If thinking about dinner, or creating a ‘Meal Plan’ is stressful and exhausting, you’re in the right place! I am obsessed with sharing tips and tricks that will help you approach meal planning in a new way – YOUR WAY!

I know there are a lot of women out there like me who like to cook when we have the time, but some days thinking about what’s for dinner and cooking it is a chore, right?

When you don’t have the time or the mental energy to think about food, especially during the week, you just want ‘what’s for dinner’ solved ASAP - with no fuss, healthy foods on the table - Fast. Tasty. Delicious. Easy. And in under 30 minutes MAX!

I love sharing time saving, low cost, quick healthy recipes, easy dinner ideas and tips on how to meal plan that will take the stress out of solving the what’s for dinner challenge.


Louise D'Allura
Consultant Home Economist and Chief Meal Planner
My Meal Planning Personality™ is an Intuitive!

What are Australian’s top 10 favourite vegetables?

Comments 0 August 13, 2012 Meal Planning

I was looking at an old copy of VEGINSIGHTS a quarterly report produced by the Australian vegetable industry (AUSVEG). It revealed some interesting data on consumers favourite fresh vegetables! The top vegies, purchased twice as much as any other vegetable, include carrots, lettuce, potato and tomato! The data is based on purchasing patterns from the […]

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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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Quick and healthy breakfast ideas

Comments 0 August 3, 2012 Healthy Eating

Despite the benefits of breakfast being the most important meal of the day, many of us neglect breakfast.  Breakfast literally means break the fast from your previous meal – usually 6-14 hours prior. After almost 7 years of marriage I have finally convinced my beloved to eat breakfast! He loves telling me that eating the […]

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When things go wrong with food choices

Comments 0 August 1, 2012 Time Saving Tricks

Let’s face it – we all lead busy lives!  Sometimes you may be surprised when you realise that sometimes you’ve let some not so good food behaviours creep into your daily life. Instead of beating yourself up about it, try to stay on top of the problem and not let your head get the better […]

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Next Workshop: Too Busy to Eat Well

Comments 0 July 25, 2012 Healthy Eating
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Are you buying takeaways because you don’t want to cook every night of the week? Do you buy a lot of items from the supermarket on the spur of the moment, hoping you’ll get around to using it – but never do? Is your pantry chaotic because you haven’t found the time, motivation or COURAGE […]

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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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