On Saturday, September 29th, I hosted my first solo event in Third Space, Smithfield!
In front of a sold-out crowd, I gave a talk on nutrition and the external factors that affect our food choices, followed by a live demo recipe and tasting.
Some wonderful brands were also present offering the audience a taste of their amazing products on site. I’m grateful to everyone who attended and delighted with how the event turned out. You can find more details below:
“How To Eat For Life” Nutrition Talk with delicious canapes, Live Demo Recipe & Tasting AGENDA OF THE DAY
- @ 4 pm – Guests received a welcome bag full of healthy products on entry.
- Delicious canapés reception and tasting of some of the sponsor brands.
- @ 4:30 pm – Raffle valued at €50 of nutritional chocolate bars.
- @ 4:45 pm – Introduction about the speaker, myself 🙂
- @ 5 pm – “How To Eat For Life” Talk, Valuable insights and tips for enjoying a healthy balanced lifestyle.
- @ 6 pm – Q&A
- @6:15 pm – Live Demo Recipe and tasting.
- @7pm – Closing time
Massive thanks to everyone who came and waited at the long queue outside! And, most importantly, all of you were very punctual! It is something that I really appreciate.
The day started very well! Different welcome bags with healthy products from sponsors brands were provided at the main entrance, for meat lovers and vegetarian or vegans, in order to provide the specific food products that fit everyone best.
INTRODUCTION ABOUT MYSELF
Nothing was more exciting than telling the attendees about myself, my past and why I am where I am now. I shared my inspiring story of how I improved my relationship with food as well as my wealth of knowledge on healthy eating for life. I also laid out my career path from international fashion model to Health and Fitness Professional. And to work for some of the biggest corporations in the world in between.
It was not easy talking about myself. I felt naked but I hope this helped you get to know me a little bit better and maybe somehow find yourself in some moments?
“HOW TO EAT FOR LIFE” TALK
And then… I suppose the reason everyone came to the event, the Talk! I spoke about some valuable insights, from sleep to overcoming stress and enjoying a healthy balanced lifestyle. I focused on how external factors can affect our food choices and tips to make consistent nutritional choices in the long term. No diet, no restrictions, but something you can keep forever.
Q&A SESSION
I finished with a Q&A session, giving the opportunity to the attendees to ask anything they wanted me to clarify or were curious about myself or any of the topics I discussed.
LIVE DEMO RECIPE AND TESTING
The Live Demo Recipe was a perfect way to show the attendees how nutritional food like porridge can be enjoyable at any time of the day, mixing it with nutritional nutrients.
The result was a delicious recipe where porridge was the main ingredient!
Why? Because for some people porridge is not a very delicious food, even with no taste at all… so I made it enjoyable along with other nutritional food to eat it during any meal; at breakfast, lunch or dinner, even in a smaller portion as a snack.
After the demonstration, I invited to try the recipe and share their opinion in a casual environment that encouraged communication. I created the recipe in three different versions – plain, sweet, and savoury.
I was happy to see how absolutely everyone enjoyed the recipe giving an amazing feedback afterwards! 50% prefered the savoury recipe and the other 50% were those sweet teeth 😀
SPONSOR BRANDS
The sponsor brands were: Moncitric, Nutty Delights and Dr Coy’s. Each and every one of them has a unique selling point and they fit with my philosophy.
Dr Coy’s was providing its truly innovative nutritional chocolate bars. They have low effects on blood glucose levels compared to chocolates containing sugar.
The bars are also high in fibre and vitamin E and are gluten and lactose-free. I am wondering if there is anyone in this world they are not suitable for? I don’t think so! They have just launched other products like organic coconut oil and vegetable bouillon. They are on their way to becoming a world leader.
Moncitric is a luxury caviar brand. I first found them attractive because I love citric flavours and I eat, on average, a lemon per meal – I am not joking! So the combination of caviar in an exotic lime flavour exploded in my mind and in my mouth after trying it. They produce the same oranges and mandarins that have put the region of Valencia, Spain. But also they presented a new variety of gourmet citruses, where their star is the finger lime or citrus caviar.
Nutty Delights is not the typical nuts brands, they go further with their either sweet, salty or raw nuts, seeds and dried fruit! I was especially impressed after trying the smoked almonds in their local shop in Dublin city centre.
RAFFLE VALUED at €50 OF NUTRITIONAL CHOCOLATE BARS
How happy would you be if you won a Raffle valued at €50, especially if you only paid €6 for the ticket? I would have be tempted to leave and enjoy the chocolates instead! 😀 The Raffle was courtesy of one of the sponsor brands, Dr coy’s.
The winner won a bag valued at €50 of some of the newest products by Dr Coy’s, among them, all flavours of chocolate bars, coconut oil and organic vegetable bouillion.
INFORMAL TALK AT THE END
I really enjoyed that most of you came to talk to me at the end of the event, 1 to 1 conversation sometimes is more than needed! And thanks for sharing with me as well your experience or just for just saying “Hi! nice to meet you!” You made my day!
REASONS TO ATTEND A NUTRITION EVENT
Why should you attend a Nutrition event? You always meet new people with the same interests, can learn something about food that you never knew, or try a nice product from a new brand you’re suddenly in love with, anything can happen!
Fit.with.Sylvia is all about celebrating what you can do with delicious and nutritional ingredients.
It’s not about diet or deprivation and there’s no one size fits all!
Happy to see you in my next event! When? Keep an eye on my Social Media Channels and blog post 🙂
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