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Chantel, Bianca and Brittany are dietitians with a passion to heal your relationship with food and body

Imagine Dietitians (practice number: 0595039) opened its doors on the 4th of January 2016 in Stellenbosch. Imagine Dietitians offer various dietetic services which include (but is not limited to) nutritional assessments and counseling in hospital for patients who need nutritional support (sip feeds, enteral- or parenteral nutrition) or patients diagnosed with insulin resistance, diabetes mellitus

(or any other chronic disease of the lifestyle), cancer, renal problems, auto-immune disease, eating disorders, and children who are picky eaters, suffer from constipation, have an iron deficiency or have inadequate dietary intake. We are three registered dietitians working at the practice: Chantel Walker, Maya du Plessis and Danielle le Riche.

12/08/2025

🌍 Happy International Youth Day!

Today, we’re celebrating the passion, curiosity, and energy of youth, including our throwback selves!

Swipe to see the younger versions of our dietitians, who once dreamed big and now help others thrive through nutrition. 💪🥦

Here’s to empowering the next generation to grow healthy and strong - mind, body, and plate. 💚

09/08/2025

Happy National Women’s Day! 🇿🇦✨

Today, we celebrate the incredible women who are nurturing, guiding, and raising the next generation in homes, classrooms, clinics, communities, and beyond.

Whether you’re a mother, caregiver, teacher, health professional, or simply someone who pours love and wisdom into others, you are shaping the future in the most powerful way.

Your patience, your care, your strength and softness - they matter more than words can say. 💛

Here’s to the women raising tomorrow with heart, courage, and unwavering love.

06/08/2025

World Breastfeeding Week | 1-7 August

This week, we honour the beauty, strength, and science of breastfeeding - a powerful foundation for lifelong health for both babies and mothers.

Breastfeeding isn’t always easy, and every journey looks different. Whether it’s exclusive breastfeeding, mixed feeding, or navigating challenges, every effort matters. 💛

Let’s continue to support, uplift, and empower parents with accurate information, compassion, and care, because when families are supported, everyone thrives.

04/08/2025

Happy Birthday to our amazing boss and guiding light, Chantel! ✨🎉

Thank you for leading with strength, heart, and a fierce commitment to everything you do.

You empower us to dream bigger, think bolder, and always show up with purpose. Your passion is infectious, and your drive unstoppable.

Here’s to celebrating YOU today - the woman who makes it all happen.

02/08/2025

Women’s Month Reminder:
Self-care is not selfish. It’s a form of strength. 💛

August is Women’s Month in South Africa, a time to honour the power, resilience, and beauty of women in all seasons of life.

This month, we want to remind every woman:
✨ You don’t have to burn out to be worthy.
✨ You don’t have to give to everyone else before giving to yourself.
✨ Your health matters. Your rest matters. Your joy matters.

Self-care can look like:
🫶 Nourishing your body with balanced meals
🌿 Saying no without guilt
💧 Drinking your water and taking a deep breath
🧠 Making your mental health a priority
🛌 Resting, without needing to “earn” it

This Women’s Month, may we all choose self-care not as a luxury, but as a vital act of self-respect.

30/07/2025

🌈 Say hello to your new go-to nutritious bowl!

This Rainbow Chicken Power Bowl is bursting with flavour, colour and nutrients. 💪🥑🍅
✔️ Lean protein
✔️ Fibre + plant diversity
✔️ Healthy fats
✔️ Anti-inflammatory & energising

🛒 Ingredients (Serves 2-3)
For the Bowl:
2 small chicken breasts (±300g), grilled and sliced
1 cup cooked quinoa
½ cup canned black beans or red kidney beans (rinsed & drained)
½ cup corn kernels (frozen, canned, or fresh)
1 cup cherry tomatoes, halved
1 ripe avocado, sliced
1 handful fresh coriander or baby spinach
Lime wedges, to serve

For the Dressing:
2 tbsp olive oil
Juice of 1 lime or ½ lemon
1 tsp honey (optional)
½ tsp ground cumin
Salt & black pepper to taste

👩‍🍳 Method
Grill the chicken: Season lightly with paprika, cumin, salt and pepper. Grill until cooked through. Slice and set aside.
Cook the quinoa: Rinse and cook ½ cup dry quinoa in 1 cup water with a pinch of salt. Fluff once cooked.
Assemble the bowl: Divide quinoa into bowls. Top with sliced chicken, beans, corn, cherry tomatoes, avocado, and greens.
Make the dressing: Whisk all ingredients together and drizzle over the bowls.
Garnish & serve: Add fresh coriander and a squeeze of lime. Enjoy warm or chilled!

