Zucchini And Avocado Are The New Healthy Fries

Serves 4 - Preparation: 20 minutes - Cooking: 15 minutes Units per serve Dairy 1 Low-carb vegetables 1 Healthy fats 2 8g carb per serve INGREDIENTS Olive oil spray, for cooking 1 teaspoon ground coriander 1 teaspoon ground cumin 1 teaspoon sweet smoked paprika 2 zucchini (unpeeled), cut into 5 mm thick chips 80 g avocado, cut into 4 wedges 25 g flaked almonds, chopped 1 tablespoon finely chopped…

ByPennie McCoy07/02/2025

Fitness Health

CSIRO’s Dietitian’s Pennie McCoy On How To Fight The WFH Waistline

CSIRO Total Wellbeing Dietitian Pennie McCoy gives us her strategies to combat the “work from home waistline”. While one could argue that lockdown has been the catalyst for a positive increase in flexible working, it’s fair to say many of us may have become a little too flexible when it comes to food intake and exercise…

ByPennie McCoy02/02/2025

Food & Drink

The CSIRO’s Peppered Tofu And Eggplant Stir-Fry Recipe

The CSIRO Healthy Gut Diet provides 85 delicious easy-to-cook recipes, plus fibre-boosted daily meal plans - with authors Dr Tony Bird and Penny Taylor providing another variation of a high in fibre and resistant in starch diet designed to benefit the gut and overall bodily health. This is a crucial understanding lending to the prevention of…

ByPennie McCoy01/02/2025

Baking Food & Drink

CSIRO Low Carb Baked Fish With Thyme And Fennel-Seed Crust

This baked fish is cooked with thyme and fennel-seed crust. This recipe containing only 8g carb per serve is perfect for a low carb diet. Serves 4 – Preparation: 20 minutes – Cooking: 20 minutes – 8g carb per serve Units per serve Lean meat, fish, poultry, eggs, tofu 1.5 Low-carb vegetables 2 Mod-carb vegetables 1 Healthy fats 3 INGREDIENTS 4 × 150…

ByPennie McCoy31/01/2025

Food & Drink

The CSIRO Healthy Gut Diet – Zucchini Frying-pan Frittata

Following the hugely successful The CSIRO Low-Carb Diet and CSIRO Low-Carb Every Day, Pan Macmillan released The CSIRO Healthy Gut Diet. There's no doubt the CSIRO leads the way in nutritional research, and has won our trust when it comes to health advice as well as interest from health professionals and bodies in Australia and around the world. SERVES 4…

ByPennie McCoy31/01/2025

Food & Drink Healthy

CSIRO Recipe: Sesame-Crusted Tofu With Stir-Fried Asian Greens

Serves 4 - Preparation: 15 minutes - Cooking: 20 minutes Units per serve Lean meat, fish, poultry, eggs, tofu 1.5 Low-carb vegetables 3 Healthy fats 3 5g carb per serve INGREDIENTS 600 g firm tofu, drained 1 tablespoon sesame seeds 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil 3 baby bok choy, halved or quartered lengthways, depending on size 2 bunches broccolini, trimmed and halved widthways 2 bunches asparagus,…

ByPennie McCoy30/01/2025

Health Nutrition

Have Your Cake And Eat It Too: Understanding Junk Food

We all love our treats – oftentimes they are the things we look forward to most in our workday, or as a reward on the weekend. But while a daily indulgence in the context of healthy diet is one thing, new research from the CSIRO has revealed nearly 4 in 5 Australians are overindulging in…

ByPennie McCoy30/01/2025

Food & Drink Quick & Easy

CSIRO Low Fat And Low Carb Berry Yoghurt Jellies Recipe

The CSIRO Low Carb Diet was among the top sellers in Dymocks and all good book stores and for good reason - just try this guilt-free berry yoghurt jellies recipe. YUM. Serves 4 - Preparation: 10 minutes, plus chilling time - Cooking: nil Units per serve Dairy 1 - 6g carb per serve INGREDIENTS 1 ×…

ByPennie McCoy30/01/2025

Fitness Health Nutrition

CSIRO Expert On How To Motivate Your Health Motivation

Has the motivation you started the year with started to wane? It's likely the diet fatigue has set in, and our health ambitions for the new year are at an all time low. So what can we do to avoid motivation meltdown? How can we better check ourselves, before we wreck ourselves, as February dawns?…

ByPennie McCoy29/01/2025

Fitness Health

Mind Over Matter? Not When It Comes To Weight Loss

Hard truth: losing weight requires changing your eating and exercise habits - and this can be a real challenge. It’s easy to think that you need to be perfectly motivated, focused and positive to take on this challenge and see results. The good news, according to new research? You don’t. It’s welcome news for those…

ByPennie McCoy18/01/2023