Ms Hall is now spreading the love.

A secondary school teacher by trade, Ms Hall has loved cooking for family and friends since she was a young girl. Her move into more natural, unprocessed products was part of a journey to try helping her son, who has autism.

Ms Hall’s son has a regressive form of autism and had all-but stopped verbally communicating by age three.

She believes changing his diet played a key role in helping him take huge leaps forward, with fewer sensory issues and fewer meltdowns. Changes are quickly obvious in deviations from his natural food plan.

Personally, Ms Hall eats all-natural by necessity, having lost one-third of her bowel and developing gluten and lactose intolerances and Irritable Bowel Syndrome.

While making clear she was no nutrition expert, Ms Hall’s journey led her to creating a range of 10 spreads drawing on sweet and savoury flavours she craved most. Food has now become her business.

“Food must feed the soul as much as the body for it to be truly healthy,” Ms Hall said. “It’s not about depriving certain foods. My aim in creating these spreads was that it need to already be well-loved, just with a healthier twist.”

The Gut Food Stylist features seven fruit flavours, plus chocolate, caramel and vanilla. Ms Hall intends for each to be versatile in use and able to pair with other flavours in parfaits or with fruits and savoury bases.

Dynamite uses a deactivated yeast, which Ms Hall said was generally easier to digest, and has B vitamins to offer an energy boost. 

Spreads are sweetened with pure maple sugar and coloured with bio-curcumin, liquid chlorophyll and beetroot juice.

Launched less than two months ago, Ms Hall’s product is already making its way into specialty Melbourne stores. She also has strong support from Ballarat food stores and cafes and also in local producers for sourcing her ingredients.

“Parents are becoming more savvy about foods and additives that can affect behaviour,” Ms Hall said.

“I just to share what helps me.”