Cooking for one can be difficult to navigate for many reasons. It's easy to get into the mindset that it's not worth it to cook for one. All the diet rules swimming around in your brain can make cooking more difficult than it needs to be. It's also easy to struggle with taking on the entire task of planning, shopping, preparing, eating and cleaning up alone. Although there are significant struggles and barriers to cooking for one, it's possible! On the podcast, I interviewed

Leslie Schilling, MA, RDN came on the podcast to talk about her book Born to Eat. We talk about Leslie's guiding philosophy that each of us is truly born to eat. We talk about her unique approach to feeding infants that ultimately helps families find a pattern and rythmn with food and eating that promotes body positivity and food peace from the beginning. In this podcast, we talk about Baby-Led Weaning and self-feeding. We talk about fears and concerns parents have when intro

A good friend of mine called me the other day saying: "OK, don't make fun of me, but is there a better way to grate cheese than grating my fingers along with it on this stupid cheese grater?!" I told her not to worry because there is indeed a kitchen tool for that. One, in fact, that my family and I use for all kinds of things. I sent her the Amazon link and it was delivered to her the next day. She replied to my email thanking me for the suggestion and then suggested I shoul

The term "healthy" in the nutrition world has, in many cases, come to be a euphemism for morality with food. You're "good" if you eat vegetables and you're "bad" if you eat cake. The word "healthy" is also used as a way to describe and categorize bodies. You're body is considered healthy if it looks a certain way and unhealthy if it doesn't fit neatly into certain categories. The word healthy has been oversimplified and misused by media and so-called health gurus, and the wor

Healthy eating can feel overwhelming in so many ways. Wholesome, nutritious eating does require a good amount of planning, prepping and cleaning up. It also can feel daunting to eat healthfully because healthy eating has the reputation of being expensive. Turns out, there are strategies for making healthy more affordable—it truly doesn’t need to break the bank. Here are some tried and true methods for making nutritious eating work for you, no matter your budget. Buy in-season