16/08/2025
From 🍕Processed to 🍛Nourishing – A Menu Transformation That Matters!
What may look like a simple piece of paper in my hands actually represents a huge change for hundreds of children at my daughters’ daycare and preschool.
Over the past few months, I had the opportunity to completely redesign their food program. The old menu was highly processed, loaded with added sugars and salt, artificial colors, flavor enhancers, and other ingredients that don’t belong in children’s meals. Today, the menu looks very different. Here is what changed:
🍑 Canned fruit in syrup → 🫐 Frozen fruit, nothing added, some even organic
🥣 Sugary cereals & pastry-like buns → 🍌 Banana-oatmeal, homemade tahini-oat-date bars & wholegrain cereals with minimal sugar
🥫 Canned veggies with salt & sugar → 🥦 Frozen vegetables, nothing added
🍗 Chicken nuggets → 🍛 Lentils & beans (3 vegetarian meals out of 5 each week!👏🏽)
🧂 Bouillon powders & spice mixes loaded with salt, dyes and flavor enhancers → 🌱nothing but salt-free herbs & spices
🍝 White rice & pasta → Wholegrain versions
🍪 Cookies & salty snacks → 🥭 Yogurt with fruit, homemade oatmeal cookies & wholegrain crackers
And here’s the best part: all of this was achieved within the same budget.
I’m deeply grateful to the daycare team for trusting me with this project and for embracing every single suggestion for the new school year✨
Children deserve better. They deserve real, nourishing food as the foundation for learning, growing, and thriving 💚
I hope more schools and daycares will be inspired to take this step — because healthy change is possible. 🌱
27/03/2024
Berry sauce or chia jam:
150g frozen berries🫐and/or🍓
1 mashed 🍌
1,5 tbsp chia seeds
4 tbsp of water
Mix in a saucepan, bring to a boil and cook for 15 minutes on low heat.
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26/03/2024
Faylinns dark chocolate birthday cake 🍫🎂
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In a blender mix:
1 big hand of dates, roughly chopped, smoked in the milk👇🏽
150 ml milk of choice
1 tsp vanille essence
2 rip 🍌
3 🥚
Pore it into a mixing bowl and add:
1 tbsp 🍎 cider vinegar
40-50g 🥥 oil, melted
250-300g whole spelt flour (or use whole wheat, or make a mixture of whatever flour you like, but always use a bit of spelt or whatever for better texture)
3 huge tbsp of cocoa powder
1 big tsp cinnamon
1 tsp baking soda
Pinch of salt
Mix well!
Chopp:
1 dark 🍫 bar (70% or higher, 70-100g)
Add to the mixture.
Pore the mixture into a round cake tray of 24 cm and bake for 45 min on 180•C
For the chocolate sauce on top we melted 1 bar of 70% dark chocolate with 1 tbsp coconut oil, pored it over the cold(!) cake and stored in the fridge for 1 hour to set.
If you want the colourful decoration, put it on the sauce while it’s still hot and runny.
15/01/2024
After being offline for a while, focusing on the really important things in life - family, the new life that’s growing inside me & having enough restful moments every day - I think (🤷🏽♀️) my head is ready to start sharing some inspiration and information on a more regular base. So, here my easy, ready in 5 min lunch creation. The only thing you need is leftover cooked 🥔, or use leftover/cold rice, quinoa or noodles instead, or go for a toast with your favourite topping in the side😋
2 hands of frozen 🥦, microwaved for 2 min
2 hands of cold 🥔, in cubes
A piece of 🥒, chopped
2 hands of arugula, shredded into smaller leaves
75-100g plain tofu, in cubes
1-2 tbsp wakame/seaweed salad
1 tbsp mayonnaise
1 tbsp soy sauce
1 tsp mustard
1 tsp white wine vinegar
Pepper
Optionally: 1 tsp of 🫚 (ginger) juice or syrup
Optionally:🧂or some@more soy sauce to taste
>> mix and enjoy!!😘
24/10/2023
🍽️ Misverstanden over Kant-en-Klaar Maaltijden 🥦🧂
Als diëtist en consultant voor Factor had ik onlangs de kans om veelvoorkomende misvattingen over kant-en-klare maaltijden uit de wereld te helpen. Neem een kijkje en lees dit interview in Metro!
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Door opwarmen in de magnetron gaan toch veel vitaminen verloren? 🧐
05/05/2019
This is so cool. Did you know?😍
Keuringsdienst van Waarde: Slapende appels?! - KVW Kort #20 gemist? Kijk op npo3.nl
Appels liggen het hele jaar in de winkel, terwijl ze maar één periode geoogst kunnen worden. De meeste appels die je koopt zien er vers uit, maar zijn in werkelijkheid al wat ouder. Hoe ze die appels mooi houden? Door ze te laten slapen!
22/03/2019
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