Families do not eat in separate silos
A plan that requires four different meals at one table will not survive the week. The useful version works from a shared base.
Everyone in a family plan is assessed individually — a pregnant mother, a nine-year-old who refuses vegetables and a grandparent with hypertension have genuinely different requirements. But the plan is then designed around a common base of dishes with individual portion rules and additions, so that one round of cooking serves the household.
For pregnancy, the plan changes trimester by trimester: folate and iron adequacy early, managing nausea and aversions when they arrive, protein and calcium as the pregnancy progresses, weight gain kept within the range your obstetrician has set, and gestational diabetes managed where it appears. Post-natal, the emphasis moves to recovery, lactation and getting a mother eating properly at a point when she rarely is.
For children, the honest goal is usually not a diet at all. It is undoing the damage done by packaged snacks, restoring an appetite, getting protein and iron into a fussy eater, and reducing the friction at the dining table — because a child who is fought with at every meal learns something worse than poor nutrition.
Where seniors fit
Older family members are often the most under-served people in the house. Reduced appetite, dental issues, medication interactions, protein deficiency and constipation are common and very fixable, and they are planned for within the same household framework.
- Trimester-by-trimester pregnancy planning, alongside your obstetrician
- Gestational diabetes management where it appears
- Post-natal recovery and lactation support
- Fussy-eater strategies that reduce mealtime conflict
- Senior nutrition: appetite, protein, medication interactions
- One shared base of dishes, with individual portions and additions
Who we plan for
- Pre-conception
- Pregnancy, all trimesters
- Gestational diabetes
- Post-natal & lactation
- Toddlers & growing children
- Fussy eaters
- Teenagers
- Senior family members
Reports we usually review
- Haemoglobin, ferritin, vitamin D and B12
- Thyroid profile and glucose tolerance, in pregnancy
- Growth charts, for children
- Recent obstetric or paediatric notes, where available