What’s In Our Food

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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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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Food for a Happy and Calm Household is coming to Toowoomba

Comments 0 February 13, 2013 What's In Our Food

Are the chemicals in everyday ‘healthy’ foods causing temper tantrums, sleep disturbance and disruptive behaviour in your children? If you’re not sure of the answer to this question join me for a fun and informative two hour seminar as I shine the spotlight on popular food choices to reveal some alarming surprises in everyday ‘healthy’ […]

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Exploring the Dirty Dozen Food Additives with Ipswich families!

Comments 0 February 12, 2013 Healthy Eating

Do you know if your child’s lunchbox is filled with the ‘dirty dozen’? I’m really excited to be delivering this new session on the 12 worst food additives in Ipswich on Tuesday 19th February! If you’ve had some sneaking suspicions that perhaps some of the popular foods in our children’s lunchboxes might not be all […]

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Nutrition Week: Sugary Drinks and Portion Size

Comments 0 October 18, 2012 Healthy Eating
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This year’s Nutrition Week theme is all about increasing water consumption.   Water – Tap into it! aims to decrease sugary drink consumption particularly in Australian adolescents. According to Nutrition Australia the consumption of sugary drinks in place of water has risen considerably in recent years.  Soft drinks, cordials, energy/sports drinks, fruit drinks and flavoured waters […]

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Real Food Festival: Understanding Food Additives

Comments 1 August 18, 2012 Healthy Eating
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I’m so looking forward to speaking at the Real Food Festival on Saturday 8 September and sharing advice and tips on Understanding Food Additives. I’ll be on at 12:30 and my presentation will look at how food has changed dramatically over the years and the sky rocketing use of food additives.  I’ll be highlighting a […]

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Food industry tactics: The marketing of the snack

Comments 0 August 8, 2012 What's In Our Food

This article provides some interesting insights in how marketers view and address the opportunities of an increase in snacking amongst adults and children.  Research from the US shows that between 1977 and 2002, the percent of the American population eating three or more snacks a day increased to 42 percent from 11 percent. When snacking […]

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Could you be eating 5kg of food additives a year?

Comments 0 July 18, 2012 What's In Our Food

Did you know it has been estimated that every year Australian’s consume at least 5kg of food additives each? Now this wouldn’t bother us so much if all of the additives in our food were 100% safe with no questions.  What we are disappointed about is while our food regulatory body permits approximately 300 additives […]

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Next Workshop: Food for a Happy and Calm Household

Comments 0 June 18, 2012 What's In Our Food
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As a Home Economist, I spend a lot of time in people’s kitchens and pantries – either helping them uncover their Meal Planning Personality to make solving the what’s for dinner challenge easier, or creating order in their kitchen so cooking is a whole lot easier! Every time you do a pantry declutter with a […]

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