Real Life Nutrition with Jon

The first flight out of Western Sydney International has taken off… but that’s not the only thing flying this week. ✈️
The money’s flying out of your wallet! 💸
So let’s see what’s brewing in the supermarket catalogues—Halloween tricks, a few treats, and ways to save money without spending your health. 🧙‍♂️🫧
No Netflix subscription required. I even stir my own cauldron.
▶️ Watch the full episode of Real Life Nutrition with Jon:�https://youtu.be/7EKEsh7UY_E
🛒 Get this week’s shopping guide:�https://fastforwardnutrition.com.au/weekly

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🎃 TRICK OR TREAT… or trick AND treat?
Halloween’s almost here, cars are flying, and the supermarket catalogues are getting spooky. But there are real savings among the distractions.
🐟 THE TREAT: Coles deli salmon at $30/kg—cheaper than the ALDI salmon packs compared this week. Available at participating deli-counter stores.
🐔 THE TRICK? The $4.50/kg Steggles Family Roast is 88% chicken. The rest includes water, seasoning and additives. Before you compare it with a plain whole chicken, check what you’re paying for.
🔎 The headline price tells you one thing. The ingredients and price per kilo tell you more.
🛒 Find this week’s best buys and plan your shop:�https://fastforwardnutrition.com.au/weekly
💬 Spotted a treat—or a tricky special? Tell me below.
Save your money without spending your health. And stay strong in those aisles of temptation! 👻
📅 Specials 21–27 October 2026. Prices and availability vary by store.

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When you eat is only part of the picture. What you eat matters too.
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Christmas is coming. And maybe you’ve been thinking about making a change before summer.

But where do you start?

Another diet? Another supplement? Another program?

I’ve been there.

It took me five years of trial and error to understand that improving your health isn’t always about doing more.

Sometimes it’s about understanding what’s actually happening.

I’ve lived weight loss, not just studied it. And that experience is part of why I became a Clinical Nutritionist.

Today, I help people make sense of their health, nutrition and the overwhelming amount of conflicting advice.

You might see a mess. As a clinician, I look for patterns.

I’ve got time for you. Do you have time for you?

If you’re ready to explore where to start, I’ve set aside 15 minutes for a free, no-pressure conversation.

Turn down the noise. Start moving forward.

Jon Bowly
Clinical Nutritionist | Fast Forward Nutrition

Explore your starting point:
https://www.fastforwardnutrition.com.au/weight-loss

Book a free Discovery Call:
https://www.fastforwardnutrition.com.au/discovery-call

🥣 HUNGRY ON THE RUN?

That high-protein yoghurt pouch can look like the obvious choice.

Protein on the front. Convenient. Easy to grab.

But turn it around — because not all yoghurt pouches are doing the same job.

Some sweeter pouches contain 13–17g of total sugar per pouch. Higher-protein options may use sweeteners, thickeners and other ingredients to get there.

Then there’s the less exciting option: plain Greek yoghurt.

In this comparison, plain Chobani Greek yoghurt provides:
💪 14g protein per serve
🥄 No added sugar
🍓 Add your own fruit for flavour

And when I compared the cost per 10g of protein:

PLAIN TUB — $1.04
HIGH-PROTEIN POUCH — $1.34

Does that make protein pouches a bad choice?

No.

If you’re hungry on the run and the realistic alternative is a packet of chips, sausage roll, chocolate or soft drink, a high-protein yoghurt pouch can be a very practical option.

Nutrition isn’t about finding the “perfect” food.

It’s about understanding what you’re buying and choosing what works for the situation you’re actually in.

🔎 Protein on the front? Check the back.

🛒 THIS WEEK’S SUPERMARKET PICKS + FREE MEAL PLANNER
https://www.fastforwardnutrition.com.au/weekly

📺 WATCH NAVIGATING THE NOISE
My weekly look through Coles, Woolworths and ALDI — finding the buys that can help you save money without spending your health.
https://www.youtube.com/

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Jon Bowly
Clinical Nutritionist
BHSc (Clinical Nutrition) · CPN (AARPN) · ATMS

🏉 Eight pages of footy food this week… and not one fresh cut of meat amongst them.

So I’ve been making up for what Coles and Woolworths left out.

This week’s /weekly looks beyond the catalogue specials and turns some of the better buys into practical meal ideas — including stuffed capsicums with beef, tuna or lentils.

🛒 See this week’s supermarket pricing guide:
https://www.fastforwardnutrition.com.au/weekly

📺 Watch the full episode of Real Life Nutrition with Jon:
https://youtu.be/ZjFjVT7FelY

🫑 RECIPES

🥩 Saucy Beef Stuffed Peppers
https://app.thatcleanlife.com/shares/57428d01-5699-4f1c-a1ac-55cad72960a2

🐟 Spinach & Tuna Stuffed Pepper
https://app.thatcleanlife.com/shares/3386b8d7-015e-425c-9d3f-f8cc901ab550

🌱 Lentil Stuffed Grilled Peppers
https://app.thatcleanlife.com/shares/ec9f3779-d58a-4de0-a147-22fc5adbfb35

New pricing guide each week.

Where shopping + nutrition combine.

🚨 CHANNEL 7 PUT ULTRA-PROCESSED FOOD IN THE SPOTLIGHT.

So what should you actually do now?

Sunday night’s Spotlight looked at ultra-processed foods, Health Stars, food formulation and just how difficult navigating the modern supermarket has become.

One line particularly stood out:

🛒 “Consumers don’t have a degree in nutrition to be able to decipher this information.”

Nebula El Mourid is right.

There are more than 50,000 products to navigate — alongside Health Stars, protein claims, calories, ingredient lists and increasingly sophisticated marketing.

I thought Spotlight did an important job putting this issue into the mainstream conversation.

But once the television is turned off, we still have to shop.

In this special episode of Real Life Nutrition, I look at what the research actually tells us about ultra-processed food — and, importantly, what you can practically do with that information.

🥫 Calories matter.
💪 Protein matters.
🏭 Processing matters.

But they’re not the whole food — and they’re not the whole person.

📺 WATCH THE FULL VIDEO:
https://youtu.be/hLbwkx6a0Kk

🛒 FREE WEEKLY CATALOGUE GUIDE:
https://www.fastforwardnutrition.com.au/weekly

Real catalogues. Real products. Real prices — with nutrition context.

Let’s Navigate the Noise.