Join me for a bone broth and slow cook cooking demo with WAPF!

Compared to our grandparent’s and great grandparent’s generation, as a society we’ve become more disconnected from our food system. So much so that I sometimes sense that cooking has become a revolutionary act…when it fact it should be an evolutionary process where the basic skills are learnt from the previous generation, and impressed upon us as essential as learning how to drive or tie one’s shoe laces. Somewhere along the line, the fast food culture of recent decades and Big Food has us convinced that cooking is time consuming, expensive and difficult. My craft and mission is to show you how cooking deliciously nourishing meals made with nutrient dense ingredients can be quick, easy, and simple (and cost next to nothing). 

Learning how to purchase and cook real food is the single most profound act you can do to reclaiming and maintaining your and your family’s health. Period. 

That’s why I’m teaming up with Weston A Price Foundation to show you how to make two traditional wholefoods kitchen staples - a gelatinous bone broth and a slow cooked casserole via live zoom webinar on Wed 5th August 7pm - 8:30pm.

Cooking is one of my favourite ways to show love for the people in my life. It brings people together and fosters a sense of much needed community that is engrained in the very fabric of our ancient DNA. You can use the skills learnt to not only nourish your immediate family but to throw dinner parties that take less than 30 minutes of prep time that will impress the pants off your guests…but tell them that they can leave their pants on….or not ;-) 

You can register for $15 here and the proceeds all go to the Weston A Price Foundation which is a non profit organisation whose mission is to educate the public on the benefits of nutrient dense traditional wholefoods. I really do hope that you’ll join us so that we can cook together! 

Let’s make the most of this strange time in human history by focusing on what is really important to us -  learning the art and skill of cooking real, honest, nourishing wholesome food that simultaneously boosts our immune system and nourishes our soul.

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Food as Medicine talk: 1 August via ZOOM webinar – tickets on sale now!

Following my SOLD OUT Food as Medicine talk on 23 May 2020 I am holding another on SAT 1 AUGUST via zoom webinar so you can attend from the comfort of your own home – wherever that may be. 

My co-presenter is Marieke Rodenstein - Australia’s pre eminent holistic dietician, GAPS practitioner and staunch advocate of organic & regenerative farming practices and traditional wholefoods. We have been touring Australia for over 1 year to spread our message that food is still the most powerful medicine. We think it is now more important than ever before that people focus on improving their health and building strong immunity and resilience naturally. 

We are excited that people are finally seeing robust health as a necessity and not as a luxury though many are still confused as to how to achieve this. This is where we come in and explain the fundamentals of robust nutrition and robust gut health to clear the confusion and set you on a stellar path towards robust health. 

Adopting a nutrient-dense traditional wholefoods diet is still the single most important step you can take to improve and maintain your health. Addressing the other lifestyle factors or pillars of health that we will discuss will further bolster your health and resilience.

Because a delicious wholefoods lunch can not be provided as we do in our in person talks, instead I will be gifting each participant up to 5 of my online cooking classes (retailing at $79 each) so that you can learn how to make your own bone broth, slow cooks, organ meat meals, chocolate and GF baked cakes in your home (that’s $395 worth of cooking classes for free!!!!). As I’ve always argued, cooking and preparing your own nourishing meals at home is the fastest, most profound (and cheapest) way to vibrant health. Now that we are eating out less and forced to eat in more (whether we want to or not!) home cooking is taking on greater importance in our lives and knowing how to master the wholefoods staples is essential.

As part of the talk (9am-2pm) you will receive a comprehensive 63 page Food as Medicine how-to manual that sets you up for life with all of the information covered in the talk including shopping lists, healthy swap table, list of recommended holistic practitioners, meal formulas, and practical how to etc.

Click here to learn more or purchase a ticket

Tickets will sell out fast, so please book early to avoid disappointment!

How to best get through the current global crisis

I firmly believe that whatever crisis we are faced with - personally or globally- the most important thing we can do is to take care of ourselves. When we take care of ourselves first and foremost, we are consequently taking care of everything else. When we show ourselves the respect and dignity we deserve - through how we look after ourselves- we are incidentally respecting each other and the planet so we are less of a burden and more of an asset. It is our core responsibility as humans.

If all everyone in the world did was to nourish themselves with nutrient dense biologically congruent food, use non toxic personal care products and household cleaning products, turn to natural medicines to support the body’s wisely intelligent immune system, get out into sunshine and nature, laugh play and connect with loved ones, remain curious and open minded, be positive, and have an open loving heart, we would have a radically different health care system and environmental landscape. More importantly we would raise our individual and global consciousness to a level never experienced before. And that is a beautiful and enthralling notion.

How do we get through the current global crisis? By taking care of ourselves. This gives us the physical, mental and emotional strength and resilience to navigate any storm with ease and grace.

Any crisis is invitation to:

1. Focus on what is within your control - and that is first and foremost looking after yourself, your home and your dependents. Appreciate just how much power and influence you have over your health - physically, emotionally and spiritually.

2. Embrace simplicity, especially nourishing meals and conscious consumption.

3. Shed what no longer serves you- toxins in all their guises including negative thoughts. This will create the space for healthy swaps that are nourishing and fulfilling.

4. Replace fear with love. When it all gets too much remember to just breathe and just smother the whole thing with compassion and love

We are indeed at the threshold of a massive paradigm shift in global consciousness. It is a magnificent  invitation to transform. And all we need to do is to take care of ourselves

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I will leave you with a quote from Hopi Indigenous, a Native American tribe: 

“This moment humanity is going through can now be seen as a portal and as a hole. The decision to fall into the hole or go through the portal is up to you.

If you repent of the problem and consume the news 24 hours a day, with little energy, nervous all the time, with pessimism, you will fall into the hole. But if you take this opportunity to look at yourself, rethink life and death, take care of yourself and others, you will cross the portal. Take care of your homes, take care of your body. Connect with your spiritual House.

When you are taking care of yourselves, you are taking care of everything else. Do not lose the spiritual dimension of this crisis; have the eagle aspect from above and see the whole; see more broadly.

There is a social demand in this crisis, but there is also a spiritual demand — the two go hand in hand. Without the social dimension, we fall into fanaticism. But without the spiritual dimension, we fall into pessimism and lack of meaning. You were prepared to go through this crisis. Take your toolbox and use all the tools available to you.

Learn about resistance of the indigenous and African peoples; we have always been, and continue to be, exterminated. But we still haven’t stopped singing, dancing, lighting a fire, and having fun. Don’t feel guilty about being happy during this difficult time.

You do not help at all being sad and without energy. You help if good things emanate from the Universe now. It is through joy that one resists. Also, when the storm passes, each of you will be very important in the reconstruction of this new world.

You need to be well and strong. And for that, there is no other way than to maintain a beautiful, happy, and bright vibration. This has nothing to do with alienation.

This is a resistance strategy. In shamanism, there is a rite of passage called the quest for vision. You spend a few days alone in the forest, without water, without food, without protection. When you cross this portal, you get a new vision of the world, because you have faced your fears, your difficulties.

This is what is asked of you:

Allow yourself to take advantage of this time to perform your vision-seeking rituals. What world do you want to build for you? For now, this is what you can do — serenity in the storm. Calm down, pray every day. Establish a routine to meet the sacred every day.

Good things emanate; what you emanate now is the most important thing. And sing, dance, resist through art, joy, faith, and love.”