About Me

Former Royal New Zealand Ballet dancer & postgraduate sports nutrition student

I'm Lara Flannery, the creator of Feedinglara - a Wellington-based platform specialising in grain-free, gut-friendly baking. After retiring from the Royal New Zealand Ballet due to injury, I began studying sports nutrition and started asking a question I'd never fully answered during my dancing years: what does it actually mean to nourish a body that performs?

Feeding Lara was born from my own gut health journey - navigating SIBO, histamine intolerance, and a complicated relationship with food that began at ballet school. Everything I share here is rooted in both lived experience and nutrition science. My recipes are grain-free, gut-friendly, and genuinely delicious - because feeling good should never mean giving up food you love.

I work with wellness and nutrition brands to create professional recipe content, food photography, and short-form video - all in-house, from concept to final edit. Current brand partners include Mitchells Nutrition, BePure, Matakana Superfoods, and Cinderella.

Follow me on Instagram @feedinglara

Work with me: feedinglara@gmail.com

homemade marshmallows hallelujah 🤍 paleo friendly tooo (comment MALLOW for the recipe) you can eat them AND use them in any marshmallow related recipe .. I’ve made a bunch of flavours and they always taste divine (the texture is out of thi
life lately!! Blessed 🤍 (though it’s getting pretty chilly!) - went on my first long walk since my toe surgery (it’s coming up to 6 months post surgery and it’s been a JOURNEY 😅) so we are celebrating the small wins! - stayed at
making gf high protein cookies (with POOLS of chocolate) as my meal prep sounds pretty good to me .. It’s the return of everyone’s favourite single serve paleo chocolate protein cookie, but made into a big batch !! Egg, grain, gluten an
A pink spatula surrounded by a circular outline with the words 'feeding Laura' written around it.