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If it9s true that you eat with your eyes, then
Katie Bradley’s Instagram feed provides a
true feast!
Katie, who lives on the Lichoeld Estate with husband
James (estate manager) and their 2 young daughters,
posts under the name `nutrikatecooks9 - her recipes inspired by the Food
Freedom movement, which (she explains) `is about enjoying all foods
without guilt or restriction, while making choices that support your health
and wellbeing9. Her own Food Freedom journey started as a child in her
native Ireland. `My mother was a nurse and a mum of ove, but she always
had dinner ready for us, and she instilled in us a love of food - especially
home-cooked food. And my dad was a farmer so we knew about
seasonality, and where our food came from. We always had roast dinner
on Sunday, and she loved to make Irish stew, which most Irish mammies
do. And on a Friday, being a Catholic household we'd always have osh she used to do pan fried plaice with potatoes and simple veg. 8 As she got
older, Katie gravitated towards chefs like Jamie Oliver, and more recently
Yotam Ottolenghi, as well as Rick Stein and Thomas Straker. After
graduating in Sport and Exercise Science, Katie9s career started as a
private cook in clients9 homes, which then led to postgraduate studies in
nutrition - driven by a
desire to understand the
science behind what we
eat and how it
contributes to our
wellbeing. `My mission is
to inspire people to cook
Katie created web content for Lingo - a glucose
with conodence and eat
tracker - featuring low-carb high-protein recipes.
with joy,9 She says on her
website. The videos are a relatively new departure, which grew out of
partnerships with food and lifestyle brands for whom she developed
recipes to complement health challenges. `Brands will ask me to develop
and write up recipes and they might have different briefs - perhaps a low
carb recipe or certain health aspects of nutrition.9 One example she gives
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