Třebaňské oils IN THE PRESS or how it all began
All roads lead in the right direction, sings Jarek Nohavica. Sometimes through narrow walls to a dead end, sometimes through life's crossroads, when one sets out on a completely different path. I too stood at such a crossroads and set out on a completely new path at the age of forty. It is not easier. But it is real and it is mine. Full of my own decisions, successes, but also mistakes and, most importantly, knowledge. It is the story of our Třeboň oils IN THE PRESS. 
I lived a typical thirty-something life in Prague. A drifter who stayed in the capital after college to build a career. I had great ambitions, a crazy pace of life, I was driving wedges out of wedges and the days flew by like out of the window of an express train. The main thing is that I have a good and high aim. Where, actually, I didn't ask anymore. From a clerk in an office, I quickly became a manager and then suddenly in politics. I wasn't even thirty yet and my dream career lay ahead of me. I was a councilor in a district with a population of 100,000.
I had big plans. I spent my days at the city hall, with pizza delivered for lunch and sandwiches for coffee. Evenings at meetings, work events or to let off steam in a pub. I wanted to do everything. Then came the wedding and family planning. A small apartment certainly wouldn't be enough and housing in Prague is expensive, a house outside the city would be a great solution. In quick succession, the first daughter, a house with a mortgage and a second daughter were added. But also commuting to work, higher goals, more stress and blinders on.
"How could things have gotten this far?", Don Corleone's words ran through my head when I finally found myself in a hospital bed two years ago with IVs above my head. One examination followed another. It was clear to me that it was serious. The crazy test results showed that my body had entered a metabolic breakdown. In a few days it was clear - a genetic disorder of processing animal fats, which only manifested itself when a healthy lifestyle was not followed for a long time. A total change had to come.
In our e-shop you can now buy four basic types of oils and, suddenly, a fifth type - linseed oil. Each one is different and all of them are unique. In addition to oils, we also offer products made from oilcake, which is created during pressing and is very rich in nutrients, vitamins and minerals. I will definitely write about all of this in future articles.
A story about how the journey can be the goal.
I lived a typical thirty-something life in Prague. A drifter who stayed in the capital after college to build a career. I had great ambitions, a crazy pace of life, I was driving wedges out of wedges and the days flew by like out of the window of an express train. The main thing is that I have a good and high aim. Where, actually, I didn't ask anymore. From a clerk in an office, I quickly became a manager and then suddenly in politics. I wasn't even thirty yet and my dream career lay ahead of me. I was a councilor in a district with a population of 100,000.
I had big plans. I spent my days at the city hall, with pizza delivered for lunch and sandwiches for coffee. Evenings at meetings, work events or to let off steam in a pub. I wanted to do everything. Then came the wedding and family planning. A small apartment certainly wouldn't be enough and housing in Prague is expensive, a house outside the city would be a great solution. In quick succession, the first daughter, a house with a mortgage and a second daughter were added. But also commuting to work, higher goals, more stress and blinders on.
The lifestyle was disastrous.
And since no tree grows to the sky, the quick end of my dream career followed, with it increasing disagreements at home and finally divorce. Everything fell apart like a house of cards. Sitting in the mayor's office was replaced by a chair at the lawyer's. I felt like I had lost everything. I felt that things couldn't go on like this anymore, but the train that was moving wouldn't stop."How could things have gotten this far?", Don Corleone's words ran through my head when I finally found myself in a hospital bed two years ago with IVs above my head. One examination followed another. It was clear to me that it was serious. The crazy test results showed that my body had entered a metabolic breakdown. In a few days it was clear - a genetic disorder of processing animal fats, which only manifested itself when a healthy lifestyle was not followed for a long time. A total change had to come.
Armed with the advice of doctors and a nutritionist and literature, I started a new diet.
Cooking had always been my great hobby, so it was time to get back to it. Food composition and nutritional value tables became my mandatory reading. New rules began to apply to me, and one of the keys was the amount and origin of the fats I eat. I had to significantly limit animal fats and replace them with vegetable fats. I looked for cold-pressed ones because of their high nutritional value, I researched the market and tried oils. I decided to start pressing oils myself. Getting a press was the easiest thing.
When I look back today on those nine months of preparation, trial and error, I say to myself that I imagined it like a Hurvínek war. Getting a press was the easiest thing. Learning to use it correctly, finding the right Czech growers and getting quality seeds was harder. Putting together a functional oil press from a basement that would meet all the regulations and requirements for oil production seemed almost impossible at times. And it wasn't just about the pressing itself, but also about other processes - starting with the proper storage of seeds and pressed oil, through laboratory tests of samples, to bottling the oil and many other things. Now I am at the beginning of a new journey. I have started a new life in which I am my own master and which gives me more meaning and brings me more joy.In our e-shop you can now buy four basic types of oils and, suddenly, a fifth type - linseed oil. Each one is different and all of them are unique. In addition to oils, we also offer products made from oilcake, which is created during pressing and is very rich in nutrients, vitamins and minerals. I will definitely write about all of this in future articles.
