Hatten Health Podcast Episode 1

Healthy toddler meals, busy parent nutrition tips, and realistic family wellness strategies—welcome to the very first episode of the Hatten Health Podcast.

In this podcast series, we dive into how busy parents can simplify nutrition without sacrificing quality. This episode is our introduction and letting you know a little about what we intend to dive deep into with each episode. We will be doing guest interviews, Q&A and more!

At Hatten Health, we believe feeding your toddler healthy meals doesn’t have to be complicated, expensive, or time-consuming. Whether you're dealing with picky eaters, tight schedules, or just feeling overwhelmed, this podcast is here to give you practical, real-life solutions that actually work.

You’ll learn simple strategies for meal planning, smart ingredient swaps, and how to build healthy habits for your family that last. Our goal is to help you feel confident in what you're feeding your kids—without stress or guilt.

If you're a busy parent looking for easy toddler meal ideas, healthier family routines, and time-saving nutrition tips, you're in the right place.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:06

Hi, welcome to the first ever episode of the Hatton Health Podcast.

SPEAKER_02 0:19

Cheers.

SPEAKER_00 0:20

Cheers. Oh yeah, just like our introduction when we first announced that first announced is what happened.

SPEAKER_01 0:30

We were starting Hatton Health, yeah, a little over a year ago. When we first started out, we even talked about making a podcast.

SPEAKER_00 0:40

Right.

SPEAKER_01 0:41

Um wanted to make our own.

SPEAKER_00 0:43

Yeah, I was inspired. I was excited to do it because when we didn't, I did I believe it was like episode 20 of my Infinite Ambition podcast. Abby actually was a guest on that podcast. And I loved her voice so much. The way she told stories, the way she answered questions, and the way she just sounded, she sounded so comfortable. When she she brought the idea of doing the Hatton Health podcast, I immediately said yes. I'm like, let's do it. And I'm a fan of podcasting. I'm a fan of talking on mic on camera and starting my own podcast. I was like, why not? You know, both talk about things that um relative to our fields and what we bring to Hatton Health and what we bring to you, that this is a great form to do it, along with all the content we're giving you in the information we we give you in Hatton Health.

SPEAKER_01 1:30

Yeah, so if you don't know, if you're new to us, my name is Abby.

SPEAKER_00 1:34

And I'm Kari. And we are the Hattons uh owners and basically nutrition coaches, proprietors, faces behind all now wrapped up in one and two.

SPEAKER_01 1:50

And so the reason why we started this business a little over a year ago, uh well, there's lots of different reasons, um, but ultimately we wanted to help families, especially uh young families with taller age kids with meal time, with getting not only the parents but their kids nutrition information so that they can start off healthy from the get-go because the chronic disease, pandemic, epidemic, yeah, if you will, is ever growing, especially in the United States. And so there's not enough information shared to parents about how to healthily feed their kids and get their kids on the right path.

SPEAKER_00 2:39

Right. And there can be um there's not enough information out there. At the same time, there's also an information overload, which means there's a lot of crap out there you have to filter through to find the right. Exactly. And knowing what's proper, what's right, um, what's the right way to go, what's the the wiser decisions to make. And sometimes that can be a lot of work. Actually, all the time it's a lot of work if you don't have the right guidance or you don't have the right tools or people to help you get there, get you there. And why not use people that are using real life experience to help get you there? Yeah, book smarts and practical, real life, practical life smarts, all that combined to one, and you can't lose. So that's part that's part of the motivation behind what we're doing, why we're doing it. That's a big part of our business model.

SPEAKER_01 3:24

And becoming parents ourselves, yeah, right? For sure. You think you know how to eat right? You think you know um how to meal prep all of that stuff as an adult, right? When it's just the two of you or if you're single. But then when you add a spouse into the mix and then start making a family, having a family, adding kids into the mix, it totally uh changes how you operate, what you buy, how you think.

SPEAKER_00 3:54

Your careers, time of day, whether one or both of you is working, that pays a big factor in also because you gotta manage time. Manage time management is a huge part.

