Real advice from real nutrition experts
No Money No Time® is about healthy eating for the real world – yours.
No expensive, complicated recipes. No crazy, fad diets. No need for designer label kitchen knives.
Between work, study, family, and everything else, cooking can feel like a chore. Add in the cost of groceries and confusing diet advice, and it can quickly become overwhelming.
No Money No Time was created to remove those barriers.
Our goal is simple: make healthy eating affordable, achievable, and easy to stick to.
What we do
We give you tools and resources to help you make better food choices every day:
- A quick Healthy Eating Quiz with personalised feedback
- Fast, low-cost recipes you can filter by time, budget, and equipment
- Simple nutrition tips, myths, and hacks
- Free meal plans, guides, and podcasts
Everything is designed to be practical, not perfect.
No Money No Time® is here to help you cut through all the noise and debunk diet myths, while bringing you the recipes, tools, advice and credible nutrition information that makes healthy eating easy.
The advice, recipes and tools will be tailored specifically to the areas of your eating habits where you need the most help. How, you ask?
Your starting point is the Healthy Eating Quiz, which is developed by Professor Collins and the nutrition and dietetics research team at the University of Newcastle and featured on ABC, Triple J, The independent, Vitamania and more.
The Healthy Eating Quiz (HEQ) is endorsed by the Dietitians Association of Australia and first launched in 2012. Since then over 400,000 people from all over the world have completed it. It takes less than 10 minutes to do the HEQ. You then get instant personalised feedback and a report on your diet quality, with recipe suggestions and ideas to boost your HEQ score based on the information you give us.
But wait there’s more… As well as being able to save your HEQ report, your results will be stored in your personalised dashboard and we will recommended personalised goals to help you to improve specific areas of your diet. You can come back and visit us anytime to see how your HEQ score changes over time. Improvement in your HEQ score can help you to live healthier lives and reduce the risk of diet related disease later in life.
Program Partner
The Heart Foundation is proud to be supporting the University of Newcastle’s online nutrition platforms sharing in our commitment to delivering innovative preventative health programs that make positive and lasting improvements on the physical, mental and social wellbeing of young Aussies.
Why is healthy eating important?
Your HEQ score and personalised feedback report is based on the frequency and variety of healthy core foods you usually eat. This is important because no single food contains all the nutrients we need to stay healthy. Some foods are higher in nutrients than others and people who have a lot of variety in the foods they eat are more likely to be healthy and to stay healthy. In other words, if you can eat a large variety of vegetables as opposed to only 2-3 types of vegetables, the benefits are much greater. This type of diet also helps you to feel better, think better and perform better during your usual daily activities.
The Team
No Money No Time® has been developed by a multi-disciplinary team of Nutrition, Dietetic, IT and Computing researchers at the University of Newcastle and funded by nib Foundation’s Multi-Year Partnerships program*.
Laureate Professor Clare Collins is a Professor of Nutrition and Dietetics at the University of Newcastle and leads the Nutrition and Metabolic Health Research Program at the Hunter Medical Research Institute.
She is internationally recognised for her research on how improving diet quality and eating patterns can support better health and wellbeing. Her work focuses on translating nutrition science into practical solutions that people can use in everyday life.
Clare is also a well-known and trusted voice in nutrition, regularly appearing across TV, radio, and online media. She has contributed to thousands of media interviews and is a regular guest with Dr Karl on ABC programs including Triple J Science Hour and Shirtloads of Science. Clare now hosts her own successful Podcast, Nutrition Science Bites.
She is a leading author in public nutrition, with widely read articles on The Conversation reaching millions of readers, and has written books to help people make healthier, more informed food choices.
At No Money No Time, Clare leads the development of evidence-based tools and resources that make healthy eating simple, affordable, and achievable for everyone.
Professor Tracy Burrows is a Professor of Nutrition and Dietetics at the University of Newcastle, She is highly passionate about all things food, food behaviours, and communicating high quality, evidence-based information about diet and nutrition.
Tracy is a leading international researcher has published over 300 research papers and is involved in all aspects of teaching; from undergraduate through to postgraduate, where she supervises a variety of students. Tracy is a recognised mentors of early and mid-career researchers.
