A fresh food start

Looking for a delicious and fun way to kick o your nutrition goals?

Black Ferns superstar Stacey Waaka keeps her nutrition on track with the help of Fresh Start by My Food Bag – and as a new ambassador for the Kiwi meal kit brand, she can vouch for just how perfect the meals are to help fuel her active lifestyle.

Waaka leads a busy and demanding life, which means she often doesn’t have time to plan and prepare healthy meals. Sound familiar? When she’s finished a hard day training, the last thing she wants to do is spend hours trying to figure out what to cook. That’s where Fresh Start comes in.

Thanks to Fresh Start, Waaka can easily select her meals for the week on My Food Bag’s app and have the ingredients delivered to her door – making dinner quick and easy. Plus, she can choose enough food for one, two or four people, so she can feed herself, and her team.

Fresh Start o ers a wide range of mouth-watering, calorie-controlled meals to help Kiwis achieve their goals. Fresh Start Active is the new range of protein-packed meals. Each meal contains up to 650 calories and 35 grams or more of protein per serve, making it easier for those with busy and active lifestyles to get the nutrition they need. The recipes are refined sugar-free, lower in carbohydrates, naturally lower in gluten and dairy, and provide protein from lean meat and plant-based sources. Of course, the portion sizes have been designed with men, women, and families in mind!

As an accomplished athlete who understands the importance of proper nutrition and maintaining an active and healthy lifestyle, the New Zealand Women’s Rugby World Cup champion is loving Fresh Start’s new Active recipes.

We recently caught up with Waaka who shared with us how she juggles all areas of her life, and food plays a huge part in her health and wellness journey, especially as a professional athlete.

Whether you’re a professional athlete, or wanting to get the nutrition you need while achieving your goals, Fresh Start by My Food Bag is the perfect option.

All the hard work of creating healthy dinners is done for you, all you have to do is cook!

Join Stacey Waaka and smash your goals together. myfoodbag.co.nz/fresh-start

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Dancing Sands Distillery is the first NZ distillery to move their bottle production to New Zealand*. Founders Sarah and Ben Bonoma were motivated by their love and appreciation for Golden Bay, the distillery’s homeplace.

By moving their bottle production to New Zealand, the business is set to reduce 15,000kg of carbon emissions from its production cycle annually – making a significant impact towards fighting climate change.

Founded in 2016 after Sarah and Ben ditched their corporate jobs in London and New York to embark on an exciting new venture, Dancing Sands quickly became one of New Zealand’s most renowned distilleries.

Sarah says their focus on sustainability is born from a desire to make sure Golden Bay and places like it stay “pristine and beautiful for generations to come”.

The decision to take a leap of faith and shift their bottle production on-shore was made when they began exporting their product to the United Kingdom. Realising their bottles were being imported from Europe, filled in Golden Bay, and then shipped back to their place of origin didn’t make sense to the couple, so Sarah got in touch with New Zealand’s sole glass bottle manufacturer.

This was the beginning of an 18-month endeavour to craft a bespoke glass bottle. Despite this journey being fraught with challenges, the pair remained committed to their vision and dream to do their part for the environment.

“We knew that moving bottle production to New Zealand, and using recycled glass, was the right thing to do, but it has been a long road to bring our goal to fruition with many hurdles along the way,” says Sarah.

Despite the challenges, the sustainable philosophy behind Dancing Sands Distillery has proved to be worthwhile, with their decision resulting in eliminating the equivalent amount of carbon emissions generated by charging a cell phone 1.8 million times.

“To be honest, it would have been easier to go o shore for bottle production but we knew that we had to stay the course and make it happen.”