SPEAKER_01 4:03

So when we found that we were starting to struggle in that area, we're like, okay, we need to figure something out. We need to create a system, we need a better routine, we need a better system in place to figure out how we're gonna do this. And Juggle having a daughter as well. Um and noticing when she started developing some picky eating habits, wanting to research that, try to figure out how we can prevent this from happening because so many parents that we know or that we talk about they're picky eaters. I myself was a picky eater growing up. My mom reminds me of that almost every day about how picky I was and brings it up all the time. Um, and so I wanted to make sure that our daughter and future kids are not that way. So trying a lot of research and while doing all this research and furthering my education and nutrition. I was like, while I'm doing this, I should be helping others as well. Because trying to take the time to do this is a lot, and it like we mentioned before, it's overwhelming, especially for new parents. So I wanted to make an effort to try to help other parents as well while I'm trying to help ourselves too. And that's kind of the reason behind Hatton Health is not only were we trying to help ourselves and trying to figure things out along the way, is while we're doing that, we should be helping other parents as well. So they don't have to do it. We can do it for them.

SPEAKER_00 5:34

Exactly. Like, because if we plan on having more kids, we don't want to be struggling along the way with mealtimes or with just nutrition. And we would like to also educate our daughter and any future kids on why we're feeding them, why we're feet while we're feeding them, how we're feeding them this, and just having given them the tools to go about the world as they grow up, living a healthier lifestyle, making healthier choices. So when they get to their late teens, 20s, it won't be as much of a struggle. It'll be more just natural to them. It'll be a reproductive way of life, and they won't have to deal with the ailments and sicknesses that come along with bad nutrition later on. I mean, yeah, of course, things will come up along the way and life as it does with everybody, but it won't be as major. You'll have a they'll have a strong foundation, healthy foundation to grow off of. So we want to use our individual expertise in the fields that we come from and our backgrounds to teach that to everybody, especially um parents, young kids, or just people who want to know in general. You don't have to be a parent. You can just be somebody who wants the information because we um the information we give and the information we've been learning and researching and applying ourselves applies to everybody.

SPEAKER_01 6:47

Yeah, yeah. Even though, yes, our main focus is for toddler parents, it's for everybody too, right? Whatever we provide, our goal is to share all our knowledge and all our research and everything that we can to help people better their lives, better their health, and feel empowered too. Because when you know what you're eating, know where it's coming from, how it's beneficial to you or not beneficial to you, and just educating yourself, it's empowering. In today's society, we're so focused on conveniences and how quickly can I make a meal, and not really noticing how is feeling your body, how you're feeling. It it can be empowering when you know your where your food sources are coming from, how it's made, what the different nutrients are, it's empowering. And not enough people in this day and age know that because we're just so focused on conveniences. How quickly we could get somewhere, how quickly can we get it? You know, we're just on to the next thing, on to the next thing. We don't take the time to actually slow down, and those conveniences are actually really detrimental to our health in the long run. You think is beneficial in the moment, but five, ten, fifty years down the road, you're gonna be winding up in a hospital bed.

SPEAKER_00 8:15

Yeah. I mean, you want to invest in your health now or invest in medical bills later on. Those are two options. And I had a I kind of had some wake-up calls about 10, 11 years ago. You know, after um one of my aunts uh passed away, I started learning more about my family history with cancer and strokes and things of that nature, and how much of it is was in my family's bloodline along the way. It made me learn a lot about okay, how do I break from that path? How do I get myself in a healthier, healthier route? So I was not living the healthiest as far as nutrition goes. It wasn't I didn't care, it was just fell victim to a lot of convenience. And me working in restaurants my whole life, there was a lot of snacking on the go, or a lot of just eating what was available, not really sitting down and taking time to focus on what.

SPEAKER_01 8:58

And if you're not recognizing it or even thinking about it, it's easy to do.

