The Feed My Health Podcast
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The Feed My Health Podcast
How to Feed YOUR health AND your family!
Transform your family’s dining habits and elevate your culinary routine with actionable tips that promise to foster lifelong healthy eating habits. As I recount my personal journey through family nutrition and meal planning, discover how cooking from scratch and introducing diverse foods can turn your children into adventurous eaters. Say goodbye to the monotony of "kiddie" foods and welcome the excitement of grown-up meals into your home. This episode is packed with insights on how involving the little ones in cooking can make the kitchen a fun, educational playground rather than an intimidating chore.
Empowering your kids through cooking not only enhances their sense of responsibility but also contributes to a healthier grocery bill by prioritizing main meals over snacks. Teaching children to plan, shop, and cook fosters independence and ensures they understand the value of nutritious eating. By sharing my experiences, I aim to equip parents with strategies to balance family and personal needs—because investing time in teaching these skills can give you more personal time and peace of mind. Learn how to navigate the challenges of parental guilt while setting a positive example for your family.
Discover the magic of transforming picky eaters into independent ones by consistently offering a variety of foods. Practical techniques, such as using slow cookers and quick meal strategies, are shared to maintain a realistic but nutritious dining schedule that fits your busy life. Experience the joy of a harmonious kitchen where each family member plays a role in meal preparation. Join the movement to redefine everyday nutrition and cooking with simple, joyous methods, and connect with me on Instagram for more inspiration and advice tailored to your family’s needs.
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Welcome everybody. I hope you've all had a fabulous weekend. If you are listening to this on the day it comes out, which is a Monday, I hope you are ready and geared up for a new week. Whenever you're listening to this, I hope you're doing well, and today we're going to be talking about one of my favourite topics in the entire world, which is food. So strap up and maybe take some notes. I think this would be very, very helpful for anybody that has a family. And yeah, let's get into the episode.
Speaker 1:So one of the things that I experience a lot with clients and with people on social media when they reach out for help or reach out with concerns or anything like that is it's always usually down to nutrition, and nutrition can be a bit of a minefield anyway. There's so much advice out there, so much conflicting advice out there. I mean, if I followed everything that I'd ever heard on the internet, well, I actually did at one stage and look where that got me absolutely nowhere. But a lot of people will see advice on the internet and take it as gospel and take it as oh well, I know a lot about nutrition, but usually the sources are, you know, a little bit sketchy Anyway. So, with that aside, you know, with all of the noise out there about what we think we should be doing, what we should think we shouldn't be doing, we also have to consider the other people in our lives, our kids, our spouses, you know, whoever we live with potentially and that can have a massive impact into how we eat the foods that we buy, the ease of it all if you're trying to lose weight, how you find that in terms of navigating family meals, etc. Etc. So I really want to give you kind of my perspective on things and my two cents and, of course, this is just my opinion, so please do not think you know, oh, this is gospel, I need to be doing this, I need to overhaul anything. It's just what I have found to work well for me and potentially it could work well for you. So take what you want from this episode. Maybe there's one particular golden nugget you think, ah, I'm going to implement that. Maybe you implement everything. Whatever it is for you, go for it. I am a strong believer in learning, listening and kind of taking what you want from the information, testing it out, testing it again, trying it out and see what works for you. It is a process. It is a process.
Speaker 1:So let's talk a little bit about child raising first of all and again, this is not for me to kind of get on my high horse about saying that the way I do things is the right way. I believe that everybody has their own right way. What works for one family isn't or doesn't necessarily work for somebody else. So, again, like I I am just speaking from my own perspective and experience I am by far like not the best parent in the world. I don't know who is, but I would like to say that I'm very proud of the fact that my children are really really good eaters, and I mean whoever knows right, you'd never know why they are good eaters.
Speaker 1:But I was very of the opinion when my children were little and I've carried that opinion on up until now they're 12, 14, and 16, that what we expose them to and what is normal for them will be normal. Right, and that sounds like such an oxymoron statement to make, but we didn't ever really buy them kiddie orientated food. I remember the first meal that we ever took our daughter to and we went to a pub and the first actual solid food that she ever had in a pub was a chicken curry and rice, and I remember the waitress just being absolutely outraged by this. But Ava was like wolfing it down and to this day one of her favourite meals aside from pineapple on pizza is a chicken tikka masala. So I'm, you know, maybe it's a coincidence, I don't know but we always expose our children to grownup food.
