About Me

Former Royal New Zealand Ballet dancer, sports nutritionist & recipe creator

I'm Lara Flannery, the creator behind FeedingLara, a Wellington-based platform bringing together feel-good food, creative baking and sports nutrition.

After retiring from the Royal New Zealand Ballet due to injury, I began studying sports nutrition and asking a question I'd never fully answered during my dancing years: what does it actually mean to nourish a body that performs?

FeedingLara began as a creative outlet during my ballet career, eventually evolving as I experimented with ingredients and recipes to navigate my own gut health challenges. What started in my kitchen grew into a space where I could bring together my love of food, creativity and nutrition science.

These days, you'll find everything from gluten-free bakes and recipes made with different dietary needs in mind to sports nutrition insights and thoughts on fuelling, performance and recovery. I believe food can support the way we feel and perform without losing the joy, flavour and creativity that make it worth eating in the first place.

Alongside creating content for FeedingLara, I work with food, wellness and nutrition brands on recipe development, food photography and short-form video, managing projects in-house from the initial concept through to the final edit.

Current brand partners include Mitchells Nutrition, BePure, Matakana Superfoods and Cinderella.

Follow along on Instagram: @feedinglara

Interested in working together? Contact me at feedinglara@gmail.com