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Tina Marinaccio MS RD CPT Based in Morristown New Jersey, and also serving Manhattan, and boroughs of NYC. Telehealth services are available

Improving quality of life through long term lifestyle changes; consultant dietitian, detox diets, weight loss, integrative nutrition therapy, cooking instruction and demos, motivational wellness speaker My name is Tina Marinaccio, and I am a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist and Foodie Gourmand, providing Corporate Wellness Solutions, Private and Group Cooking Instruction, Cooking Demos and Classes, and Nutrition Counseling in Integrative and Functional Medicine Nutrition Therapy.

10/12/2026

Literally 30 minutes to the table!

This is a very indulgent meal. But treat yourself from time to time, whether a date night, V-Day, or just for you.

This can be a main, but we used this as a first course for a surf and turf that included a bone in dry aged NY Strip steak and a simple escarole salad

Cooking with high-quality ingredients is a wonderful way to elevate your your dinner table and enjoy a decadent meal. This dish pairs the natural sweetness of lobster meat, fresh heirloom tomatoes, and shallots with a deeply aromatic saffron cream sauce with a lemon zest finish. Real ingredients, incredible depth of flavor.

The lobster meat from Wild Fork 🛒 is so convenient and a huge time and money saving tool compared to cooking from fresh and deshelling

Here are the ingredients:
Lobster meat
Shallots
Dry white w**e
Saffron
Butter
Fish stock
Heavy cream
Extra virgin olive oil
Tomatoes
Lemon zest
Pasta of course!


Enjoy the recipe here and deets on the surf and turf dinner by copying and pasting.
Don’t forget to save and share so you will have this later!

https://tinamarinaccio.com/lobster-pasta-tomato-saffron-cream-sauce/

Tell me in the comments: What’s your absolute favorite quick pasta dish? 👇

09/29/2026

POV: Having grown up chubby in a cuisine centered Italian family, and discovering through genes testing that I am predisposed to obesity, I know how important it is to find balance bringing health goals along on vacation and having fun!

I work with many clients that get derailed from health goals while traveling, making it hard to get back on track when they return, leading to pesky weight gain, so we pregame in how to maintain weight

⭐️Planning ahead is key to enjoying R&R while bringing your health habits

7 Tips From a Registered Dietitian That Lost Weight and Kept it Off:
1. 🧺 If possible: Opt for kitchen & laundry–AirBnB/condo w/a kitchen & grill to cook some meals, & wash workout clothes. This was my 1st trip in years w all hotels/no cooking but had laundry!
2. 🥬 Prioritize Protein + Produce–breakfast bagels and pastries don’t keep you full long like protein, which takes 3 hours to digest, and upping your fiber with veggies
3. 🍎 Bring/Buy Healthy Snacks for airport, car, and lodging–Aim for portable + convenient eg trail mix-helps bridge hunger between meals so the appropriate amount of food is ordered when dining out
4. 🏬 Search Online Food Markets–Near your lodging, & make a shopping list before you go in your phone notes app for meals, snacks, & non-calorie beverages like coffee & sparkling water
5. 🥗 Plan non-food related activities e.g. shows, museums, walking the town
6. 💪 Search Online Gyms & Outdoor Movement Opportunities-Chain gyms may have reciprocity; check hotel site for amenities. Search hikes/walking trails.
7. 🧠 Mindset is Key!–Balancing cooking (if available), dining out, moving your body is a PRIVILEGE, not a chore. Bring lifestyle habits along with you to enhance your vacation experience, leaving you feeling rested, relaxed, & restored

The Venetian Las Vegas
Sphere
BOA Las Vegas
Mercato Della Pescheria

09/24/2026

POV: Your NJ Registered Dietitian makes a craft tequila martini… and suddenly it’s a wellness beverage. 😂🍸

Fresh-squeezed orange + lime = vitamin C + antioxidants 🍊🍋
Lime peel = zest with benefits
Grated jalapeño = a little capsaicin kick 🌶️
Flaked sea salt = electrolytes… obviously 😉🧂
Tequila = well… let’s not get carried away. 😂

Is this a salad? Absolutely not.
Is it delicious? 100%.
Is balance part of a healthy lifestyle? I’ll drink to that. 🍸

Cheers to nutrition without taking ourselves—or our martinis—too seriously.

Cheers to Tequila Herradura

09/23/2026

When your Jersey garden tomatoes are this juicy, sweet & ridiculously good… you do NOT let them sit on the counter looking pretty. 🍅😂

As an Italian NJ Registered Dietitian, I look forward every year to turning my homegrown heirloom tomatoes into a saucy bruschetta situation over pasta, and today I’m piling on grilled chicken and finishing it with crumbled Greek feta for a super healthy yet totally satisfying meal

Basically: Italian summer heirlooms and Mediterranean protein get along VERY well.

