About this Episode
Parent Driven Development
Episode 043: Recipe Swap
01:15 Welcome!
02:04 Feeding kids is a full time job
- What are your meal time rules?
- Home delivery meal service
- Personal chef for the kids?? No…
- Meal time is meal time, and if the kids don’t eat, tough nuggets.
08:59 Dinner table time
- Phone vs no phone?
- Are you a fast eater or slow eater?
- Time to share conversations with the family
- Limiting or monitoring the amount of food for kids, do you do this? Sometimes the doctors have given us parents too much to mull over...
13:12 Food as restriction or reward?
- Dessert time - it’s a thing that is to be enjoyed
- Keto desserts… YUM Quest cookie obsessed
- Keto cake
- Chocolate chip cookies
19:25 Cook at home vs. ordering out
- Meal prepping during the weekend to prepare for the week. This makes it quicker and easier. Less work too ;)
- No meat preschools - managing meals around kids school food programs.
- Therapeutic time in the kitchen
- Leftovers are best and easiest!
- Ever hear of module dinner architecture? KWu and her family utilize this magic.
- Meal deliveries for the win - Home Chef, Green Chef, Nurture Life
- Keto 101: Simply Keto: A Practical Approach to Health & Weight Loss, with 100+ Easy Low-Carb Recipes
- Kosher household
27:05 Household hacks
- Breakfast for dinner on Friday nights. What’s your favorite??
- Kids Eat in Color - tips on how to present food to your kids
- Secrets of Feeding a Healthy Family: How to Eat, How to Raise Good Eaters, How to Cook, by Ellyn Satter
- Smitten Kitchen
- Maximizing on slow cookers // insta pots - our favorites :)
- Cook’s Illustrated - for stews, slow cookers, and more!
- Mirepoix
- Parenting trade off - you can choose cooking or the kids
40:18 Making the kitchen as your sanctuary
- Football season - perfectly steamed shrimp and cheese boards for the win
- Dinner time is a celebration!
- Bringing coding into meal prepping ;)
- How to manage the recipe system. Hands-free Vertical Recipe Flipper OR Classic Juvale Wood Recipe Organization Box
45:40 Genius / Fail moments
- Mandy has an awesome win when she hears her daughter is totally comfortable with her, including asking her sex-ed questions. You too for older girls #genius
- Allison’s son chose to wear a bowtie for picture day and it turned out way better than expected! #genius
- KWu bakes it up with her toddler that he helped make! #genius and delicious muffins for the win.
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