Wailwan woman Jenny Khan owns The Unexpected Guest, a Minto business that produces organic breakfast cereals and energy bars with indigenous botanicals. She shares her story with Flame Tree Coop volunteer Denise Farrier

I grew up in Central Western NSW spending many years on the Wambool river, as this was our source of food and life. Our business logo is a kangaroo paw and the dots represent the Wambool, also known as the Macquarie River, which is a Wiradjuri word. Our company name is Wambool Dreaming Pty Ltd t/a The Unexpected Guest.

We started our business in 2016 and the breakfast products we make are Australian Certified Organic (ACO) Freestyle Granuesli (granola) – honey flavour, and Gluten Freestyle Muesli – Maple Syrup flavour.

Our focus recently has been to create new products infused with Australian Indigenous Botanicals. The prebiotic Health Snack Bar range is available in three varieties of Lemon Myrtle, Wattle Seed and the Oats & Nuts Bars. In the last eight months we have added a new range with a Meal Replacement Bar – Kakadu Plum.

Our main goal is to produce food that is not only tasty and refined-sugar-free but naturally good, adding to our wellbeing and not our health problems.

We always strive to purchase our ingredients from Australian food growers and businesses. Being conscious of where our food comes from is vitally important for the future of the environment and therefore human life.

Our values have always been to welcome those who have taken time out of their day to visit us, therefore, ‘making room at your table for the unexpected guest’.

Jenny’s products are available at The Flame Tree Food Co-op, 355 Lawrence Hargrave Drive, Thirroul. Visit flametree.coop and theunexpectedguest.com (try the Smoothie Fan recipe!)