more than 15 years, Foodivore has been my way of sharing that belief. I’ve taught people how to cook, created recipes, made and sold food, written about food, taught classes, and probably washed more dishes than I care to remember.

And after taking a rather long detour, I’m back.

But Foodivore looks a little different this time.

FOODIVORE HAS ALWAYS BEEN ABOUT MORE THAN RECIPES

I’ve always believed that food is about so much more than what’s on the plate.

Food is love.

It’s how we take care of people. It’s how we celebrate. It’s how we remember. It’s how we bring people around a table and make an ordinary Tuesday feel a little less ordinary.

I believe real food can nourish both body and soul.

I believe simple is usually better.

I believe you don’t need a kitchen full of expensive gadgets to cook well.

I believe cooking from scratch can save you money, but it can also give you something money can’t buy: confidence.

I believe recipes should be useful, not precious.

I believe the best recipes are the ones you eventually stop needing to look at.

And I believe there is always room for cake.

These are the things I’ve believed for a very long time…Life has only made me believe them more.

Once upon a time, there was a kitchen…

Foodivore started more than 15 years ago with a pretty simple idea:

Feed people good food made from scratch.

I had no grand business plan…I just loved food.
I loved cooking.
I loved making things from scratch and sharing them with people.

One thing led to another, and before I knew it, Foodivore had become an actual business.

There were Christmas cookies and jams. Pickles and preserves. Baking. Frozen meals. Custom orders. A website. A blog. Cooking classes.

And a whole lot of cooking.

But somewhere in all of that, I discovered something that mattered even more to me than making food for people.

I loved teaching people how to make it themselves.

I loved the moment when someone went from “I could never make that” to “Wait…I actually made that.”

That feeling has never left me.

Then life happened.

Of course, life doesn’t always follow the plan.

Over the years, there were some really good chapters.
And there were some really, really hard ones.

There were losses. Big changes. Family challenges. Financial uncertainty. Grief. Starting over. Caring for people I love. Building a home. Finding my footing again.

There were seasons when Foodivore simply wasn’t where my energy needed to be.

So I stepped away.

For a while, I thought that meant I was finished with it. But here’s the funny thing about the things you really love:

Sometimes they wait for you. Foodivore did.

Apparently, I wasn’t finished.

Somewhere along the way, I started thinking about Foodivore again.

Not the business I had before.

Not the endless cooking and baking or the frozen meals or the orders that needed to be filled.

I kept thinking about the part I loved most:
The cooking.
The teaching.
The sharing.
The conversations that happened around food.

And I realized that after everything life had thrown at me, I still believed the same things I believed when I started Foodivore.

Maybe even more strongly.

People still want to eat good food.
They still want to know how to cook.
They still want to spend less at the grocery store.
They still want to feed their families well without spending three hours in the kitchen.

And they still need someone to say:

You can do this.

So I’m bringing Foodivore back.

What is Foodivore now?

Foodivore is about helping you become more confident in your own kitchen.

It’s about real food.

It’s about cooking from scratch when it makes sense—not because someone on the internet told you that you have to make absolutely everything yourself.

It’s about making your grocery budget work harder.

It’s about learning a few good techniques instead of collecting hundreds of recipes you’ll never make.

It’s about knowing what to do with what’s already in your pantry.

It’s about making dinner without losing your mind.

It’s about recipes that become family favourites.

It’s about learning enough to look at what’s in your refrigerator and think, I can make something with that.

And it’s about remembering that cooking is supposed to be enjoyable.

You don’t need to be a chef.

You don’t need fancy equipment.

You don’t need a perfect kitchen.

You just need a little knowledge, a little confidence, and someone willing to show you how.

I want your kitchen to feel different.

I want you to feel less overwhelmed when it’s 5:00 and everyone is hungry.

I want you to look at a recipe and think, I can make that.

I want you to know how to stretch a roast into another meal.

How to turn a handful of ingredients into dinner.

How to make something from scratch without making an entire production out of it.

I want you to waste less food.

Spend less money.

Cook more confidently.

And maybe, just maybe, enjoy being in the kitchen a little more.

Because I don’t think cooking should be another thing on your never-ending list of things you have to do.

I think it can be one of the things you actually enjoy doing.

A few things you should probably know about me

I’m happiest at home.

Give me a good kitchen, something delicious simmering on the stove, a cup of coffee and nowhere I have to be, and I’m pretty content.

I love the beach.

I love cake.

I love travelling, although I’m equally happy spending an entire weekend at home.

I have a tendency to get very excited about food-related things that other people might consider slightly ridiculous.

I will absolutely talk to you about what you had for dinner.

I like learning things. I like figuring out how things work. I like making things with my hands.

I’m curious about just about everything.

And after all these years, I’m still convinced that one of life’s greatest pleasures is feeding people you love something really good.

What all of those years taught me…

I’ve learned that life is short.

I’ve learned that plans change.

I’ve learned that sometimes you have to let go of something you built in order to find your way back to what really matters.

I’ve learned that “perfect” is wildly overrated.

I’ve learned that there is a lot of joy to be found in ordinary things.

A meal made from what’s already in the pantry.
A recipe handed down from someone you love.
A kitchen full of people.
A quiet morning with coffee.
A really good piece of cake.

I’ve learned that taking care of yourself and taking care of other people aren’t always easy.

And I’ve learned that sometimes the most important thing you can do is simply begin again.

I’m glad you’re here.

Whether you’ve been following Foodivore since the beginning or you just found me today, welcome.

This isn’t about becoming the perfect cook.

It’s not about making every meal from scratch.

And it’s definitely not about adding more rules to your life.

It’s about learning how to make good food in a way that works for your life.

I’ll share the recipes, shortcuts, techniques, kitchen wisdom and little bits of food knowledge I’ve picked up along the way.

You bring your appetite.

We’ll figure out the rest.

Welcome back to Foodivore.