Up Beet Kitchen

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About

Hi! Welcome to Up Beet Kitchen! My name is Allison, and I am the home chef and creator behind this food blog. What started as a creative hobby (and vegan food blog) in 2018 has grown into a small business that reaches thousands of people just like you every month. I create healthy, family-friendly recipes with an eye towards eating seasonally and locally whenever possible. While my recipes are no longer exclusively plant-based, you’ll find a wide range of vegan and vegetarian recipes on the site.

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A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THE BLOG

  • I started blogging under a different name in 2018 and didn’t really know what I was doing for the first five years or so. I made a ton of mistakes. I’m still learning each and every day, and with the ever-changing SEO and social media landscape, I don’t think I will ever stop learning. And yet, developing and sharing recipes is such a passion and my favourite outlet for my creativity. I am sure that I will always be doing it in some capacity.
  • While I only published vegan and vegetarian recipes until 2021, the recipes that I share now reflect exactly how my family and I eat on a daily basis: Nourishing, vibrant, and comforting meals that everyone can enjoy.
  • I try to post one new recipe every week. I’d love to post more often, but I want to spend as much time as I can with my son while he’s little. So, until he starts school, I can’t promise more than one recipe per week.

A little bit more about me

  • I am a holistic-minded, nature loving work-at-home single mom based in Ontario, Canada.
  • My favourite season is fall. Cozy sweaters, pumpkin spice everything, apple picking, hot lattes, crisp mornings, colourful leaves, and the perfect running weather. Need I say more?
  • I hold a BA in Environmental Studies and a Holistic Nutrition Certificate from Pacific Rim College. I am also a Certified Personal Trainer.
  • If I could live anywhere in the world, it would be somewhere in the Adirondacks in upstate New York. I have a lifetime goal of hiking all 46 High Peaks.
  • My love of food and cooking stemmed from a childhood spent helping my parents in the kitchen. My dad milled flour at home using fresh organic grains in the 90s, and taught my older brother and I how to bake bread and make healthy desserts. My mom stayed at home with us when we were growing up, so I naturally found myself offering to help her with cooking as I got older. And from there, my love of food flourished. Unfortunately, like so many girls, I had a complicated relationship with food during my teenage years, but I made it to the other side and feel so lucky that I can now share my love of food and cooking with my little boy, who is already such a foodie!
  • My favourite recipes are BBQ Meatball Bowls with Avocado Goddess Sauce, Butternut Squash Tortellini with Pesto, and Sweet Potato Oat Flour Muffins.
  • My toddler son’s favourite recipes are Oat Flour Pancakes with Greek Yogurt, Berry Banana Yogurt Toddler Smoothie, and Beef Taco Meat.
  • I worry about what AI is doing to our minds, to small online publishers, and how it will impact my son’s generation and generations to follow. You can trust that all of the ideas, recipes, and words on this site are my own. I will never use AI for blogging. The more of us who opt out of it, the less power it will have on us. Did you know that if you Google something and add “-AI” to the end of the search query, you won’t get the AI overview?

These are tried and true fan favourite recipes:

Want to work together, or get in touch? Send an email to [email protected]. I look forward to hearing from you!