Delivering Wholesome Goodness to Your Door
Making healthy food cultures simpler and easier for growing children and busy parents.
About Us
The Wholesome Box was born from founder Julie’s desire to make healthy food cultures simpler and easier for busy families.
As a primary school teacher and nutritionist, Julie sees daily the impact that poor food choices have on children – from behaviour problems, lethargy, sleep issues and tummy problems.
At The Wholesome Box, we understand that eating healthy – particularly when it comes to school lunches – can be difficult, as the convenience of additive-packed food choices at the supermarket appears overwhelmingly easier than planning a healthy lunchbox.
In Julie’s experience, many parents simply don’t realise what ingredients are in the foods they’re giving their children, due to clever marketing tactics that make unhealthy food choices appear healthy.
Our Solution
Our lunchbox kits offer a solution to this conundrum. Our kits are created for busy families and time-poor parents who want to nourish their children without the fuss. The lunchbox kits make wholesome food choices easy. We take the time and effort out of planning and creating healthy lunchboxes with monthly kits delivered straight to your door.
Our aim is to create recipes and offer food choices by cutting back on preservatives, additives, numbers and ingredients we can’t pronounce, all while getting back to the basics of whole foods in the home.
We want families to enjoy the fun and creativity you can have in the kitchen, without the fuss. We hope our lunchbox kits bring families together – to learn and grow and play.
Julie’s Story
From home to school to NICU, Julie’s passion for growing families and wholesome foods is rooted in her Italian-Australian heritage.
Growing up in an Italian family in northern Queensland, my earliest memories are from around the table. Everything we made was home cooked. Every night we’d sit at the table as a family and most Sundays were spent around the table with aunties, uncles, cousins and my Nonna and Nonno, making gnocchi, polenta, macaroni and sugo.
I loved watching them roll out the different types of pasta sand as I grew, learning to make all of the classic dishes. Food was the foundation of every gathering or celebration and my parents’ or grandparents’ veggie garden was where we spent the majority of our play time.
My school lunchboxes were filled with homemade baked goodies and packaged food was a total rarity. This passion for wholesome food, minimal ingredients and joy around eating is ingrained in me and is something I strive to teach my own children.
My Journey to Growing a Family has not Been an Easy One.
I have always had an interest in health, wellbeing and food since a child, but it wasn’t until my 30s – after going through fertility treatments for three years – that I listened to an interview on the impacts of sugar and processed foods on the body.
After this, I transitioned to a completely whole foods diet during my fertility treatments, and a year later I conceived my daughter. After she was born, I became very passionate about exposing her to a variety of whole foods. Our fridge was always stocked with fresh fruit and vegetables, just like my parents before me. The more I began researching food labels and nutrition, the more I learnt about the chemical additives, manipulated fats, sugars and processed grains and their effect on health – especially for children.
As a primary school teacher, I see this everyday in the classrooms and in kids’ lunchboxes - the processed foods, no colour or variety, and the impact it has on their wellbeing. Food is not the same anymore – it has changed so much from our grandparents’ time. Ingredients have changed and what were once pure whole foods are overridden with additives and unknown ingredients for extending shelf life.
A Premmie Baby, to NICU, to Thriving
My third child, a little boy, was born at 27 weeks by emergency C-section, which my husband and I were wholly unprepared for. I had gone back to primary teaching after my second child and was under extreme mental stress, which I believe contributed to his being born early during the COVID-19 pandemic.
After his delivery, I was readmitted back into hospital five days later due to PTSD, extremely low iron and chest pain, where the doctors discovered a pulmonary embolism (blood clot) in my lung. Over the next four-month period with my little one in NICU (neonatal intensive care unit), I wasn’t able to look after my health.
Once he was home, my nervous system took a long time to recover and as we found our new normal, I delved deeper into the importance of looking after my physical, mental and emotional wellbeing. For me, this started with what my family and I ate, what we watched and how we moved our bodies.
This then led to me teaching my children how to have a strong heart, body and mind and inspired me to start studying nutrition.
A Passion to Teach Others About Wholefoods
I am so blessed to say that Lindsey is now a happy, healthy and thriving three-year-old but the physical and mental effects of this time have weighed heavily upon me. It took me two years to feel a sense of wellness within my body and mind after this experience as I was completely depleted.
This experience put a fire in my belly to want to help other NICU mums, busy families and young children to learn how to nourish their bodies in an easy and simple way. This passion is what created The Wholesome Box. My aim is to make healthy food cultures easy and accessible for all families.
Our future starts with our children. Teaching them how to nourish their bodies will set them up for healthy and happy lives.
Love, Julie.
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