Mandy Sacher Nutrition

Mandy Sacher Nutrition Paediatric Nutritionist Mandy realised our journeys to junk food can begin with the squeezie yoghurts we are fed or the teething rusks we eat.

Committed to providing parents with honest, evidence backed advice, paediatric nutritionist Mandy Sacher is one of Australia’s leading experts on childhood nutrition and wellbeing, helping parents and mums-to-be-feed their children healthy, nourishing foods right from the start. Concerned by the lack of reliable, consistent nutrition information available to parents, Mandy is on a mission to share

her wealth of expert knowledge with families around Australia. In her newly appointed role, as Global Chief Nutrition Officer (CNO), Mandy will be have the opportunity to work with world-class leaders in neuroscience, education, psychology and theatre, and have access to research and resources to continue her life's passion and impact childhood nutrition on a world-wide scale. Mandy’s philosophy is simple: train children’s taste-buds to enjoy nourishing, nutritionally beneficial foods early as possible to ensure optimal development and establishment of lifelong healthy eating behaviours and food choices. After birth of her first child in 2010, she became increasingly aware of the lack of nutritionally sound information being made available to first-time parents. She was alarmed at the amount of baby and toddler food that were marketed as being ‘healthy’ when the sugar, salt and preservative content were overly high. Mandy is committed to helping parents understand the food choices available to our children, and to providing information and resources that make for easier access to better nutritional options than those available in the local convenience store. Mandy’s career in children’s health spans more than two decades and has previously consulted to hundreds of childcare centres, and supported over 80,000 families to implement healthy eating habits through her social media channels, training modules and her international best-selling book Wholesome Child: A Complete Nutrition Guide and Cookbook. Now she is embarking on a new journey, and will be working to create in collaboration with MindChamps, the world's leading Nutritional Literacy Programme and will be sharing her journey, MindChamps' research and delicious and nutritious meal ideas and recipes with you over the coming months. Mandy can be contacted via her website for a limited number of private workshops and private consultations for families in need of support.

25/05/2026

Comment “PLASTIC” and I’ll send you my guide with the easiest ways to reduce microplastic exposure at home 🤍

Microplastics are no longer just an environmental issue.

Researchers have now detected them in human blood, placentas and breast milk. And most families are exposed every day through things we barely think about anymore… takeaway containers, packaged snacks, bottled drinks and heating food in plastic.

But here’s the part I found really interesting.

Australian researchers found simple kitchen and food changes reduced plastic chemical exposure levels in just 7 days.

Not perfection.
Not throwing out your whole kitchen overnight.

Just small, practical changes that actually make sense for real families.

This is exactly why I wanted to talk about this segment.

Thank you for bringing light to such an important topic!

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14/05/2026

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The kids and I spent Mother’s Day going through old photos. I ended up sitting on the floor for an hour, looking at the version of me deep in the trenches of feeding two small kids.

I’d forgotten how hard those years were. The fussy phases. The dinners rejected or tossed on the floor. The constant questioning of whether I was doing enough to keep my babies nourished and healthy… and whether the latest batch of homemade snacks would actually get eaten.

And I was a paediatric nutritionist.

But as a mum with two small kids, I still felt overwhelmed at times. Which is exactly why I can fully empathise with parents going through all the colourful phases and stages of feeding little humans.

So this is your gentle reminder, if you’re in the trenches right now: you are doing more than enough.

The Unfussy Eaters Club didn’t come from having it all figured out. It came from years of working it out recipe by recipe, in my own kitchen.

Comment UNFUSSY and I’ll send you the bliss ball recipe, plus a link to the book with 100+ recipes the whole family will actually eat 💛

12/05/2026

Comment RECIPE and I’ll send it to you 👇

Reading muesli bar labels at the supermarket can feel exhausting. You finally find one that looks healthy, flip it over, and suddenly you’re decoding syrups, emulsifiers and numbers in brackets while your kids are asking for snacks.

And while homemade isn’t always realistic, having one or two recipes you can lean on as part of your routine can make such a difference.

These are the muesli bars I keep in my freezer for the busy weeks when I don’t want to think about lunchboxes again.

Five minutes to prep, fifteen in the oven. Nut-free, school-friendly, fussy-eater approved. I make a double batch and we’re usually set for weeks.

Real food doesn’t have to mean spending hours in the kitchen. Sometimes it just looks like having a few simple staples ready to go.

Comment RECIPE and I’ll send the full recipe through 💛

And if decoding labels is the part you’re tired of, that’s exactly why exists. Real food, made simple.

11/05/2026

A muesli bar shouldn’t be a dessert in disguise. But most of them are.

Take the Milo bar. Over 9 different sweeteners on a single label, including glucose, invert sugar and maltodextrin. Refined oils. Synthetic additives like sorbitol (420) and “added flavour.” Whatever fibre and protein the bar offers gets buried under a long list of industrial ingredients.

This is confectionery disguised as fuel. And the high Health Star Rating only shows how easy the system is to game.

