Aamna Saad, a housewife and a mother to one son, is living her passion by pursuing food blogging as a hobby as well as a career.
She belongs to Karachi, Pakistan where she spent her entire childhood and teenage. She opted for Computational Finance as her professional field, but couldn’t practice it as a career.
Got married 4 years back and moved to Khobar, Saudi Arabia.
Living as an expatriate, she never applied for any job since her priority was her home and family yet at the same time she was passionate to do something on her own.
Food had always been her weakness. She loved creating new recipes, experimenting with flavors, discovering new cuisines, and trying out different eateries in town.
Hence it was a perfect idea to turn her passion into a career.
Her food blog was started in August 2020, which caters to creative and easy recipes, kitchen hacks, food science, and eateries reviews.
When she stepped into the kitchen in her initial days, she faced a lot of hurdles in cooking. Since marrying at a young age then moving abroad doesn’t seem fascinating when you don’t know how to cook. Hence this idea clicked her and she felt the urge to share her experiences with the audience.
According to her, cooking is not a chore, but an art, in which every day you learn something new, you fail but u try again and succeed. This process goes on until you feel accomplished even with one compliment that comes from the dining table.
Talking particularly about Aamna Saad’s food blog, it has her heart and soul in it. Whatever her audience finds there, it is something related to her. The problems that she faced as an amateur cook before, she doesn’t want others to go through. Hence her basic target is to create easy hassle-free recipes with minimum ingredients yet with a promising taste. Be it the main course, appetizer, beverage, or dessert, her blog has everything for you to try out.
Her contentment is when her audience shares their recreations with her, she feels honored to have put a smile on someone’s face who had been struggling in something and she made it easy for them.
Not just home-cooked food, she also posts food reviews to help people in her town in selecting the best restaurant for them. She photographs the food and ambiance and uploads with all the necessary details like the menu, prices just to make it easy for her followers to explore it through her feed.
Blogging never is an easy job. It’s not just a person behind a laptop creating content. It is a tiring process.
You never know that one food picture that you see on your Instagram feed takes the whole day of the blogger. At first creating the recipe after multiple trials to make it perfect, shooting it nicely, photographing it to make it look out of the world, editing it to look more appealing, typing in the whole recipe procedure in the caption, and then finally uploading it with suitable hashtags!
Hence it requires a lot of patience and hard work
Making your blogging a career requires double the hard work mentioned above. You need to build good connections, network with different people to make your blog famous, and expand its audience. The more exposure the blog gets, the more chances there are to have brands approaching you. This certainly means giving more and more time to your workspace to reach thousands of people and get acknowledgment from related brands. Consistency, hard work, creative content, and networking surely leads to the positive growth of a blog through which you can earn as well.
As a blogger, after all the hard work that is involved in the process, she craves some appreciation from her followers. One like comment, save, or share simply makes her day. This in turn also contributes to increase her reach. Hence, as an audience, we all should uplift and support everyone who is putting in a lot of effort in creating valuable content.
At the moment, she isn’t earning through her blog, in fact inputting all that she has got and would certainly be doing that until she achieves something more from this.
She wishes to see this space as a huge recipe sharing and food review platform where people would be trying out her recommendations and execute all the recipes without having the fear of wasting their ingredients.
Anyone who is at the same stage as her, her guidance for you is to stay consistent, be genuine, and never give up. At times it seems so depressing when you are putting in so much effort but still not reaping the reward, but remember everyone gets what they deserve someday or the other.
She would like to wrap it up with the basic motive behind this journey:
Food is a basic necessity, hence try to ‘love’ it and not just ‘make it.
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