Rach's Food Fuel, Tracadie, PE (2026)

Making nutrition, mental health, eating disorder, injury, & sports topics accessible for all!

07/24/2026

Incoming freshman athlete headed to college soon? Here’s what you need to know about food and nutrition to help you transition!

🍽️ start mentally preparing for a new food environment. It WILL be different than what you are use to at home and from HS, understand that this may be hard to get use to!

🍽️ dietary needs or allergies? Reach out now to your campus team to get the right resources set up before you get to campus!

🍽️ snacks snacks snacks! If you have the resources to bring some shelf, stable dorm, friendly snack, snacks to campus with you it can help ease the transition and maintain some of your normal and familiar eating habits. This is a huge benefit for those really busy days or athletes heading to practises right after class.

🍽️ athletes should be planning NOW for how their fueling will adjust with training and a new schedule. As your volume is going up, your nutrition needs to also change! Preseason’s are gonna be rough if you aren’t already adapting your fuelling strategy now!

🍽️ understand your meal plan! Campus dining or residential living usually has a website to explain these and differences across plans. Every campus is different and learning how a meal plan works allows you to use it wisely to get the best bang for your buck. Orientation fairs at move in usually have resources and lean into upper classman for smart hacks!

I speak for anyone in college dining, we want you to be well fed on campus and care deeply about your nutrition while you are dining with us! Reach out to your local campus team for support!

LET’S EAT!

Love your fav college RD 🤓

07/19/2026

Note to self: bring your 🚲 to the group ride

See ya next week I guess 😂

05/30/2026

Grahams FTW 🙌🏻

Superhero simple carbs to save the day! One of my MOST recommended snacks as a dietitian working with college athletes. Grahams are so easy to keep around in a dorm room, shelf stable and easy to make and bring on the go.

1 sheet of graham crackers is about 12g of carbs and low in fat making them a great pre workout snack. Load them up with some extra carbs form honey, jam, fluff, maple or agave and optionally add some PB for extra satiety (if your belly isn’t too sensitive and you have >15min pre workout)

3 crackers + 1 tablespoon of sweetener clocks in at about 50+ grams of carbs ⛽️ 🔥 🏃🏼‍♀️

This snack is perfect for the hour before a workout, during long competition days, or even a sweet way to bump up carbs with a meal.

LET’S EAT!

05/27/2026

Giving nutrition advice in a sport setting can be a really tricky area. While coaches, parents, and people surrounding an athlete are usually working from a place of care, offering nutrition or food insights out of line with your role can be really harmful to athletes. That being said, complete silence around nutrition and food in sport isn’t the answer!!

Understanding your role in fueling as a coach is so SO important to helping your athletes succeed and coaching from safe sport lens.

Coaches do the training, adaption monitoring, and periodization. They should absolutely encourage fueling, coming to practice fed and refueling after. They should provide a space that allows for fueling breaks and sets broad fueling expectations to create a safe culture. Coaches should understand the signs of RED-S and how injuries can change nutrition AND BODIES. Coaches should prioritize training consistency for performance….

Not nutrition manipulation.

That is a professionals job. A coach, even a well tuned educated coach (even in nutrition) is in a unique position that can feel like pressure to an athlete even when the intent is honest. Coach’s should not be the ones making body composition goals or comments. A concern about performance via fueling should be handed off to a professional.

If an athlete says “I want to get better coach, how can I do that” coach can say “consistency in training and maybe consider chatting with a dietitian where you can look at ways fueling can support your body”

Nutrition professionals keep the pressure off the athlete, help keep coaches safe, and mitigate risk when it comes to disordered eating behaviours. They can help athletes understanding fueling at a deeper and individualized level.

Athletes, reach out to a nutrition professional for fueling support! Coaches, get a nutrition professional on your team! Even for one session!

LET’S EAT!

04/19/2026

Just some soup for your Sunday.

This golden turmeric cauliflower veloute was the second course star of my Farm Table dinner a few weeks ago and my god I could use this now…. Day 4 of being totally KOd by sickness.

Hydrate, wash YER HANDS, and keep eating food fuellers. Stay healthy ✌️

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04/06/2026

Imagine a world with less food and body noise constantly coming at you….

That would rock, but we can’t totally turn off and tune out the world and food culture that exists around us.

You CAN minimize the noise outside and inside by working on your food and body relationship.

It does exist. Peace with food and that beautiful hard working body you are in.

It’s not easy, and it takes ongoing work but it sure as heck is a lot more rewarding and healthy than so much of the messages around us.

Food is such a journey and something that is individual unique to every one of us, just like our body is. Dietitians are here to help 🫶

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