Speaker 1:We were also quite I wouldn't say picky, because that's I feel like that's got negative connotations, but like I never really loved the idea of like the children's menu, because a children's menu is just like beige food, it's of the assumption that kids only want to eat chicken nuggets and chips. And you, I just feel like we can do better than that, right? Surely we can do better than that. So we would typically order them, maybe from the starter section, or we would give them bits of ours, or we'd order them a main meal and they'd share it. You know, when there was multiple of them we'd share it. So, all this to be said, like we didn't give them child related food.
Speaker 1:It wasn't normal and I think it also helped that I grew up in a, in a home where we did cook from scratch. Everything was cooked from scratch. We wanted a bolognese sauce. We made it. We chopped the onions, we put the mince in, we put the garlic in, we learned about herbs and spices, all the rest of it, and that was just normal, and I do appreciate that not everybody comes from that background. But one of the things that I really do support is learning to cook, and I think it's one of the greatest gifts that you can give your children.
Speaker 1:And I think if you're not a chef or, you know, if you're not somebody that does cook from scratch, it can seem really overwhelming, because the idea of suddenly having to come up with these ingredients and not really being sure how they work and all the rest of it can be quite intimidating. And what I would say in that situation is just make it simple, just make it really really simple and think you know, let's start off with experimentation. It is kind of like a science at the end of the day, we just experiment and see what goes. Well, so you know, maybe you want to make a bolognese. Well, okay, so you know that mince goes in it, you know that tomatoes goes in it, you know that. You know you've got like your Italian seasoning. Just put those three ingredients together and see what happens, you know, and then you'll start to get a little bit more confident in the kitchen. You'll start adding more things to it, and that's really exciting.
Speaker 1:So see things less as like, oh my gosh, I'm really fearful of this, or I'm really nervous about this, and try and spin it on its head and think, actually, this is really exciting. This is where I learn a new skill. I can give this skill to my kids, I can pass it down. We can eat healthier food. So I do feel very, very privileged and very, very grateful that we grew up in a household that way, and I know that my daughter's got this little phrase that she says like, oh, we're from an all-ingredient household, which I think is something she's probably got off TikTok, to be honest with you, um, but it essentially means that you know if they want to eat something in their house, they have to make it themselves. They have to, you know, make the sandwich, they have to make the, have to make the cookies, whatever. That's just what it is, that's just the expectation.
Speaker 1:So, with knowing what to eat, knowing how to eat and all the rest of it, it of course helps if every single person in your household likes the same food and I feel very, very lucky that for the majority of our food, everybody likes the same things. Of course, people have preferences, right. But you are not the chef. You are not a chef. It's not like they're coming to a restaurant every single night where they get to pick the thing that they love the most. I think when it comes to family life, we have to realise that we are a family. We have to muck in and there are going to be some meals that a child particularly loves and then the next day they're not going to love that particular meal as much. And that's just part of life. You know, that's part of being in a family.
Speaker 1:And I think sometimes I witness parents trying really, really hard to please their children, asking them that what they want to eat and I know that it comes from a place of like I don't want to waste food or you know whatever but some like, if I asked my children what they wanted to eat every single night, it would be pizza with sweet corn and pineapple. Like if I asked them when they were four what they wanted to eat every night, it would be pasta with cheese, you know. And the thing is know they're not terrible foods, but we need to be getting a wide range of nutrients in our diet on a daily basis in order to thrive as human beings. And I think well, I know that as parents, it's our duty to ensure that our children are getting all of the nutrition that they need. And I know that sometimes it can feel hard. It can feel hard when prices are going up. It can feel hard when we're not really sure how to cook. It can be hard when we're not really sure what to cook. It can be hard when children are rebelling, but it's one of those where it the juice really is worth the squeeze.
Speaker 1:Like, your health and your children's health is the most important thing. It's more important than what holidays you go on that year. It's more important than whether they have the latest trainers, the latest consoles. You know it's more important than whether they like you. In that moment, on that day, your child's health and nutrition is absolutely fundamental. So I know it's easier said than done, but being afraid to annoy them or upset them more cause them to go. Oh my god, I hate that. You know you're the grown-up. At the end of the day, you're the adult, you, you're the one that's paying the bills. You're the one that's buying the food, shopping a lot of the time. You're the one that's cooking it. You are the boss. Okay, you are the boss. End of so.
