It's 5 a.m., the alarm goes off and you enter zombie mode - getting ready for work, school or to leave the house ahead of traffic. No time for breakfast, so you grab whatever you see. Some days it's wholesome, some too bad to mention, and even worse, there are days when you eat nothing at all.

For lunch, you eat whatever is served in the canteen or at the nearest fast-food joint. And let's not get started on dinner. By the time you get home you have little to no energy to cook, so once again you are forced to grab something from the nearest food joint.

Five years ago, owner and director of Clean Treats Martina, Christian, was faced with a similar dilemma. By her second year at the University of Technology, she was overweight and tired of the junk she was surrounded by. She yearned for a cleaner, healthier option and decided to do something about it.

She took to the kitchen. "I started the gym and cooking my own healthy meals and treats during the summer break of my second year. After that, in the following three years of undergrad I was able to stabilise my weight by prepping most of my meals. It was however, after finishing my master's degree that I was able to