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Low FODMAP for Irritable Bowel Syndrome: how can the low FODMAP diet help?
Irritable bowel syndrome, or IBS, is a group of functional bowel disorders. It causes symptoms of bloating and distention, increased passing of wind, and altered bowel habits such as diarrhoea or constipation. For years, people were told this was “just they way they...
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Review of Common Online Meal Plans
A lot of people utilise online meal plans for convenience and to take the thinking out of nutrition. These types of plans can be costly with groceries being up to $200 per person/week and don't take into consideration your individual preferences or lifestyle. Peta has...
Health Food Aisle Product Review: Well Naturally Sugar Free Chocolate
Nutrition Panel At 290kJ per serve, at first glance it appears that this chocolate is a lot lower in energy than regular chocolate, however there are 3 serves in this small bar alone! We know that most people are going to assume that a serve is a whole bar,...
Introducing Solids: Baby Led Weaning and Spoon Feeding
Baby led weaning (BLW) or feeding refers to an infant feeding method where infants around 6 months of age feed themselves finger foods, as opposed to being offered purée as a first food. The traditional feeding method is a progression starting with spoon fed purees...
Family Friendly Minestrone Recipe
This recipe is packed full of vegetables, and a great family meat free meal option, with added spaghetti for the little ones. Ingredients 1x onion- diced2 carrots3 garlic cloves finely chopped or crushed1 zucchini- diced2 celery stalks- sliced2 handfuls of baby...
Product Review: Annabel Karmel Frozen Toddler Meal
There are 13 frozen meals in the Annabel Karmel frozen meal range, all aimed at 1 to 4-year olds and with varying nutrition panels. What they all have in common is their nutritional claims and the age range they are aimed for. We have based this review on the macaroni...
When to Introduce Solids and Allergens to Infants
Knowing when to introduce solids to your baby can be confusing, especially for first time mums and dads. Introduction of allergens is often done incorrectly or out of date practices are being still being carried out. The question is, when is the right time? 4 months...
Peanut Butter and Chocolate Fruit Bites
These easy to make bites are a great way to merge fruit into a treat and may be great for little ones who are learning to love fruit or for bigger people who love a sweet snack! Ingredients Fruit of choice, banana and strawberries work welldark chocolate melts~ 1/2...
Reviewing the Health Food Aisle: Sunrice Brown Rice Chips
Nutrition Panel The allocated serving size of these chips is 33g or about 13 chips, if you stick to that amount the energy amount is ok for a snack- comparable to the serving size and energy of standard chip brands. The saturated fat is 3g/100g, just meeting...
Pulse Pasta Salad
Ingredients 1x box San Remo Pulse Pasta2x 90g tins Sirena Basil Infused Tuna300g tin 4 bean mix, drained and rinsed100g feta1/2 punnet cherry tomatoes halved (I used sundried tomato's as it was all I had)1.5 cups chopped spinach1 tsp Dijon mustard1/2 lemon juice...
The Ketogenic Diet: The Good, The Bad and Our Honest Opinion
What is Keto? The ketogenic diet was originally developed as a treatment for epilepsy, in some types of epilepsy it can work effectively. More recently this diet has been adopted for weight loss, with the mechanism involved the body converting fat into ketones to use...
Seeded Banana & Dark Choc Slice
Ingredients 3/4 cup rolled oats1 egg4 tbs peanut butter1 banana2 tbs shredded coconut1/3 cup maple syrup1/3 cup dark choc chips1/4 cup pumpkin seeds/pepextra virgin olive oil Method Preheat oven to 180 degrees CelsiusLine and grease a 20cm square slice/cake tinin a...
An Easy Guide to Spicing Up Your Vegetables
Adding flavour to vegetables is an issue for some who aren’t keen on plain veggies or for young kids who are learning to enjoy them. Often adding them into mixed dishes, soups and salads is a good start or drizzling them with some olive oil. Here is a list of some...
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