Alice Zaslavsky is a cookbook author. The 41-year-old shares her day on a plate.
6.30am I’m airport-bound for a FIFO trip to Sydney to kick off promotion of my new cookbook, and my job today is to keep the veg up – which is always harder when you’re on the hoof! I’ve decanted a home-blitzed supergreens smoothie into my keep cup to chug in the taxi, along with plenty of water.
8am In the airport lounge, I snaffle a chia pudding with rhubarb and natural yoghurt and a pot of herbal tea.
9am Cheesy spinach and egg bites and some Japanese rice crackers on the plane, plus sparkling water and tea.
11.30am I’m on set at a lifestyle glossy, so there’s more water and a matcha latte, along with a little helping of the one-pan pumpkin parm from my Weeknights with Alice cookbook that I’ve just made for the shoot.
12.30pm Chicken ramen, kimchi and an iced berry matcha and strawberry cloud.
3pm A banana and some nuts.
4.30pm I’m back in the airport lounge for a teeny bowl of Moroccan chickpea soup with corn chips, a green pear and a chamomile tea.
6pm The hosties happily hand over a pumpkin and spinach quiche with pepitas – although I eat around the dough.
7:30pm Salmon, broccolini and pea frittata with sweet potato wedges and kimchi dipper.
Dr Joanna McMillan says:
Top marks for … Your home-blitzed greens smoothie; getting vegetables in early is a smart move when travel makes them harder to come by. Across the day you keep the plant variety coming with chia, rhubarb, pumpkin, kimchi, chickpeas, fruit, nuts and plenty of veg, before finishing with omega-3-rich salmon.
If you keep eating like this you’ll … Prove that healthy eating doesn’t have to fit a three-meals-a-day template. Small amounts of food across a busy travel day can work beautifully when the choices are this nutrient-dense, while fermented foods such as yoghurt and kimchi add another nice dimension for gut health.
Why don’t you try … Keep doing what you’re doing with travel food: choose the bits worth eating and leave what you don’t particularly want, as you did with the quiche pastry. Your banana-and-nuts snack and chickpea soup are great examples of simple foods that give you fibre, protein and staying power without needing a “proper meal”.
Catch Alice Zaslavsky cooking on Chefs Ahoy on Channel 9 and 9Now on October 21. Weeknights with Alice is out now.
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Nicole Economos is a Social Media Producer/Journalist for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.Connect via email.