Speaker 1:So how we did things? So when they were little, obviously they would, you know, they're on the baby purees and all that, and we'd puree up the veg and we'd give them the yogurts and all the rest of it and the way we saw things like treats were just that. You know, they were part of a healthy, balanced diet. They weren't things that they would have every single day. They weren't like a dessert that they had every single day. They were just part of like we haven't made them a massive deal, but it is important for them to realize that.
Speaker 1:You know high sugar snacks and high fatty. You know snacks are not part or what, not what should rather be made up a balanced diet makeup, a balanced diet. That was couldn't get my teeth in them. That was a very hard thing for me to compute in my brain, so I think that that's that was an important thing for us to to identify is like if we have biscuits in the house all the time and if we have sweets in the house all the time we have chocolate and all the rest of it in the house at the time it is going to get eaten and it does mean that the nutritious food that we're spending a lot of time and money preparing and buying probably isn't going to get eaten. So that's where really we have this kind of we.
Speaker 1:We focus on the main meals. When we go to the, when we go for a food shop, we buy foods to make main meals. We aren't buying crisps and chocolates and whatever, and the reason why, honestly as well, is because they don't need to factor in every single day. And when we have grandparents come to visit or you know it's Easter or Christmas or whatever other season that's coming around the corner there's always loads of that stuff and it's always in abundance. We are inundated with chocolate at Christmas time and and indulgent foods that we don't really need to be focusing on having that every single week. And when you stop adding that to your trolley, it drives your shopping bill down so much that it just gives you a lot more flexibility in your life to spend that money on other things. Better quality food, to be honest with you. Better quality food.
Speaker 1:So as the kids were growing up. What I would do is I would physically take them into the supermarket and I would ask them to pick out certain things. So, for example, if I wanted to buy um, let's say I wanted to buy five vegetables, and that was a very specific, but let's just say I wanted to buy five vegetables I would take the kids and I would say right, guys, I want you to pick one vegetable each that we're going to eat this week for for dinner, and I would pick the other two and they would pick the others. And it doesn't matter what it is like. Even if they picked up something really random like a butternut squash, I'd be like great, amazing, so we'll learn how to cook that. And so putting them in the position of being able to pick it gives them a lot of pride. It gives them a lot of um, autonomy, and so when you make that food, they're really excited because they're the ones that picked it right.
Speaker 1:It's so important to get children involved in picking and buying and contributing to the meals because it gives them a sense of ownership and that's that's an incredible thing for a child. And then, beyond that, you know, as they got a little bit older, they were able to help prepare the meals. So I would say to them right, we're gonna, can you pick me some vegetables? And can you pick me your favorite, you know, pasta, whatever that you would like to have, and then they would help me prepare it. And whilst we're preparing it together, we're having a nice conversation, we're catching up on what they did at school, what they did at nursery, and we're talking about the food. You know, we're talking about the nice colors in the food, talking about the smells. We're saying like, oh, this might, this herb might go nicely with this. Shall we see what that's like? And it makes them excited to try. It makes them excited to try it and experiment with different foods.
Speaker 1:And, like I said, you know, if a child feels that they have contributed massively to a meal, they are going to sit down and they're going to enjoy it, even if it's not their favourite meal of all time. And that really paid off very, very much for us. And then, as they got a bit older, that really paid off very, very much for us. And then, as they got a bit older, we started giving them specific meals to cook, which has now transitioned into they have their own cooking days, and the reason why I am so pro giving my children responsibility at home is number one. We are a family, we are a team, and when you start treating the family like a team, we, you know we work together to ensure that the family, the house and everything runs really well. Um, the other thing as well is, you know it frees you up a lot of time for the things that you also value in your life.
Speaker 1:What I see a lot is parents giving everything to their children, facilitating everything so that they can have everything and I'm going to say it because I think it needs to be said, and it might be for some everything to their children, facilitating everything so that they can have everything. And I'm going to say it because I think it needs to be said and it might bristle some feathers. I think a lot of the time we over socialize our children and give them so much because it comes from a place of guilt, it comes from a place of well, we didn't have that when we were kids and I want to be able to give my kids everything that I didn't have, and that's fine if that's really what makes you happy, really makes those kids happy, but to what expense is that happening? Is it meaning that you're there, not. They're not able to spend time on yourself? Does it mean that you're not able to financially afford to invest in yourself in whatever stretch? You know whether that's you want to learn a new course, a new hobby, you want to go to the gym, you want to hire a coach, whatever.
