Quick Dinner
Garlic Butter Prawns and Greens
Prawns cooked hard and fast in garlic butter over greens — the fifteen-minute dinner for the nights you left a meeting at 6:45.
Nutrition systems
for people who think for a living.
Practical, evidence-informed food systems for developers, founders, writers, and anyone whose job is mostly sitting and thinking hard. No extremes, no trend-chasing — meals built to survive a real week.
Signature Recipes
A curated set of the recipes I actually cook on repeat — high-protein, fast, and built to reheat well.
Learn somethingEvergreen Guides
The mechanisms behind the advice, in plain language — focus, blood sugar, grocery systems, fundamentals.
Build a systemMeal Systems
Named, repeatable structures for a whole week of eating — cook once, remix all week.
Signature recipes
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High-Protein
Freezer Turkey Chilli, Doubled on Purpose
A double batch of turkey chilli that freezes flat — thaws in a sink of water in twenty minutes on the nights you didn't plan ahead.
Focus Fuel
The Eggs-and-Greens Focus Bowl
Soft-scrambled eggs, wilted greens, and a slice of good sourdough — built around blood sugar stability, not a fry-up.
Batch-Friendly
The Sunday Two-Protein Batch
Roast chicken thighs and a tray of spiced beef mince on the same Sunday afternoon — the base for four different dinners by Wednesday.
Latest guides
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Focus & Food
The Breakfast Bowl I Make on Autopilot
Why one repeatable, boring-on-purpose breakfast beats a rotating menu — and the exact bowl I default to most weekday mornings.
Meal Systems
A Meal-Systems Approach to Weeknight Dinners
Why 'what's for dinner' should be a solved problem by Sunday night, not a daily question — and how to actually build that system.
Fundamentals
Do You Really Need 25g of Protein Per Meal?
Where the '25g per meal' rule of thumb actually comes from, what it's useful for, and where it stops being a hard rule and starts being a habit.
How I think about food
Systems over willpower
Food advice here is infrastructure — build it once, reuse it — not motivation.
Built for the desk-bound
Blood sugar stability and low decision fatigue matter more than bodybuilding macros.
Evidence-informed, not evidence-obsessed
Real mechanisms, plain language, no myth-busting theatre.
Evergreen over trend-chasing
Written to still be true in three years. No fad diets, no supplement of the month.
Sydney-grounded, globally usable
Local colour where it fits, substitutions everywhere it matters.
Frequently asked questions
Who is Alex Busse?
Alex Busse is a Sydney-based nutritionist with 20 years of experience helping professionals build practical, science-backed eating systems. He focuses on people who work with their brains — developers, founders, writers, and anyone whose job is mostly sitting and thinking — and writes evergreen guides and signature recipes rather than trend-chasing content.
Where should I start?
If you want something to cook tonight, start with the signature recipes. If you want the thinking behind the recipes, start with the guides — particularly 'How to Read a Nutrition Label Without Losing an Hour,' the pinned fundamentals piece. If you want to restructure how you eat across a whole week, start with Meal Systems.