EAT THINK EXPLORE
Better for you AND the planet!
Reclaim your health whilst saving the planet with just a few shifts to how you eat and think
Here you’ll find resources, courses, recipes, tips, researched articles, meal plans, swap suggestions, guidance and friendly support and coaching to help you on your journey to a healthier, greener life.
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Tuna Nicoise Salad
Salads can often get negative press, but I love a warm salad, especially one as tasty and filling as this! It’s a little protein heavy as there’s so much protein in the beans and spinach, as well as the wheat, but you can’t have a nicoise without egg and tuna so I’ve just reduced the amounts of these compared to the normal versions…
Here’s the latest news at Eat Think Explore…
13/7/23 – Website revamp
The website has had a revamp – hope you like it!
19/6/23 – I completed my camino!
I finished my 620 mile walk across the north of Spain! Spoke to loads of people about the importance of healthy soils and raised money for Regeneration International 🙂 . There’s still time to sponsor me here…
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Hello!
I’m Sarah, a Sustainable Nutrition and Behaviour Change Coach.
I’m on a mission to help people get started on their journey to a way of eating that is best for their health AND good for the planet. Luckily for us, what’s best for us and the planet are largely the same things!
I also like to raise awareness about the effects of chronic inflammation on the body and help people make changes to their lives (diet and lifestyle).
Why? Because not so long ago, I was struggling to function through a haze of health issues. Juggling work, kids and family life whilst being worn down constantly by poor skin (psoriasis, ezcema, dermatitis etc), a dodgy gut, low energy, asthma and allergies. Topped with mounting guilt that I wasn’t being more sustainable because I couldn’t find the time to do anything about it. The result: a massive tub of medicines, a bleak outlook on the future and depression. Perhaps you can relate?
After rejecting this as my future; I did my own resarch and diagnised an imbalanced immune system, which I improved with some fairly major diet changes (despite initially hating vegetables and being a really fussy eater!) and soem shifts to my mindset. Food became my medicine, which when you get a little more into the science of it all (which I did being a total science geek), makes a whole lot of sense.
I LOVE the food I eat now – it’s far from bland, I don’t count calories, I don’t go hungry and I do eat ‘bad’ (let’s call them less healthy…) foods sometimes. And the great thing is that eating this way is more eco-friendly, so my eco-guilt has dropped too.
So now I help people get from where I was, to where I am now, and share my sustainability research. If you need my help in finding your way to eco-friendly eating get in touch today 🙂
Everything I do here at EAT THINK EXPLORE is based around:
♦ scientifically proven facts (or personal experience)
♦ supporting you to make long term changes with a focus on mindset changes through behaviour change coaching
♦ making sustainable choices for our planet (i.e. a focus on eating more locally sourced, reduced packaging and plant based foods)
♦ enjoying ourselves along the way – life is for living!
EAT THINK EXPLORE is your route to better health and preserving our beautiful natural world.
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What’s with the name?
It encompasses the things I’m passionate about; food, exploring and the world. Let’s take a deeper look at each…
EAT
SecMeaning: to consume food – pretty obvious that one! But also, to begin with enthusiasm, and to take small bites of, which sums up my approach here. Massive change is hard, but break it down into small chunks and find your motivation and you can achieve it.
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My two main focuses in nutrition are:
1) healing through diet, particularly resolving chronic inflammation as it’s the root cause of so many conditions (poor skin, gut issues, lack of energy, stubborn weight, pain and chronic diseases like heart disease and cancer). I used to have many of them, so I know first hand that diet can help. Feed your body the vitamins and minerals it needs, move it around a bit and reduce inflammatory agents and it will thank you!
2) learning to eat in a way that is also better for the planet we live on. Reducing the impact of the foods we eat in terms of their source and packaging.
The services offered here at EAT THINK EXPLORE focus around diet and lifestyle assessment and creating a tailored plan for you, which includes behaviour change support and education so you can make these changes stick this time.
THINK
Meaning: to have concern about something (our health and the environment), to have a belief in something (ourselves) and to consider the possibility of new things, especially foods and adventures.
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Here I’m all about thinking about the world we live in and what better choices we can make to protect it. The focus here is on making better choices that are better for our health and the planet. All of my nutritional advice will be given with advice on how you can make simple changes to lower your impact. We’re at the stage now where if we don’t all start to make some better choices, the world as we know it will end, and the next version isn’t likely to be as people friendly…
EXPLORE
Meaning: to engage in a journey for the purposes of discovery, to engage in self discovery, to look for/seek, to investigate in a systematic manner, and to make a trip or visit.
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My journey to health started by exploring different ways to treat my various conditions, leading me to the one big issue in my life – inflammation, and really looking at what we wanted from life (to make less impact and see the world).
As a family we are always exploring different ways to reduce our impact. Not all of them work out, but you’ve got to keep trying new things until you find one that works for you.
We’re also all about adventures, big and small. From trying new foods (beetles in Cambodia!), a weekend walk, to setting off for a year around the world. We want to inspire and empower you to live a little and Say Yes More.
Since we started living our lives by this motto the changes have been massive and I can’t believe where we’ve come in four years (it all sounds a bit cliche we know and we’re not ones for the gushy stuff, but it’s really true!).
What will you find on the blog?
Here at EAT THINK EXPLORE you’ll find recipes, information and tips (backed by scientific research or personal experience) in my blogs on the things that I’m passionate about; healthy foods, maximising nutrients, making more sustainable decisions, reducing inflammation and exploring this wonderful world!
Check out some of my most recent posts below:
Days 53-56 Christchurch to Wellington
A few days with a fair amount of travel on coaches and a boat to move between these two cities. We stopped at Kaikoura for a dose of whales, seals and beautiful coastlines though. Oh, and the beach of death…
Day 48-52 Queenstown to Christchurch
Our final days in the RV following our cloudy, grumpy spell turned out to be pretty perfect! Sunny skies, picture perfect lakes and mountains, stunning waterfalls and great walks. Almost made us like the RV in the end….
Days 45-47 – Dunedin to Queenstown
Every trip has it’s bad patch. This was deinitely ours (so far anyway). Don’t expect glorious pictures and happy faces in this post; instead you’ll get lots of rain and cloud and the harsh realities of living in an RV in the winter…
Days 39-44 Christchurch to Dunedin
Our first days in the RV figuring out how it works and enjoying some beautiful sunny weather around the impressive Mount Cook, stunning Lake Pukaki, fossil filled limestone and the city of Dunedin with its wildlife rich peninsula.
Days 37-39 Christchurch and earthquakes
Our being permanently scarred by ‘the cucumber incident’, our first stop in New Zealand was the largest city on the South Island, Christchurch. A small city which has suffered more than its fair share of tragedy over the past few years, with a series of earthquakes in 2010/2011 resulting in 80-90% of the central city area being destroyed, followed up by shootings earlier this year. We only spent a couple of days here but it was education, sobering and uplifting.
Days 32-36 The Shipwreck Coast at Warrnambool to Melbourne
We stayed near Warrnambool for a few days rest and explored the Shipwreck Coast before driving across the third largest volcanic plain in the world to spend our last couple of days in Australia exploring Melbourne.