28/07/2025

Mental Health Check-In!

Sometimes we forget that nourishing our minds is just as important as nourishing our bodies.

Life gets busy — work, studies, family, adulting — and suddenly we realise we’ve been running on empty. If you’ve been feeling tired, irritable, disconnected, or anxious… you’re not alone.

Here’s your gentle reminder:

✨ You need time with people who lift you up
That coffee with a friend, a phone call with someone who gets you, or a simple laugh together — these moments matter more than we think.

AND…

✨ You need time with yourself too
Rest isn’t selfish. Saying no isn’t rude. Prioritising a walk alone, journaling, reading, or doing absolutely nothing — that’s self-respect.

👉 Both connection and solitude are healing.
The balance between the two is what fills your cup. You don’t need to earn rest or joy — you deserve them simply because you’re human.

💬 How have you been prioritising your mental well-being lately?

27/07/2025

Mental Health Check-In

Sometimes we forget that nourishing our minds is just as important as nourishing our bodies.

Life gets busy — work, studies, family, adulting — and suddenly we realise we’ve been running on empty. If you’ve been feeling tired, irritable, disconnected, or anxious… you’re not alone.

Here’s your gentle reminder:

✨ You need time with people who lift you up
That coffee with a friend, a phone call with someone who gets you, or a simple laugh together — these moments matter more than we think.

AND…

✨ You need time with yourself too
Rest isn’t selfish. Saying no isn’t rude. Prioritising a walk alone, journaling, reading, or doing absolutely nothing — that’s self-respect.

👉 Both connection and solitude are healing.
The balance between the two is what fills your cup. You don’t need to earn rest or joy — you deserve them simply because you’re human.

💬 How have you been prioritising your mental well-being lately?

25/07/2025

Mental health is just as important as physical health.

You wouldn’t ignore a broken bone — so why ignore burnout, anxiety, or stress?

Taking care of your mind is healthcare, too.

💤 Rest is productive
💬 Talking helps
📵 Disconnecting is okay
❤️ Boundaries are powerful
🧘‍♂️ Self-care is not selfish

Let’s normalize treating our mental well-being with the same respect we give to our physical health. You deserve both.

23/07/2025

Looking for nutritious, affordable dinner ideas that are balanced and delicious? These Mediterranean-inspired meals check all the boxes ✅

Each one includes:
✅ Protein
✅ Whole grains
✅ Colourful veg
✅ Dairy (like feta or yoghurt)

Perfect for busy nights when you want something nourishing without spending hours in the kitchen.

✨ Save this post for your weekly meal plan!

👇 Which one are you trying first?

17/07/2025

This quote says it all.

Nutrition won’t replace hard work or talent, but without it, performance suffers.
⠀
Working with a dietitian can help you:
✔️ Maximise energy and endurance
✔️ Improve recovery and muscle repair
✔️ Prevent nutrient deficiencies
✔️ Fuelling strategies for training and competition
⠀
Don’t leave your performance to guesswork - fuel with purpose 💥💪

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Stellenbosch

Opening Hours

Monday	08:30 - 17:00
Tuesday	08:30 - 17:00
Wednesday	08:30 - 17:00
Thursday	08:30 - 17:00
Friday	08:30 - 14:00

