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How to react to families rude food comments!

Whether a family member comments on the amount your kids eat, what they eat or how they eat it can really grate on your nerves - and rightly so! You are the parent and as such get to decide how and what your child eats. So when your mother,…
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5 ways you are making feeding your kids harder than it needs to be

How you are making feeding your kids harder than it needs to be? One of the key things I work on with parents in my 1:1 nutrition consults is how they are overcomplicating mealtimes. Mealtimes don't need to be complicated, they don't need to…
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Navigating Festive Food This Holiday Season

  When we think holidays we often get drawn to 'unhealthier foods', high sugar foods and snacks, festive baking - you name it! Holidays can be a difficult time and one where we often see diet culture rear its ugly head. Making us think…

Last minute Christmas Gift Guide from a Nutritionist

Christmas is just around the corner, so get the express post ready to for your last minute gifts and stocking fillers. Christmas is such a fun time for kids, and a time where they often get LOTS of presents so why not make sure a few of them…

An Enchanted Lunch – Frozen inspired lunchbox fit for a prince or princess!

Disclaimer: This Blog post is sponsored by b.box for kids. b.box recently launched their latest collaboration with Disney and I must say this one excited the little princess in me, I just had to make a frozen inspired lunch fit for all the…
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Is pulse pasta worth the hype?

Pasta is one of those foods that just about everyone loves – especially children. Am I right?   Pasta can be consumed as part of a healthy diet despite what the celebs/ influencers may tell you. And, fun fact, you wont gain extra weight…
5 phrases to stop using this new year

Addition vs Restriction

Yes, your child might be fussy and pull faces when you put a bowl of oats in front of them, but have you tried making banana muffins and adding oats in?   Diet culture has forced many families into believing that restricting their…

Does zinc really ‘boost’ your immune system?

Zinc is a mineral essential to childhood growth and development and helps build a strong immunity. Zinc deficiencies commonly affect hair, skin and nails but can also affect a child's cognitive functioning and growth.    Zinc will…

Why NO foods should be off limits…

You know that little black dress you’ve been eyeing off for weeks? You will probably buy it. You will prance around the house giving the kids and the hubby a fashion parade. You will wear it every time you leave the house for the next month,…
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Everything you need to know about Salt

What is salt? And is it really that bad for us? Sodium (salt) is an electrolyte and mineral needed by the body to help regulate fluid levels. It can also play an important role in how nerves and muscles work. The human body cannot live without…