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Welcome to Food Bytes
FoodBytes is a nutrition marketing consultancy directed by Teri Lichtenstein, an accredited practising dietitian (APD), sports dietitian and accredited nutritionist with over 20 years experience in nutrition communications within the food and healthcare industries.
You can read more about Teri’s experience on LinkedIn.
FoodBytes has worked with a range of clients
An excellent strategy is only as successful as the people who drive it, so we always align your external efforts with your internal conditions.
We have a deep understanding of the the diverse factors that influence nutrition and health, as well as insights into the best way to communicate with a variety of healthcare professionals.
All our services evolve around credible nutrition communications that will achieve engagement with your audience and resonate to achieve an impact.
My favourite memories of growing up in South Africa are my food memories from my grandmother’s home. My Omi escaped Nazi Germany in the late 1930s and never saw her mother again, who was sent on a cattle train to a death camp. Despite my Omi suffering such heartache, she filled her home with love through cooking the most delicious meals for every Jewish Sabbath and festival. Tonight I recreated one of her specialities, homemade chicken soup served with perogen, which are tiny meat pies that every traditional Jewish family ate in South Africa. As I bit into the flaky pastry, I was immediately transported back to her home, where Saturday afternoons meant long lunches at her house after Synagogue, filled with smells of chicken soup and my Omi encouraging me to eat ‘just one more perogen’, as all good grandmothers do! I really miss her and her cooking a lot. 💔
The environment we eat in makes a huge difference to an eating experience. I ate this mandarin overlooking the ocean at the end of a three day hike on the exquisite @abeltasmannz track and it was one of the sweetest, juiciest mandarins I have ever tasted. We really eat with all our senses and the ‘where’ can play an equally important role as the ‘what’.
Hot summer nights means salad family dinners. Tonight’s concoction was super crunchy with celery, chickpeas, cucumber, green capsicum, herbs from my garden, red onion, tuna & brown rice. I blended it with a quick dressing of EVOO, fresh lemon juice and my favourite @activiaaustralia yoghurt (the plain flavour is the best for dressings). And the best part? It took about 10 minutes to make and only used one giant bowl 👊
I have been lagging behind the cottage cheese trend. Whilst I quite like the taste and texture, as a young dietitian I came across too many people overdoing cottage cheese as part of those horrible taste-free weight loss diets. So I think I needed to disassociate the negativity! Well, I can confirm I am back on the cottage cheese band wagon after this delicious lunch I made today. I mixed cottage cheese, fresh tomato, Spanish onion, finely diced green capsicum and a handful of mozzarella. I topped a couple of pieces of sourdough with the mixture and popped into the air fryer at 200 degrees for about 8 minutes. This was next level yumminess and will definitely be on repeat!
I think most of us are guilty for eating out in our local neighbourhood 90% of the time, as it’s easier and we have so many great restaurants and cafes all over Melbourne. This morning I had to venture out to North Melbourne’s so I took advantage of an insanely good breakfast at @auction_rooms . Not only was this porridge one of the best I have ever eaten (perfectly balanced combo of baked apple, blackcurrant, rhubarb compote, almond milk, macadamia & coconut crumb, cinnamon and meringue), but this heritage building is magnificent! The decor and ambience was so inviting that I could have easily spent the whole day there, sampling my way through the entire breakfast and lunch menu. Definitely an excuse to get out to that neighbourhood more often!
I had such a fun morning presenting a nutrition workshop to a group of new mothers today. The topic was nourishing your energy battery and we covered everything from simple strategies to build balanced meals and snacks, how to decipher food labels, breaking down diet and nutrition myths and so many great questions were raised and discussed. Thanks to @fodbods and @djaproducts for providing yummy snacks and to @shifrapuahmelb for inviting me along. I love talking and I love nutrition so combining the two together was my perfect morning! #dietitian #nutritionworkshop
Extra Virgin Olive Oil Health and Nutrition Report
FoodBytes initially undertook a scoping review of the available literature to discern the types and categories of research to include in the report. This was an important part of the project given the vast amount of research relating to EVOO. A suggestion of key [...]