But why should healthy food taste boring?"įotu-Moala says the current favourite among her clients is the keto jelly tip slice. "I often get messages from people saying, 'are you sure there's no sugar' as they are in disbelief it tastes so good. "The best thing is working in the heart of South Auckland, as most of our customers are from South Auckland and 93 percent of our customers are Pasifika and Māori. She says her customers are continually amazed how good the food tastes, despite the lack of sugar and other additives. We've found after each lockdown there's been a bit of spike." "After the first lockdown we had loads of people wanting to feel better and eat better and we also did really well in the second lockdown. "We launched in December 2019 and after that, Swanie caught wind of it and she invited us in." Lockdowns boost businessĭespite her first year as a self-employed entrepreneur being marred by Covid-19, Fotu-Moala says the lockdowns have been surprisingly good for business. This proved to be the spur she needed, and she quit her job to dedicate herself not only to finding local sources for her baked delights, but also to making her creations available to the wider public. Photo: LDR / Suppliedīut when she left Sydney, where she had been working in investment fund management, and moved back to Auckland to take up a senior marketing role at Fisher & Paykel, she found it much harder to access the necessary ingredients to maintain her dietary needs. I've always baked, as my mum is just an amazing cook, so I started just baking all this stuff."Ī sample of Pauline Fotu-Moala's baking. "I got rid of flour, sugar and dairy, and started eating wholesome foods, and I found it improved my gut, my skin and my energy levels. Michelle Potoru, meanwhile, is the operations manager and a director of the Papatoetoe Food Hub, which takes unwanted but usable food and turns it into delicious cafe meals at an affordable price.įotu-Moala's step into the world of catering began with her own health struggles, and after seeing a naturopath, she realised her diet was part of the problem. Pauline Fotu-Moala runs Ikuna Taste, a plant-based dessert business operating out of the Ōtara Kai Village, offering cakes, slices and cookies made without refined sugars or gluten. The pair now play key roles at two Auckland Council-backed food havens in Ōtara and Papatoetoe. The compelling factor behind both women's gamble was a desire to see their fellow South Aucklanders get better access to healthier and tastier food choices. One gave up a career in the world of investment banking, while the other, as a single mum to five children, chose to take a leap of faith with a burgeoning social enterprise selling rescued food. The prospect of Russian interference in Britain's election flared anew Saturday after the social media platform Reddit concluded that people from Russia had leaked confidential British government documents on Brexit trade talks just days before the general U.K.Pauline Fotu-Moala at her Ikuna Taste store, left, and Michelle Potoru at the Papatoetoe Food Hub. Reddit said in a statement that it had banned 61 accounts suspected of violating policies against vote manipulation. It said the suspect accounts shared the same pattern of activity as a Russian interference operation dubbed ``Secondary Infektion`` that was uncovered earlier this year. Reddit investigated the leak after the documents became public during the campaign for Thursday's election, which will determine the country's future relationship with the European Union. Reddit said it believed the documents were leaked as ``part of a campaign that has been reported as originating from Russia.`` All 650 seats in the House of Commons are up for grabs. ``We were able to confirm that they did indeed show a pattern of coordination,'' Reddit said. The British government has not challenged the authenticity of the documents.įILE - Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson sits on a train in London, Dec. 6, 2019, on the campaign trail ahead of the general election on Dec. The issue has been a central election theme, largely because the country deeply cherishes the health service, which has suffered under years of austerity.ġ2.īritain's main opposition party has argued the documents prove that Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Conservative Party is seeking a deal with the United States after Brexit that would drive up the cost of drugs and imperil the state-funded National Health Service. Opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn said the 451 pages of documents, which covered six rounds of preliminary talks between U.S. negotiators, proved that Johnson was planning to put the NHS ``up for sale'' in trade talks. Johnson - who was not prime minister for most of the two-year period when the trade talks took place - has rejected Corbyn's analysis.īritain is currently scheduled to leave the 28-nation EU on January 31.
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