After surgery, usually comes staying at home and preparing your meals. Part of the weight loss surgery journey is preparing and eating good food, even when you have specific dietary needs to look out for.

This also applies to the mums, our home cooks, who often have little time to sit down and are expected to come up with something for the family meals. Considering each family member's dietary needs and budget, create food everyone will enjoy. My guest for today will give you tips on planning, shopping, and preparing chef-quality food while staying within your budget and saving time.

Adam Rice, experienced chef, Founder and Culinary Director of Better Food Bureau (BFB), is joining me today to address concerns about catering to specific dietary needs for you and your family. It doesn't need to be time-consuming and expensive; you just need to know your ingredients and dietary restrictions, add variety, and refine your techniques to get the most out of food.

Through Adam's programs and services in the BFB, you can have easy and top-level nutrition accessible right from the comfort of your home!

Episode Highlights:

• How Better Food Bureau (BFB) came to be
• BFB on coaching busy mums 
• Reasons why people need to follow certain dietaries
• Food Fear
• Providing resources to help make recipes fit for everyone in the family
• Supporting people's dietary needs even outside the house
• The Home Cook 
• Creating variety around dietaries
• Planning, shopping and prepping 
• Staying inspired as a home cook
• Keeping records of recipes 
• Becoming a "Pro Prepper"
• Bulk buys
• Making use of in-season produce 
• The lost art of preserving 
• Sensory impact model 
• Feeding the whole family while saving money and time 
• Serving as a personal chef for someone with low fodmap 
• Embarking on the better food journey 
• Non-food based contributing factors that affect weight loss
• Broader diets lead to better health pane
• Coaching people to create amazing food in the comfort of their own homes 
• Planning for the days, you’re not feeling it 
• Helping you win 

About Our Guest:

Adam Rice is an Experienced Chef, Founder and Culinary director at Better Food Bureau who, together with his team, has cultivated and developed 20 years of culinary arts and nutrition into modern and interactive training packages.

Beginning as young as 11 years old, Adam already had experience in the kitchen as a kitchen hand. At 16, he became an apprentice chef alongside Evan Seaward, where he found his passion for cooking exceptional food.

In his early 20s, Adam trained at Ezard (a 2-hat modern Asian restaurant) and worked under Dallas Reilly, Dylan Roberts, Mark Briggs and Andrew Harmer, Head Chefs at Vue De Monde. He later went on to become a personal chef for exclusive clients on luxury yachts and in some of Melbourne's most exclusive homes.

Now he wants to share the knowledge he's gained throughout the years by providing mentorship and support to help people enjoy better food despite their dietary limitations.

He also has a passion for and extensive training in wellbeing. Including an NLP Practitioner, Martial Artist and Health Enthusiast.

Connect with Adam Rice:

• Website
• LinkedIn
• Facebook
• Instagram
• YouTube

Resources Mentioned in the Episode:

• Better Food Bureau FB Page
• The Nourish Cookbook
• Work with Me
• BFB Food List

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