Wake up to a crunchy quinoa breakfast

HOLIDAY memories of eating freshly caught fish served with just-dug potatoes would later inspire Erica Sheehan to set up her own successful food business.

She says those formative experiences in Ballinskelligs, Co Kerry, gave her a lifelong love of natural food and nutrition.

“Also, my mother was a French teacher and was very interested in France and in good food. She cooked everything from scratch. I don’t think I went out to dinner [in a restaurant] until I was about 16,” she recalls.