Meniere's Disease Cookbook
A Meniere's project full of deliciousness, with low salt, raising money to find a cure for Meniere’s Disease ©2025
Lilly Pilly Publishing, in partnership with Sally Edsall, Anne Elias, Wayne Oldman (chef), Kim & Paul Dean (Low Sodium Foods), Phillip Stephanou, and Julieann Wallace, is proud to invite you to submit low sodium recipes for a most inspiring, and satisfyingly revengeful Meniere’s cookbook, yet to be titled.
Meniere’s Disease Low Sodium Recipes.
We're looking for low-salt breakfasts, lunches, dinners, desserts, snacks, celebration foods and Christmas etc in one book.
Your Recipe
Submissions open July 21st and will close on September 21st.
Please let us know where your recipe sits:
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Breakfast
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Lunch
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Dinner
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Dessert
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Snacks
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BBQ
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Picnic
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Celebration foods – birthdays parties footy etc
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Or Christmas
The collection of recipes for Meniere’s Disease will be collated, grouped, edited, and beautifully bound as a hard cover print book, soft cover print book, and eBook.
We’re also looking for photography of your dish. If you don't have a photograph, that's okay too.
Profits will be donated to Meniere’s Australia Research to help find a cure – multiple researcher for the donations will be chosen by the publishing team.
Guidelines - Copyright
Copyright awareness of recipes from other cooks/chefs/foodies/food bloggers etc must be followed. That means a recipe cannot be written exactly as they appear in other books in print, or digitally. It is not an infringement of copyright to watch someone prepare a dish and write down the ingredients and method in your own words.
Therefore, if you watched someone preparing a dish they had created and then wrote down in your own words the ingredients and method, you would not have infringed copyright even if they had not granted permission.
Your recipe? What you can do. Our understanding.
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Write down your recipe in your own words, the ingredients and method, and you will not have infringed copyright.
Recipe guidelines:
Submit your recipes from July 21st to August 31st 2025.
Recipe Guidelines
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Title
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Ingredients
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Method
You may submit more than one recipe
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Let us know if you would like your name attached to your recipe, or not. You can just use your intials if you like.
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If you like, you can include if the recipe has a history, or why you have included it in the book, or is there a particular memory associated with it (optional).
Let’s make an impact to help those with Meniere's disease, and for research to find a cure.
Lilly Pilly Publishing
Send your recipe as a word document, or as a photo of your recipe, with this submit button.
Please send any photos of your food separately.
Meet the Team
Sally Edsall a keen home cook, with a collection of recipes dating back to the 1980s. She has also adapted some of her Sicilian mother-in-law's precious recipes. Sally developed Menières in 2016, and has been on a low-sodium cook since then. While she misses the concept of vegemite on toast, she doesn't miss the actual taste of salt! Sally lives on the South Coast of NSW near Batemans Bay where she and her partner retired in 2017. Since diagnosis, Sally and her husband have continued their love of travelling, and are familiar with supermarkets and fresh food markets in lots of places around the world. This not only means a low sodium diet is maintained, but it's a great way to mingle with locals away from the tourist beat.
Kim and Paul Dean are proud to own Low Sodium Foods Australia, taking over the business from the previous owners in 2021. Kim was diagnosed with Meniere’s Disease in 2010, and that is when she began her journey to adopting a low salt diet, to eating only foods containing no more sodium than 120mg per 100g. Their online store takes the struggle out of the search for low sodium foods, especially the pantry basics. They love nothing more than helping everyone on their low sodium journey and lifestyle.
Wayne Oldman bio coming soon.
Anne Elias was diagnosed with Meniere's in 2015. She had no idea what Meniere's disease was then, but soon learnt, and decided to start a support group that same year. The Sydney Meniere's Support has been a wonderful success. Anne is also the instigator of Zoom Webinars for Meniere's disease. For each of the Webinars, she invites professionals from the area of Meniere's disease to give positive sources of information and crucial connections.
Meniere's Support Group - Dizzy Anne - YouTube Events (sydneymenieressupportgroup.com)
Phillip Stephanou was diagnosed with Meniere’s disease after years of unpredictable symptoms and silent battles. With a deep passion for mindset, wellness, and resilience, he decided to turn his struggle into a source of strength for others. Phillip founded Steady Through the Storm — a platform dedicated to empowering people living with chronic illness through powerful storytelling, stoic mindset tools, and daily encouragement. His mission is simple but strong: to help others keep moving forward, even in the face of life’s loudest storms. Find Phillip on Instagram: @steadythroughthestorm
Julieann Wallace was diagnosed with Meniere's in 1995. In 2020 she received a cochlear implant. She is the author of a best selling novel with a Meniere's character, 'The Colour of Broken', twice longlisted to be made into a movie, #1 on Amazon numerous times, and the sequel, 'All the Colours Above', the Daily Meniere's Journal, 'It Will Change Your Life ~ a cochlear implant journey', 'Vanilla Swirl' and 'Blueberry Swirl' - picture books written for children who have a parent who is unwell. In 2023, Julieann put out a global callout for letters and art to Dear Meniere's which became a #1 best seller on Amazon for it's category. She donates 100% of profits from the sales of her books to Meniere's research to help find a cure, and has donated over $17,500 so far. Julieann is also a secondary teacher, artist, chocoholic, tea ninja, and tries not to scare her dog or cat away with her terrible cello playing.
