Will I be seeing you at my last Healthy Home/ Healthy Swaps gathering for 2019 on Wed 27 Nov?

Toxic overload is taking its toll on not only our health but planet Earth. It is becoming more important and pressing than ever for us to work together as a society at the grass roots level to radically reduce the toxic overload and healthy swap to natural alternatives.

Many people feel helpless about how to do “their bit” but there is SO MUCH we can do JUST IN OUR HOMES to kick the chemicals by healthy swapping to natural alternatives and supporting companies who take environmental stewardship seriously. When you buy a product (whether it’s food or a personal care product or a cleaning product), you are essentially supporting the company that makes it, it’s ethos, it’s environmental stance and the ingredients being used. If you really stop to think about it, if all everyone in the works did was to make their house the high water mark in terms of the food, personal care products and cleaning products they bring into their home, we would have a radically different health care system and environmental landscape.

Don’t put this off as planet earth is in distress and we can’t bury our head in the sand for much longer.

In my next and last healthy homes / healthy swaps workshop for 2019 I’ll educate you on what the toxic ingredients in everyday products are doing to not only your and your kids’ health but to our precious planet and how you can healthy swap in a positive and empowering way using products that are cost effective, more powerful, and less toxic than conventional brands that are costing us our health and the health of the planet.

CLICK HERE TO BOOK and together let’s create a ripple effect and be the force of change that this world so radically needs. Will you step up for the sake of the next generation?!?

If you can’t make it in person, my team and I can explain everything to you over the phone and support you in your healthy swapping journey every step of the way regardless of where you live. Simply fill out the contact form on this page (scroll down) and we will contact you soon!

HALLOWEEN TRICK OR TREAT BAGS!

It’s that time of year again! Deep breath and…. sigh. Each year as I walk Chesterfield Pde stunned by the transformation of Bronte’s seaside fig lined street into a Halloween extravaganza with no expense spared on either houses or costumes, I am even more stunned that in this day and age with SO! MUCH! INFORMATION! on the dangers of sugars and artificial ingredients, how on earth can people  STILL THINK THAT IS OK to shove a stupendous amounts of toxic crap into our kids. How is this STILL OK?!? Halloween would actually be quite cool if it wasn’t so deadly. 

For the record…"Dear residents, can you pleeeeeeeeeeease stop poisoning our kids?!?!!”

No, I’m not Amish. And nor am I a party pooper. Allow me to let you in on a little secret in case you didn’t get the memo: This is not about deprivation! This is about healthy swaps!! Yes! Healthy swaps that are just as, if not more, delicious than artificial crap, and are made with nutrient dense ingredients that are actually GOOD FOR CHILDREN, and that don’t leave a trail of learning, behavioural, digestive and skin issues in their wake after consumption <<loud clapping, cheering, fireworks>>

With the above in mind, a few years I decided to take matters into my own hands and provide my community with a healthy Halloween trick or treat bag. They went down a treat (excuse the pun) and parents loved them! Why? Because we are not afraid to start a ripple effect that demonstrates:

1. As parents we care about what goes into our children's bodies
2. We are fed up with the toxic crap that gets dolled out to our kids  in the name of “treats”
3. Kids are happy to eat healthy treats, without all the toxic ingredients, if we just offer it to them. D’ah! 

This year our Halloween bags contain a delightful mix of 7 of our favourite nutrient-dense organic raw treats handcrafted at Broth Bar & Larder:

🎃 2 raspberry gummies made with raspberries, gelatin powder and the teeniest amount of maple syrup (less than 1/10 teaspoon per gummy). 
🎃 2 mango gummies (as above but made with mangoes instead of raspberries). 
🎃 1 mint carob bear made with carob powder, raw cacao butter and therapeutic-grade Young Living peppermint essential oil .... With NO ADDED SWEETENER!!! 
🎃 a 30g pack of our signature activated macadamias. Nice to have something savoury in the bag!! Traditionally, trick or treat bags contained nuts. 
🎃 a 30g pack of activated pepitias and goji berries 
🎃 2of our choc orange raw dark chocolate segments infused with therapeutic-grade Young Living orange essential oil
🎃 1 choc orange bliss ball infused with therapeutic-grade Young Living orange essential oil
🎃 kid friendly Halloween jokes selected by my kids 😂

All ingredients are certified organic and maple syrup is pure Canadian maple syrup. 

These trick or treat bags retail for $19.95 and can be used in 3 ways

1. Take them with you when going trick or treating and let your kids munch on some of the healthy snacks rather than the crappy confectionary they will be given (which you can accept graciously then turf at home). If you have no alternative with you,  the temptation to eat confectionary is too great for kids.
2. When you get back home use the treats as a healthy swap for all of the crap that they will be given.
3. Use the treats or the jokes when a little ghost or dracula comes knocking on your door. You'll feel good knowing that you have provided a little soul with something actually good for them. 