Speaker 1:If you are putting all of your money or your spare money into facilitating your children's lifestyle at the detriment of your own, I don't think that that's a particularly healthy thing to do and I don't actually think that it shows children a positive. It doesn't set children up for a positive. I'm trying to think of the wording Cat's breaking into my room, oh dear. I don't think it sets them up for a great. I want to say role model. That's not the right. I can't think of what the phrase is, but I'm sure you understand what. Um, I want to say role model. That's not the right. I can't think of what the phrase is, but I'm sure you understand what I'm trying to say.
Speaker 1:If your child is going to football, swimming, karate, paint classes, oboe lessons, you know you're going on holidays to Florida, but mum is unhappy in her body. She's not able to invest in herself financially and get go to the gym, or to get somebody to help her with her nutrition, or to sit down and read a book, have some time to herself that isn't folding laundry, then there needs to be something that's re-evaluated here, so went off on a complete tangent there. But it frees you up time. Okay. At the end of the day, you are raising children to become independent adults. You are not raising children to become needy children.
Speaker 1:So whenever I've had an opportunity where I could delegate a task to a child or teach them a new skill, I have literally embraced it. If a child is old enough to turn on an Xbox, they are old enough to turn on a washing machine. They are old enough to turn on a dishwasher and they are old enough to learn on a washing machine. They are old enough to turn on a dishwasher and they are old enough to learn how to use an oven. Bottom line, okay, bottom line. And as soon as you have confidence in their ability and they have confidence in their ability, you will free up so much time for yourself. You will ask yourself why did I not do this sooner? They will have so much more confidence as individuals and that will excel them in every single area of their life, not just chefing at home, not just you know, am I a confident person at home but in every area of their life. That child will go off to university and know how to cook a meal for themselves, know how to clean after themselves. You know, understand what teamwork is and responsibility is and and family life is, and that's an amazing skill. Do not underestimate that.
Speaker 1:So often parents are trying to be their friends, their kids best friends. They're so scared to say no to them and, you know, make them go without like geez, my like. Gabriel came to me last week and said I'd really like to go on this school trip and I said, gabriel, it's just not in line with our finances and shit it, it's not going to happen. Oh, but all my friends are going on it. Well, that's lovely for them, like super happy for them. But this is our reality. You know it's okay to say no. What will that teach him? It'll teach him that he doesn't get everything he wants. It will teach him that just because his friend's parents can afford x, y and z or whatever doesn't mean that everybody can. You know that's okay, it's absolutely fine. Um, so go off on so many tangents here. You can tell I'm very, very passionate about this stuff. Um, so now, how do we decide what we're going to eat? How do we figure out if our kids are genuinely fussy or if they just feel allowed to get away with it? There are so many things that we can talk about here.
Speaker 1:So one of the things that I read very, very early on in my baby rearing years, I suppose was the concept of offering your child the same food multiple times, like so many times, and in lots of different variations. So the easiest example of this is potatoes. How many different ways can you serve a potato to a child? Okay, think of all the ways You've got chips, fries, mash, roast potatoes, boiled potatoes, sweet potato, like. There's so many different variations of potato and how you can cook them. Okay, so let's just say your child, you give them a mashed potato and they hate it.
Speaker 1:A lot of parents this is what I see and this is what I witnessed when I was bringing up my kids and I had friends with kids of a similar age is that that kid would spit it out and they'd go oh, okay, okay, let's not have that, let's go for the next thing. Or we'd go to somebody's house and they'd say, oh yeah, my son doesn't like this, or no, he won't eat that. And openly saying it in front of the child. So the child then takes on that belief of, oh, I don't like that, so I never have to try it again. And I read in this book you know it takes a child so many tries I can't remember off the top of my head now, it was a long time ago but so many tries before you can confidently decide that that child does not like the thing. Ok, it's not just a fussy situation, it's not just I don't fancy it, it's not just I don't like that variation of that particular food, it is. I am confident that my child doesn't like this and I'm going to give you an example of Ava again, because it's a great example. Ava absolutely detests mushrooms. She detests the smell of them, everything. She can detect them like about a year away. It's so funny, but we don't stop giving them to her. Okay, we don't. This is the other thing as well.
