Natural Kitchen Strategies offers real solutions to families looking to make positive changes to the way they eat. As parents we are anxious to nurture and protect our children and to provide them with the means to grow up healthy and happy.
OUR HEALTHY CHILDREN
Health should be our birthright and is one of the greatest legacies parents can pass on to their children. Good health means so much more than avoiding illness and disease.
Children who are buoyantly healthy have an affinity with everyone and everything around them - an ability to use all their being to their greatest potential. True health is about nurturing our children totally and it all begins with what the child eats, day after day and year after year.
At no other time in a person's life is food selection more important than during these formative, growing years.
Simple wholesome food allows for vigorous health while preservatives, chemical additives and inappropriate fats and sugars have a hugely detrimental effect on our child's body and behaviour.
We owe it to our children to stand firm in the face of the junk food culture and accept responsibility for their health by making uncompromising choices in how we protect, provide for and nurture them.
NATURAL KITCHEN STRATEGIES CAN HELP YOU LEARN
The simplicity of natural eating.
Strategies to wean your children and teenagers off junk food.
To address the problems of the overweight child.
To encourage and implement healthy teen diets.
How to use wholefoods easily and naturally.
Valuable tips for natural food shopping.
Tools for healthy and inspirational recipe conversion.
Recipe ideas for nutritional meals and school lunches.
About babies' first foods and how to feed your toddler and pre-schooler.
Natural kitchen organization and menu planning.
The value of eating with awareness.
FAMILY RESOURCES
Real Food Real Health Parent CD-Rom
At last!! We have a new CD just for parents. This is the ultimate resource which gives parents just what they need to support and empower them in their quest for healthier, stronger children.
It is packed with tips, strategies, ideas and recipes to help parents create an environment in which their childrens taste buds are free to develop and mature so that they become adults who instinctively know how to choose the right foods for great health.
Tips cover the following areas of interest:
Respecting Our Bodies
The Pros and Cons of Common Foods
Creating the Environment
Healthy Teenagers
Think Breakfast! **
** The School Lunchbox
Fun Food for Kids
Trick or Treat
Let's Make Smoothies **
** Kids in the Kitchen
Shopping
The Pantry
Organic Food
Food Additives
Time is Precious
Recipe Conversion
Feeding Babies and Toddlers
** - denotes those which include recipes
Cost: $34.95 plus $2.50 in postage and handling (within Australia)
If you wish to order the Parents' CD with healthy eating tips
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Let's Do Lunch
Let's Do Lunch is a compact and portable high chair that comes in its own drawstring bag and can be tucked into baby's nappy bag to be taken everywhere. It folds out to fit on most dining / kitchen /café chairs for baby to be seated securely and happily at the table.
Let's Do Lunch is not only a convenient and practical nursery accessory, it is a wonderful way to socialise your baby.
Instead of baby being seated in a separate high chair, or in a pram while visiting a café, he/she can be seated at the table with everyone else.
This means baby can see everyone eating, have more opportunity to see and taste new foods and can interact more readily.
Baby is also much more content and likely to remain so for a longer period than when strapped into a highchair or pram.
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Just $45.00 plus $7.00 in postage and handling (within Australia)
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Food Coaching Session
Do you want strong, healthy kids who grow up able to make wise choices for themselves?
Do you need help?
In the face of endless information, fussy eaters, the junk food culture and our busy lifestyles it can be difficult at times to know just what and how to feed our kids. As parents we often need information and support to give us clarity and determination.
As an experienced Children's Food Educator who has worked with many families, Jacqi can work with you to get you on track and help get your kids eating better. In this valuable 60 minute session, you will gain insight and receive clear information and guidelines which will help you develop skills and achieve your objective.
You will need to fill out an assessment form so we can understand your needs and the goals you want to achieve. You will then be phoned at an agreed time on a landline telephone for the coaching session.
There will be plenty of opportunity for discussion and questions and at the conclusion you will be emailed a brief summary of the session.
Cost: $70 for the initial session and $50 for any subsequent sessions.
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Lunchbox Ideas Fridge Magnet
If you are stuck for lunchbox ideas every morning, try our giant fridge magnet.
This bright, colourful magnet is packed with healthy ideas so you can get to them fast!! Sometimes when we are in a hurry (as we usually are when making lunchboxes!) we can run out of ideas. What can I give them today?
What have I got in the fridge/pantry that they'll like?
This A5 magnet is designed to make it easy for you! There are six categories from bakery, greengrocer and kitchen to the vegie patch, café and deli. Each category has lots of ideas so that you can fill those lunchboxes in a flash!
Just $10.00 plus $2.00 in postage and handling (within Australia)
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Magnetised Shopping List
This shopping list makes shopping easy. To be a good food eating family it helps to be organized and this list helps you do just that.
It sits within easy reach on your fridge and has multiple tear off sheets for you to keep a running list of your shopping needs. It has a shopping list in the background to serve as a reminder and has a couple of tips to empower you while shopping.
Just $6.00 plus $1.50 in postage and handling (within Australia)
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Additive Alert Your Guide to Safer Shopping By Julie Eady
I am very happy to offer you this excellent book
which is a must read for anyone interested in their children's health.
A superb resource for parents, it was first published in September 2004.
It has since become the best selling consumer reference
about food additives in Australian foods.
The book has sold more than 25 000 copies in its first year
and thousands of families around the country have already discovered
the simple steps they can take to avoid harmful additives
and enjoy better health and happier kids as a result.
This book includes:
What food additives are and why they are used.
Which ones are safe and which ones are not.
How additives are linked to health problems.
How to read and understand food labels - what the manufacturers do not tell you.
Which additives are considered unsafe overseas yet still used in Australia.
How to take control of your kitchen and make healthier choices for you and your family.
Things you can do to help make a difference.
Just $19.95 plus $4.80 in postage and handling (within Australia)
If you wish to order the Additive Alert Book
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FAMILY SERVICES
Personal In Home Consultation
You may choose to have a personal consultation in your own home, where you can get all the information and help you need to start making positive changes today!!
This will allow your individual and family needs to be discussed at length and in detail. If you choose, we will provide an overview of your pantry, so strategies can be suggested for the healthy way forward.
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In Home Group Talk
We can give you the opportunity to be a host in your own home for an empowering and inspirational group talk and receive a free personal consultation.
The host and each guest will receive a comprehensive information package, tailored to their needs, which is filled with tips, strategies and hints on such topics as setting good dietary habits for children and teenagers, healthy recipe conversion, time saving strategies and easy healthy meal ideas.
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Shopping Expeditions - Individual or Group
We can take you on an individual or group shopping trip to provide insight into purchasing for a healthy lifestyle.
You will receive a comprehensive shopping guide, including how to keep a well stocked pantry and fridge, information on common food additives, the benefits of buying organic food and shopping hints for a natural kitchen.
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NKS ~ FAMILY
If you are stuck for lunchbox ideas every morning,
