Real Support for Real Family Mealtimes

I'm Marina Tomasella, a qualified nutritionist and naturopath with over a decade of experience supporting children's health and wellbeing, working alongside parents and educators to build the foundations for good nutrition from the very start.

But it wasn't until I became a mother myself that everything shifted.

For years, I had been telling parents what to feed their kids, how much, and when. Then I had children of my own, and I quickly realised it's never that simple. The reality of feeding children, the negotiating, the rejected plates, the worry, the sheer emotional weight of it, gave me a depth of understanding no textbook ever could. It also gave me a deep appreciation for how much we shape our children's relationship with food and mealtimes, and how much that relationship matters.

Around the same time, I noticed fussy eating wasn't just common, it felt like it was everywhere. Parents were stressed, mealtimes had become battlegrounds, and conflicting advice was making it worse. I became passionate about finding real answers, and have been working with families and educators on this ever since.

Feed & Nurture is where my professional expertise and lived experience as a mother come together, to offer support that's grounded in evidence, but understands what family life actually looks like.