Meet She Snacks - Caroline Fitzgerald!
Caroline is a Mum of three, primary school teacher and recipe developing extraordinaire!
Check out her recommendations below as well as how she manages to fit work, life, and high protein snacks into her busy life.
Hi, I’m Caroline Fitzgerald...
...and I create many of the high protein recipes for Bulk using a range of their quality products.
I’m also a primary school Performing Arts / PE teacher (with a background in dance and gymnastics) and a mum of 3!
My go to exercise is weight training (which I love), walking and staying active with my kids. I follow a flexible diet (macro counting) to fuel my training and busy lifestyle where no foods are off-limits.
As you can probably tell by my recipes, I’m a big fan of sweets and desserts, and I love being able to use Bulk Nutrients products to add some extra protein to them!
Recommendations
Check out some of the Bulk Nutrients products I use and recommend!
Earth Protein - Vegan Protein
Why I love it: Earth Protein has great flavours and is an amazing value plant protein! Close equal second place is WPC and Protein Matrix+ for raw/no bake treats.
How I use it: Earth Protein is fabulous for including in baked treats.
Collagen Protein
Why I love it: Choc Honeycomb Collagen Protein has a delicious flavour and is great for skin, hair & nails.
How I use it: As a hot chocolate every night! Also sneak it into baking when I can.
Pre Workout 101
Why I love it: It's a delicious pre workout which lets me push harder in the gym and doesn't results in an crashes or jitters! What's not to love?
How I use it: Before/during training
Training Schedule
I'm currently basing my training around Stephanie Sanzo’s Build program (strength/hypertrophy).
Tis a bit all over the place between work and the kids, but generally...
- 1x full body
- 1x upper
- 1x lower/glutes
I also aim for an average of 10 000 steps per day - living near the beach helps to get lots of each walks in!
Also like staying active with the kids with things like stand-up paddle boarding in Summer.
A day on my plate
Monday to Saturday
- Breakfast: Baked Oats (using Earth Protein) with Greek yoghurt & syrup
Morning snack: one of my Bulk Nutrients snacks (cheesecake, cake, pie/tart, cookie, etc) - Lunch: usually something meal prepped/leftover from dinner (eg. Rice/pasta/wrap with a curry/bolognaise/taco meat, etc & veg)
- Afternoon snack: another one of my Bulk Nutrients snack recipes!
- Dinner: Rice/pasta/wrap with a curry/bolognaise/taco meat, etc & veg, or homemade pizzas, burgers, etc.
- After dinner: Fruit, jelly, chocolate digestive biscuits with Nutella, hot choc made with Collagen Protein in Choc Honeycomb
Sunday is usually as listed above, but breakfast is something like protein crepes (made with WPC or Matrix+) with strawberries, Greek yoghurt, syrup. Yum!
Diet you follow... High Protein, Flexible Dieting, IIFYM, Macro Counting
What is my average daily calorie intake? 2500
Foods I avoid... No, I love food! Only avoid things if I don’t like them!
Foods I crave... Nope - I don’t crave foods because I don’t restrict them in the first place!
My ultimate cheat meal is... Don’t do cheat meals…I eat the foods I love every day so no need!
Latest Results
Do you have any medium/long term goals you're working towards?
Currently working on my own recipe eBooks!
Fitness-wise, just staying fit and healthy for myself and my kids!
Have you had any exceptional results in the last few years? Let us know what they are!
I've lost my baby weight with each pregnancy! (14-20kg each time for 3 kids!)
