Real Life Nutrition with Jon

10/09/2026

Tomorrow I’m heading to the ATMS Neurodivergent Minds Symposium in Sydney 🧠

As a Clinical Nutritionist registered with ATMS and AARPN, being a practitioner isn’t just about the qualification on the wall.

It comes with professional standards, a code of ethics — and an ongoing responsibility to keep learning.

And that last part matters enormously to me.

Health science doesn’t stand still. Our understanding evolves, and if I want my clinical practice to remain relevant to the people sitting in front of me, I need to evolve with it.

Tomorrow is an opportunity to deepen my understanding of neurodivergence and consider how I can better support both neurodivergent and neurotypical clients in practice.

One piece of feedback from clients that means a lot to me is:

“I don’t feel judged.”

That’s exactly how I want my consulting room to feel.

People don’t arrive as neat textbook cases.

They arrive with life.

Work. Family. Stress. Finances. Habits. Health concerns. Medications. Preferences. Setbacks.

Sometimes, to the person living it, it can all feel like a bit of a mess.

I don’t see the mess.

My job is to look for the pattern — and then help build a realistic plan from it.

That problem-solving part of clinical nutrition is something I genuinely love.

So tomorrow, I’ll be back in learning mode: listening, questioning and adding to the clinical toolkit.

Because continuing education isn’t just about collecting CPE points.

It’s about becoming a better practitioner for the next person who walks through my virtual door.

08/09/2026

🏉 Eight pages of footy food this week… and not one fresh cut of meat amongst them.

So I’ve been making up for what Coles and Woolworths left out.

This week’s /weekly looks beyond the catalogue specials and turns some of the better buys into practical meal ideas — including stuffed capsicums with beef, tuna or lentils.

🛒 See this week’s supermarket pricing guide:
https://www.fastforwardnutrition.com.au/weekly

📺 Watch the full episode of Real Life Nutrition with Jon:
https://youtu.be/ZjFjVT7FelY

🫑 RECIPES

🥩 Saucy Beef Stuffed Peppers
https://app.thatcleanlife.com/shares/57428d01-5699-4f1c-a1ac-55cad72960a2

🐟 Spinach & Tuna Stuffed Pepper
https://app.thatcleanlife.com/shares/3386b8d7-015e-425c-9d3f-f8cc901ab550

🌱 Lentil Stuffed Grilled Peppers
https://app.thatcleanlife.com/shares/ec9f3779-d58a-4de0-a147-22fc5adbfb35

New pricing guide each week.

Where shopping + nutrition combine.

07/09/2026

🚨 CHANNEL 7 PUT ULTRA-PROCESSED FOOD IN THE SPOTLIGHT.

So what should you actually do now?

Sunday night’s Spotlight looked at ultra-processed foods, Health Stars, food formulation and just how difficult navigating the modern supermarket has become.

One line particularly stood out:

🛒 “Consumers don’t have a degree in nutrition to be able to decipher this information.”

Nebula El Mourid is right.

There are more than 50,000 products to navigate — alongside Health Stars, protein claims, calories, ingredient lists and increasingly sophisticated marketing.

I thought Spotlight did an important job putting this issue into the mainstream conversation.

But once the television is turned off, we still have to shop.

In this special episode of Real Life Nutrition, I look at what the research actually tells us about ultra-processed food — and, importantly, what you can practically do with that information.

🥫 Calories matter.
💪 Protein matters.
🏭 Processing matters.

But they’re not the whole food — and they’re not the whole person.

📺 WATCH THE FULL VIDEO:
https://youtu.be/hLbwkx6a0Kk

🛒 FREE WEEKLY CATALOGUE GUIDE:
https://www.fastforwardnutrition.com.au/weekly

Real catalogues. Real products. Real prices — with nutrition context.

Let’s Navigate the Noise.

03/09/2026

🐟 Sardines are everywhere online — just not on the fisherman’s line.

TikTok has discovered sardines.

They’re cheap, convenient, packed with protein and omega-3s — and suddenly they seem to be everywhere.

Except there’s another side to the story.

🎣 Australian sardine fishermen are reporting catches well below what they’d normally expect.

So I went looking at what’s happening — from the fishing boats, to the supermarket shelf, to the nutrition claims filling our feeds.

And yes, somehow Leo got involved.

▶️ Watch the full episode of Real Life Nutrition with Jon on YouTube:
Watch the sardines episode⁠

https://youtu.be/t31qjU7-_Nk

💬 Sardines: yes or absolutely not?

🐟 Sardines are everywhere online — just not on the fisherman’s line...

01/09/2026

Coles and Woolworths both put steak on the front cover for Father’s Day. 🥩

Neither is the steak I’d buy.

This week I went through 121 catalogue pages across Coles, Woolworths and ALDI, comparing the prices, cuts and nutrition behind the Father’s Day promotions.

Some of the better-value choices were sitting about 10 pages behind the front cover.

Then there was the T-bone: three supermarkets, virtually the same price — but not quite the same product.

If steak is going on your barbecue this Father’s Day, watch this before you shop.

I break down what’s being promoted, what represents better value, and what I’d actually buy.

🎥 New Real Life Nutrition with Jon — watch on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/lfIRhoYpqsA

Buy with intention, not impulse.

18/08/2026

🐔 Why did the chicken cross the road?

Apparently, to start a supermarket price war.

Last week Coles put chicken breast on its front cover at $9/kg.

This week Woolworths answered with $8/kg from the deli — the lowest chicken breast price I’ve recorded since I started tracking the weekly catalogues.

But that wasn’t the only thing that changed.

For the first time in this series, both Coles and Woolworths led with fresh protein — while ALDI quietly cut six everyday meat and fish prices.

