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Those who work in the world of hospitality, especially catering, know the number of problems encountered with intolerances, allergies and specific adaptations for people who do not eat food of animal origin.

That is why

Samantha Vallejo-Nágera

(Madrid, October 27, 1969) celebrates a new

100% vegan alternative to chicken eggs

that she has presented through Shukran Foods.

The television chef employs about 40 permanent people plus variable ones in her company Samantha in Spain, celebrating dozens of events and weddings a year for more than 20 years.

"I'm not vegan and I eat everything, but I think it's a fantastic solution to problems like salmonella and a

revolutionary alternative for the horeca channel

and for the food industry, especially when you have to cook for 20 people or more."

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At the moment, a change of these characteristics in his

diet

, which he calls "definitive", is not being considered.

"What I like most in the world is to eat everything, but I want it to be healthy and I usually

balance a lot

when I spend it. Come on, I take my churros and cakes from time to time, but that day I cut myself at dinner, especially

all now that I'm during hours of recording testing dishes", he explains.

It does seem interesting to people who are concerned about their nutrition and the environmental impact that the product of which it is an ambassador has "

0% cholesterol, is low in fat and rich in protein".

On a practical level you will use it.

"It allows you to make many final products, such as an omelet or a vegan lasagna, for example, on planes or in hotels."

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The jury of the MasterChef contest, ambassador of the vegan egg, cooking.EM

Sleeping

well is perhaps the most important thing for this multifaceted woman, who admits to being "hyper active."

"While I'm recording from sunrise to sunset, I don't have any kind of social life. I leave at 7:20 in the morning and arrive at 9:00 pm. I can only take a bath and have a quiet dinner with the family," she describes.

She confesses that she doesn't cook, "what I was missing", she jokes.

She has outside help and sometimes it is difficult for her to find it because they are afraid, she confesses.

"They must think that I cook spheres and they tell me that they know how to do the basics, as if ashamed. Nothing could be further from the truth."

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Recently, he underwent surgery on his knee and has resumed sports, which he asserts is essential in his life.

"I'm very sporty, not because it's in fashion, but because I need it. Now I 'm going back to

yoga

because I can't run like before, I used to do marathons, I rode a horse and I went with my bike to the mountains."

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He has also found calm in

mindfulness

.

"On the way to MasterChef I am meditating with an

app

, I make the most of the time and I have a 40-minute drive by car where I see the landscape. It is something that is not done anymore with so much looking at the mobile.

I feel great

and I notice when I don't I do. Feeling the breath and stopping is like a reset."

In winter, drink a lot of vegetable broths.

"At home,

my children complain that I don't put French fries on them

."

She tries not to buy processed foods.

"I have a smart pantry, with practical and useful products that avoid temptation."

He admits that he manages himself so well despite being a large family that when "they go out to eat or to someone's house is when they value what they have."

Her daughter, in fact, is studying hospitality in Switzerland.

"She is a machine and she likes it a lot. I give her a lot of encouragement and I put her batteries out of love", she slides.

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There have also been moments for jokes.

When asked if she would act as a hostess with a caterer at Tamara Falcó's wedding after her reconciliation, she has reaffirmed.

"Of course she would cook for him. She is who she is and you have to love her."

And she would give, without hesitation, a place in MasterChef Celebrity to the singer Shakira.

"Clearly"

, she has answered amused between laughs.

"I love Shakira and I have always danced to her hits. Each one expresses what she feels as she wants and in my dressing room only she sounds."

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