It was exactly five years ago today that I hit the publish button on the first post I’ve ever shared here on Little Spice Jar. For me, blogging was a way of filling my days after choosing to walk away from my job in the healthcare industry. It was my first job right out of college, it was monotonous, and within the first several months, I knew I didn’t want to do this long term. Even as I was finishing the last couple of years of my undergrad, it was becoming increasingly apparent that I wanted to work with food. I hold a degree in Human Nutrition and Foods, and while most of the classes I took geared me towards clinical nutrition, I owe all of this to the food science classes that were part of our curriculum. It was those food science and hotel and restaurant management classes that lit these tiny sparks that my day job wasn’t fueling. So even after work and on the weekends, I’d whip together treats to share with family and friends. My coworkers often joked that I’d bake and cook at work if I could, they weren’t wrong! So after three years, I made the leap. The blog started as an outlet. I needed something to do while I figured out my next steps. And I always had family and friends asking me for recipes of things I had made and shared with them in the past. So I figured while I worked through what I wanted to do, I can use the spare time to organize my recipes online. I had an old DSLR camera I had bought before our honeymoon, and I used that to take pictures in our then two-window apartment that only had sun for a couple of hours in the day. Right away I noticed that I had way more fun running around in my kitchen, in the middle of the day (sometimes in my pajamas) than working towards a career that albeit secure, just wasn’t working for me. I gave myself a year. If I could continue to blog three times a week for a year, I’d find a way to make food my life. In all honesty, I figured I’d head back to culinary school. I just needed validation that it was worth the enormous student loan I’d need to take out in my mid-twenties. Never in a million years did I sit at my breakfast table (which doubled as my office at the time) and dream that I’d be sharing my recipes with all of you guys as my fulltime job one day. I’m so incredibly humbled and grateful that things worked out the way they did!
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Last words!
As always, thank you from the bottom of my heart for reading the blog and making the recipes that I share. I honestly love what I do, and if it weren’t for you, I wouldn’t be doing it <3 Now for the part we’ve all been waiting for!
The Little Spice Jar Turns 5 Giveaway!
Here’s how to enter One entry per Instagram post. You have 5 chances to win! About the Giveaway: From 11/26 – 11/30/2018 we will be giving away $100 gift card a day. Contest closes at 11:59 pm CST on 11/30. Winners are chosen at random. Be sure to enter each day! Winners announced on Instagram on 12/02/2018 Terms & Conditions