Speaker 1:As a child I didn't like rice, absolutely hated rice. Now I love rice, but growing up, whenever we were sat down for a meal, there was one meal and we all ate it. We weren't allowed to say no, we didn't like something and whatever it was, here's your dinner and that's your option. You know there was no snacking in between so that if we got hungry, we've got. We could always have a backup. It was this is your meal. You don't like it? Tough. It was very much like that and a lot of parents see that as such a bad thing. A lot of parents are scared to say that to their children now and I just feel like it's setting your children up for such difficult childhoods and adulthoods, setting you up for a lot of stress and aggro. And also, you know, it's just not necessary in my opinion. Remember, this is just my opinion.
Speaker 1:So, with rice, I was always given it at every meal that we went out for an Indian. Just because I didn't like rice doesn't mean that we can't go out for an Indian. You know, just because I didn't like rice didn't mean that the family couldn't have chili con carne one night. So over time, as I've grown up, I'm being still being exposed to this thing that apparently I didn't like a few times. And guess what I love rice now. Now if my parents had said to me oh, you know what? No problem, you don't like that, I'll make you something else. Right? You don't like rice, I'll give you potatoes instead. Or you don't like rice, I'll give you chips instead. Or every time we go to his house, oh yeah, she pretty much eats anything, but she just doesn't like rice. I probably would have grown up thinking I don't like rice and never eating it, and that would have been the label that I'd have been put on. You know. So this happens across the board all the time.
Speaker 1:So if your child doesn't like something, give it to them in lots of different variations and just say to them if there's anything you don't like that I have served you, leave it on your plate, say nothing, you don't talk about it. It's not a big deal. Ok, we all have likes and dislikes. We don't need to announce it every single meal. Just leave it on your plate, done. Not only does that teach them good manners when they're at other people's houses, but also they understand. You know, I'm still going to serve this to you, but if you don't like it, just leave it on the side of your plate.
Speaker 1:A couple of things will happen. They will continuously, continuously not eat the thing. Fine, like I didn't eat the rice for years, it was okay, I didn't eat the rice. Okay, they will eat it because they're just hungry, because, remember, we don't snack in between meals and fill ourselves up with sugar and whatever, and eventually they may taste it and go ah, actually it's quite nice, quite enjoyed it today, and that's how we do things in our household.
Speaker 1:So, as much as Ava doesn't like mushrooms, as much as she doesn't like the smell of mushrooms, I still serve them because there are four other people in our household that do, and I'm not going to make a big deal of it. Yes, I talk about it on here because it's not. You know, it's a example, but I know for a fact. I mean, it's been 16 years and she hasn't liked mushrooms. Now she might go to 20 and love mushrooms I don't but I'm not going to take away the opportunity for her to like them and I think that by not serving them to her and telling her, no, you don't like them, you don't like them, you don't like them telling everybody and his dog when we go to his house Ava doesn't like mushrooms, make sure she's got no mushrooms I'm taking away the opportunity for her to one day enjoy that and that's not something that I'm prepared to do.
Speaker 1:So that's how we navigate meal times and things like that, in terms of how we navigate what to cook, so they each have their own cooking days. So I cook on a Monday at present. I mean this all changes depending on schedule, right, because we have clubs after school, like my husband goes to play football, I run a choir, we have meetings for the village council, we have a lot of stuff going on, like a lot of people do. So it's really important to navigate your schedule and be realistic. Are you going to be able to cook a full-on, you know 40-minute curry if you have to take little molly to football practice? No, but could you put it in the slow cooker the night before and then have it cooking all day, so you've got a lovely, hot, fresh meal to come to, absolutely so this is why planning is so important and actually, once you get into the swing of it, it's actually very easy because you kind of have the same routines.
Speaker 1:So you might know that football practice is every Wednesday and so you need a slow cooker meal. You might know that on a Friday um, you don't really want to be cooking anything extravagant. So maybe you get in a couple of frozen pizzas or whatever. But make this part of your lifestyle and make it part of a healthy lifestyle that's realistic for you, and then map it out. And what we have at the moment is we have a little £2.99 whiteboard that we stick on our fridge and we update it so like, for example, monday it will say cooking, mum, and then I will put in what I'm making. It'll say Tuesday I think who's Tuesday, ava and it'll say what she's cooking. So everybody knows what's what we're having and all the rest of it.
