{"id":224968,"date":"2025-10-25T16:06:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T16:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/224968\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T16:06:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T16:06:08","slug":"tradwife-influencer-ballerina-farms-high-protein-high-fiber-lunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/224968\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Tradwife’ Influencer Ballerina Farm’s High Protein, High Fiber Lunch"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hannah Neeleman, the face of the lifestyle brand Ballerina Farm and “tradwife”<\/a> influencer known for cooking elaborate meals from scratch, doesn’t overthink lunch.<\/p>\n

“It’s super simple,” Neeleman told Business Insider. This may surprise her over 21 million social media followers, who have watched her make intricate dishes like fresh buttermilk pie or asparagus tart.<\/p>\n

Most days, the 35-year-old entrepreneur and homesteader prepares a simple, balanced meal consisting of a carb, a lean protein<\/a>, and some vegetables for herself, her husband, Daniel Neeleman, and their eight homeschooled kids. It’s a custom they picked up in Brazil, where the couple lived for four years after college.<\/p>\n

Dietitians and nutrition researchers have previously told Business Insider of the importance of eating a balance <\/a>of high-fiber produce, lean protein, and healthy fats, while minimizing ultra-processed foods where possible. This whole-food diet is, of course, easier to follow if you live on a farm than, say, in a tiny apartment in a city.<\/p>\n

Homemade bread, steak, and fresh vegetables are on the menu for lunch<\/p>\n

For carbs, Neeleman tends to make potatoes, pasta, rice, or quinoa. “I make bread a few times a week, so if it’s a bread day, then we have bread as well,” she said.<\/p>\n

For protein, it’s usually steak or a roast \u2014 living on a cattle farm, there’s no shortage of frozen meat\u2014 and the veggies are sourced from their garden.<\/p>\n

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Hannah Neeleman walks among the cattle on her Utah farm, Ballerina Farm.<\/p>\n

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Protein is crucial for building and maintaining muscle mass<\/a>, which not only keeps us strong and mobile but also plays a key role in metabolic health.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, fiber \u2014 found in fresh produce, whole grains, and beans \u2014 aids digestion. Research has also linked eating a variety of high-fiber plants to a more diverse community of gut microbes<\/a>, a marker of good gut health. Fiber feeds these “good” gut microbes.<\/p>\n

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The family washes their minimally processed meal down with a glass of water kefir, a fermented drink made of water and water kefir grains, which contains probiotics or microbes beneficial to the gut<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Neeleman simple diet includes sweet treats<\/p>\n

Neeleman’s breakfast is super simple, too. She has homemade yogurt and a scoop of Ballerina Farm’s maple cinnamon protein powder.<\/p>\n

Dinner is more flexible as the kids have different extracurricular activities and schedules. She’s in the routine of making quick meals with the ingredients she has on hand.<\/p>\n

“If you make just pasta with meat sauce, we always have ground beef in the fridge, and boil pasta and put your marinara sauce. It takes 15 minutes,” she said.<\/p>\n

The majority of what they eat is homemade, but occasionally, she’ll throw a frozen sourdough pizza from the Ballerina Farm farmstand in the oven.<\/p>\n

Neeleman doesn’t enjoy junk food because she said it hurts her stomach, but is partial to a chocolate croissant or a good-quality chocolate ice cream.<\/p>\n

“Strauss has a really good Dutch cocoa ice cream that I always buy at Whole Foods when we go. It’s just so good, and I hide it in the freezer,” she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hannah Neeleman, the face of the lifestyle brand Ballerina Farm and “tradwife” influencer known for cooking elaborate meals…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[102,6636,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-224968","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nutrition","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-nutrition","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}