Clinic Times Available

We have had a very busy start to the New Year, with our books  becoming full quickly so we are offering more availability with video consults on our non-clinic days.   You can call  0413 77 44 11 for video consults or book online here for our regular face-to-face clinic appointments.

Workshops

With so much nutrition mis-information out there, we want to set the record straight and help everyone to be clever about their eating.  This is why we host a range of workshops regularly on various nutrition topics.  

Our upcoming workshops include: 

- Food Allergy or Intolerance?

- Eat For Your Golden Years

For all the details and to book your place visit our Events Facebook Page or book via EventBrite

If you would like us to host a nutrition workshop at your workplace or community group on the Central Coast, please get in touch with Carin on 0407 492 278 or dietitians@brightdiets.com.au

If you would like us to host a nutrition workshop at your workplace or community group on the Central Coast, please contact Carin on 0407 492 278 or dietitians@brightdiets.com.au.

Dietitians Week

March 20-26th is Dietitians Week, where we celebrate our profession and raise awareness of how valuable we are to your health, well-being and quality of life.

Did you know Dietitians improve lives? 

We eat muliple times a day, every day of our lives, therefore the foods we eat have a huge effect on our physical and mental health. 

As a preventative health care measure, keeping your diet in check is much easier, more enjoyable, informative, rewarding, life-enhancing, as well as more time and cost-effective in the long term than managing chronic diseases such as heart disease or diabetes, which involve attending specialist appointments (endocrinologists, cardiologists etc. as well as a dietitian and exercise specialist) and taking medications, not fun or cheap at all!

Whether it is beating your personal best in your sport, being able to enjoy travelling in your retirement, running after your grandchildren, staying strong and independent whilst you age or managing your health condition, Dietitians can help you achieve it.

To Gluten Free or Not to Gluten Free, That Is The Question- Find out all about it here with Carin Clegg, APD.

Speedy Summer Vermicelli Noodle Salad

Serves 4

Ingredients

• 1/2 pack vermicelli noodles
• 4-5 cups salad ingredients eg coleslaw mix from supermarket, or finely sliced carrot, cucumber, celery, cabbage, fennel, shallot, beetroot, bok choy, green beans, snow peas or baby spinach.
• 1 can of legumes (chickpeas, kidney beans, black beans, butter beans) boiled eggs (2 per serve) or left over cooked meat/chicken (100g per serve), tofu or nuts like cashews or almonds (50g).
• Asian sauces of your choice: 4 Tab soy sauce or oyster sauce, 4 Tab sweet chilli sauce, 1 Tb peanut or seseme oil.
• Optional: Asian herbs such as vietnamese mint, vietnamese basil, lemongrass chopped up finely.
• Optional: Garlic- finely sliced if cooking the sauce

Method

1. Boil kettle. Place noodles in a bowl and pour over water. Leave for 5 minutes.
2. Chop and add vegetables and tofu/beans/egg/meat/nuts to a bowl
3. When noodles are soft, rinse in cold water, drain, then add to the bowl.
4. Combine sauces for dressing with the chopped herbs.
5. Add dressing to the noodle salad and mix.

Optional: Make the dressing by frying the garlic and herbs in oil in a fry pan over medium heat. When aromatic, add the other sauces

For more healthy food ideas check out Bright Diets Facebook Albums.