REAL FOOD BLOG
Explore the latest product breakdowns, food label red flags, and clean eating tips — straight from Mandy Sacher and the Real Food Rating team.
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How to Nourish your Baby’s Gut Bacteria
Your baby’s gut is the powerhouse that fuels their every movement as it processes their milk and first taste of solid foods and converts it into energy. Their little gut already contains trillions of microorganisms – such as bacteria, fungi, and viruses – which play a vital role in building and maintaining a healthy immune…
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Starting Solids
Introducing your little one to solid foods can be a time of excitement and new adventure but also one of frustration, stress and confusion for many parents. During the early weeks and months, the tastes and flavours your baby is exposed to will play a large role in shaping their eating habits going forward. While this may sound like…
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Top 10 Causes of Fussy Eating
If you have clicked on this post in the hope that you can find answers on how to encourage your fussy eater (or eaters) to try new food, you are not alone. Around 80 per cent of the parents or caregivers I see in my practice are struggling to increase variety in their children’s diets,…
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Are You Teaching Your Child to Fear Food?
Let’s explore how we can avoid negatively influencing our children without realising it when it comes to nutrition. Before we became parents, most of us were raised on a pervasive diet of images, messages and peer pressure regarding how we should look and ways to achieve it. Whether we grew up watching the 90s supermodels,…
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How to Stay Hydrated in Pregnancy
Water is the ultimate source of nourishment for almost every area of your physical health, especially during pregnancy. Water helps with energy, digestion, maintaining body temperature and blood pressure, and plenty more. For some, getting their daily amount of water is a challenge, but hydration is even more important during pregnancy as your body needs…
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The Ultimate Guide to Choosing Muesli Bars: High Protein, Low Sugar, Real Ingredients
Muesli bars have become a pantry staple for busy professionals, active families, and anyone seeking a convenient energy boost throughout the day. They’re portable, satisfying and promise to deliver a healthy mix of protein, fibre, and nutrients. But walk down any supermarket aisle, and you’ll face an overwhelming wall of options, each claiming to be…
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10 Ways to Reduce Sugary and Additive-Filled Drinks for Kids
What’s lurking in your children’s drinks? Take a moment to examine the label on your favourite cordial, soft drink or juice box. You might be shocked by what you find. Many popular children’s drinks are loaded with ingredients that have no place in a growing body. As parents, we’re constantly bombarded with so-called “better” drink…
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Ditch the Sugary Breakfast Cereals: Nutritious Chocolate Breakfasts Your Kids Will Love!
If you caught my recent Instagram reel, you already know that Milo cereal isn’t the nutritious breakfast option it’s marketed to be. By swapping Milo for nutritious, wholefood chocolate alternatives, your child could consume up to 20 fewer teaspoons of sugar weekly – that’s over 80 teaspoons less per month! That’s before your child even…
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5 Wholesome Breakfast Ideas: Ditch Ultra-Processed Options for Real Food Morning Meals
The breakfast aisle at your local supermarket is a minefield of clever marketing, colourful packaging, and nutrition claims designed to make you believe you’re making healthy choices. But look beyond the flashy boxes and misleading and inflated health star ratings, and you’ll discover a troubling reality: many of these convenient breakfast options are nutritional disasters…