Quirky Cooking Chats
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Quirky Cooking Chats
What happens when a well known healthy food writer hits a brick wall with her children’s health? She goes back to square one and begins the long journey of gut healing, both for her children and herself. Join Jo Whitton of Quirky Cooking as she shares her families’ journey to good health. Cook with...
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QCC 166: Be Curious! The importance of having a curious mindset
Having a curious mindset is of major importance in all areas of life, and is especially crucial in the area of health and wellbeing. If you find yours...
QCC 165: Q&A and Dairy-Free Nacho Cheese Sauce
“Q&A and Dairy-Free Nacho Cheese Sauce”
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This week I answer listener’s questions which include:
– When will y...
QCC 164: Activating Nuts & Seeds – Why, How & When
“Activating Nuts & Seeds – Why, How and When?”
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This week I answer listener’s questions about activating nuts & seed...
QCC 163: Gut Health – Where Do I Start?
“Gut health – Where do I start??”
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This week I answer the question of where to begin when you want to work on improvi...
QCC 162: Saving Time with Meal Prep
In this episode I share some tips for keeping up with the cooking when you have young kids & work full time.
Most parents struggle to keep up wi...
QCC 161: Lamb, Leek, Lentil, Lemon Soup + Gut Health Q&A
Learn how to make a delicious lamb, leek, lentil and lemon soup, and get some tips for starting on your gut-healing journey!
Elyse Comerford, nu...
QCC 160: Getting the Family on Board with Healthy Eating
Every day I receive many questions via emails, messages and comments. Sometimes the questions relate to food and healthy eating, sometimes family and...
QCC 159: ‘Toad in the Hole’ + How to Save Money on Your Health Journey
Beginning on a health journey can be overwhelming. As expenses mount up, so do stress levels! Listen in as I share some of my tips for reducing the mo...
QCC 158: Spicy Cabbage Rolls + Done is Better Than Perfect!
DONE IS BETTER THAN PERFECT!
This episode is all about letting go of perfectionism and just jumping in and giving it a go… whether ‘it’ is cooki...
QCC 157: Helping Teens to Heal – Q&A with Isaac Whitton
My son Isaac was diagnosed with severe OCD and anxiety in 2014 (when he was 13 years old), and so began our journey into healing the gut and working t...
QCC 156: Meat Stocks & Bone Broths – How & Why
Welcome to the first episode of “Quirky Cooking Chats”!
2020 has been a year of changes, and as Jo nestled in to her home during lockdown and sh...
AQJ 155: Quarantine Cuisine, with Jo and Fouad
Join Jo and Fouad for a lighthearted chat about food, family, and life during lockdown! They discuss ‘quarantine cuisine’, what they’re cooking, how t...
AQJ 154: How Kefir & Cultured Foods Can Help With Weight Loss & Mental Health – with Kriben Govender
Kriben Govender, Food Scientist, Registered Nutritionist and founder of Nourishme Organics, says kefir changed his life.
Kriben’s story began 8...
AQJ 153: Designing a Healthy Home, with Building Biologist & Interior Designer Lucie McCullough – Part 2
Lucie McCullough, international interior designer and building biologist, aims to show the world that it IS possible to have beautifully designed home...
AQJ 152: Designing a Healthy Home, with Building Biologist & Interior Designer Lucie McCullough – Part 1
In the next two episodes of A Quirky Journey, Jo Whitton and Elyse Comerford interview Lucie McCullough, a successful, international interior designer...
AQJ 151: Finding Positivity in the Midst of Crisis
In our first episode for 2020, we (Jo and Fouad) chat about how we are working to begin the year with positivity, in the midst of a national crisis an...
AQJ 150: Supporting Your Anxious Child
In the last podcast for the year, Jo is on the other side of the microphone! Dr Natalie Challis (neuro-psychotherapist) and Leigh Shinde (neuro-nutrit...
AQJ 149: Recovering from PCOS, Healing Food, and Healthy Treats – with Shelley from Nourishing Bites
If there’s anything I love, it’s a special treat that’s not only delicious, it’s NOURISHING! So I’m excited to share with you one of my favourite prod...
AQJ 148: Navigating Parasites, Metals and Candida When Healing
In this episode, Jo chats with Elyse Comerford, Integrative Nutritionist and GAPS Practitioner, about where to begin on your gut healing journey when...
