Can I Have Another Snack? is a newsletter, podcast and community exploring appetite, identity, and bodies, especially through the lens of parenting. Here we unpack the things that make us feel disrupted and disconnected from our bodies. And the things that make it difficult to feed ourselves and our kids (in all senses of the word). It’s an exploration of what it means to parent while unpacking diet-culture and anti-fatness, while supporting one another to end the tyranny of intergenerational body shame and disordered eating.
Everything you think you know about food is probably wrong. I love Laura's fierceness.
Sara Tasker - Me & Orla, Entre Nous
Each month I publish 2-3 researched essays exploring fundamental topics in the anti-diet parenting canon, as well as looking at issues at the intersection of parenting, diet culture, and anti-fatness like why weighing kids in school is not okay, and how ‘healthy eating’ lessons can be the spark that ignites an eating disorder. These essays are free to read and delivered to subscribers' inbox on a Tuesday. I also do a monthly round-up of Nutrition in the News where we get into the highs and lows of food- and body-related stories each month.
Laura Thomas
Laura Thomas
The Can I Have Another Snack podcast is where I share stories from cool people talking about what it means to be a human who eats food and owns a body and how they find ways of moving through the world while also nurturing small people, communities, and each other. The podcast is free and available to all on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and wherever you get your podcasts from.
Laura Thomas
Laura Thomas
Paying subscribers get access to the community aspect of Can I Have Another Snack? (which is the best part!). You’ll get access to our weekly discussion thread Snacky Bits where we discuss important issues like our kids' school lunches and what we're snacking on. You’ll also get to ask me questions in my monthly Dear Laura column where I fashion myself as an agony aunt, plus nutrition downloads to support you with anti-dieting parenting.
Plus you’ll get loads of perks like commenting privileges, access to the supportive community of very cool humans traveling this path, bonus podcasts and access to archived posts. We also have a private Discord server where you can come and rant, ask questions or just chat with the rest of the CIHAS fam.
Laura Thomas
Laura Thomas
Supporting Can I Have Another Snack? by becoming a paid subscriber is what makes this work sustainable and allows me to create meaningful, well-researched and intentional writing. It also allows me to pay my guests and contributors for their time. Critically it allows me to offer comp subscriptions to folks who need it most.
If you’d like to become a paid subscriber there are a few options - it’s £5 per month or £50 for the year. You can cancel or pause your subscription any time.
If you are like HYFR and are totally on board with what we do at CIHAS, you can sign up to become a Friends of Snacks member, which is £150/year and you help pay for the kindling to watch the nutrition world burn.
And if paying is out of reach for you just now - just email hello@laurathomasphd.co.uk and we’ll hook you up with a comp subscription - no questions asked.
About Laura
Officially, Laura Thomas PhD, RNutr, PGDip - Registered Nutritionist. Unofficially, disgruntled and disenchanted with a profession committed to upholding power and the subjugation of bodies. Over the past twelve years I have slowly been unraveling everything my training taught me about health, weight, and bodies.
My clinical work centres on helping parents and families end inter-generation dieting and body shame, and work towards a greater sense of embodiment and ease in their relationship with food. I also support families of children experiencing a wide range of feeding and eating differences, such as concerns with weight, very selective eating, food preoccupation and other feeding and eating differences. I use the lens and values of Responsive Feeding Therapy, Health at Every Size, and Intuitive Eating. I also work with a handful of adult clients who are looking for support around their relationship to food and their body. To find out how I can support you, your child(ren), or your family find more ease around food, please book a complimentary, no obligation 15 minute discovery call here.
I’m the author of two books focussed on repairing our (often pretty messed up) relationship with food and our bodies: Just Eat It and How to Just Eat It.
I am a parent to a spirited and sensitive 5 year old named Avery. We live in a small flat in London where we tend to a tiny balcony ‘garden’, and are surrounded by a frankly indecent number of books.
Follow me on Instagram here: @laurathomasphd
Contact
If you need to get in touch, please email hello@laurathomasphd.co.uk
Literary agent - Richard Pike - C&W
About Jennifer
Jennifer is an anti-diet Registered Associate Nutritionist with an interest in childhood nutrition, diabetes and disordered eating. She has a masters in nutrition, with her thesis exploring experiences of and attitudes towards the National Child Measurement Programme (soon to be a published paper) - you can hear more about that on our podcast here. She has spent time working with Body Happy Org creating a food-positive scheme of work for primary schools, which promotes a healthy relationship with food and body image.
Jennifer helps out behind the scenes with CIHAS, prepping the newsletter to go out each week and supporting Laura with research, editing and the occasional guest post.
Jennifer has three young children who are constantly demanding food. As a type one diabetic, she says her favourite (essential) snacks include apple juice cartons and malt loaf. It's a glamorous life.
You can follow Jennifer on instagram here: @jennifernashnutrition
You can reach out to Jennifer via her website: www.jnnutrition.com
