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Eating Well Without Breaking the Bank!
Eating Well Without Breaking the Bank!During our October monthly catch up with Fuchsia Goldsmith, RD we shared our favourite tips to save $$ on your supermarket shop! Spoiler alert: 💰think about where you shop… there’s a lot of savings to be had by shopping at...
Can a Plant-Based Diet Help with Heart Disease
Can a Plant-Based Diet Help with Heart Disease? Our September monthly catch up with Fuchsia Goldsmith, RD was all about plant-based diets and heart disease! We discuss: ❤️ What is heart disease?❤️ What are the risk factors?❤️...
Vitamin D and Plant-Based Diets
Vitamin D and Plant-Based Diets Our August monthly catch up with Fuchsia Goldsmith, RD was all about vitamin D and plant-based diets! The key points were: ☀️ Vitamin D is also known as the sunshine vitamin. You can get all that you need from sunlight. ...
Kiwifruit-Banana Immunity Oats
Kiwifruit-Banana Immunity Oats We were inspired by Harraways who have created Blackcurrant Spiced Apple Immunity oats with added zinc and iron to come up with our own immune boosting breakfast. Our immunity oats are a delicious and filling combo of whole plant-based...
Vitamin B12 and Plant-Based Diets
Vitamin B12 and Plant-Based Diets Fuchsia Goldsmith is a plant-based/vegan dietitian and New Zealand Lead Dietitian for Doctors for Nutrition. She runs her own consultations through her website Feed Nutrition. We caught up with her recently to discuss the importance...
Fiber Fueled
Fiber Fueled Dr Will Bulsiewicz 2020 365pp Eat a diversity of plants. ⭐️ Interesting, readable, friendly, (a little geeky) take on everything gut health 🤷♂️ Recipes not low fat WFPB 📖 If gut issues or questions Dr...
Pumpkin & Kumara Soup
Pumpkin & Kumara Soup It’s definitely winter right now, and winter means time for soups, flannel sheets, hot water bottles, and other keeping warm measures. This is my first ever recipe that I successfully converted to whole foods plant-based. It comes from...
Plant-based Kids
Plant-based Kids A plant-based way of eating works well for everyone. I’m often asked about possible exceptions to this, the most common after athletes (which has been covered a little already when I wrote about protein) being kids. There’s an oft-cited statement from...
Plant-based for the Planet 3: Water, Climate Change, and Oceans
Plant-based for the Planet 3: Water, Climate Change, and Oceans We’ve already talked about the impact of livestock required for our current eating choices on our planet. There are many other reasons why a plant-based way of eating is best for the environment and...
Plant-based for the Planet 2: Other Information and Livestock
Plant-based for the Planet 2: Other Information and Livestock In the last post, which I actually haven’t put up until I’ve done this post anyhow, I wrote about how eating whole foods from plants is THE THING you can be/have to be doing for the planet right now....
Plant-based for the Planet 1: Thoughts on Making a Difference
Plant-based for the Planet 1: Thoughts on Making a Difference Despite considering myself an environmentalist (most people do, actually), I have to admit that I had very little knowledge about the environmental impact of my food choices. Would it have made me change...
Why Energy is Not Equal
Why Energy is Not Equal Yesterday I wrote about the energy density of foods, this was specifically how much energy (e.g. calories) each different food has per weight unit (e.g. pound) of that food. This matters because when we eat one of the triggers for us to stop...