Nourish Your Active Life

Kate Percy’s Journey: From Kitchen to Bestseller

About Kate Percy

Welcome! I’m Kate Percy, best-selling author, food for fitness writer and healthy eating advocate. I’m lucky enough to be 60 years old, and I’m married with three grown-up kids.

Sometimes I go by the name Granny Kate as I also have a baby granddaughter!

Food has always taken centre stage in my life. Aged 8, my Mum gave me the run of the kitchen, where I remember cooking my first family meal: Maryland Chicken and Sweetcorn Fritters (from Ursula Sedgewick’s My Fun To Cook Book, Hamlyn, 1969!).

Luckily the chicken was so good my parents were prepared to live with the mess I made. I’ve been cooking ever since.

Fast forward to 2009. My first book was published, Go Faster Food, Penguin, which I wrote after changing the family’s diet to help my husband in his ‘mid-life crisis’ quest to run the New York marathon. Not only had his energy levels soared, the whole family felt so much better; more energy, better concentration, more smiles and fewer illnesses. I got bored of watching my husband running and so decided to give it a go myself. I got the running bug and have since run many marathons and half-marathons, even a few ultra-marathons.

That’s what got me started on my mission to help others discover that magic between what you eat and your physical and mental wellbeing.

It’s what I call #Enerjoy! Great tasting food that puts a smile on the face of friends and family and delivers the right type of get-up-and-go energy.

Three best-selling cookbooks later, I’m so happy to have inspired thousands to find their #Enerjoy!

Now a Sunday Times Maserati game-changing entrepreneur, in-house chef for health & wellbeing magazines like 220 Triathlon and Women’s Running, I’ve developed healthy eating programmes for the BBC, Virgin Sport and United Learning Academy Group.

“My secret weapon is to keep it real and achievable.
And fun!
It’s the latest evidence-based nutritional science which I translate into a practical, pragmatic approach to eating.”
Kate percy

In 2017, I launched Kate Percy’s Go Bites energy balls, and am super-proud to have gained the coveted accolade of ‘Great Taste Producer’. Sadly we had to close production of these delicious snacks. The pandemic hit the business hard and we just could not recover quick enough.

Since closing the Go Bites business, I’ve been in my happy place more, the kitchen! Watch this space for a new active family cookbook…

I’ve also launched a charity called CRuNCH – a game-changing charity dedicated to creating healthier, happier futures for young people.

Our mission with CRuNCH is to empower our amazing young people with the skills and knowledge they need for better physical and mental wellbeing. The basic foundations for a good life, so they can participate in society as healthier, happier adults.

Find out more about CRuNCH and our first initiative – Cook 5 with CRuNCH – which challenges, inspires and supports children, especially teenagers, to cook 5 healthy meals from scratch.

“Food is so much more than ‘healthy’ or ‘nutrition’. It’s the stuff of life, it’s about enjoyment, it unites.
Cooking together, sitting down ‘breaking bread’, discussing the day, your feelings, arguing your point…there’s nothing better!”
Kate percy

Check out @katepercys on social media.

Come into my kitchen. Let’s cook up some #Enerjoy!