Website

http://www.imaginediet.co.za/

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Imagine Dietitians (practice number: 0595039) opened its doors on the 4th of January 2016 in Stellenbosch. Our motto is – Imagine Living a Healthier Life. Now it is possible - we believe a holistic approach is the best way to a healthy lifestyle: Live – signifies living an active life by doing exercise most days of the week. We will be collaborating with personal trainers and biokineticists to ensure that the client receives appropriate advice on exercise. Health – signifies a healthy life through health promotion. We do Vitality Nutrition Consultations and will be arranging health days or nutrition talks at local businesses and schools. Life – The last part of the motto is directly related to nutrition – healthy recipes, interesting topics and articles on the latest research will be published regularly on our blog. Imagine Dietitians offer various dietetic services which include (but is not limited to) nutritional assessments and counselling in hospital for patients who need nutritional support (sip feeds, enteral- or parenteral nutrition) or patients diagnosed with insulin resistance, diabetes mellitus (or any other chronic disease of the lifestyle), cancer, renal problems, rheumatology disease, eating disorders, weight loss and children who are picky eaters, who had weight loss or poor weight gain, suffer from constipation, have an iron deficiency or have inadequate dietary intake. At the moment there are two registered dietitians working at the practice: Chantel Walker and Maya du Plessis. All clients / patients in hospital are billed at medical aid tariffs to ensure that their medical aid allocation for allied health will be stretched and they can benefit from proper nutritional care and follow-ups where needed, without unnecessary financial limitations. Out of hospital our tariffs are based on medical aid fees and clients / patients can claim back from their medical aid.

Chantel started her dietetics career at the University of Stellenbosch in 2010. After graduating in 2013 she decided to move far away from home for her community service year. She was placed at Sabie Hospital, in Mpumalanga and after her community service she packed her bags and moved back to the Western Cape, where she started at an established private practice in Worcester where she gained valuable knowledge in the field of private practice. She eventually decided to start her private practice – Imagine Dietitians in Stellenbosch and officially opened the doors in January 2016.

Qualifications / Courses:

BSc Dietetics Honours (US) 2010 – 2013

Infant Feeding course, BFHI (20 hour, Western Cape, Department of Health)

CDE – 5 day Advanced course in Diabetes Care (CDE, Johannesburg)

Bariatric Accredited Dietitian (CEMMSSA)

Chantel is passionate about assisting her clients with making sustainable dietary changes and lifestyle choices by following an individualized approach with each person that walks into her office. She is a firm believer of intuitive eating and practices these guidelines with each session. Her areas of interest include critical care (ICU) chronic diseases of the lifestyle (diabetes – type 1 and type 2, hypercholesterolaemia), eating disorders, disordered eating and emotional eaters, weight loss, women’s health (PCOS, hypothyroidism) and gastro-intestinal diseases.

When Chantel is not cooking regular, everyday meals, she is experimenting with new recipes and flavours – often leaving her friends and family having to be the guinea pigs. She loves to read and has a variety of books on her bookshelf at home: ranging from love stories, autobiographies, short stories, classics and economy or research based books. She enjoys the vineyards and mountains in her backyard and regularly explores new areas in the Western Cape with the love of her life. She loves to travel and is already planning her next trip, where she will be exploring the variety of food, traditional ingredients and recipes that they have.

After graduating from Stellenbosch in 2017 with a degree in dietetics, Maya went on to do her community service year at Kimberley Hospital in the Northern Cape. There she gained considerable experience by working in the various intensive care units, neonatal unit, the pediatric wards and various medical and surgical wards. After completion of her community service year she headed back to Stellenbosch and joined Imagine Dietitians in 2019. Maya is also busy with her Master’s degree in Therapeutic Nutrition at Stellenbosch University.

Maya is a firm believer that lifestyle changes can start at any age and loves being part of her patients’ journeys to optimal health. As an avid foodie she is passionate about promoting healthy cooking without compromising on taste and appearance.

Her areas of interest include pediatric nutrition, allergies and intolerances, nutrition in pregnancy and lactation, critical care nutrition, nutrition in kidney failure and gastro-intestinal disorders.

Qualifications / Courses:

BSc Dietetics Honours (US): 2014-2017

Masters in therapeutic nutrition: currently busy completing

Infant feeding course, BFHI (Northern Cape Department of Health)

Maya loves cooking food and regularly hosts dinner parties for friends and family. She is also fond of checking out new restaurants and cafes over weekends. Maya enjoys nature and hiking in the beautiful mountains in the Western Cape and often goes camping with friends. Maya’s parents live overseas so during her holidays she normally travels to new countries and explores the nature, meets new people and always does a cooking class or two.