SPEAKER_00 9:02

And right after I had this kind of like this revelation or moment of reflection, if you will, um, no plug. I was I was going to the film festival and I saw a couple of films, documentary films. One was called Water, and the other one was called Rotten. And those openized a lot to just the food and beverage industry, openized a lot to commerce, um, agriculture, um, openized a lot to industry and just where the process of food from the ground to our plate and everything that happens in between, everything that does not happen in between, what's supposed to happen, and then the money that gets involved, big pharma, all that, I started learning a lot, start going down rabbit holes in YouTube, just self-educating myself and applying that towards just burying my body with the fit physical health, physical fitness, you know, cut back to alcohol by a lot, a lot, a lot. And I cut the junk food and salt and sugar down by a whole lot, just a drastic amount. And if anybody knows me past 15 years, they know what I used to be into, what my diet was like, how much I used to party and all that stuff, how little I, at the time I thought I was doing okay, but looking back, I realized I did not take good care of myself at all. I didn't want to pay for that in my 40s and 50s. Maybe feeling some elements of that now, but I'm also feeling the benefits of getting better, of better taking care of myself. I started going really hard at that. And then by the time I met Abby, I was starting to get really far removed from an unhealthy lifestyle and stepping more into a much healthier lifestyle. Then when we started talking about, after we got married, started talking about growing a family, that just turned the switch all the way up to 10. Like, okay, it's full throttle. Health from here on out. And it became less of a chore and more fun. And I started to miss the bad habits a lot less, a lot less to the point where you had a motivation. Exactly. The motivation is a big thing. You gotta find your motivation. That's what I tell a lot of people all the time when I get asked, um, like, how do you want to stay in shape so much? Or how do you want get yourself geared up to work out or eat healthy when the temptation to eat bad rears us up the ugly head? So we just gotta find your different motivations. They had a motivation before, but then once we became parents, the motivation just went through the roof. That goes beyond without goes um without saying. You know, you gotta you stop living for you, you live for the next generation, you live for your children along with your spouse. And it doubles up even more if your spouse is supportive or even pushing you along the way. Because you're pushing what you have, yes. Like with like being younger, okay, I want to keep up with my wife, my kids, um, crazy sheet dogs. Um, you just want to, it's not just about looking younger, but you want to feel younger while growing gracefully at the same time. You're gonna get the compliment of you look young for your age for so long to the point where, yeah, but you have to actually feel that way too. You know, because only cosmetic is only on the outside. I'm not perfect. Imperfection show all the time, not just physically, but sometimes when you know imperfections pop up, just know how to regulate that and manage it, how to suppress it when you can. Everything we all have our devices sometimes in food and snacks, whatever, gentle food, in moderation. We preach moderation so much, just having the discipline to spread it out sparingly, very little, not to overindulge, because too much of anything is bad for you. So, even with the good things, like all the healthy items, you balance it out, things work out well for you. You can't just sit and eat carrots all day 24-7. It's not gonna be beneficial for you as you think. So, the education is one of the things that we like to um instill in everybody because we're constantly educating ourselves too, as well as everybody should. You can never stop learning anything. Nobody knows everything about everything. If you like to talk about a little bit about like your background, how you came to um when to apply what you know when hattent health, how it's what makes you official in this.

SPEAKER_01 12:48

Yeah, I before that though, I just want to touch on something that you were talking about too, about like the motivation and the mental aspect to is something that not only not is really addressed very often when you think about health and wellness. Like sure, everybody knows you know we gotta eat right, nutrition, fitness, all those things, sleep, stress management, but it's the mental capacity too. It's the the discipline, the mental discipline, the being in the right place mentally um is one of probably the most important part because you can have all the information in the world, but if you're not either ready to absorb it or take it in or apply it, you're not gonna have any luck. I'm a I'm a I'm speaking from experience. Um having you know 10 plus years in the health and wellness industry. I have a degree in nutrition, I have certificate certificates, certifications, all of that. But for so long, I just mentally was not applying what I know. I just was stuck in my head, and that also led to a lot of uh just issues mentally, because I knew what I should be doing. I just there was like this brick wall that I couldn't get over mentally. It's like I know, and I've heard other dietitians and different health professionals talk about that too, where it's like you have all the information, you know what you need to do, but you just have like this roadblock, and you just create even more guilt and self-doubt. But it's like, why can't I do it? How can I expect other people to do it if I can't do it? So, especially since having our daughter, just really working on the mental aspect of it too, has been a total game changer and like you having a good motivation. I am finally out of motivation, right? Um, and also I was so focused on trying to do it by myself. I feel like I had to do it by myself. I didn't need a coach, I didn't need a support group or anything like that. Like I have the information, I should be able to do it myself. But when you have a supportive partner or supportive network around you, that makes or breaks it for a lot of people. And it's it's so true. And a lot of that gets so negated when it comes to like health and wellness sometimes.

SPEAKER_00 15:16

Yeah, I think you hit the nail right on the head with that on finding uh support and the motivation and getting past that mental block. For me, it was um that also in the piggyback on what she said about the mental block. It was a confidence thing for me. Like there was something that I needed to break, um, get that confidence level up to get past the hump of of my impatience of getting a better body or feeling better on the inside, realizing that it takes time and work. None of that happens to be.

SPEAKER_01 15:46

Everybody wants it super fast and done quickly, and move on to the next thing. And sometimes when it comes to your health, it's the slow and steady, the turtle wins the race, even though we don't want it to be right.

