Welcome to NZ Nutritionist! What will you find here? Firstly, there’s great recipes, articles about nutrition, intuitive eating, health behaviour change and the business of being a Registered Nutritionist. Alongside that you’ll find personal blogs about my travels, photography ventures and attempts to grow food (mostly fails, but it is what it is).

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A recipe image for pasta e fagioli. The image is a bowl of pasta e fagioli on a red checked table cloth with side dish of shaved parmesan

Pasta e Fagioli (One Pan!)

Full of fibre, plant protein and flavour, this easy one pan Pasta e Fagioli is on repeat in my kitchen.

Whariwharangi Hut, a historic converted farmhouse on the Abel Tasman Coast Track

Abel Tasman Coast Track Part 2: Bark Bay to Whariwharangi.

Abel Tasman Coast Track Part 2: Bark Bay to Whariwharangi. In this episode we have a posh evening, take a wrong turn and sleep in a haunted hut.

The lagoon by Bark Bay hut on the Abel Tasman Coast walk. A blue body of water with sand in the foreground and trees framing from above.

Abel Tasman Coast Track Part 1: Mārahau to Bark Bay

This is part 1 of a journal-style blog about walking the Abel Tasman Coast Track. This blog covers days 1-2, Marahau to Bark Bay.

A glass of Tiramisu Overnight Oats, with a spoonful being scooped out. The glass has layers of chocolate oats and vanilla yogurt.

Tiramisu Overnight Oats

A dessert inspired breakfast that makes getting out of bed worth the effort. This is overnight oats with lots of protein and fibre…and quite a bit of espresso.

A recipe image for pasta e fagioli. The image is a bowl of pasta e fagioli on a red checked table cloth with side dish of shaved parmesan

Pasta e Fagioli (One Pan!)

A glass of Tiramisu Overnight Oats, with a spoonful being scooped out. The glass has layers of chocolate oats and vanilla yogurt.

Tiramisu Overnight Oats

Square photograph of yogurt being dopped onto a cherry breakfast bake

Cherry Breakfast Bake

Breakfast Smoothie with Oats in foreground

Five Breakfast Smoothies

Whariwharangi Hut, a historic converted farmhouse on the Abel Tasman Coast Track

Travel

Abel Tasman Coast Track Part 2: Bark Bay to Whariwharangi.

Abel Tasman Coast Track Part 2: Bark Bay to Whariwharangi. In this episode we have a posh evening, take a wrong turn and sleep in a haunted hut.

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The lagoon by Bark Bay hut on the Abel Tasman Coast walk. A blue body of water with sand in the foreground and trees framing from above.

Travel

Abel Tasman Coast Track Part 1: Mārahau to Bark Bay

This is part 1 of a journal-style blog about walking the Abel Tasman Coast Track. This blog covers days 1-2, Marahau to Bark Bay.

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Nutrition Business

How to Become a Registered Nutritionist in NZ

Are you thinking about becoming a Registered Nutritionist in New Zealand, or interested in what it takes? This is the article for you!

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Frozen Avocado Pucks

How To

How to Freeze Avocado

Is avocado season giving you more than you can handle? This article will show you how to freeze avocado and they won’t go brown!

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Yesterday, I made a very sweaty return to making v

Yesterday, I made a very sweaty return to making videos. I've been struggling with it because in these gosh darn modern times you need a vertical vid for reels/TikTok and a horizontal one for YouTube. Additionally, food bloggers need step-by-step stills for the blog and finished dish shots.

I mean...how many times is hubby going to eat the same lukewarm dinner? 😂

None of our cameras are 4K, so I can't just clip the middle part of a vid for reels (plus this doesn't always look great) sooo...Yesterday I decided to simultaneously film the YouTube vid on the J5 and the reel on my phone (which actually does do 4K but I need to uh....delete a few things to make storage space, and again IDK if that's the best path to efficient-yet-good vids). On the floor I've got my setup for the stills. I only got a tripod leg in the video once, so ... success, more or less. It was hectic 😅 and also very hot at 33C. I had to open the fridge doors and stand in the cold blast several times.

Finished meal shots will be a separate mission.

Food bloggers, how, HOW do you manage it? I felt like I needed 8 arms. 😂😂

It's cabbage season, and very hot, so that's a gre

It's cabbage season, and very hot, so that's a great combination for making sauerkraut. Which is what I'm doing at 9.30 this evening because even the ceiling fan, it's pretty steamy in the bedroom, and not in a good way. 😂

There's a sauerkraut tutorial on the website, I'll link that up in stories for you.

Ooh, funny story, someone stole that recipe and put it on Instagram, which is fine, it's sauerkraut, pretty standard two-ingredient recipe. What got me was they just ripped the words from the post too, shortened it a bit for insta, but it was my phrasing and info about the strains of lactobacilli etc. 🤨 The audacity, right?

