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Remove items from your saved list<\/a> to add more.<\/p>\n AAA<\/p>\n Esther Olsson is an artist. The 33-year-old shares her day on a plate.<\/p>\n 5.30am Some water, then a cup of black coffee because I was out of oat milk.<\/p>\n 6.10am A T2 Australian Breakfast tea, in the cup I designed \u2013 the built-in strainer is a game-changer.<\/p>\n 9am Another cup of Australian Breakfast tea.<\/p>\n 10.15am Crudit\u00e9s and a matcha mochi ball.<\/p>\n 12.30pm Chicken sandwiches with cabbage, mayo, jalape\u00f1os and pickles.<\/p>\n 2.40pm Meeting with my boss, who gives me a Caramello Koala.<\/p>\n 5.30pm A beer at Kip&Co\u2019s new Fitzroy store, featuring a full-blown Mirka Mora exhibition \u2013 my favourite Melbourne icon!<\/p>\n 7.30pm I\u2019m too tired to cook, so potato tots for dinner. Sleep by 9pm.<\/p>\n Dr Joanna McMillan says:<\/p>\n Top marks for… If you keep eating like this you\u2019ll\u2026 Why don\u2019t you try… Esther Olsson is a Melbourne-based artist and collaborator for T2\u2019s Tea To Take You Places range.<\/p>\n Get the best of Sunday Life magazine delivered to your inbox every Sunday morning. Sign up for our newsletter.<\/a><\/p>\n Save<\/p>\n You have reached your maximum number of saved items.<\/p>\n Remove items from your saved list<\/a> to add more.<\/p>\n![\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/c4189dd986bf7706215acddcaca22e3ce223392d3cbcdbf9d53fc7fd659772a5.jpeg\")
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The crudit\u00e9s and your chicken sandwiches\u2019 cabbage, jalape\u00f1os and pickles, which squeeze in some valuable veg. Your tea and coffee add beneficial polyphenols. But overall this day falls well short of the recommended serves of all food groups.<\/p>\n
Fall short on fibre, protein and several key micronutrients, including calcium and iron. Over time this impacts energy levels, immune function, brain function and gut health. Skipping breakfast isn\u2019t necessarily a problem if you make up the nutrition later, but in this day lunch does all the heavy lifting and potato tots add little nutrition.<\/p>\n
Front-load the day with a substantial breakfast: wholegrain sourdough piled with veg such as mushrooms, spinach, tomatoes or asparagus or avocado, with protein from eggs and\/or smoked salmon. Make tired-night dinners effortless: keep a bag of stir-fry veg and chicken, beef or tofu ready to cook, or stash a high-protein, high-fibre soup in the fridge or freezer.<\/p>\n![\"Nicole](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1791072854_565_09567d11e3b233ab3116a1b3034e2e8a7d9cd7ca.png\")
Nicole Economos<\/a> is a Social Media Producer\/Journalist for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.Connect via email<\/a>.From our partners<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"October 4, 2026 \u2014 5:00am Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":619871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[134,111,139,556,69],"class_list":["post-619870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nutrition","tag-health","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nutrition","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/619871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}