Nadia Lim

Nadia Lim is a New Zealand chef, nutritionist and farmer, best known for winning MasterChef New Zealand in 2011 and for co-founding the meal-kit company My Food Bag. A qualified dietitian with a degree in nutrition and dietetics from the University of Otago, Lim built a career on the idea that good food should be simple, seasonal and healthy.

In 2012 she co-founded My Food Bag with Cecilia Robinson, James Robinson, Theresa Gattung and her husband Carlos Bagrie. The company grew into New Zealand's largest meal-kit service and listed on the NZX in 2021. Its founders feature in what New Zealand's most successful founders did next.

Lim has since stepped back from My Food Bag to focus on Royalburn Station, the high-country farm on the Crown Range in Central Otago that she runs with Bagrie. There she has turned to regenerative paddock-to-plate farming, raising lamb, eggs, honey and grains and documenting the work in the television series Nadia's Farm. A prolific cookbook author and television cook, she was made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the 2025 New Year Honours for services to the food industry and the community.

Sources: Wikipedia · nadialim.com · NZ Herald