Jasmine: “Food is very emotional; if you grow up eating something that you love, it always makes you feel good. We make ‘better-than’ healthy recipes so that the food you love works harder for you. [Our interest in healthy living] started when Melissa and I went on an amazing holiday to Australia. That’s when we thought, ‘How can we feel this good back home?’”

Melissa: “We love living in the city and wouldn’t want to leave, but we still wanted that ‘jump out of bed and get up and go’ holiday feeling back in London. When you’re rushing around living a non-stop city life, you can be completely out of whack with your body. So we thought, once we’re back, let’s try to make an effort to look after ourselves: to eat better, sleep more and help our family do the same.”

Jasmine: “That was such a turning point for Melissa – she was completely burned out and took six months off work. Meanwhile, I went back to modelling and that’s really how [our food business] started. I would bring my own food to shoots and people would say, ‘Why do you eat like this?’ and ‘Can you bring me in some lunch, too?’ Basically, it just snowballed. I was like, ‘Melissa, you’ve got to help me!’ I knew I could trust her and wouldn’t have to train her up because she was the one person that could cook like me and knew where I was coming from.”

Melissa: “Our dad is British Army, so I think that’s helped us run a business because we always had to be super-organised. We had to pack our school bag and have it by the front door before bed; everything had to be labelled. When we started working together, we didn’t even have a name. People would call us ‘The Food Fairies’ because we would go into people’s houses and take all the bad things away and put the right things in. Our business is so inherently family-like; we cook for people like a mum or a sister would. This isn’t gourmet cooking. We’re not trained chefs with fancy knife skills. If you’ve made food with love and care, then you really appreciate it when you sit down to eat it.”

Jasmine: “What we do is not a strict regime with rules and guidelines, which is why it’s not labelled a diet. It’s a way of cutting out some misinformation about food and improving the way you eat to give you more life and vitality.”

Melissa: “As a family, growing up, we loved watching cooking programmes like Ready Steady Cook, Jamie Oliver and Delia Smith, but we watched them just for pure greedy pleasure – we wouldn’t cook like that. Now we love showing people how to cook, especially those who might have been scared at first. People are surprised how into this they get, because the second you start talking about healthy eating, they start to glaze over. When they message you a week later and tell you that cooking is their life now, that’s an amazing feeling. Probably the best.”