Health is Good Food

My Story

I thought I would tell you a little about me and my business. My name is Judith and I am a dietitian, I am married to a diary farmer and I have a 4 year old little boy. I set up my private practice 2 years ago when I reduced my employed hours, with the aim to work more flexibly around my home life.

For the last 8 years I have worked as a paediatric dietitian, where I have gained extensive experience working with babies and children with allergies and intolerances, little babies with cardiac conditions, children with type 1 diabetes and education on carbohydrate counting, coeliac disease and gastrointestinal problems. Prior to that I set up and ran an obesity programme for children and worked with adults in community.

For many years I have had an interest in helping children and adults with bowel problems. So since setting up my own private practice I have attended a number of training courses with the aim of building up my knowledge to be able to offer a wide variety of people specialist dietary advice. I have become a trained educator on the FODMAPS diet for people with IBS and I also offer the modified version of this to children who have been diagnosed with IBS. I have also completed the Monash University course on female fertility. This has let me to look into the most recent research into helping women with infertility and PCOS to change their diet to help assist with boosting their fertility. I also like to help women to look as aspects of their diet whilst going through the menopause to help reduce or ease symptoms.

I have a passion with anything food related which is probably why I went into this career. I spend a lot of my time creating meal plans and recipes for people, which I love. Recently I did a little fundraiser event where I made to order and sold home made breads, sausage rolls and soups. All breads and pastry used wholemeal flour and my husbands homemade kefir milk from the farm. I was overwhelmed by the support from this and couldn’t believe how busy I would be. This has led me to branch out and offer homemade breads, sourdough’s, soda bread, wheaten bread and speciality gluten free/free from products as part of my business - made to order. Shop bought breads although convenient contain a lot more ingredients than home made, which are designed to help preserve the product.

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