Did you know peaches and nectarines are the same fruit? The nectarine just has a mutation in one single gene which gives it a smooth skin instead of a fuzzy one!

A farmer noticed the natural mutation & selectively cross bred to create the “new” fruits.Cross pollination means sometimes they grow on the wrong tree!

Dress by Nelly Wade Australia; Earrings by Fat Mango Creative; Glasses by Zeelool.

Finally cleared enough left overs from the freezer to add some ice cream.

Batch cooking or bulk buying is a great way to save $$$ on healthy eating, but you need to first have the privilege of the $$$ & space to have enough fridge & freezer space to keep them!

Ice cream dress Laurina Jean Retro ; Earrings by Kate & Rose.

Some think pasta is a carby waste of calories.

But I see pasta as a tool to help get the goodness of veggies in a tasty, affordable, satisfying meal. I grate carrot & zucchini into my bolognese, and I add peas & mushies to almost anything cream based.

The possibilities are endless.

Pasta dress by Made590; Carrot earrings by Fat Mango Creative; Glasses Zeelool.

Why do we assign some foods to particular meal times?

Well mostly its marketing, cultural/social norms, or convenience.

If you want steak for dinner and cereal for breakfast, you do you. Your body doesn’t pay ant attention to the labels!

Cereal skirt by Sarsparilly; Earrings by Sparklelicious; Glasses by Dandys

Watermelon! A refreshing, hydrating, delicious, low calorie snack & great in a salad.

Contains vitamins A, C, and potassium.

DYK that the rinds can be used in cooking (stir fry or curry for example) or pickled. No waste!

Also, totally my colour.

Watermelon dress from Little Party Dress; Earrings by Fat Mango Creative; Glasses Zeelool

They say an apple a day keeps the Dr. away... helpful saying & a great start but you can level up with variety!

Variety helps you get all the different nutrients in, & more variety —> increases total fruit & veg intake.

Variety doesn’t need to be exotic or exxy.

Apple dress from ModCloth; Apple earrings by Fat Mango Creative; Glasses from custom eyecare.

Did you know that #mushrooms make vitamin D in the sun? But we grow them in the dark!

If you flip them upside down on a sunny (open) windowsill for 15 mins.

Just 7 button mushrooms (or 1 portabella) will give you pretty much all the vitamin D you need for a day! (Based on Aussie sun)

Onion Top Duns Sweden; Mushroom Earrings Pigeon Hole Australia; Glasses by Dandys

For healthy choices go gently on the juice.

Sounds healthy (made from fruit! added vitamins!). But juicing concentrates the calories & ditches the fibre & sends all the sugar straight to your body. Its also easy to take in calories without feeling full.

And check the labels. If it’s called a fruit drink, beverage or punch it’s probably not just juice but likely to have added sugars & other ingredients.

Simply the zest dress by Kablooie Store; Lemon Earrings by Perfect Pear Earring Co; Glasses Zeelool/Voogueme

In #donuts & #cupcakes but still a PhD qualified RNutr.

Your diet, clothing & body size do not define your expertise or qualities.

Eating “clean” doesn’t make you righteous.

Being slim doesn’t qualify you to give nutrition advice.

Wearing donuts doesn’t promote obesity.

Donut dress from Little Party Dress; Cupcake earrings by Haus of Dizzy; Glasses Zeelool.

You are what you eat. So, I’m ice cream? 🤷🏻‍♀️

The saying is kind of true but sometimes we take it too literally. Like “I’ve got diabetes now” after a sweet dessert. No, you don’t & this quip does people with diabetes a disservice - all types of diabetes are due to a complex interaction between diet, genetics & exposures.

Likewise what you eat isn’t the whole story. Two of us could eat exactly the same but different genetics could lead to completely different health & body types in response.

Be careful with clever sayings, they don’t tell the whole story.

Dress Dangerfield Clothing; Earrings Saturday Lollipop; Headwrap Celine Martine

In undervalued veg today.

People think corn & potatoes are less healthful because they are sweeter or starchier than other veg.

But they still have lots of good things in them, all veg are good veg and still better than just about any non veg option.

Don’t rank your veg, just eat a bunch of different ones.

Potato dress from Grizz Fashion; Corn earrings by Parksy Pop; Glasses Zeelool

Fruit is sweet, it does contain sugar.

But it also contains fibre and a bunch of important and healthy micronutrients & bioactive compounds.

The fibre smooths those sugar peaks & feeds our gut bacteria.

Fruit is not a junk food, no matter what the diet factions say.

Topical Fruit Salad Dress is a Fat Mango Creative x Rattamatatt x Kasey Rainbow collaboration; Pineapple earrings by Ink Jewel Designs.