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At 32 years old, Dre suddenly started having seizures. It was a year later after being extremely sick that finally a diagnosis of epilepsy was reached. This was a pivotal moment in Dre’s life and the Vital Foodz journey. Wondering if he would ever get his life back, or if he’d have to learn to live with constant seizures, Dre had a chance meeting with an old friend. You could say this chance meeting saved his life as Dre was introduced to how the body can heal itself. With food. As medicine.
The ‘transitional’ meal for Dre was simply lentils and naan, but this dish was the motivational spark needed to convince Dre to keep walking his newfound vegetarian path. Rapidly Dre felt the benefits. His seizures had slowed down, he’d lost weight and was eating food he’d never eaten before. a year and half passed, and Dre wondered if a vegan diet may improve his seizures further.
It did. With astonishing results. His seizures stopped. Completely! Becoming vegan did not just have an impact on Dre’s epilepsy, but on his overall health. His body through adopting a vegan diet had gone into healing mode. And it is this message that Vital Foodz promotes through their fantastic dishes, sweets and smoothies.
Dre believes everyone should give a vegan diet a go, confident that we can heal our bodies with food medicine – ‘Everyone’s going to be vegan soon!’ Thus, Vital Foodz was born. Starting out as a home-based set-up, hailing from South-East London, Vital Foodz grew into a vintage VW van conversion, providing delicious ‘Carivegan’ food.
Powered by nature, fusing Caribbean flavours and favourites with vegan flair, Vital Foodz provides exciting and mouth-watering dishes. Sourcing, where possible surplus and seasonal fruit, vegetables, herbs, and spices to provide healthy,
balanced, and nutritious creations whose roots lay in Jamaica. Warren, a lover of music festivals saw an immense opportunity to promote Dre’s vegan vision through a food truck. Having grown up with Dre, Warren had seen Dre’s health demise with the onslaught of his seizures. He supported Dre with deliveries in the infancy of Vital Foodz thinking all along ‘We should have a food truck!’
It wasn’t long before thoughts became actions and Warren and Dre set about acquiring a van. Wanting something unique and retro, Vital Foodz VW LT31 van was found. From here a bespoke transformation took place, both inside and out, including the addition of a custom-made breadfruit cooker! The amazing journey of Vital Foodz from kitchen to truck begins – ‘Feeding the nation to heal the nation’. As Dre say’s ‘Your body decides it’s health, but a vegan diet maintains it’.
At 32 years old, Dre suddenly started having seizures. It was a year later after being extremely sick that finally a diagnosis of epilepsy was reached. This was a pivotal moment in Dre’s life and the Vital Foodz journey. Wondering if he would ever get his life back, or if he’d have to learn to live with constant seizures, Dre had a chance meeting with an old friend. You could say this chance meeting saved his life as Dre was introduced to how the body can heal itself. With food. As medicine.
The ‘transitional’ meal for Dre was simply lentils and naan, but this dish was the motivational spark needed to convince Dre to keep walking his newfound vegetarian path. Rapidly Dre felt the benefits. His seizures had slowed down, he’d lost weight and was eating food he’d never eaten before. A year and half passed, and Dre wondered if a vegan diet may improve his seizures further. It did. With astonishing results. His seizures stopped.
Completely! Becoming vegan did not just have an impact on Dre’s epilepsy, but on his overall health. His body through adopting a vegan diet had gone into healing mode. And it is this message that Vital Foodz promotes through their fantastic dishes, sweets and smoothies.
Dre believes everyone should give a vegan diet a go, confident that we can heal our bodies with food medicine – ‘Everyone’s going to be vegan soon!’ Thus, Vital Foodz was born. Starting out as a home-based set-up, hailing from South-East London, Vital Foodz grew into a vintage VW van conversion, providing delicious ‘Carivegan’ food.
Powered by nature, fusing Caribbean flavours and favourites with vegan flair, Vital Foodz provides exciting and mouth-watering dishes. Sourcing, where possible surplus and seasonal fruit, vegetables, herbs, and spices to provide
healthy, balanced, and nutritious creations whose roots lay in Jamaica.
Warren, a lover of music festivals saw an immense opportunity to promote Dre’s vegan vision through a food truck. Having grown up with Dre, Warren had seen Dre’s health demise with the onslaught of his seizures. He supported Dre with deliveries in the infancy of Vital Foodz thinking all along ‘We should have a food truck!’
It wasn’t long before thoughts became actions and Warren and Dre set about acquiring a van. Wanting something unique and retro, Vital Foodz VW LT31 van was found. From here a bespoke transformation took place, both inside and out, including the addition of a custom-made breadfruit cooker!
The amazing journey of Vital Foodz from kitchen to truck begins – ‘Feeding the nation to heal the nation’. As Dre say’s ‘Your body decides it’s health, but a vegan diet maintains it’.