Speaker 1:So how do you get to that point? Well, this is where going back to the whole, going to the food, going to the supermarket, get them to pick kind of goes up another knot when they are older, because now we start to do things a little bit more independently from our children, so when we go food shopping they might not necessarily be with us, or if I'm booking the food shopping online, for example. So what I get them to do is to pick the thing that they want to cook. So I'll go to my cupboard and I'll pick out a recipe book and I'll say right, pick one meal from this that you're going to make on Tuesday. It needs to be, you know, 30 minutes, take no more than 30 minutes done. You know 30 minutes, take no more than 30 minutes done. Perfect, okay.
Speaker 1:So if mark, for example, my husband, who goes to football on a wednesday, he needs to be, he needs to be out the door by half past seven we tend to finish work around half five, six o'clock he hasn't got a massive window of time to actually cook something. You know super indulgent. You know indulgent, that's not the right word, extravagant, that's the word. So he might go for something that he can bang in the oven. So it might be like jacket potatoes. Um, it might be fajitas you can whip up really, really quickly. So we don't need to make these things super elaborate. And of course, it helps if you've got education around your nutrition, which is where you know we come in. Coaching comes in. But we don't need to put so much pressure on ourselves to create these like 1920s housewife dinners, like that's just ridiculous. Save those for other times when you've got a little bit more time.
Speaker 1:So on a Monday I will usually make something that I can make for the week for me to eat on the go. So, for example, last week I made a big bolognese and I made sure we had enough for everybody for that dinner and then I made sure I had enough for a couple of portions for lunch for me the next day. What else did I do the week before? I did a massive thing of chicken and put some seasoning on it, cooked it down, put it in a like, chopped it up, put it in some pots, put it in the fridge. I've got that for my lunch. So I always try to make a big thing in the on a Monday. That's got loads of veggies in it, loads of nutrition in it that I can then use for other days of the week.
Speaker 1:On a Tuesday, ava will cook for her brother and her other brother, because me and Mark go out to our ballroom dancing classes and then we go and get some food afterwards which is, by the way, amazing because it's taken us 16 years to actually get a date night, which is incredible. So I'm fully unapologetic about this. So we go out for something to eat after we've been dancing. So Ava cooks for the three of them and it's whatever she chooses to make. So she might decide she's going to make sausages. She might decide she's going to do a pasta bake, whatever. But what we plan it and we put it on the board.
Speaker 1:Wednesday, like I said, is Mark. Thursday is Harrison. Harrison likes to get away with as little effort as possible because he likes to spend most of his time talking to his friends, playing on the Xbox, that sort of thing. So he would try and get away with giving everybody like toast. So this is where we have to help him out a little bit, be a little bit more realistic. But he will pick what he's going to make and then he'll make it for everybody. And then Friday is Gabriel's, so you can see where that, you know, everybody has their role. Everybody gets to pick what they're having.
Speaker 1:We put it on the board, we map it out, we buy the foods that we need for those specific meals. We don't buy any other crap around that and job is a good. And then on saturday and sunday we have the opportunity to either eat out we're visiting family, visiting friends, we'll eat whatever's left in the freezer or we'll eat whatever's left in the fridge. So there's never any waste. So if you buy, like a big salad and you don't finish it all on monday to friday, well then you've got the weekend to finish it, and that's how we prevent any wastage as well.
Speaker 1:So, oh, that was a lot of information, wasn't it? And I and I sort of hope it was helpful. And the thing is as well, like the more specific the questions that I get given. Like, I get a lot of questions on Instagram, but if you have a specific question around how to prep food, how to navigate food, how to know what to eat, that sort of thing, please drop me a message. I'm so happy to help. I'm sure you can tell from how I'm speaking that I'm super passionate about this stuff. Am I getting it right all the time? Absolutely not. You know, like I said before, I'm not the best parent in the world. I'm not the perfect parent. I'm just learning as I go, like everybody else, but this is what's worked really, really well for us, and I'm sure that some of that you can take and implement yourself in your own homes and in your own families.
Speaker 1:At the end of the day, nutrition is, yes, it's there to create healthy foundational bodies and allow us to thrive, but we need to enjoy the process as well, and I think sometimes we can put a lot of pressure on ourselves to over elaborate our meals. You know we think that cooking from scratch needs to spend an hour in the kitchen and 25 million ingredients, and it really doesn't. It really really doesn't. So any questions on that? Just let me know. Pop me a message on Instagram. It's rosalindfeedmyhealth. My DMs are always always open and I'm also going to pop some info down below in the show notes for you to have a read of as well. But I hope you enjoyed this episode. It's been lovely to talk about nutrition, because food is my favourite thing, and keep feeding your health and I'll catch you in the next episode.