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!

Lamb and vegetable pot pies

Comments 0 January 7, 2015 Recipes: Quick and Easy Dinners
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This recipe was inspired by one I found in a Super Food Ideas magazine – which you can see and checkout the original recipe here: Photo and Recipe here: http://www.taste.com.au/recipes/664/lamb+and+vegetable+pot+pies This is a super easy recipe and if you get in the habit of always roasting sweet potato when you have the oven on – this will […]

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Healthy coconut berry ice cream

Comments 0 December 10, 2014 Healthy Eating
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As we head into summer I wanted to share with you this easy peasy ice cream recipe so you can make yummy ice cream any time!! It has only three ingredients – and even then you only need two of them!  It is a great recipe for you to add your own flavours. The trick […]

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Meal Planning: What’s for Dinner on Meatless Monday in December

Comments 0 December 3, 2014 Meatless Mondays
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Regardless of when you plan, on the first Monday of every month I’ll be sharing what’s in season as well as a few recipes to help get you inspired to add a Meatless Monday into your life every week! One thing that I always recommend is to have vegetarian meals at least once a week […]

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Pizza Bases: Four Gluten Free Options

Comments 0 November 19, 2014 Healthy Eating
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I love pizza.  When I was growing up we made pizza from scratch and it tasted fantastic – especially the ones my Grandmother made.  Mind you it wouldn’t matter what she cooked – it always tasted better than anyone could ever make because she would put in that extra special bit of love 🙂 I realised how […]

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EWG: Dirty Dozen Food Additives to Avoid

Comments 0 November 13, 2014 What's In Our Food
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The US based Environmental Working Group (EWG) released on 12 November 2014 a list of Dirty Dozen Food Additives to Avoid, so to help us both I’ve put this into an Australian Context! To put this into an AUSTRALIAN CONTEXT I’ve: reviewed the list put in the numbers noted what Additive Alert also recommends what else we need […]

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Tuna/ Salmon Dip

Comments 0 November 12, 2014 Recipes: Lunches
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This is such an easy lunch!  I pretty much have these ingredients on hand so I can make this up for a great weekday lunch.  Just add in vegetables and it is so quick and easy! Ingredients 180 gm can tuna/ 210 g canned red salmon with bones (or pink salmon if you like!) 1-2 […]

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