The NZ Family Guide

"What's Really
in Your Food?"

Real food for Kiwi families — simple, affordable, delicious

The food industry doesn't want you to read this. Seed oils, hidden sugars, artificial colours, and preservatives are hiding in almost everything your family eats. This is the only NZ-specific guide that tells you the truth — and exactly what to do about it.

Instant digital download · NZ$24.99 · 57 pages

Foundation Food
"What's Really in Your Food?"
The NZ Family Guide
57 Pages
13+ Recipes
50+ Sugar Names
100% Kiwi
By Rachel Eriksen · Foundation Food · foundationfood.co.nz
NZ Specific Guide
Instant Download
Real Kiwi Recipes
Written by a Kiwi Mum
No Fluff. Just Truth.
Sound Familiar?

You're doing everything "right."
So why doesn't your family feel great?

You're buying the low-fat options. Cooking with vegetable oil. Choosing the wholegrain bread. Following the advice.

You're not imagining it. The food most New Zealand families eat every single day is loaded with seed oils, hidden sugars, artificial colours, and preservatives that have no place in your family's body. It's not your fault. The food industry has made it almost impossible to know what you're actually eating. Until now.

Inside the Guide

57 pages of real food truth

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The Seed Oil Truth

What they are, how they're made using petroleum solvents and industrial bleaching, why they're in everything, and exactly which eight oils to avoid.

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The Numbers Guide

Artificial colours, preservatives, flavour enhancers, and sweeteners decoded. What they are, what they do, and which ones have serious question marks hanging over them.

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Hidden Sugar Exposed

Over 50 names the food industry uses to hide sugar in your food — including products you'd never suspect. The trick they play that is completely legal.

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The Salt Truth

Why we've been lied to about salt for decades and why most New Zealanders aren't eating ENOUGH of the right kind. Signs you might be deficient.

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The Egg Truth

Why everything you've been told about eggs and cholesterol is wrong — and why you should be eating more of them. The yolk is the hero.

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The NZ Swap Guide

Exactly what to throw out and what to replace it with. Using NZ brands, NZ supermarkets, NZ prices. Pak'nSave and Countdown friendly.

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Your NZ Butcher Guide

What to ask for, what's cheap, how to find tallow locally, and the half cow secret that could save your family thousands on real food.

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Real Food Recipes

The actual recipes from Rachel's food trailer Old Skool Eats. Tallow fried chicken, real burgers six ways, butter pastry mince pies, bone broth, beef stock, and more.

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The Chip Secret

The only seed oil free chip you can buy at a NZ supermarket right now. Plus how to make your own incredible homemade tallow crisps.

About Rachel

This isn't theory.
This is lived experience.

I grew up on a 7000 acre farm in rural NZ. Real food, real animals, real cooking — that's what I knew. Then life happened. Supermarkets. Convenience food. Vegetable oils. Packaged everything.

A few years ago my husband and I went back to basics. Full carnivore. Real food. No seed oils. No processed anything. In seven months we lost over 40kg between us. His gout — gone. Just gone. Something his doctor had been medicating for years disappeared when we changed what we ate.

I also ran a food trailer called Old Skool Eats cooking everything in 100% beef tallow. People queued up for it. Not because it was trendy. Because real food tastes incredible and makes you feel amazing.

40kg Lost Together
25+ Years Teaching
7000 Acre Upbringing
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Old Skool Eats Food Trailer Cooked everything in 100% beef tallow — burgers, fried chicken, pies with real butter pastry
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7 Acres in Cambridge, NZ Grew her own vegetables, raised animals, lived the real food lifestyle
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25+ Years as a Teacher Knows how to explain complex things simply. No jargon. No fluff.
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Carnivore Journey 40kg lost, gout reversed, brain fog lifted — real results from real food
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100% Kiwi NZ brands, NZ supermarkets, NZ prices. Written specifically for Kiwi families.
Is This For You?

Be honest with yourself

This IS for you if...

  • You want to feed your family better but don't know where to start
  • You're confused by food labels and ingredient lists
  • Your kids struggle with energy, mood, or concentration
  • You've heard about seed oils but don't know what to do
  • You want simple, affordable real food your family will eat
  • You want NZ-specific advice written for Kiwi families

This is NOT for you if...

  • You're completely happy with the status quo
  • You think processed food is perfectly fine
  • You're looking for a magic pill or quick fix
  • You don't want to know what's really in your food

Ready to know the truth?

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