🍅 Sweet garden heirlooms
🌿 Fresh herbs
🔥 Grilled chicken
🧀 Crumbled Greek feta
❤️ A whole lotta Jersey garden pride

And yes… you can absolutely eat this straight out of the bowl with some crusty bageutte. I’m a dietitian, not a cop. 😂

👉 Copy + paste the link below for the full recipe:
https://tinamarinaccio.com/fresh-bruschetta-pasta/

09/16/2026

🏑 DON’T JUST TRAIN HARD. FUEL SMART.

You can’t expect your body to perform at its best if you’re running on empty.

As a New Jersey Registered Dietitian specializing in sports nutrition, I teach athletes how to use nutrition as part of their training—not as an afterthought.

I had the privilege of delivering an in person interactive session to the talented Morristown High School Field Hockey Team, plus the coaches at the highschool

we covered how the new food guide pyramid relates to athletes, many many examples of pre-competition meals, including what other famous athletes eat, fueling during an event, hydration, recovery, female triad syndrome. It’s so important that our ladies have a good relationship with food and that their nutrient intake, supports health and strong bones. 🦴 💪

Just a few highlights from a couple of slides!

⚡ PRE-EVENT: Fuel your muscles so you can start strong and finish stronger.
💧 HYDRATION: Replace what you lose and keep your body performing when the pressure is on.
🔋 DURING: Know when and what to fuel to help maintain energy and performance.
💪 RECOVERY: Give your body the protein, carbohydrates, fluids, and nutrients it needs to repair, rebuild, and get ready for the next session.

Nutrition isn’t just about what you eat. It can be the difference between fading late in the game, having the energy to finish, and preventing injuries.

Train hard. Fuel harder. Stay in the game. 🏆

DM me to discuss how I can help your team with a live webinar or in person presentation! Totally customizable!

09/06/2026

POV: The sides were definitely cooler than me!

💫 Looking for some easy sides to be best supporting actor to your Star of the Show Labor Day BBQ meats?

💜 Easy Healthy Recipe Ideas comin’ atcha!

🥚 Everyone loves deviled eggs! For this Mexican variety – swap ½ mayo for a dollop of sour cream, mix salt, chopped chives, and jalapeno pepper. Ground cumin garnish

🍅 It’s heirloom tomato season in NJ, so keep it simple and let the tomatoes be the star. Platter up thick sliced salted tomatoes with pea shoots (or any microgreen you can find), crumbled feta, fresh ground peppercorns, and EVOO

🌶️ Classic coleslaw with a no sugar added twist! Naturally sweet from ACV – 6 cups mixed thin sliced green and red cabbage, and grated carrot, ¼ cup good mayo, ½c ACV, 1 tsp celery seed, ½ tsp fine sea salt

🌿 Pesto Pasta! I used homemade garlic scape pistachio pesto, but you can use store bought
https://tinamarinaccio.com/easy-garlic-scape-pistachio-pesto/

🌽 Black bean, grilled corn, red bell pepper, arugula salad – drain and rinse canned beans, toss with grilled corn, diced shallot, red bell pepper, dress with salt, balsamic, EVOO, serve over arugula

🌽 Jalapeño cornbread -take you fave cornbread recipe and swap milk for buttermilk, and a fresh thinly sliced jalapeno, and a cup of fresh grilled corn before baking. I like medium grit cornmeal and 00 white flour blend

🥕 Harissa Butter Honey Sage Rainbow Carrot Fries – The name says it all! Roast on sheet pans with sea salt until caramelized

Happy Healthy Labor Day Weekend to All!

08/26/2026

Broccoli stalks called ☎️ — they’re tired of being thrown out while the florets get all the Instagram fame 🥦💅

This Jersey Girl Registered Dietitian doesn’t do food waste.

Blended those “trash” stalks into a creamy, sulforaphane-packed anti-inflammatory soup that’s basically a hug 🤗 to your immune system — and yes, it’s fancy enough for shooters to impress guests at your next gathering while secretly using up pantry scraps 🍲✨

Jersey girl math: stalks + pantry scraps = zero waste, maximum flavor, and your immune cells doing a little happy dance 🧬

Check out the recipe below because broccoli stalks deserves better PR 🥦👏

Broccoli stalks are an excellent source of the anti-cancer nutrient sulforaphane, same as the florets
Sulforaphane stimulates your body’s detox systems - And I’m always including phytonutrients to keep my amazing body detox systems, including liver, kidneys, lymph, GI tract, and sweat glands primed and ready to face daily toxin exposure

💡 Registered Dietitian Tip: Cutting the broccoli stalks and letting them rest 30 minutes before sauteeing will help maximize the sulforaphane

