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🌈 EATIN THE RAINBOW 🌈 It can be pretty hard

🌈 EATIN THE RAINBOW 🌈

It can be pretty hard getting caught up in all this diet culture lark... “hit ya macros” or “as long as you’re within your calories it doesn’t matter what you eat”... phrases I’ve heard thrown about a lot.

Truth is, micronutrients (aka vitamins and minerals) are SO important in health, regulating body rhythms, organ function and preventing deficiencies. They’re often overlooked when people are so set on hitting targets of numbers RATHER than focusing on the quality of our diets. As a society, we really need to change the focus from cutting things out ➡️ adding things in! 🌟

Variety is the spice of life and one great tip I have for anyone struggling on boosting the nutrition of their meals is EATING THE RAINBOW! Fruits and veggies come in so many different colours and varieties and are a major source of micronutrients in the diet. People can find it difficult with this, especially focusing more on replacing higher calories snacks with fruits, rather than bulking out their meals. Adding colour to your meals is the easiest and simplest way of getting in extra fruit and veg and is perfect for introducing new foods to even the fussiest of tums (yep, even if you have to cut it up extra small 👀🤣). Pasta sauces, curries, stews, pizzas! You name it, there are SO many possibilities! 👍🏼

Here’s an idea for a chunky vegan slaw - tasty, delicious and nutritious and perfect as a side dish to accompany a variety of meals (We’ve had this with our shredded chicken burgers and my chicken and cous cous lunches 😋😋😋)

VEGAN SLAW 👇🏼

🌶 1 red pepper
🥬 2 cups of spinach, diced
🥕 1 carrot, grated
💜 1 red onion
🥒 Cucumber
💚 3 spring onions
🥄 2 tsps of vegan @hellmannsuk mayo
🍎 1 tsp of apple cider vinegar

Enjoy!

INTERVIEW NUMBER 2 💖 And we’re LIVE! Today w

INTERVIEW NUMBER 2 💖

And we’re LIVE! Today we have Sarah from @didyouknowimdiabetic talking all things student, nutrition and how being a diabetic herself has helped with her student experience 🙌🏼

Link is in the bio or go to emmasfoodstories.com 🌟

GET IN MA BELLY 🤪🌶 You may have seen from m

GET IN MA BELLY 🤪🌶

You may have seen from my stories the other day that I’ve FINALLY ordered a @hellofreshuk box and oh my Christ, these Sloppy Joe Ciabattas were to die for! And are SO filling too. We adapted our recipe by using Frylight instead of oil and added onion to the avo but literally like, omg! A flavour tango on my tongue for sure 😍

And this dish is super easy to recreate with basic ingredients too. You can swap things in and out as you like and get creative in the kitchen.

We ordered our box hoping it would broaden our experimentation in the kitchen and this is defo going on our menu! We still have butternut squash and bacon risotto and the shredded chicken burgers with slaw to try, so will feed back as and when ✨

Any recipes you’ve tried out of your comfort zone lately that are here to stay? I’d love to hear about them! 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

JUST BCUS THE DOCTOR SAID, DOESN’T MEAN THEY’R

JUST BCUS THE DOCTOR SAID, DOESN’T MEAN THEY’RE RIGHT!

Docs are pretty cool people. Pretty clever too. Thing is tho, they have very little training in Nutrition. About an hour in fact... yet some of them think they ARE the experts in nutrition. I’ve only been qualified for a year and a bit but I’ve already come across this MANY over time. “Stick to the food”. “Your only job is to give out supplements”. Like, seriously?! 😤

My absolute fave (lol, not) referrals from doctors include:

“Patient has low albumin. Refer to dietitian for high protein diet” URGH NOPE. Albumin is not a marker of nutritional status 👏🏼 See @frannutrition ‘s latest post on this one

“Patient following low fat diet for gallstones. Lost 20% of body weight, BMI now 16. Unintentional and abnormal, refer to dietitian” Erm, you’ve just made them cut out the highest calorie foods from their diet perhaps?? Cool beans x

“Patient has loose stools from Ensure Shake OD, Dietitian please review” - most of the time the patient has either had long standing loose bowels OR is on a cocktail of drugs. Most of the time, it’s not really the ONS 🙃

Or my fave... when I watched an ICU documentary and the consultant recommended to the obese patient with heart failure and bleeding in the lungs to follow the Keto diet to lose weight 🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️

Or the classic. TPN!!!!! Lmao not everyone needs TPN 😳😳😳

Doctors are EXTREMELY intelligent individuals, BUT there’s a reason for having different professions and specialities within healthcare. Always trust your own knowledge and initiative as a Dietitian, you’re the nutrition professional! 👆🏼🙌🏼

HAPPPY NEW WEEK Y’ALLL 💛 Hope you’re all d

HAPPPY NEW WEEK Y’ALLL 💛

Hope you’re all doing okay and keeping safe! Things feel a bit weird atm.. not allowed to see my family, have to see my in-laws in the garden, the prospect of everything closing again. It’s scary! I think what makes it real is that I officially start working from home this week (I do have a few office based days those) as social distancing is really difficult in our busy office! The hospitals are getting busy again, illness is on the rise. COVID is real and we are in the midst of a pandemic, BUT other illnesses do exist so please don’t be so scared to even go to your doctor about something if it’s not right! I’ve seen increased struggles with mental health and illness (including my own), delayed cancer diagnoses, people having heart attacks and strokes and not bothering to call 999. YOUR HEALTH MATTERS! Covid exists but please please make sure you’re looking after yourself and get help if you need it 🙌🏼

On a more lighthearted note, had a lovely lil coffee and shortbread in Chester yesterday. Jaunty Goat is dog friendly, so @duncanthesausagedog came too and he was SO well behaved (he’s normally very nervous with new people so I am so proud of him) 😍

Hope you all have a good week. Let’s get through this together... after all it’s not gonna last forever (lol rhymeeeee) 💪🏼

✨ AND WE ARE LIVE ✨ Thank you so much for the

✨ AND WE ARE LIVE ✨

Thank you so much for the amazing responses I’ve had for the interviews... I’m literally still going through emails with so many amazing stories 😫😍

To kick it off, my bestie, Sam aka @nutrition.scrapbook is going to be sharing his journey as a new RD2B! Hopefully this is useful to those of you who are looking into studying Dietetics or are soon going to embark on a course!

Link is in the bio 💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼

HELLO ALL BUDDING WRITERS ✨ Are you interested

HELLO ALL BUDDING WRITERS ✨

Are you interested in showcasing your talents and representing your profession over on Emma’s Food Stories? As part of my new series, I’m looking for students, nutritionist and dietitians alike to interview in order to show the world what the variety of things we do, share your experiences and what you love about your role!

It’ll be a written interview, where you can also ask me any questions you may be itching to ask about community, HETF or even Emma’s Food Stories itself!

If you’d like to take part, please drop me an email with ya insta handle, what you’d like to write about and your speciality if you have one !

Thank you so much to all who have volunteered to take part so far, we’re gonna have a good lil series coming up! 😍

Drop me a few lines at emmasfoodstories@outlook.com or hit the button on my page! 💪🏼

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