Tracy has a focus on dietary assessment where she employs novel biomarkers as objective measures of diet, childhood obesity and translation community to clinical services. She is well experienced in nutrition and mental health including depression, anxiety, disordered eating and those with addictive overeating. More recently she has developed translation activities for cancer survivors.
Dr Marc T. P. Adam is an Associate Professor in Computing and Information Technology at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He is internationally recognised for his research in human-computer interaction.
His work focuses on designing digital tools that are practical, easy to use, and grounded in real-life needs. A key part of his research is working with end-users to co-design technology solutions that help people make better decisions in everyday situations.
At No Money No Time, Marc contributes his expertise in designing user-friendly digital experiences, ensuring the platform is engaging, accessible, and supports people to make healthier choices in a simple and effective way.
Ilyse Jones is the Business Development Manager for Nutrition and Dietetic Research at the University of Newcastle. She brings over 20 years of experience in tertiary education administration and holds a Master of Business Administration, awarded in 2015.
Ilyse works as the project manager for key nutrition initiatives, where she oversees stakeholder engagement, reporting, continuous improvement, and the development of grant opportunities. She plays a central role in building partnerships across research, industry, and community sectors to expand the impact of evidence-based nutrition programs.
She also features on the Nutrition Science Bites podcast, where she represents the consumer perspective, asking practical, real-world questions to help translate complex nutrition science into accessible and actionable advice.
Dr Rebecca Collins is a Lecturer in Nutrition and Dietetics at the University of Newcastle. She is a dietitian and researcher focused on helping people build healthier eating habits in ways that are practical and sustainable.
Her research explores how behaviour, personality, and life circumstances influence the way people eat, including emerging work in adult ADHD and nutrition. She is particularly interested in developing personalised, supportive approaches that help people make lasting changes to their diet.
Rebecca leads the research program for No Money No Time, overseeing the design and evaluation of digital nutrition tools and challenges. Her work helps ensure the platform delivers real-world impact—supporting people to improve their diet quality while also saving time and money.
She also leads the University’s student-led telehealth nutrition clinic, expanding access to practical nutrition support for communities across Australia.
Roberta Asher completed a Bachelor of Nutrition and Dietetics in 2010 after a 10-year career as a chef. Roberta is an experienced clinical dietitian and is currently completing her PhD at the University of Newcastle, researching cooking and nutrition education for young adults with intellectual disability.
Georgia Rea APD is an Accredited Practising Dietitian who works in private practice while also contributing to No Money No Time as a content creator and recipe developer.
Georgia specialises in translating nutrition science into simple, practical advice that people can use in everyday life. At No Money No Time, Georgia develops affordable, easy-to-follow recipes and creates engaging content to help people eat well, even with limited time or budget.
Georgia also supports the research team, contributing to the development of evidence-based resources that make healthy eating more accessible and achievable for everyone.
Brydie McCosker is an Accredited Practising Dietitian who creates social media content for No Money No Time.
She specialises in translating nutrition advice into short, engaging, and easy-to-understand content that fits into people’s busy lives. Through reels and social posts, Brydie helps break down complex nutrition messages into simple, practical tips that people can use every day.
At No Money No Time, she plays a key role in connecting with audiences online—making healthy eating feel achievable, relatable, and relevant, even when time and budget are limited.
Volunteers
No Money No Time is supported by a team of volunteers who help us by sharing their healthy recipes and food ideas, developing social media posts and preparing content for the NMNT website. Most of our volunteers are students undertaking a degree in Nutrition and Dietetics, and have firsthand experience trying to balance study and/or work commitments, family needs, a social life and staying healthy. We would like to acknowledge and thank all the contributions made by our volunteers.
You can find a list of the volunteers that have contributed to NMNT content here.
Privacy
* Your privacy is very important to us. We will never share personal data provided by you to nib, nib foundation or any other company, organisation or individual without your permission. You can read our full privacy policy here.
Get in touch
For all enquiries, email us at nmnt@newcastle.edu.au.
