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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Panel

Allison McMillan
Mandy Moore
KWu

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