AQJ 147: From City Careers to Farming Life – The Story of Bellasato Farm
Dan and Leanne Cordner are the owners of Bellasato Farm, where they raise naturally grown, heritage breed chickens on chemical free pasture in North Q...
AQJ 146: Travelling Around Australia with Kids
Have you ever wished you could just get rid of all the clutter that weighs you down, sell your house or rent it out, reduce what you own to what you c...
AQJ 145: Anxiety – Analysing & Reducing Distress in Children
Dr Natalie Challis (neuro-psychotherapist) and Leigh Shinde (neuro-nutritionist) of the Kids Development Centre in Perth join us once again for anothe...
AQJ 144: Understanding Histamine Intolerance
Many people struggle with histamine reactions and have been diagnosed with Histamine Intolerance or Mast Cell Activation Syndrome, and have had to lim...
AQJ 143: Helping Teens to Eat Well, Part 2
Following on from their last podcast, Jo and Fouad have an informal chat about their thoughts on helping children to eat well – with plenty of humour,...
AQJ 142: Helping Teens to Eat Well, with Dr Damian Kristof & Jo Whitton
As kids get older and become more independent, they sometimes begin to move away from the healthy foods they’ve been raised on. Hanging out with frien...
AQJ 141: Healing with Traditional Foods, with Hilda Gore of WAPF
Over the last century, our refined, Western foods have crept into most societies world wide. What has been the impact of these foods on the health and...
AQJ 140: Children’s Health, Eczema, Antibiotics, & Boosting Immunity
Jo has an extra special guest on the show today… Fouad is back! There’s lots of laughs and catching up, and sharing stories and news. We know you’ve m...
AQJ 139: Teaching Kids to Cook, with Dani Valent
Teaching kids to cook with real food is important for their future, and the future of our planet. Our children’s enjoyment of cooking begins with our...
AQJ 138: Childhood Anxiety & the Inflamed Brain
Dr. Natalie Challis is a neuro-psychotherapist who specialises in treating children with anxiety and other health concerns. She says, “What drives me?...
AQJ 137: Fussy Eaters & How to Have Peaceful Mealtimes
Do you have a fussy eater in your home? Need some help?
Beth Bonfiglio of Little Fusspot helps people from all over the world with mealtimes tha...
AQJ 136: Finding Connection & Fulfilment in Your Work, with Helen Marshall of Primal Alternative
Many of us go through a period in our lives where we begin to question the work we do and our career goals and decide we want to find work that is mor...
AQJ 135: Empowering Parents of Kids on the Spectrum, with Rhiannon Crispe
Rhiannon Crispe is an occupational therapist and passionate autism advocate. She thinks outside the diagnostic box and sees every child as an individu...
AQJ 134: Travel Tips – Travel Food, Eating Out and Being Prepared!
Jo and her two eldest kids (19 and 21) have just come back from travelling overseas, and in this episode Jo shares her travel tips, especially for tho...
AQJ 133: Play Therapy for Fussy Eaters, with Crystel Poggioli (OT)
In this episode, you get two discussions on health and wellness topics for the price of one! 😀 The main interview is on supporting parents of kids wi...
AQJ 132: Calming the Chaos – Supporting Kids with ADD, ADHD & Anxiety
Sharon Collon of The Functional Family is passionate about supporting families with special needs. She loves to share step by step, practical strategi...
AQJ 131: A Delicious Wholefood Christmas – with Jude Blereau
“You know how this is supposed to be the season of joy? Well, I don’t know about you, but most years I feel like I’m just running around in the kitche...
AQJ 130: A GAPS Christmas with Elyse Comerford
Christmas is a dangerous time of year for those living in the GAPS village. Taken out of their natural habitat – clean water, chemical-free living, wh...
AQJ 129: A Simple, Healthy Christmas with Cyndi O’Meara
Over the next few weeks leading up to Christmas, Jo and Fouad are interviewing a few of their favourite health-foodies about their best Christmas tips...
AQJ 128: Your Gut Health Questions Answered, with Elyse Comerford
Our gut health and GAPS practitioner Elyse Comerford joins us on the show once more to answer your questions. Today’s discussion includes fasting and...
AQJ 127: FUNctional Movement with Carl Hammington
It seems that the culture of exercise as portrayed by media equates very low body fat, summer abs and shredding with health. Relatively few exercise p...