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Eating Organic: Fruit and Vegetables to Buy When You’re on a Budget

Comments 2 May 22, 2013 Healthy Eating
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Do you wonder about prioritising your food budget to eat more organic fruit and vege? If you answered yes, you aren’t alone! It’s a question I’ve been fielding for a while! There is a growing body of research on the reasons and benefits for going organic.  One of the most convincing is exposure to insecticides […]

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Exploring the Dirty Dozen Food Additives with Springfield families!

Comments 3 May 5, 2013 What's In Our Food
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Do you know if your child’s lunchbox is filled with the ‘dirty dozen’? If you’ve had some sneaking suspicions that perhaps some of the popular foods in your children’s lunchboxes might not be all that great, I’d love you to come along to one of our sessions as I reveal some alarming surprises in everyday […]

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Food Additives at School: Classroom Behaviour and the Tuckshop

Comments 1 May 4, 2013 What's In Our Food
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Ask any veteran teacher about the changes they have seen and more often than not they cite an increase in behavioural difficulties and an increase in ADHD diagnosis amongst their students. While it is still seen as controversial, the evidence base is growing to show how food can affect hyperactivity, irritability, restlessness, inattention and quality […]

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Product Giveaway: Fridge To Go ® Lunch Bag

Comments 24 May 1, 2013 Recipes: Lunches
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Do you struggle to keep school lunches cold? As you know at Meal Planning Your Way we’re obsessed with helping you work out what to put in those lunch boxes!  On our facebook page we surveyed our mums and found out how you keep those lunch boxes cold.  We were lucky enough to have one […]

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Healthy Living Event: Avoiding Unnecessary Additives and Chemicals

Comments 0 April 23, 2013 Healthy Eating
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I’m so looking forward to speaking at this event on Saturday 18 May 2013 at 1.30-4.30pm at Springwood Community Hall (Queensland). Crescents of Brisbane have organised the most amazing Ladies information session – the WHOLE EVENT  is focused on HEALTHY LIVING!  Now as one of the speakers, I may be a little biased but I’m […]

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Food Additives: Get Organised for Low Additive Eating!

Comments 0 April 17, 2013 Get Organized

What’s in our Food Wednesday seems like a good day to share this article about getting organised for low additive eating. I wrote this guest post for the wonderful Stay at Home Mum website where I share four tips to make low additive eating easy! Click here to visit the post and discover how to […]

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Learning to use a Slow Cooker

Comments 0 April 10, 2013 Time Saving Tricks
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As many of you will know I am a home economist.  Would you believe when I went to university, I had to wait almost two years before they even let us in the kitchen, because we had to have all the foundational elements of chemistry, biochemistry, organic chemistry and microbiology covered? Trust me I was […]

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How to Meal Plan: Meal Planning Tips Interview

Comments 0 April 3, 2013 Meal Planning

I am so excited to share with you this interview I did with my good friend Helen Butler from Clutter Rescue. Helen and I caught up for a coffee and to chat about meal planning and putting healthy meals on the table.  You can listen to the interview by clicking here.  You’ll be taken to […]

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Food Additives: Which are worth avoiding?

Comments 0 March 27, 2013 What's In Our Food

As an Additive Alert Community Talks Presenter I teach people key lessons from the Australian Best Seller Additive Alert: Your Guide to Safer Shopping (click here for details on the book). I recently shared with the Stay at Home Mum website SOME of the worst additives that most people want to avoid as they are […]

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Keeping lunches cold

Comments 4 March 13, 2013 Recipes: Lunches
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The Australian Food Safety Information Council released a national survey that shows on warm days 8% of workers who take a packed lunch make no attempt to keep their packed lunches cool. What was worse –  20% of those with children who take a packed lunch to school don’t provide their children with a frozen […]

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