SPEAKER_00 15:58

There's no there's no magic button, there's no magic pill, no matter what you may have seen or heard. There's no magic pill that can speed up the process naturally. Um, there's some we all know there's things out there that may speed up some things in unnaturally, which has side effects. But as far as like every 100% natural growth and development, it just takes time and work and part of my motivation and my butt kicking moments, plural moments, because there was more than one, which is like people that I knew that were either close to me or that I just knew of, we either had really bad accidents, life-changing accidents, but somehow bounced back from that over time, or had some kind of illness or morbid obesity that worked their way out of those back to health. People that was very, very elderly, still doing things that I couldn't even do. I'm like, hey, well, what's my excuse? None of that about none of that's I'm not affected by any of that, so I have no excuse. Like, you know, I can eat a bunch of time of the day. You just need a little bit of time and effort and just consistent, being consistent at that. So I did that and I just started going down rabbit holes and finding motivational things on YouTube, information from people that I knew who are in the health and wellness space, or people that I knew who are either bodybuilders or fitness instructors, just talking to them. And then kept looking at myself in the mirror, like, okay, yeah, just gotta bite the bullet, fight through the beginning, which is the hard part, and then it'll become routine. So, yes, there were nights, days, I mean moments of my life where I kind of fell off the wagon a little bit. And once I caught myself making excuses, that's why I kicked myself back in the butt again and said, okay, no, you can't let yourself can't let yourself slide. You know, like I'm a big I'm a big person on perception. And I always always think about what do I want my future self to look back at me now and think? Do I want like do I want to look ahead and be looking like just the out of shape dad on the couch that can't keep up with his kids? Or can't make her happy because I can't be around with her. I'm like, I have no energy and tired and grumpy all the time. Do I want to be that? No. I look at other people that I know, parents who just didn't care at all. I'm like, do I want to end up like that? No. I look at what I don't want to be five years from now, ten years from now, and use that as a driving force. That also helped me regulate um toning down the partying, toning down the drinking, and all that stuff. Like, okay, do I want to end up like that guy over there? That's not gonna be me. So I'm done with that. And then that comes, that's also part of growth and maturity. But and that's one among other things that were uh motivating, motivating me. But those are some of the things that sparked jumping in my head when you was talking about um getting past that mental block and getting past that glass ceiling of like, why am I stuck here? Because those moments do come up every now and then. I talk about talk spoke about that in many reels, um, Facebook posts and stuff like that over the years. Because yeah, I'm first gonna tell you I'm not nowhere near perfect, but striving for a type of perfection is what keeps keeps that rabbit chasing that um chasing that care, so to speak.

SPEAKER_01 19:02

And that's our goal with this podcast and with our business too, is to share and show that we are not perfect. But hopefully that is relatable to other people and through this podcast. And if you should follow us on social media, if you become one of our clients, our coaching clients, we will show you how imperfect we are, but how we make it work and how we try to make it work, and hopefully that is relatable to you, and that we're not just some perfect influencer on social media. We are try to be real, we try to share our imperfections because nobody is like you said, nobody's perfect. Um, it's just whether people are willing to admit that or not.

SPEAKER_00 19:49

Right. And people that absorb information from the best are the people that are relatable, real people with real life situations, real stories with real information from their brains. They're not like just some human vibe. And that's one of the things that's gotten me through just my um elementary and junior high, high school time was the teachers that were relatable and down on the earth and spoke to us like human students and not just talking to us like we're just on a screen or something like that, because anybody could just read anything out of a book or off a screen and think they learned it. But you know, hearing something from somebody's mouth or a brain, they're talking to you in a relatable form. That's what how I absorbed the most information the best. And I took that with me when I was in the military cooking in the military, cooking on cruise lines afterwards for years, jumping around through different types of restaurants in the industry, you know, whether it be mom and pop restaurants, chain restaurants, hotels, through working, working my way up to ranks, different types of cuisine, um, absorbing as much information as I can from all the chefs that I was learning from. I didn't go to a formal culinary school. I did go to our MOS school. For those of you in the military, it's a military occupational specialty, which your job was in the military. I was a cook. So he did push you through a culinary training there for a few months. It was a school, it was accredited school, but wasn't like the cordon blue or CIA or something like that, one of those big fancy ones. But yeah, that was the basis of my culinary training. Then everything was in the throughout the workforce through then the people I worked with, the restaurants I worked in, the different chefs I worked for, uh, managers, restaurateurs, the owners, um, small EAs, different learning wine pairings, to up until the point where I started to be able to run my own, not my own, but running a restaurant and be a manager up in management, and that grew from there. So that was the basis, the background of my culinary experience and a quick run-through for those who haven't heard it yet. But and I decided to take that and think, okay, all this love I used to have for all the junk foods, sweets and candies and things of that nature, how can I use that passion and that um information? I mean, those recipe information. And things of that nature. How can I turn that into something healthy? How can I make the healthy foods, healthy snacks be as fun to eat as the junk food, all the crap? How can I make it sweet and fun to eat, but in a healthier way and still make it look appealing also? And get the same status factors to it without the crash afterwards, without the bloat afterwards, without the guilt or the constipation or all the other bad things that come along with that.

