Alyson Roux Nutrition

08/19/2020

Oh my heart, this is gorgeously written and so important.

There's no one way people with eating disorders look.

07/27/2020

Unless your performing arts professors are also Registered Dietitians, Registered Nurses, and/or Medical Doctors, they have no place giving you such advice.
Text: “Theater, dance, and opera professors are not qualified to give diet and weight management advice to their students.”

06/06/2020

In the course of making face masks from patterns found online, a new issue popped up out of left field. Plus size people often have bigger (super fabulous) faces, and the patterns didn’t take this into account. Fuller cheeks, double chins, etc. This presented a design and inclusivity issue. Seeing...

06/01/2020

A list of black-owned restaurants, coffee shops, bakeries, food trucks and pop-ups in the Los Angeles area.

05/25/2020

Who else needs this today?

05/18/2020

Free mindfulness resources for this time of chaos...

Dear Friends ~ During this global crisis we all need pathways to calm, clarity and openheartedness. While it’s natural to feel fear during times of great collective crisis, our challenge is that fear easily takes over our lives. Mindfulness and compassion practices can help us find an inner refuge...

05/09/2020

Broth is kinda unappealing looking but we all live in the now, so I’m using to freeze pressure cooker made for the bones of a pastured chicken from . Amongst this chaos, some days we have the capacity and bandwidth to make something for our future selves, a kindness present in our freezer for a day we need it. I don’t have the capacity to do this all the time, but today I have the privilege of being able to do so. What you can handle today is enough. Today this feels kind.

05/06/2020

My love made me a cake! Happy Quarantine Birthday to me!

05/02/2020

Pandemic cooking practice- Instant pot black beans success! Fast, cheap, easy, shelf stable. Some other flavor friends for this rice bowl will include lime pickled red onion, cilantro and parsley, and I’m frying an egg to top it all off... doesn’t need to be pretty, but I sure do like having all these colors and textures together. Feeling lucky and grateful for this lunch.

04/30/2020

My garden! Wasn’t sure how well this would work. Green onion tops clipped with some scissors makes food taste just a bit happier to me... little ways to connect to pleasure with food right now can help us feel a bit more grounded.

04/29/2020

And why we need patience, flexibility, and compassion around food and our bodies...

This is why you're exhausted just from being alone.

04/28/2020

This totally blown out photo of a curry is a freezer pantry meal success!! Frozen veggies, peas, a can of coconut milk, and a loving helping of curry powder... oh my goodness my kitchen smells so good!!!