There are so many demands on us modern gals, especially if you are a mother too. Between the house, the kids, the partner, work, pets, cooking, cleaning, taxi-ing, school drop off, washing, grocery shopping and running errands, there isn’t much time for anything else. Normally you have just enough energy to flop onto the couch [...]
I often hear people say that it is hard to eat healthily on a budget and that fruit and vegetables are so expensive. They are partly right if you shop in the wrong places and are not savvy about what to buy, how you use your ingredients and if you let things go to waste [...]
Let’s just come right out and say it. Christmas can be a tricky time of year to try and stay healthy. There is temptation at every turn - wine, beer, chocolates, pavlova, Christmas pudding, hot ham… The list goes on and on. But I promise you, it is possible to maintain your healthy lifestyle this [...]
You may have seen my post or video on Facebook recently but just incase you haven't, I'd love to share something with you how life isn't always sunshine and butterflies. A couple of weeks ago I had a planning session for my business for 2018. When I was deciding on my social media strategy, my [...]
Eating enough good fruit and veges can be hard, especially when there are kids involved! That's why I've put this blog together to show you how to do it in a matter of minutes. 36% of New Zealanders don’t get three serves of veges a day, and 43% don’t get two serves of fruit. [...]
What's my story? Recently, on one of my mother and daughter cooking workshops, a mother asked me what my background is - Am I a nutritionist or did I have a health scare that lead me down this path? And although I used to wish I had a great ‘story’ to tell about something that [...]
Is a cruise the perfect family holiday? Ever since a young girl, I dreamt of going on a cruise ship. Every year we holidayed at our beach house out on the coast and occasionally a cruise liner would go past on the horizon and I always dreamt of being on board. Both my parents travelled [...]
How to Handle Fussy Eaters Following on from our last blog post (Time Saving Tips in the Kitchen) and after evaluating the survey results, the second most common obstacle we found you face when it comes to healthy eating for families is: fussy eaters. Believe me, you're certainly not alone! OK, so I would [...]
Time Saving Tips in the Kitchen Through a recent survey we sent out, asking what your biggest frustration or challenge is to providing healthy meals for your family, the most common obstacle was lack of time – can you relate? So we’ve put together this blog to give you some ideas. A combination of a few [...]
Healthy Kids Lunchboxes With term 2 back into full swing, and in the hope of deterring back-to-school-lunchbox-despair, we have put together this post – to help inspire you with lots of ideas so you can enjoy packing lunchboxes full of goodness, kids (and adults) will love! Many lunchboxes have little compartments or containers to separate [...]
