Life's too short to count almonds – Details, episodes & analysis

For our last podcast episode ever we enter the Dream Restaurant and share our dream menus.

With a format ripped directly from our all time favourite podcast Off Menu. Lots of special foods and restaurants mentioned...not necessarily in this order.

"A margarita" meme

Sonoma bakery - Seeded sourdough baguette or mission bread

Ripples Milson's point

Barangaroo House

Box on the Water at Ettalong

Sonoma La Crema Chardonnay 2018

Black Bar & Grill

Sake Restaurant

Loulou Bistro Milson's Point

Lisa McGuigan & Thomas Wines dessert wines

Messina Pistachio Gelato

Henschke Hill of Grace Shiraz

Penfolds Grange

The Signet Glenmorangie Scotch Whisky

Laphroigh Scotch Whisky

Today we chat gut health.

We explore the different things that impact out gut, why jumping straight to restriction or elimination of certain foods or a low FODMAPs diet is not recommended. We touch on prebiotics, probiotics and the impact of trauma or out emotional state on our gut functioning.

A couple of gut health specialist dietitians we like are Marnie founder of Fork That and Joanna at Everyday Nutrition.

We also mention this episode of The Imperfect's Podcast with Professor Felice Jacka.

The best things Meg ate this week were from Flower Child in Chatswood (seriously food cold brew and food) and Bo Larn in Bondi Junction.

This week's episode features Susan's middle and youngest daughters, and their takes on watching That Sugar Film in PE. In a shocking turn of events Susan's youngest daughter got in the car one day last week after school and said "Guess what WE watched today" and sure enough it was That Sugar Film.

Argh, this film refuses to disappear. A heightened conversation ensued!  

We thought it might be interesting to recreate the conversation minus Susan's swearing. The interview is in two parts as it was harder than it should have been to get everyone all in the same place at the same time. You'll hear both girls are fairly steady in their feelings about food and their body, and are fortunately not swayed by the film.

This is exactly what we talk about all the time. We are working hard to change the world, but until we can we need to protect our children from Diet Culture by making our homes a safe have from it.

You can sign the petition to remove this film from schools here

Unreliable Narrator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unreliable_narrator

Good experiment design https://nc3rs.org.uk/3rs-resources/key-elements-well-designed-experiment

We have a short (and high energy) chat for you today. We took the opportunity of being in the same room to record an episode straight off the back of our live "Diet Culture Spring Clean" webinar.

We chat about an episode of the 'The Rest is History' podcast about the history of Italian food which is very different to the myths and assumptions that are made about it. It's fascinating and you might want to listen to it here.

Meg's favourite thing this week was Recipetin Eats Dahl - cheap, filling, meat-free and delish!  

Doors are OPEN for The Non-Diet Way. 

The Non Diet Way empowers you to see through the toxic messages of Diet Culture and live life on your terms. 

Course Outline

Module 1: Looking Back to move forward - How did you get here? Your food and diet story. 

Module 2: Body Trust and other influences on our food choices - Understanding what influences our food and eating behaviour.

Module 3: Mindfulness the superpower for conscious eating.

Module 4: Planning and Food Choice the non diet way - Non-diet planning for Values aligned eating.

Click here to find out more or to sign up! 

Today we chat about how important it is that we don't continue to pass down diet culture from generation to generation but make a change. We have some practical suggestions on how to do this (cough, cough, come to our FREE Diet Culture Home Detox Webinar tonight!) and share some wins that we have experienced or heard about.

 We are opening doors to The Non Diet Way TODAY!!!  

Check it out here, we'd love to see you inside! 

Meg & Susan

At this goes out we are halfway through the Paris 2024 Olympic games. 

There's bodies on display and a lot of body commentary. Some of it is great, positive, inclusive and recognising that 'fit' doesn't have look and celebrating all the amazing things that different bodies can do. But unfortunately, a lot of it is awful. Objectification of both men and women, body shaming, and criticism, so we chat about that. Makingthe most of the good and managing the bad. 

We are loving Ilona Maher's instagram posts as well as lots of Olympic themed memes and humour.   

Meg's favourite thing this week was Recipetin Eats Dahl - cheap, fillig, meat-free and delish!  

Join us for our FREE Diet Culture Spring Clean webinar Thursday August 15. Sign up HERE.

We are opening doors to The Non Diet Way in August, we've had to delay by 2 weeks but it's coming! Keep an eye on your emails for more details. If you aren't already on it, you can join the wait list here and also read more about the program and get a discount when we launch.

This is what happens when we haven't caught up in a while and don't have a topic planned.

We hope you enjoy our chat today, we talk food, cottage cheese getting out of it's scope of practice by pretending to be a wrap and then go off on many tangents.

This is the butter chicken recipe Meg loves even more than 'the one in the book' and this is the braised fennel recipe that was Meg's favourite thing this week, just amazing with grilled lamb (cutlets or chops) dusted with Chinese 5 spice and a little salt.

Susan also mentioned the delicious slow cooked brisket.

Title of today's episode taken from Adam Buxton's excellent podcast and Films to be Buried With and No Such Thing as A Fish are also podcast's that we love.

We are opening doors to The Non Diet Way in August, we've had to delay by 2 weeks but it's coming! Keep an eye on your emails for more details. If you aren't already on it, you can join the wait list here and also read more about the program and get a discount when we launch.

We're thrilled to bring you today's chat with the fabulous Dr Emma Beckett. Food Scientist and Nutrition Scientist, Science communicator and all round excellent human.

We chat about Emma's new book "You are More than What You Eat", how she got into food and nutrition science, her excellent food print clothing style and much more.

You can find Emma on Facebook and Instagram and fabric designer Kasey Rainbow here if you want to make your own food themed clothing! 

The Non-Diet Way Round 3 is coming! Click here to jump on the waitlist and get a discount code!

Meg's favourite Carrot cake recipe is here.

Welcome back to Season 4.

Today we chat about dry July and alcohol consumption in general including the weird rise of 'low carb or low calorie' alcohol beverages being marketed with a 'health halo', cultural factors influencing alcohol consumption and some tips for reflecting on your own relationship with alcohol.

We have a really big few months coming up. We are launching the Non-Diet Way for the last time this year. Click here to sign up for updates for when we launch in August.

Meg's favourite thing this week was Recipetin Falafel - give it a crack, it's delicious.

Susan's was inspired by this instagram post and if you want Meg's 'meal matrix' you can get it here.

Back for the final episode before we take a little break we thought it was a good time to revisit 'Boring Self Care'.

We last spoke about this in October last year but in winter and summer we often need different ways to look after ourselves. From skin checks to bulk cooking, from deciding between early morning movement and a bit of extra sleep, we chat about what helps us, especially in school holidays when the routines can be thrown out.

Meg's favourite thing this week was this cake by the fabulous Yotam Ottolenghi closely followed by Nagi's laksa which makes an appearance on the pod everytime she makes it! 

The Frozen Green Pea and Ham recipe Meg mentioned is also here as promised! 

We're preparing to launch another round of The Non-Diet Way. Our online program that steps you thgough the work we do one on one with clients who want to get off the diet merry-go-round but aren't really sure what that means. Jump on the waitlist for our next round here. 4 modules over 5 weeks with a live zoom to debrief each module and answer your questions.