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24.01.2022 Last Thursday marked the last session for the term cooking with the Youth Group at @rubyandollies. During my time there we focused on helping the kids to build life-skills by learning how to prepare a shopping list for the recipe to be created (utilising a visual one I had prepared), to learn as a group how to navigate the grocery store for key ingredients required (the kids loving the scanning machines at the self check-outs!), and then coming back to site to make the recipe. It was such a privilege for me to share my recipes and visual tools in this capacity while working with the R&O team to help the kids work together as a group to create something tasty (and nutritious), that could be shared together and with family members at home (if there were left overs!).

20.01.2022 What food and eating means to one child can be completely different to another based on their abilities and their life experiences. For some children, medical and sensory issues may limit the full experience of smelling, tasting and enjoying the flavours of a broad range of food. However, that doesn't mean that one can't discover their own sensory journey of being creative with, learning about, enjoying or appreciating food in its many different forms. This activity is from ...my Explore with Food program which I did with my client this morning who loves to paint. Recycled items and food pigments, collected from the kitchen and my spice cupboard, were berries, spices, cocoa, beetroot, spinach and avocado pip (check out the last few pics to see me brewing this up last night - for some reason my husband didn't share my enthusiasm for the soft pink colour!) These pigments were then mixed with a binder such as egg yolk or tapioca starch, a small amount of rice bran syrup, used on their own or mixed with water. My mortar and pestle was super handy for pounding down and extracting the colours from berries and English spinach leaves (the best way to get the colour from spinach). My client loved mixing up the colours before easing into a calm, creative zone of exploring and playing with the pigments, impressed with the earthy tones of the spices and pops of brightness by the raspberry and beetroot. Keen to explore further with colour dyes (from food pigments) and material. #sarahlynnenutritionandwellbeing #explorewithfood #creativity #funwithfood . . . #kidsactivities #cookingwithkids #artandcraft #playtherapy #sensoryprocessingdisorder #allabilities #nutritionist #counsellor #brisbane See more

19.01.2022 A repost of a recipe I shared last year, Salted Dark Chocolate with Crushed Pistachio (dairy free), incase you're keen to whip up some Easter treats this weekend! Hope that you have a relaxing Easter break!

15.01.2022 Such a beautiful gesture!

11.01.2022 Chocolate Red Velvet Cup/Mug Cakes? That's right, this recipe can be both! Back in the summer school holidays of this year I had agreed to run cooking classes with @rubyandollies , a specialised, all inclusive childcare service, created by friend and amazing mum Rebecca Glover, which offers quality and empathetic care and education to children from pre-school to school age no matter their diagnosis or prognosis. Attending two sites in one day, with three in total, I had set m...yself the challenge of planning my cooking around one of the centres that included an oven, and one that only had a microwave and no stove top. An extra challenge was to keep the recipe gluten and nut free going into a child care environment and to offer a dairy free option, while also being nutrient rich for kids, especially within the area of disability where sensory issues and food anxiety can prevail, limiting dietary choices and in turn nutrient intake. As baked creations are always a big winner with children (and many of my clients - both young and a more mature), I kept thinking along the lines of making some kind of cake, researching what was possible in a microwave. Soon I discovered mug cakes, realising that "oh, it's a thing!" (perhaps my husband Gerrard and I's time going without a microwave had left me a little in the dark, although we purchased one in the past year and I am in the process of discovering its convenience and full potential). Click on the link for full post and recipe, but to give you an idea, it includes the following ingredients: Stone ground buckwheat flour Sunflower seeds (although you can easily use almond meal) Banana Ground cinnamon Baking soda Sea salt Rapadura sugar Cacao powder Free range eggs Unsweetened plain or coconut yoghurt Macadamia, coconut or olive oil Frozen raspberries Dark chocolate chips

