My name is Laura Nguyen and welcome to Colour My Palate!
(the foodie beginnings)
For those of you who don’t know me, I’ve always found myself to be very interested in well — everything! With that being said, it had always been a constant challenge for me whenever it came to making decisions about my future…
After stumbling upon the Dietetics program at McGill University, I realized that food & health were both things that I wanted to pursue. They both fulfilled some kind of need. From studying sciences, I had developed a sense of curiosity, a desire to understand the “why” behind everything – and similar to how my interests were scattered, I realized that the aspects surrounding food were scattered as well.
Food touches upon so many aspects of living: health, culture, the economy, human behavior, politics – it’s something that plays an important role in everyday life.
Colour My Palate (@colourmypalate) was an Instagram account that I had started in 2015 in my second year of university. It was meant to be a means of artistic expression, a hub for me to expand my knowledge on the world of nutrition and health, and a way for me to convey my many interests and the different parts of my personality.
The name “Colour My Palate” comes from being a combination of two things that I love: art & food.
When I first created my blog, I wanted it to show people that adopting a healthy lifestyle can be simple, affordable, tasty and most importantly, fun! Cooking up new recipes, tasting different items, designing and presenting food in an artistic way make my project all the more fun to work on.
However, it’s getting people to ask questions, pushing them to be more curious about the food that they eat, uncovering nutrition myths & queries, and communicating it with others that really makes the work more meaningful and worthwhile.
Science is constantly progressing, and there’s a lot about nutrition that many, myself included, don’t know or quite understand yet. I hope to make Colour My Palate an educational platform that simplifies nutrition for all, that keeps you well-informed, and that pushes you to think more critically about what you see and hear online – take it from your average skeptic!
Throughout its development, working on Colour My Palate has always given me a reason to stay on track whenever times were hard. It has given me drive. It has given me motivation. It’s something that I want to work on every minute of every day because it never ceases to help me grow, to learn and to flourish as a person.
Colour My Palate, my very own colour palette.
Laura Nguyen, RD (Dt.P)