About Feed and Eat

The family that eats together sticks together

Let's tell you more about Feed and Eat. Feed and Eat is a family project. And our family extends to everybody that joins us at our kitchen table, physically and virtually.

Meet the Family

We are a family living in Stellenbosch, South Africa.

There is Petro (whose mostly responsible for what we eat). Petro, like anyone else, has a set of unique circumstances that influence her feeding and eating practise. She is, for example, a mother of two boys. One is a toddler, the other still breast feeding. She works on a research project as a post doc fellow at the drama department of the local university. More interestingly, she plays with her food and have done so since she can remember. She has tried and tested most of the health diet trends and have incorporated their most useful ideas in her feeding practice. Her passion is to make healthy eating practical. Perhaps you can identify with her experiences and find new inspiration for your own set of circumstances.

Then there is Gerhi (Petro's husband). Gerhi took the opportunity of being a stay at home parent to work on a fiction writing career. As a hobby he works on a couple of websites for friends and family (including this one).

Benjamin, the oldest, has the strongest opinions about food in the family. He is probably the only one that really knows what he likes. Luckily for us he likes broccoli, cucumber, green pepper and almost all fruits.

Finally meet baby Daniel. He is just over a year old and enjoys playing with his food. I say playing because he smears, smooshes, propels, bounces and shares it, but hardly ever eats it. He happily relies on Mommy's milk for his nutritional needs.

Initially this website was just Petro's project. But we realised that the foods we eat affects ourselves and those around us. (Have you ever noticed how often people talk about what they eat or plan to eat or wish they could eat?) So this is why its become a family project extending to our friends and now to you.

And then some Friends

We have friends of ours that are also getting involved in our project. Be honest, who are not interested in food.

Most recently we joined forces with Ingrid Roberts who is a dynamic and inspirational speaker from Pietermaritzburg where we lived until April this year. She regularly shares her inspiring thoughts in our monthly newsletter The Feed and Eat Digest.

The friend who joined us first is Chereen Harding (and somewhere behind her her fiance Darius). Chereen has been writing us some articles on diet plans.

The next friend is Miriam Lambrecht. She is married and has a little girl the same age as Benjamin. Miriam has had a big change of perspective which you can read about when you click on her name. Her story may inspire you to take a new look at your own feeding and eating practise.

Miriam is also an artist and you can have a look at her work here: www.miriamphotographyart.typepad.com

If you would like to be our friend and write us an article it would be greatly appreciated. Contact us with your ideas.

About Stellenbosch

Stellenbosch is in the Western Cape Province of South Africa. It is well known for its wine, its University and its quaint tourist attractions. We moved here in April 2008 and is still making it our own. Petro grew up here and her most of her family is still around. This is why we moved here after living in Pietermaritzburg for 8 years. We want our kids to have family around to help shape their identities. And of course, us parents love having gran and aunt and uncles around to help entertain them

Sharing the kitchen with gran is wonderful, because she has always been an inspiration for my (Petro's) food and health interests.

Acknowledgements

Some images on this Site from FreeDigitalPhotos.net - Royalty free stock photography for websites, PowerPoint, newletters, forums, blogs, schools and homework.

Return from this About Feed and Eat page to Feed and Eat home

Subscribe to the Feed and Eat Digest

An Ezine about Food that Feeds the Family

Sign up for my newsletter in one easy step and follow my monthly maxims and other tips as a guideline to success. You won't have to think about how to get healthy, just follow my lead and we will do it together step by step.

This free ezine will give you:

A monthly maxim to focus your efforts
Inspirational thoughts and stories to encourage your spirit
To the point information to satisfy your mind
Moral support from other women that are doing it with you

You can read previous issues of the Feed and Eat Digest by clicking here

Petro Janse van Vuuren