why praising weight loss hurts more than it helps
Recently I was out for coffee with a friend and she’d lost a lot of weight because medications had suppressed her appetite during an illness. It got me thinking that complimenting someone’s weight loss...
View Articletop tips to feed a learner eater
Ask a group of parents about their child’s eating habits and many would say they wished their child was a more adventerous eater. And trust us, since Foost’s mission is to make meal and snack times...
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superfood vs well, just regular food!
In the past few years, many common foods including leafy greens, oils, nuts and seeds, yoghurt and flour varieties have gone from being called, well, just ‘food,’ to being considered a ‘superfood.’ The...
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Edible Christmas gifts!
Whilst the festive season is a joyful and exciting time of the year, it can also sometimes be stressful and expensive, especially when there are many you want to show your love and appreciation for by...
View Articletalk kindly to yourself, small ears are listening
Blog written by Camillo Cayazaya, student dietitian It’s only recently that we stopped thinking of body dysmorphia (distorted body image) as a harmless phase that only young women experienced, finding...
View Articlefeeding kids, for French sake!
Kate Wengier from Foost and Marie-France Laval from Fussy Eating Solutions recently sat down over a delicious lunch to discuss food and nutrition. Welcome to their conversation. They discussed the...
View Articlefood for a good mood: go for 30 plant based foods this week
They say variety is the spice of life, well turns out it’s the key to healthy guts too. Why should we care about our guts? Well strong research is emerging of the link between our gut health and both...
View Articleeating during uncertainty
We are currently living in a state of uncertainty. Some people unwell, many living in isolation, some with children at home for extended periods of time, some facing loss of income and many other...
View Articlekids can cook!
While cooking with your kids may require a little extra time, flexibility, mess and patience, with the right mindset, your time in the kitchen can provide your kids with an endless amount of...
View Article7 tips to boost your cooking confidence
Covid-19 has brought many challenges but it has got people back in the kitchen more, which we certainly see as a small silver lining. Will it continue as life goes back to a new normal? We certainly...
View Articlenutritious wallet friendly foods
Healthy eating on a budget is tricky. Food is complicated. When choosing foods, we are navigating many factors including cost, taste, nutrition, others’ preferences and your own foods beliefs and...
View Articlewhat if it’s not about the food but our reactions?
Parenting is hard. Feeding children is hard. It is easy to get fixated on what our children do or don’t eat. Fixated on the food. To get caught up in the controlling food battles with our children. To...
View Articlethe low down on vegan, vegetarian and flexitarian
Raise your hands (either literally or figuratively) if over the past decade you have come across the numerous buzzwords such as ‘plant-based’, ‘flexitarian’, ‘meat-free’, ‘semi-vegetarian’,...
View Articletop 10 fruit and veg wasted
Food waste is money, resources and time wasted. We want to help you reduce your food waste so we asked our Foost audience what are the most common fruit and vegetables to end up in your compost or bin....
View Articlewhat i used to think, what i do now
In today’s society, we often see people being quite self critical when things don’t go quite the way they planned. Many people start to speak negatively towards themselves if they think they have not...
View Articleimprove your family’s eating in four simple steps
Creating positive food changes in your family and encouraging your children (or older family members) to accept and like a range of different foods is very much a journey. Try not to put pressure on...
View Articlenutrition is not kids’ business
A question I am often asked from parents, from fellow nutritionists and dietitians and from educators is “but if we don’t teach them what foods are healthy everyday and sometimes foods then how will...
View Articlenavigating our diet obsessed world
My children (aged 8 and 10) and I were watching the ABC’s Back in Time for Dinner. If you have not seen it, it is a fascinating look at how food has changed over the decades. The series we watched...
View ArticleIs social media healthy? 5 top tips to healthify your social media
Is social media detrimental or beneficial to our health? Have you ever considered how scrolling through your Instagram might be impacting your health? Influencing your food choices and your...
View ArticleSugar: trick or treat?
One of my favourite memories of my grandmother nearly didn’t happen because I used to be very anti Halloween. To Halloween or not to Halloween, that is the question? I completed dietetics when pregnant...
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