Healthy Food Guide

Healthy Food Guide is a monthly magazine that makes it easy for anyone to make healthy eating choices. Every issue contains practical advice from expert dieticians and nutritionists, dozens of tips and ideas to help consumers and those with special diets choose the right products at the supermarket. Plus a month’s worth of healthy recipes, all with a complete nutritional analysis showing kilojoules, fat, protein, carbohydrate, sodium and more.

Welcome

Healthy Food Guide

Why you can trust healthy food

Ask the expert… Kathleen Alleaume

newsbites • STAY UP TO DATE WITH THE LATEST IN HEALTH NEWS AND PRACTICAL LIVING TIPS.

Parents matter

Manage your perimenopause symptoms • HFG founding editor Niki Bezzant — author of This changes everything: the honest guide to menopause and perimenopause — shares ways to ease the most common symptoms along your path through menopause.

Low-fibre DAY ON A PLATE FOR diverticulitis • Diverticular disease is a common digestive condition that sometimes calls for changes to fibre in the diet. Healthy Food Guide nutritionist Kathleen Alleaume shares tips for a healthy low-fibre menu.

The gut~brain axis HOW WHAT YOU EAT AFFECTS YOUR MIND • Your brain and your gut are not only directly connected, they’ve got each other on speed dial. Here’s what the latest research means for your health — and what you can do to help make sure that communication stays positive.

How to get a good gut feeling • According to research performed by Deakin University’s Food & Mood Centre, tweaking your diet to be more gut-health friendly can improve the composition of bacteria living in your gut within a matter of days. To make it work…

Foods that feed your gut • While no one food can ‘fix’ your gut — remember that it’s important to eat a diverse range of plant-based foods each week — this handful of foods is a good place to start.

Getting fit FOR screen lovers • Attention screen lovers — you can now turn your binge watching into kJ-burning fitness-building! Healthy Food Guide nutritionist Kathleen Alleaume shows you how to tone up when you turn on.

Flavour fusion

Slow-cooker perfection • Want a healthy and delicious family dinner waiting when you walk in the door? Well look no further ...

5 pm panic! • Cosy, quick and healthy — you'll be tucking into these warming favourites in no time.

Super soups! • Ease into the chillier months with soothing soups that are generous on the veg and satisfying enough as a meal on their own.

Air fryer FAVOURITES • Think these trendy kitchen toys are just for chips and chicken wings? Think again ...

Fruity & fabulous • Baking gets a juicy boost with fruit-filled cakes that are small on ingredients but big on flavour.

Choco-holic?

shopping news • Our dietitian scours the shelves to find the tastiest healthy foods in-store now.

10 OF THE BEST TUMMY-FRIENDLY SNACKS • Get a good gut feeling with these dietitian-approved between-meal bites.

YOUR GUIDE TO Soup • It’s soup season! Healthy Food Guide helps you navigate all the cans, pots and pouches to choose the healthiest winter warmers. .

HOW MUCH sugar IS IN cereal? • There’s no need to sugar coat your brekkie bowl. Healthy Food Guide shows you how to skip the sweet stuff in the cereal aisle.

UPGRADE YOUR... Gut-loving dinner • Gut health is vital to overall wellbeing. Turn your run-of-the-mill dinner into a glorious, gut-loving one.

Your BOWEL health meal plan • This delicious winter menu contains a gutful of goodness!

How much do I need to eat? • Every recipe in HFG is nutritionally analysed so you can devise a daily meal plan that falls within the recommended nutrition intake guidelines (see table...