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Why you should never salt your rissoles and 7 other food optimisation facts.

I recently listed to an amazing Freakonomics podcast episode called Food + Science = Victory! It was all about food optimisation to get the best flavours possible and for the ultimate nutritional v...

8 Easy One Pot Low Carb Dinners

Nothing is worse than having a great dinner only to come back to the kitchen to see a whole sink full of dishes. I've put together this list of easy low carb recipes that cuts down the washing up t...

5 Tips for a Low Carb Buffet Breakfast

I have always loved a good hotel buffet breakfast, but it can be hard to control yourself with all that delicious food laid out in front of you. With a little bit of planning, you can enjoy a b...

11 Things I've Learnt About Living Low Carb

Before I started working at here at the Protein Bread Co, I was a typical uni student - eating not too badly, but with plenty of coffee, take away and sugary treats. My main meals were usually fine...

What's in our Low Carb Bread Recipe?

You might be wondering about some of our ingredients - low carb bread sounds too good to be true! Well it isn't, our Protein Bread has only 1.7g carbs per serve. Our bread is: Gluten Free Yeast Fr...

The 10 most common Vitamin and Mineral Deficiencies and the best foods to eat to avoid them

We live in the lucky country here in Australia. Our standard of living is high and for the most part, we have access to some of the best foods in the world. From our world renowned dairy industry, ...

6 Ways to Love Your Monday

Mondays - dreaded by workers everywhere and the ruiner of many good weekends. But you can love your Monday just as much as your Saturdays (... maybe not quite as much, but you definitely close the ...

The 30 High Protein Vegetables - The Definitive List

Following up our hugely successful post last week about low carb vegetables (seriously, you guys went nuts over it!), I've decided to do another similar post, but this time focusing on High Protein...

The 10 Best Low Carb Alcoholic Drinks

What have you given up for your low carb lifestyle? Celebrating with a few drinks is great (even if it's just celebrating the end of the week), but it's easy to feel guilty about it when you're fol...

All You Need Is Pushups - 6 Magic Properties of Pushups

What do you do if you've hit a wall? If you're in a slump, feeling down, or just like you can't do anything, it's amazing what getting up and doing even just a tiny bit of exercise can do. Next tim...

How to Keep Energy Up All Day with these 8 Easy Tips

How often have you been sitting at your desk at 2.57pm feeling like you could easily just put your head down for a sneaky afternoon nap? No matter how much you love your job, everyone's had those d...

5 Great Changes to the Healthy Eating Pyramid

Nutrition Australia has just released a new Healthy Eating Pyramid! I'm sure you're all familiar with the old one (shown to the left), but Nutrition Australia have now released a new pyramid which ...

Avoid these 7 common dieting mistakes [especially number 6]

We've all been there - getting excited about changing our diet only to find that we aren't able to stick to it. Sometimes, we can look back and recognise what we did wrong and try again, but wouldn...

Boost your Metabolism with Vitamins and Minerals

We often become fixated on calories and macronutrients (proteins, carbs, & fats) for physical function and energy expenditure. How many of you ‘count’ your calories in the hope that you are in ...

5 Reasons Avocados are Amazing

Avocados are amazing. Everyone knows it, and those who don't just don't want to admit it. They do amazing things for you body, they're a great replacement for butter on bread, they're an easy addit...

Train Smarter Not Harder: How to Avoid Burnout

As a Personal Trainer and Group Fitness Instructor, I often see my members pushing themselves week after week, and not always seeing the results they want. The problem is often BURNOUT, both on a p...

A Beginners Guide to Sticking to Your Fitness Routine

Ever tried to start a fitness routine, only to give up or stop a week later? We've all been there. Starting something is such an important step, but there is an even harder step later on as you try...

Low Carb Recipe Ideas for Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

We are confronted by so much information about carbs and low carb diets – but what are carbs? Below is a brief intro to carbs and some everyday recipe ideas for low carb meals. Carbohydrates are ...

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This is the last blog entry about the Health Star Rating! We hope you've found the previous weeks insightful and helpful, and that you can now make better, more informed decisions about the product...

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We’re continuing to look at the elements of the Health Star Rating (HSR) system, and today we're looking at sodium! We looked at Saturated Fat last week, so if you missed it, check it out here at H...

Saturated Fat and the Health Star Rating

We're looking at the different elements of the Health Star Rating system, which has been introduced to some food packaging in Australia recently, and we're following on from last week when we talke...

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We’re continuing our look into the different components of the Health Star Rating (HSR) system that has recently been implemented onto Australian food packaging. We’ve already looked at what the sy...

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We recently told you about the new Health Star Rating (HSR) system that will be introduced not only to our packaging, but any food products that choose to display it in Australia. It is a rating sy...

6 “Healthy” Brekkies which make you Sleepy

Many of our typical breakfast choices actually contain a LOT of sugar. When we consume sugar, it gives us a natural energy spike, we feel great for a short amount of time, but then it sends our ins...

Health Star Rating System - What is it?

We are bombarded with so much information about food, brands and nutrition, it’s hard to determine what’s genuinely good for you through all that noise. Recently, Food Standards Australia New Zeala...

We can't get enough of Almonds both in and out of our bread

The flavoursome, versatile, tasty AND healthy all-mighty-almond (that is available year round), provides us with Almond Meal. Almond Meal, commonly referred to as Almond flour, is simply natural or...

This 1 EASY technique made me so much happier overnight :)

I haven’t written a blog in a while but today I wanted to share with you a technique/philosophy that has really changed my life. You may have heard of the Japanese term Kaizen – it means constant ...