10.01.2022 What do the words "health" or "wellbeing" mean to you?" I often ask my clients this question at the beginning of my Cooking and Wellbeing program. The reply is usually somewhere along the lines of "not being or getting sick," and for them health is always connected to "eating healthy" and perhaps exercising, however their knowledge beyond that is usually limited. And what even is eating healthy these days, when we are constantly flooded with contradicting information and mar...keting about the goods and the bads of food? I teach my clients "that health and wellbeing refers to the quality of your life - how happy, comfortable and satisfied you feel your life, that it's more than just not being sick, that it's about thriving and functioning at your best." I emphasise that having a life of quality is more than just diet and nutrition alone, even though as a nutritionist I know how important these things are for providing the body with the tools it needs to do it's job well, equating to the foundational roots and surrounding soil of the trunk of the tree. The essence of my program is to teach the fundamentals of nutrition (no FOOD RULES here, just support towards broadening diet) and to help equip my clients with the skills and knowledge to be more independent in the kitchen and to help them discover and to be more tuned into and responsive to their own unique version of self care, however that may look. Perhaps a little contradictory to my main modality though, I also teach that it's not all about what you eat, & I use this diagram as a tool to help my clients to visualise the broader picture of health, and to help them understand, for instance, that feeling included and valued, having your voice heard, being supported and having strategies to cope with life's hurdles is just as an important contributer to one's ability to thrive as nutrition is. I believe optimal wellbeing starts with being able to see and visualise the bigger picture. I help and support my clients with connecting to their passions, aspirations, values (which relates to the spiritual domain) and local community, and strategies that may help them to better cope whenever set backs may arise.

08.01.2022 Reconnect with your body and love what you eat. No rules here, just care, compassion and good sense! I'm excited to introduce a new, in home program for people who are ready to shift away from a dieting to a nourishing mentality, honouring health, happiness and peace with food! Services are based in Brisbane and surrouding suburbs however zoom sessions are available for people living interstate or remotely. For enquiries and pricing, email me at [email protected] or call me on 0403 712 962.

07.01.2022 Little seeds... I use relaxation massage therapy as a tool to support my client's sensory and emotional regulation. Every massage begins and ends with breathing exercises to help my client to feel more grounded before facilitating engagement with the five senses to be more attuned with the here and now - to take her out of her mind space, and to bring her back into the body, even if only for the brief amount of time that her attention can sustain on that day, depending on whe...re she's at emotionally. If it's been a particularly rough time, at the conclusion of the massage I may read to her a brief passage that may inspire hope and remind her of her strengths, or which may encourage an alternate way of thinking about things, one that loosens the grips of the limiting and stubborn notion that "I can't" and all the impossibilities that come with it, to instead nudge in the direction of "maybe I can," and what could be possible? I love to use prompters like these cards (thank you @kikki.k), tools that have the power to bypass the emotional upheaval (and the rational part of the brain which usually goes off-line when we are in a heightened emotional state) to connect with something deeper, an inner knowing, an inner strength that many often forget that they have. However small, a seed can be planted in this space. One day, it just might grow.

06.01.2022 Super excited to pick up my new business cards and brochures today!!! #sarahlynnenutrition #nutritionist #wellbeingcounsellor #ndis

01.01.2022 Dragonfruit Smoothie, so refreshing especially on a scorcher like today! Ingredients 1 whole dragonfruit (white or red, I used white!)... 1 tbs of coconut cream (I had some left over in the fridge that I was keen to use up) 1 tsp vanilla essence 1/3 cup plain yoghurt 1 tsp of maple syrup 5-6 ice blocks Method Throw it all into the blender and blend until smooth. Serves 2. Why there is alot to love about dragon fruit besides it's delicious, juicy flavour and visually pleasing, spiky appearance! Dragon fruit, also known as strawberry pear or pitaya, is a tropical fruit grown from the cactus, Hylocereus cactus and is native to South America and Mexico but is now cultivated across Asia and Queensland. Dragon fruits are rich in fibre (promoting satiety) and prebiotic nutrients called oligiosaccharides that nourish the beneficial flora inside our gut, and surprisingly - not that I am a calorie counter nor pay much attention to them, they are low in calories with one whole fruit having only 60 calories. They are also a great source of magnesium, carotene, lyocopene (red varieties) and a good source of vitamin C and iron. Scientists have found that dragon fruit contains many antioxidants that support our cardiovascular and metabolic health, helping to protect against cardiovascular disease, high blood pressure and insulin resistance. Our understanding of these beneficial effects of dragon fruit is still growing though. #sarahlynnenutritionandwellbeing #dragonfruit #smoothie #nutrition #nourish #dragonfruit #wholefoods