So this week on Navigating the Noise, I’m looking beyond the big SAVE signs:

🍗 Why $8/kg chicken matters — and whether it can hold
📊 What happened to the Real Food Index this week
🥩 The $11.89/kg mince that wasn’t even advertised
🐔 How the same bird ends up costing 3.8× more once convenience and format are added
🐟 Why ALDI won the salmon round 2–0
💪 Protein you eat vs protein you scoop
🌿 The $2.99 flavour fix
🍓 Strawberries, pesticides and what the research actually says
🛒 Plus three buys to walk past — and three I’d put in the trolley

Supermarket value isn’t just about finding the biggest discount.

It’s knowing what you’re paying for, what you’re actually getting, and where the marketing noise begins.

🎥 Woolworths Just Started a Chicken Price War

Watch the new episode on YouTube:

https://youtu.be/cttsCjdU7fk

And I’m curious — does $8/kg chicken hold, does Coles go lower, or are we back above $9 next week?

12/08/2026

ALDI replied about its mince labels… so this morning, I went back to check. 🔍

I walked through the mince aisle to see which products now display nutritional information—and whether the changes ALDI described have actually reached the shelves.

The good news? Something has changed.

The updated labels appear to be moving through the supply chain, although they haven’t reached every mince product yet.

This matters because we should be able to see what we’re buying. Being able to compare fat content across beef, pork, chicken and turkey mince could genuinely change what goes into tonight’s dinner—and help us rotate our proteins with more intention.

I also found a timely Special Buy for anyone wanting to reduce how often they heat food in plastic. 👀

Have the updated labels reached your local ALDI yet? Let me know your state and what you find! 🇦🇺

11/08/2026

I asked ALDI a simple question back in April.

Not because I was trying to catch anyone out.

As a Clinical Nutritionist, I compare supermarket products every week, and one thing bothered me.

Some of ALDI’s beef mince products promoted leanness, but I couldn’t find the nutrition information needed to compare protein, fat and calories before buying.

So I emailed ALDI.

The response? My feedback had been documented for internal review.

Fast forward four months…

While preparing this week’s supermarket review, I noticed something had changed.

Nutrition information is now available online for parts of the beef mince range, making it easier for Australians to compare products and make informed nutrition decisions.

To be clear, I’m not suggesting my email caused these changes. I’m simply pleased to see greater transparency. Better information helps all of us make better choices at the supermarket.

This week’s video also compares the latest Coles, Woolworths and ALDI catalogues, uncovers where the real value is hiding, and explains why some supermarket “specials” aren’t as special as they first appear.

📺 Watch the full episode here:
https://youtu.be/o84snviRB6c

📄 Download this week’s Shopping Guide:
https://www.fastforwardnutrition.com.au/weekly

I’d love to hear your thoughts.

Have you ever contacted a supermarket or food company about a product? Did they respond—or even make a change?

07/08/2026

🚗 When time wins, what do you default to?

This was me today. Running late, sitting in a McDonald’s drive-thru and thinking about something I talk about a lot — decision fatigue.

🧠 We can know plenty about nutrition. But when we’re rushed, tired, hungry or under pressure, we tend to default to whatever is easiest and most familiar.

That’s Real Life Nutrition.

🔊 Navigating the Noise isn’t just about supermarket shelves. It’s about what happens when life gets busy and you still have to make a decision about what to eat.

So I’m curious…

🍔 When you’re running late, what’s your default takeaway?

And what would you like me to cover next — another drive-thru, a café, servo, food court, airport, pub… or somewhere else?

💬 Tell me in the comments. Your answers genuinely help shape what I cover next.

⚒️ Free Nutrition Tools & Resources

I’ve added a growing suite of free nutrition tools and resources to the Fast Forward Nutrition website — including protein and energy calculators.

🌐 Fast Forward Nutrition
https://www.fastforwardnutrition.com.au

06/08/2026

Who can you trust this week?

After watching ABC Four Corners’ Duped – Food Exposed Part 2, I walked into Coles, ALDI and Woolworths with one question:

What should I actually do differently next time I shop?

I expected to compare chocolate.

Instead, I ended up comparing certification systems.

Fairtrade.
Rainforest Alliance.
Cocoa Life.
Cocoa Plan.
Cocoa Horizons.
Tony’s Open Chain.

Then one phrase kept appearing…

Mass Balance.

It made me realise something.

Consumers don’t just need more information.

They need someone to help interpret it.

Every purchase decision is influenced by layers:

🏷️ The promotion.
📦 The packaging.
⭐ The badge or certification.
🥣 The ingredients.
📊 The nutrition panel.
💰 The price.

My job isn’t to tell you what to buy.

It’s to ask whether all of those signals are actually aligned.

Is this really an apple that’s being advertised as an apple?

Or is it an orange trying to convince you it’s a mandarin?

That’s why every week I produce two resources.

🎥 A YouTube episode where I investigate what’s happening on supermarket shelves.

📧 A free Weekly Supermarket Pricing Guide that doesn’t just list specials—it helps interpret the week’s supermarket landscape through the lens of nutrition.

Because the cheapest special isn’t always the best buy.

The loudest claim isn’t always the most meaningful.

And the healthiest-looking packet isn’t always the healthiest choice.

If you’d like this week’s guide delivered to your inbox:

📧 FREE Weekly Supermarket Pricing Guide
https://fastforwardnutrition.kit.com/pricingguide13may26

🎥 This week’s YouTube investigation
https://youtu.be/qiMrgaOHw2w

If you watched the Four Corners program, what changed the way you think about shopping?

Or did it simply leave you with more questions?

I’d genuinely be interested to hear your perspective.