Nutrition fresh to your door by leading childhood nutritionist Leanne Cooper

To sneak – to slink without detection

How did sneAkys come about?

As a mother my skills in the subtle art of food sneakiness have been fine tuned since my son Zach was born in 2002.  Like many mamma’s and dadda’s, I knew my son was adept at spotting a vegetable (sometimes from as far away as 25 metres). 

 

Trying to find healthy but tasty snacks for children seemed impossible, so I brushed up on my baking skills.  Feeling rather sneaky about my success with my son, I spread the word and quickly all the children of my friends were ‘sneakying’. Out of this sneAkys snacks were created and our Sneakys books and recipes. Soon even my poor cooking skills were improving as I snuck vegetables into everything I could think of.  Now Sneakys is bigger than just me, it's a team of dedicated mums all working together on books, editorials and parent support in all areas of infant and childhood healthy eating. 

 

As the nutrition advisor for Huggies Baby Club and a number of other parenting services I very quickly realised the support parents with fussy eaters needed.  Fussy eating remains one of the most common questions I am asked about today.

What sort of sneaky things do we do?

Sneakys caters for bubs starting on solid right through to toddlers and early school aged children. We pride ourselves on providing consitent, quality nutritional support for parents. So many of our decisions in parenting are wrapped in guilt, Sneakys provides a guilt-free, realistic and pratical approach to feeding babies and children.

Unbeknown to kids (due to the cone of silence) we sneak in a multitude of ways, deliciously healthy foods that have fruit and shhhh… vegetables into their lunch boxes and meals.  Our dastardly plan is rarely foiled. 

Sometimes we are extra sneaky and tempt parents too; now nibbling the kids foods won’t sneak up on your waist line.   Our product and recipe analysts are among the fussiest bubs and kids in the country; we pride ourselves on our high approval rating. 

 

Sneakys offers:

• One of the best books on starting solids you will ever find, plus a follow-on book on healthy eating for toddlers
• A sneaky fussy foodies recipe book so everyone can become as sneaky as us
• Childcare nutrition kits
• Free monthly nutrition tip sheets to thousands of childcare and parenting organisations across Australia and NZ
• Editorial for newsletters, websites and magazines
• Expert media comment
• Coming soon Sneakys Toddler Snack Packs

Who else is Sneaky?

Leanne's sister Michele Cooper has also joined the Sneaky gang and now heads the Make This Look Fabulous department (aka graphics and design). Michele has an extensive background in community liaising, and has worked for over 15 years with National Parks and Wildlife educating the community about the world around us (locally and globally). Michele is a proud Sneakys mum of Xavier (see right) and lives on the beautiful Northern Beaches of Sydney with her husband Cris.

Glenise Cooper
Glenise(pictured right with grandson, Zach) is Head of NZ Operations and electronic adventures and runs our NZ office from Papamoa (Tauranga, NZ). Extensive experience in banking and financial systems, Glensie lends her excellent organisational skills to make our NZ HQ a highly efficient office.

Emma Donnan (B SpScience)
Healthy Eating Coordinators Program Manager. Emma has been a teacher at St Lukes Grammar for over 10 years and holds qualifications in both Sports Science and Education. A passion in fitness and health and being a mother of three gorgeous children has led Emma to being actively involved in childhood nutrition. Emma heads our HEC program, running new programs, liaising with HEC's, schools and trainers and ensuring the progression of the program.

Amanda Thomas (BSc (Hons) Nutr Thpy; B Com)
Nutritionist mum, Amanda Thomas is our newest member of staff. Amanda has the unique blend of health and marketing qualifications and experience and heads our 'Tell us about Sneakys' and 'I need that book now' departments. Expect to see our books every where you go curtosy of Amanda. Amanda is in office on Fridays only.

 

TBA - New staff member to be announced shortly
Head of all things organised, organises our weekly course packages and deliveries so your course or book gets to you safe and sound, and on time!

Maxine White
Consultant herbalist, advising us on all things herbal and naturally good for you to drink and eat.

Student assistant: We have various students from time-to-time who provide much support and skills.

Sneaky clients include:

• SCARBA, Benevolent Society - guest presenter
• Red Cross Australia - guest presenter
• Modern Parenting - guest speaker
• Care for Kids - editorial provider and chair of nutrition
• My Local Guide - childhood nutrition editorial provider
• And more...

Media comment or appearance

Leanne enjoys providing media comment. Having now appeared in most weekly women's magazines, plus parenting, fitness and health magazines (Australia and New Zealand), Leanne has become a reliable source of tips and facts. For details simply call the office on 02 9400 9759 or email Leanne your questions and deadline. To book Leanne for media appearances or radio interviews contact Amanda our marketing guru.

Editorial provision

As you can see Leanne's services are in great demand; so she doesn't disappear under a pile of paper, she isn't able to provide free personalised editorial, though we have very competitive per word rates, simply email us for more details.

However, we have dozens of fully edited extremely valuable tip sheets and articles (view sample here), written by Leanne, which we are happy to provide for your use (with acknowledgment). Simply tell us what topic you want information on and where you plan to use the information and we will email it to you.

Sneakys is a trade mark of Cadence Health

PO Box 313, Manly, NSW, AUSTRALIA

info@sneakys.com.au

+ 61  02 9400 9759