✅ Toasting the flour and butter gives the soup a richness, creaminess, and a nutty flavor

Creamy Broccoli Soup
Makes about 4 cups

1 tbsp good olive or avocado oil
2 cups broccoli stalks, peeled and sliced
Optional: Other greens you have in the frig – e.g. Italian parsley leaves, leeks, sliced celery
1 generous pat grass fed butter
1 tbsp organic whole wheat flour
2 cups stock – veggie, chicken, or beef, or any stock of choice
S&P to taste


-Sauté broccoli stalks and optional veggies in oil until soft
-Stir in butter pat and whole wheat flour
-Let flour roast in butter until it begins to toast and get brown, stirring frequently, about 5 minutes
-Add stock, simmer to thicken, about 2 minutes, and puree to desired consistency with a hand blender
-S&P as desired

-Serve in a bowl or as soup shooters
-Optional – Garnish e.g. Nduja, scallions, sour cream, yogurt, or crème fraiche
⭐️ Soup Shooters are a fun yet elegant and healthy party appetizer!


08/25/2026

POV: Meal prepping doesn’t have to be complicated when you have a stocked pantry. 🥘 🤌
This spicy coconut 🥥 curried braised beef goes into the oven (or Instant Pot) in 15 minutes tops.

I always keep canned tomatoes 🥫 and coconut milk in the pantry, and green and red curry pastes in the frig.

Curry pastes are a delicious all-in-one spice chock full of anti-inflammatory nutrients – So no measuring out a bunch of spices, which can take time and be expensive. 🍛

Anything in the onion/garlic/shallot 🧅 family I consider a “pantry” staple because they are so long lasting on the countertop.

Got fresh basil 🌿 right outside my door on the deck!

When meats go on sale, I stock up, portion, off and freeze

For this dish, I pulled chuck steak from my freezer – A cheaper cut, but definitely needs some TLC by way of time, but once you sear it – it cooks all on its’ own with no babysitting

So, all in all, this is a pantry meal, as freezer, frig, long lasting counter top veggies are all things we can stock up on when they go on sale to pull together quick meals on a budget when time is short.

Spicy Coconut Curry Beef
1.5 pounds of chuck steak*
1 shallot, diced
Handful fresh basil
28oz can tomatoes
15oz can coconut milk (I used light because the beef is a fatty cut)
2 tbsp red curry paste
Optional garnish – sliced green onion
-Preheat oven to 250 degrees F (or higher if you have a slow oven)
-Brown chuck steak in a dutch oven medium high, all sides, and remove
-Sauté shallot and basil in dutch oven
-Add tomatoes, coconut milk, and red curry paste to dutch oven
-Be sure to incorporate the red curry paste
-Cover Dutch oven and bake 4 hours, or until meat is falling apart
-Serve as a stew or over rice, like a Thai Jasmine Rice and/or veggies
-If using Instant Pot, instead of oven, pressure cook one hour, let pressure release on its’ own

*I also added 2 short ribs today that I had in the freezer – Just an option – The bones add flavor

08/13/2026

Rome, and Italy for the matter, has a way of ruining pasta for me anywhere else but there or my own kitchen.

I had the best pasta ever on a recent Rome trip – A creamy briny sea urchin sauce on al dente bucatini, so had to recreate it at home!

Dietitian Hat On: Sea urchin is a significant source of iodine, omega 3’s, and B12. Cooking pasta al dente as in this bucatini dish helps slow down the release of sugar into the bloodstream, so not only does al dente create a beautiful texture, it puts the breaks on blood sugar, leaving you with balanced energy and insulin levels

Dietitian Hat Off: The texture of the al dente bite with the pure briny creamy sauce that clings to the bucatini is a perfect combo!

Sea Urchin Bucatini Ingredients:
About 8oz/250g fresh sea urchin
1/4c EVOO
1 tbsp grass fed butter
2 cloves chopped garlic
1 cup chopped Italian parsley leaves
1 cup dry white w**e
1-2 tbsp heavy cream
10oz bucatini cooked al dente, 1 cup pasta water reserved
Salt and Pepper to taste
Chives garnish

Procedure in reel!

08/10/2026

🍅 Grew the tomatoes. Sliced the tomatoes. Toasted the baguette, Spread swoops of real mayo, Fresh garden basil, S&P topper– And it’s Garden to Beach!

🏖️ As a New Jersey based Registered Dietitian Nutritionist, nothing screams summer like local tomato sandwiches for the beach!

🥬 No lettuce - 🧀 No cheese, please!

🍅 These organic home-grown heirloom tomatoes lived their best life in my backyard just 12 hours ago

🍕 Hands down beats the soggy $15 boardwalk slice with the paper plate blowing in the wind!

🥖 Try this sandwich and don’t forget the napkins!

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