Sarah Almond Bushell, Registered Dietitian & Children’s Nutritionist

Sarah Almond Bushell is an award-winning Registered Dietitian, ex NHS Consultant child nutritionist of 22 years and founder of The Children’s Nutritionist™ who is working to create a generation of happier, healthier eaters by reduce the stress around food and mealtimes for parents. She is passionate about helping to cut the ties of generational eating habits, fuelled by misinformation and desperation tactics.

Her work has resulted in being asked to consult for brands including Annabel Karmel, Hovis, Heinz Baby, Tommee Tippee, Thermomix and Aptamil. She is a keynote speaker and author having ghostwritten three books for well known personalities as well as writing Love At First Bite, her own weaning book for Thermomix. Sarah has also featured in various magazines and media, helping thousands of parents raise their happy healthy eaters.

In her spare time Sarah can be found in the kitchen, as an ex-baker Sarah enjoys cooking with her teenage children, creating amazing dishes full of flavour for her friends & family.

“Sharing a meal together should be happy, sociable occasions, but for so many families it is fraught with stress, parents anxious that their children are not eating the good stuff on their plates, children anxious that they’re going to be made to eat something they don’t want to. My mission is to help families learn to enjoy eating together, for parents to be reassured, for children to be relaxed, essentially for mealtimes to be a time where happy memories are made.”

Education, Qualifications/Training

• BSc Hons Nutrition & Dietetics (1999)
• Diploma in Advanced Dietetic Practice (2006)
• MPhil Nutrition for children (2015)
• SOS Certificated feeding therapist - advanced level (2017 and 2018)

Professional Accomplishments

• Founded The Children’s Nutritionist 2018
• British Dietetic Association Roll of Honour (patron Her Majesty the Queen) (2007)
• Weaning Week Bronze Award winner (2020)
• Weaning Week Silver and Bronze Award winner (2021)
• British Dietetic Association shortlisted for Outstanding Achiever Award (2022)
• Speaker at Bee Inspired (2022) 

Affiliations/Memberships/Governing bodies

• British Dietetic Association 06604
• Health & Care Professions Council DT07650

Noteworthy work 

• Love At First Bite, Vorwerk UK, 2021 
• Weaning, Annabel Karmel, DK, 2018
• Baby Led Weaning, Annabel Karmel, Pindock publishing, 2017

Older clinical publications:

• Poster presentation ‘Self-management of Type 1 Diabetes by a 6 year old child of Profoundly Deaf Parents’. University of Brighton June 2010
• T Coelho, C Spence, S Almond et al. ‘Self-management of Type 1 Diabetes by a 6 year old child of Profoundly Deaf Parents’ Diabetic Medicine 2009 24 (suppl 1) pp96
• Professional Consensus Statement on Dietetic Assessment of Children with Special Needs with Faltering Growth June 2007
• Shaw & Lawson, Clinical Paediatric Dietetics – Chapter 38 Feeding children with Neurodisability. 3rd Edition 2007
• Peer reviewed document entitled ’Enteral feeding in Children with Severe Cerebral Palsy’ by Christine Carter Former Dietitian at Great Ormond Street Hospital. April 2006
• Poster presentation of PhD project at European Academy of Childhood Disability Annual conference Nov 2005
• Stewart L, McKaig N, Dunlop C, Daly H, Almond S. ‘Assessment and monitoring of children with neurodisability on home enteral tube feeding’ Clinical Nutrition Update 2005 vol 10 Issue 1 pp 6-8
• Presentation entitled ‘Nutrition Screening of Children with Neurodisabilities’ at Nutritional Care of Children’s with Disabilities conference, The Belfry September 2005
• ‘Challenges in Feeding Children with Neurodisabilities’ Clinical Nutrition, April 2005
• Presentation of research project at British Society of Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Watford January 2005
• Almond S. ‘Nutritional Supplements- Making an informed choices tailored to each patient’ Professional Nurse. 2004 vol 20, No 1, pp 43-46
• Poster Presentation ‘Design and Validation of a nutrition screening tool for children with physical disabilities and learning difficulties’ at Brighton & Sussex Medical School, Local Research Day December 2003.