Banting Foodie aims to eradicate misconception
Nnasaretha Kgamanyane | Sunday June 26, 2022 06:00
Keeping the right diet for a better and healthy lifestyle has always been a struggle for many people more especially women. This is because women are mostly obsessed about having a certain body figure.
Eating the right meal can also be a problem to many, especially for those who want to eat a certain diet for health benefits. The issue is mainly because many people think eating some certain diets might be costly.
However, Talitha Pitso and her co-founder of Banting Foodies are here to eliminate that misconception. In an interview with Arts & Culture, Pitso said people perceive healthy eating to be expensive and end up resorting to fast food, which is thought to be cheaper, a stereotype that she said must be killed. She added that most Batswana were not cautious eaters until they had health conditions that force them into diet eating. “A banting diet is a low carbohydrate, medium fat diet.
The idea behind this diet is that when eating a diet with lower carbs and medium fat, it makes your body shift from burning carbs for energy to burning fat. A lot of people get on this diet primarily for weight loss, but it has other benefits such as normalised BP, improved sleep, reduction in chronic inflammation and all blood markers associated with heart disease risk etc,” she said.
She pointed out that Batswana responded so well to their meals, more than they anticipated. She explained that might be because they were doing something different from what other cooking businesses were doing adding that Batswana knowing more about banting was an advantage as a lot of people were really supportive of the business. Moreover, she explained that Banting Foodies was currently not focusing only on serving individuals daily but also does catering. She added that they had so far catered for private companies and the government.
She said they aspired to open a restaurant in future. The duo started their business right before the pandemic but unfortunately before long COVID-19 hit the country forcing them to stop operating because of the lockdown and that was a greatest blow for the business. Post COVID-19 when they re-opened, they had lost a lot of clients, and food items started getting expensive.
This self-taught chef said she grew up liking to play in the kitchen from a very tender age, where she liked trying new things in the kitchen. When she was only 12, she already knew how to bake. Cooking was a passion that never died despite excelling academically.