Aktliving came about from a passion of healthy clean eating and Yoga. I love to share what I create in the kitchen and how Yoga makes us feel and the benefits of having a healthy lifestyle which includes clean eating, Yoga, Yin (a new love), Pilates and a Barre practice.

My Journey started at a young age but it began when my husband became sick and I started to research more about food and how I could incorporate different ingredients to help keep my husband’s immune system and strength up – he had throat cancer which years later would have significant ramifications on his health and today continues to.

I have always been passionate about food. I can still remember that morning when I woke up, determined to cook something because I had been asking my mother to let me cook, I was young around 5 or 6.

So, I pulled out some ingredients and a saucepan and started to create a dish on the stove cooktop, that was Canberra in the A.C.T. where I was born and grew up until we moved. Well I was not popular with my mum, so she promptly sent me down to my Grandmothers who live about a 10-minute walk away.

My first cooking lesson was a vanilla sponge cake, made by hand, with a wooden spoon. My grandmother did not have an electric beater or mixer, so I had to beat the butter and sugar by hand until is was creamy and fluffy. My hands hurt but it was the best vanilla cake I have eaten. So regularly on a Sunday I would cook with my Grandmother and then I started to make food in my grandmother’s kitchen for my family, grandmother, grandfather and my uncles – one dish I made was dumplings in Golden Syrup I was pretty proud of myself as I did it by myself.

My Instagram account has allowed me to share the food I create for my family, and hopefully to inspire you to get in the kitchen to cook and eat nourishing food, and now I love cooking with my grandchildren – but no one messes with Grace who takes control, it brings so much joy