Foost Blog
Articles, ideas and guides from our resident dietitian, Kate.
mealtime environment
How to create the perfect mealtime environment
top 10 fruit and veg wasted
How to avoid the bin!
the low down on vegan, vegetarian and flexitarian
For the past decade many buzzwords such as ‘plant-based’, ‘flexitarian’ and ‘vegetarian’ have been popping up. But what do these mean and how can these diets be beneficial? Read further for the how, the why and easy ways to adopt a plant-based diet into your life that you won’t even notice.
what 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 will or won’t eat. To get caught up in the controlling food battles with our children. To concentrate on the food and what is eaten. But what if we don’t think about the food for a moment. But about how the food is served, the environment and the foodie effects of our parenting style.
nutritious wallet friendly foods
Healthy eating on a budget can be tricky. heres some nutritious wallet friendly foods that won’t hurt your hip pocket.
7 tips to boost your cooking confidence
Covid-19 has brought us many challenges, but it did provide us with the opportunity to get back into the kitchen more! will it continue as life goes back to normal? Heres a couple of reasons how you could benefit from boosting your cooking confidence and keep utilising our covid kitchen skills in everyday life!
kids 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 benefits.
eating during uncertainty
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 our phsyical and mental wellbeing.
food 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 our phsyical and mental wellbeing.
feeding 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.
talk kindly to yourself, small ears are listening
Eating disorders are truly devastating for the social, mental and physical wellbeing of those affected, making their prevention a high priority for healthcare professionals. Yet with so much unrealistic messaging online and on TV, it might feel like our kids are doomed to spend their lives debating how many carrots and celery sticks they can have before the guilt of weight gain sets in. Thankfully the science of psychology teaches us that there is a simple way to address our children’s perception of their own bodies through the language we use.
Edible Christmas gifts!
The festive season also means a time for festive meals and treats and so, we think – what a great opportunity to combine gift-giving with food, by making some creative and edible treats as gifts!