Hey there, I’m Shannon!.
And if I had my way, junk food would be completely banned and no one (not even big food companies) would get away with selling us fake convenience as real nourishment and make ultra-processed food feel very normal. But I dream on….
Anyways…I LOVE veggies and fruit salads and you wouldn’t blame me for that because I grew up in Salinas, West/Central California which is known for growing a wide variety of crops; fruit, vegetables, nuts, dairy and much more.
And I can’t live without Artichokes as well..LOL (crazy I know). Well, I blame my uncle Jason for that…he grows a ton of it in Castroville, California “Artichoke Capital of the World”, which is not far from my home. And he brings a LOT of them home to us almost every weekend.
And that brings me to why you’re prolly here…Yuminest! Yea, I know is sounds weird and Genz-ish at the same time but trust me, you don’t wanna how I came up with it..lol
But really, Yuminest is my ever growing collection of delicious feel-good food you can actually make, actually enjoy, and actually come back to again and again.
But… there’s something else:
They’re REAL food recipes made with REAL ingredients for REAL life!
We are an “Ai-image-free” Website…
If you’re like me, you’re sick of the absolutely endless (mostly poor) food content flooding the internet – at a rate that HUMAN creators can not keep up with.
And if you use Pinterest a lot for finding recipes, you’ll discover that it’s recently become terrible to use for that as well. These days, my whole feed is full of AI generated pictures of AI generated food made by AI generated cooks. It makes Pinterest near unusable.
And the funny part is that there will be pictures of food and instructions that use real ingredients, but the dishes don’t turn out at all, and most people can’t afford to waste food on fake recipes that ruin the ingredients.
The saddest part to me is how many people these days have a hard time affording food and if they use one of these AI recipes and it turns out badly, that is wasted food for a family who needs it.
That’s why all the recipes we share here at Yuminest are made at home by REAL cooks who are testing and photographing every recipe! (Sometimes we might use AI to “assist” us in putting text together faster, but that’s where it ends.) Absolutely no plastic looking food over here.)
You can trust that the recipes you will find via Yuminest are NOT generated by artificial intelligence… they are real food for real people!
This all started with fruits and veggies… honestly…
And for as long as I can remember, I’ve always loved foods that feels fresh, simple, and tastes natural.
While some people (like my sister…oops) always like munching on heavy comfort food, I’ve always been the older sis finishing up all the colorful salads, crisp cucumbers, sweet corn, fresh fruit, and veggie dishes at home…lol.
Sorry, but I’m a rebel (in a good way :))
When I’m not eating my veggies, I’m a full-time mom of one troublesome, but angelic creature…honestly, I miss him so much when he’s not around
I also provide water treatment consultation services as a private/independent consultant. Plainly, that means I help individuals and businesses determine what their unique water treatment needs are and the best way to install them without wasting a lot of money.
I’ve been doing it for over 7 years and I LOVE doing it!
But one day in 2025, a friend who’s a kinda into digital marketing introduced me to creating websites and I could share my beloved recipes with the world. As a former Pinterest-lover (no thanks to AI), I realized that if I loved fruit salads and veggies (and healthy food in general) this much… I should have a whole website about it, one that would never publish a silly Ai created recipe.
And that’s how Yuminest was born.
I first started publishing the foods I already loved most like fruit recipes, fresh salads, cucumber recipes, and so on…
The kind of food that will make you not only feel refreshed and satisfied but also a little more put together.
My goal for Yuminest at the end of day is to have a food blog that is built around simple meals, easy everyday ingredients, and recipes that make you enjoy eating healthy and feels enjoyable instead of complicated.
My next stop would be Chicken Recipes in the coming months, and I can’t wait to see how that goes.
Because for me, good food should taste good, look good, and also leave you feeling good as well.
And it turns out that food blogging is the most fun I’ve had online for years…
I hope you find some new favourite recipes!