About Sarah
Sarah Schlichter is the founder of Bucket List Tummy and the family-friendly Registered Dietitian (RD). She lives in Virginia with her husband, three kids and an energetic golden doodle.
Sarah emphasizes the importance of family meals in all of her easy, family-friendly recipes. Her mission is to help you reduce the stress you feel during meal times.
Read more about Bucket List Tummy here.
Podcast Host
Sarah hosts the Managing Mealtime Madness podcast, a podcast designed for busy moms and caretakers trying to feed their kids and family. She also co-hosts the Nail Your Nutrition podcast for athletes.
Sarah’s tips and recipes emphasize the nutritional and family benefits of family meals.
Here’s a piece she wrote for Well + Good about family meals -and an example talking about family meals on the news, too!
- Do you have a picky eater? Check out the tips.
- Do you want your kids to become intuitive eaters? Here’s how to start!
- Do you want to expose kids to more veggies? Let’s do it! Here are some great vegetable recipes for toddlers.
- Do you need help with baby led weaning and starting solids? Grab Sarah’s baby led weaning guide!
Education Credentials
- Bachelor of Science (BS), Sport Management, The University of Massachusetts (UMass)
- Master of Public Health (MPH), University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Gillings School of Global Public Health
- Master’s Thesis: “Exercise, Oxidative Stress and Vitamin C Supplementation: Research and Recommendations”
- Sat for and passed the Registered Dietitian (RD) Exam, 2016
- Licensed Registered Dietitian Nutritionist, Commission on Dietetic Registration, 2016-2025
Sarah’s Blog Posts About Becoming A Dietitian
- How to get a Coordinated Internship
- How I Became a Registered Dietitian after already having a degree
- How I passed the RD Exam
National Recognition and Media Work
Sarah wears many hats! You’ll find her as a Media Dietitian, Speaker, Podcaster, Freelance Writer, Recipe Developer, Have a Plant ambassador and more. She seeks to communicate the tenets of nutrition in an easy-to-understand way so you’re not flooded with extreme, black-and-white messages in the media.
Sarah has over 12 years of experience working in the media and as a nutrition consultant for top-notch foods and brands, such as North Carolina Sweetpotatoes, Egglands Best, Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute, adidas, National Cattleman’s Beef Association, Northwest Pears and more (see the Work with Me page). Sarah has attended exclusive international nutrition and food conferences, and has spoken and demo’ed recipes at national nutrition and journalism conferences.
Sarah regularly writes for national publications, such as Well and Good, Women’s Running, Parents.com, and Runner’s World, and has been mentioned in others such as Eating Well, Eat This, Not That, Cooking Light, Food Network, Womens Health and more.
Sarah also does regular media segments on local and national news stations.
As a former college athlete and an avid runner, Sarah has firsthand knowledge and experience about how nutrition plays a role in performance and overall well-being.
For the active individuals, Sarah co-hosts the Nail Your Nutrition podcast, a podcast about endurance fueling from a non-diet perspective, and writes another blog, Nutrition for Running.
For more nutrition and running information, grab this freebie about nutrition for runners!
Nutrition Beliefs and Values
Sarah seeks to help families take away the stress that comes with nutrition. Starting with baby led weaning recipes, to feeding picky toddlers, she walks you through it all.
From debunking nutrition myths to sharing easy tips for meals and recipes, she keeps it real in her kitchen. With three young kids, she lives what she preaches – make meals fun and enjoyable.
And don’t stress if kids don’t always eat what you want them to! The most important thing is sitting down together as a family.
Sarah works with clients to help balance the stress of motherhood and meal prep, help improve your relationship with food through an intuitive eating perspective, and help women stay fueled for their sport by helping you understand how much to eat.
She lives in northern Virginia, though I see clients locally and virtually all over the country.
For those who can’t or prefer not to work 1-1 with a professional, Sarah created an Ebook about making peace with food, hunger and fullness.
5 Fun Things About Sarah
- Sarah was a college athlete. She grew up playing baseball on the boys’ high school team, and switched to softball for college.
- Sarah is a self-taught cook. Growing up, she could make a mean grilled cheese, but really got into cooking before graduate school. That catapulted after learning more about food science and getting her Master’s degree.
- Sarah has run several full and half marathons. Fun fact – she qualified for the Boston Marathon in 2018 but couldn’t run it because her first daughter was born weeks before!
- Sarah’s absolute favorite dessert is ice cream cake! It was something I’d look forward to on each birthday – and now we do it for my kids’ birthdays.
- Sarah loves being outside and cooking with her kids. Yes, the kitchen gets messy but memories are made! Sarah can say, from ample experience, that kids are more likely to try anything they play a role in making.
The majority of my recipes can be made in under an hour, and most can be made in under 30 minutes because we are all busy. As a busy mom of 3 and an entrepreneur, I want my kitchen time to be efficient!