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These bags will be available for collection from Broth Bar &  Larder in Bronte by pre-order and pre-pay only. Call Broth Bar directly on 0421 786 009 to pre-order. 

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And if you don’t live locally to collect one of our bags, you can read this blog post that I wrote many years ago on 6 ways to deal with Halloween. This trend is catching, so you too might like to make and take your own healthy trick or treat bag with you when you and your kids do the rounds of the streets. 

I would love to know what you think of these trick or treat bags. Please share your thoughts in the comments below!

 Here's some feedback from one of our Broth Bar regular mums on our Halloween bags from previous years:

“What a wonderful idea!!! Such a relief knowing I’m not the only parent who thinks this whole thing is crazy following northern hemisphere traditions that are not aligned with our earth based seasons as an excuse to sell crap to our community and fill our children with sugar!! It is spring here in Australia!! Flowers blooming, baby animals being born and new Life emerging!! When I was growing up in the northern hemisphere Halloween was about letting go, it was autumn and there were pumpkins everywhere and leaves falling from trees and we honoured our ancestors from our past (hence the scary dead theme of Halloween). Anyone else feel as confused as I do?? What exactly are we programming our children with?? Anyway, thank you Soulla for bringing a healthy real option to the festivities of Halloween. Appreciate everything you offer to our community”

— Lizzy

HAPPY TRICK OR TREATING!!!!! 👻👹😈🎃👽💀

ACT and Perth Food as Medicine talks!

Dear Canberra and Perth friends!

You asked us to come to Canberra and Perth as part of our Food As Medicine Australian tour and we are obliging!

Myself and Marieke Rodenstein - Australia’s leading holistic dietician whose shares my passion for ancestral dietary principles and regenerative farming - will be presenting for a FULL DAY (9am-5:30pm) in ACT on Saturday 14th Sept and in Perth on Sunday 27th October. 

The morning Food as Medicine talk focuses on the fundamentals of robust nutrition and robust gut health, along with myth busting around conventional dietetic principles that have led to an epidemic of chronic illness and degenerative disease. I will educate you on how to kick dietary toxins to the curb and healthy swap with nutrient-dense food in an easy, positive and empowering way. I focus on the epigenetic factors that profoundly influence our and our children’s health diving into the 8 Foundations of Health that are all within our control. You will receive a comprehensive HOW TO manual that sets you up for life with all the information, tools and resources you need. 

A delicious organic wholefoods lunch is included followed by a healthy homes/ healthy swaps/ essential oils talk in the afternoon where the focus is on kicking the chemicals in your home environment especially in conventional personal care products and household cleaning products to create a toxic-free home environment (the ONLY environment you can control).

Make a FULL DAY of optimising your health by learning how to increase nourishment and reduce dietary and environmental toxins to become the best possible version of yourself.

To learn more or to book click here.

Please help me promote this event by forwarding this email to everyone you know in ACT / Perth. You will receive a free copy of one my online cooking classes of your choice for every person who books in upon your recommendation. So if 4 people book in upon your recommendation, you will receive all 4 of my online cooking classes valued at $79 each. Sweet! Please help me spread this important message to our friends that FOOD CAN BE THE MOST POTENT MEDICINE and that KICKING BOTH DIETARY AND ENVIRONMENTAL TOXINS IN YOUR HOME is the fastest and easiest way to reclaim and maintain spectacular health. 

TESTIMONIALS

“Hi Soulla, I just wanted to say thankyou to you and Marieke for such an eye opening, informative, passionate, mind blowing day yesterday. Not only did I feel close to tears at times realising how much I have to learn but also walked away on the biggest high of inspiration, motivation and determination. I feel like I woke up yesterday!!!!! What you are doing is incredible and I feel so lucky to have been able to witness this epic work you’re doing. I would have loved to have talked more but to be honest I was quite star struck. Not only are you incredibly beautiful in person, to be in the presence of someone who is so unbelievably driven, committed and lit up is something amazing. An experience I will remember forever. Thank you! thank you! thank you! 💙”

— Kate

“THANK YOU for an incredible day, Soulla + Marieke. 🌟 Knowledge bombs, like-minded company + a delicious lunch spread. I can’t wait to implement changes, take my health to the next level + share your wisdom with those around me. ”

— Caitlin

“Thanks again for such a wonderful and informative day yesterday. I have gained so much wisdom an empowerment from the session!”

— Georgia