Some brands are getting it right with real fruit, wholegrains and fewer additives. Most aren’t. And right now the only way for a parent to tell which is which is to stand in the aisle, comparing every label.

That’s the gap is built to close.

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07/05/2026

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Have you ever actually read the ingredient list on a frozen chicken nugget?

Swapping them out for a homemade version is one of the most common changes I make with my clients. It’s near impossible to find a frozen option I’d feel good about recommending.

So I stopped searching, and started making these.

Just chicken breast, extra virgin olive oil, and a few real ingredients you’d recognise from your own pantry. No fillers, no emulsifiers, no mystery numbers.

This is hands down one of the most requested recipes from my clients with fussy eaters, and for good reason. It’s great for the whole family, even the pickiest at the table.

Bonus tip: You can blend the veggies even finer than I did in this video to really hide them, if getting your little ones to eat vegetables is causing you stress.

And the best part is you can prep a double batch in the time it takes to make one, freeze them raw or cooked, and have a real-food dinner ready to go on the nights you’ve got nothing left to give.

Comment RECIPE and I’ll send it through. And if cooking from scratch isn’t on the cards will be here soon to help you choose better options.

06/05/2026

If crackers are in your kid’s lunchbox, watch this.

They look healthy. The ingredient list tells a different story. One of the easiest lunchbox upgrades starts here.

The front of pack sells it. The back tells the truth. Refined flour, vegetable oils, emulsifiers, flavour enhancers, added salts and sugars. If the ingredient list reads more like a formula than a recipe, it’s probably been heavily processed.

Crackers aren’t a sometimes food anymore. For most Aussie families they’re in the lunchbox 3 to 5 times a week. When something’s eaten that often, the ingredient list matters.

The shift is simple. Look for whole grains or seeds, fewer ingredients, names you recognise. A cracker on its own isn’t really a snack, it’s a base. It’s what you build on it that makes the difference.

Comment CRACKERS for the recipe and brands I recommend.

04/05/2026

“Popular bars with a 4 or 5 health star rating may not be nutritious at all.”
…are we supposed to be surprised by this?

The Health Star Rating is a government-backed system that looks at numbers on paper — protein, fibre, sugar, sodium — and completely misses what’s actually in the food. Seed oils, emulsifiers, sweeteners, additive codes. None of it factors in.

People are genuinely trying. They trust the front of the pack. And they walk out of the supermarket more confused than when they walked in. People aren’t failing at this — they’re being failed by a system that was never built to tell them the full story.

Real Food Rating exists to fix that.

Whole foods like eggs, lean meat, chicken and tofu will always outperform a processed snack.

But when you want one that actually delivers, comment PROTEIN and I’ll send some high-protein real food recipes through.

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It’s time to start thinking about term 2 lunchboxes, so naturally I’ve spent the week pulling apart the staples most of ...
03/05/2026

It’s time to start thinking about term 2 lunchboxes, so naturally I’ve spent the week pulling apart the staples most of us pack on autopilot.

Wraps, muesli bars, crackers, bread, those little cheese snack packs.

What I keep finding is the same thing. Long ingredient lists. Preservatives most parents have never been told to look for. Six different sweeteners in a single muesli bar.

Recent Australian research found 81% of products marketed at kids are ultra-processed. That stat has stayed with me all week.

A real food staple doesn’t need a long ingredient list. Real ingredients, recognisable names. That’s it.
This is exactly the kind of thing that made me build .

Comment STAPLES and I’ll send you my guide on the 6 preservatives I check for first, plus the pantry staples on rotation in our house.

14/01/2026

I appeared on to talk about the rise of AI fake weight-loss and nutrition scams, and why anyone looking to lose weight needs to be more vigilant than ever.

💬 Comment “REAL FOOD” and I’ll send you my evidence-based guide to help protect yourself and your family from AI weight-loss and nutrition scams.

AI is rapidly changing the health and nutrition space.
Used responsibly…and guided by qualified professionals, it has real potential to support education and access.

But when AI replaces clinical expertise, manipulates images, or sells fast weight-loss promises, it becomes dangerous.

And that’s exactly what we’re seeing right now.

As people set New Year health and weight-loss goals, AI-driven apps are flooding social media with:
• altered before-and-after images
• calorie estimates from photos
• “personalised” advice that ignores biology, behaviour, mental health, and food quality

That’s not innovation.
That’s misinformation dressed up as technology.

No AI promises of overnight weight-loss can replace years of clinical training, real-world experience, or a deep understanding of how food, hormones, mental health, and environment interact.

This segment highlights how AI cab be misused to exploit vulnerability, create unrealistic expectations, and sell false hope.

Thank you for shining a light on such an important issue.

At Real Food Rating, we support technology that assists informed decision-making, not platforms that override science, transparency, or human expertise.

If health or weight loss is one of your goals this year, choose approaches grounded in real food, real education, and real professionals.

Comment “REAL FOOD” and I’ll send you:
• my guide to spotting AI nutrition & weight-loss scams
• the link to watch the full segment
• an invite to join the waitlist for an app you can trust

Follow rating for guidance that puts your health first in a noisy digital health space.

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