#sauerkraut

Late last year I decided to do something about mys

Late last year I decided to do something about myself 😂. Ok, it's not that dramatic, but I had become pretty unfit.

My challenge is a common one. I have a lot going on with work and most of it is done while stationary. My main hobby is photography but that's not particularly strenuous, and I can spend hours editing.

Time spent exercising is honestly always time I'd rather be doing something else, but I'm getting older and the bod needs ongoing maintenance to stay functional. So.... this may be a #suckitup situation 😂

Besides picking up my weights twice a week, I've been exploring the tracks that are near my home. This kinda doubles as photography practice, though landscapes aren't truly my jam. Last weekend we attacked Barnett Park track, which did get a bit gnarly (see last pic). Later we read on the interwebs that the track is actually closed, but there were no signs and quite a few tourists looking perplexed🤨 at the hazardous stairs.

Anyhoo, didn't die 🙄, and the cave at the top is quite neat. Chch locals, where can I go next? 😊

#christchurchnz#barnettpark#redcliffs#sumner

MY GO-TO EGG REPLACER FOR BAKING 🍪 We have an

MY GO-TO EGG REPLACER FOR BAKING 🍪

We have an interesting egg supply situation here in Aotearoa right now. There's a lot to say about that, but the focus of this post is what to do if the egg aisle is bare and you need cake.

My never-fail egg replacer is the 'flax egg'. I often bake with one even when I have actual eggs from a hens butt because plant-based baked goods have better shelf-life. Fewer food safety issues.

All you need for a flax 🥚 is ground flaxseed (a.k.a golden flaxmeal / ground linseed) and water.

The ratio is 1 tablespoon of ground flaxseed to three tablespoons of warm water per egg you are replacing. Combine and let it turn to a jelly (around 10 mins). Then just use in place of the eggs.

Obviously, this is not useful for items where the nature of a real egg is integral to the outcome. So, no pavs, merengue or quiche, but it works in cakes and bikkies just fine.

Nutritionally, it's not the same, but what you lose in protein you gain in fibre and essential fats. Eggs don't contribute a lot of nutrition to a standard baked item anyway, unlike, say, an omelette where they are the MVP .

I know there are other egg replacers out there, but I haven't tried any. Do you have any to recommend (or avoid)?

#eggreplacer#eggfree #eggfreebaking #nznutritionist #registerednutritionist

Let's talk about feets 👞👟. If you've been fo

Let's talk about feets 👞👟. If you've been following along my Abel Tasman blogs, you'll know that I had some pretty severe foot pain on the trip, to the point we had to take a couple of shortcuts. Afterward I developed #metatarsalgia (not fun) and it took a month for my feet to fully recover.

During the tramp, I got lots of good advice from more experienced trampers. One thing I learned was to expect your feet to swell after a couple of hours. So, a pair of shoes that is comfortable for an hour hike, may cause torturous blisters or worse on a longer one. Most advised upsizing, although this can sometimes cause a different issue of being too loose at the heel (which doesn't swell as much).

So, I'm on a mission. This year, and beyond, adventuring and activity is on the books, as I look to move beyond my current state of.. unfitness 🙄. Therefore buying+testing footware will be a thing. By testing (for the walking shoes) I mean walks of 2-3 hours, so yesterday I took the @topoathleticnz (pic 6) for a 24km burl from Chch city to Sumner, and back 😂. The last km I gave up and jumped on a Lime scooter. 🛴

The shoes did well. A couple of hotspots, but nothing awful and today, my feet feel great. As you can see, these have a wide toe box, which is my problem area. Thinking about it...aren't shoes generally a stupid shape? Who has feet shaped like symmetrical bullets? No wonder back problems are rife.

Pics are from the walk. We stopped for lunch at @sumnersocial_nz (pics 3&4). Their decor is so cute and beachy. And what about this sweet wicker basket in the grass? (Pic 2) 🥺

Ok guys, talk shoes to me. Fave brands, things you've learned, tramping horror stories?

☀️HNY Friends! ☀️ In case you didn't disco

☀️HNY Friends! ☀️ In case you didn't discover it already, I've posted a journal blog covering the first two days of walking the Abel Tasman in November.🚶‍♀️🚶 Part 2 will be up later this week.

As someone relatively inexperienced at tramping 😎 I found travel blogs to be super useful when planning this trip, and the previous one on the @bankstrack. Hopefully my effort will prove helpful to any of you planning or just vaguely hoping to walk the gorgeous Coast Trail.

I've also given the website homepage a refresh so it's easier to find the fresh blogs when you visit. 🧭

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