SPEAKER_01 22:26

Well, also when we first got engaged, they moved into each other. We first got this finally got an apartment together. And I was doing really good. I was like on the doing really good with my health and nutrition at that point. And I knew how much he liked to bake at home because he didn't like to bake or couldn't bake at work. And he was you were a grill cook at the time. Yeah. And so he liked to experiment.

SPEAKER_02 22:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 22:56

When you were at home on your off days with baking and different things of those sweets and all kinds of stuff. So I told him when we moved in together, I was like, you cannot do that. Would have been bad and it's in the house right now. I am my willpower is gonna be real low.

SPEAKER_00 23:17

I would have been helpful.

SPEAKER_01 23:18

And I'm doing really good right now.

SPEAKER_00 23:22

We're not gonna steal a sharpening steel at all. There's been erasers rubbing against each other, just falling down to nothing. If we would if I would have stayed on that path, or if I would have let her stay on that path, she would have brought her along with me. So we it ended becoming steeler sharpening steel.

SPEAKER_01 23:35

Well, and then yeah, then we had some big major moments happen shortly after that. So then I was like, okay, yes, make the bad things. I need comfort food and then uh comfort food and then COVID happened, and then yeah, and then yeah, that's the moment we both fell off for a while. Yeah, fell off.

SPEAKER_00 23:55

So we came back. And then when we started acquiring workout gear in a room in our house, which we converted to a gym. I know speaking for myself, I said there's definitely no excuse when there's a gym 10 feet away from where we sleep. Why am I not doing something? Even if I have to get up an hour early in the morning, it would be worth it. And I ended up loving it to the point where I ended up running running three half marathons. Well before that I hated running.

SPEAKER_01 24:21

You did really get.

SPEAKER_00 24:24

Um, so I think I forgot where I was getting with the oh yeah. Oh, yeah, the stacks. So I was back to the healthier versions of the bad foods. I wanted to go on a quest to figure out how can I take bad recipes and make them healthier but still fun to eat and fun to look at because you know a lot of people are visual like me or visual eaters. You would try to eat with your eyes first, especially if you're scrolling on the gram. You'll be like, ooh, so you want to have the same ooh factor with something that's really, really healthy. So, how can I bring that to not just sweets, but all food? And now when we started having health, it's like, okay, how can we do that with toddlers? Start it early, and not just now when we're adults, start it when they're early, give them a base of making healthy foods fun to eat. So it became educational and fun and adventurous for yeah, and just getting her involved too. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 25:13

Like not just making the things and presenting them to her, but actually having her hands-on in the kitchen too at a young age.

SPEAKER_00 25:19

That's such a joy. They take more pride in what they're eating when they had a hand in making it and understanding where it came from, like taking her to the store.

SPEAKER_01 25:27

Yeah, that's so much fun. Watch creating that positive food culture for the New Guinea is what purple was.

SPEAKER_00 25:33

So exactly. Um, what else do you want to talk about on this first episode? I feel like we did we went through a lot of what we wanted to get out, get out there at first.

SPEAKER_01 25:43

Our first, our first episode, we just want to explain a little bit about ourselves. Yeah. And we'll dive into that in more detail through these episodes. But just wanted to get this going. And if you are somebody that is interested in being a guest on this podcast or know of somebody that would be benefit that would enjoy being on this podcast, we'd love to have them. Um, just send your info to us at hello at hattinhealth.com. Um, you can email us or DM us on Instagram, Facebook, or on TikTok and YouTube too. So find us, send us a message. We'd love to have you as a guest. We have a guest list already starting to um line up. But yeah.

SPEAKER_00 26:28

Yeah, um, be on the lookout for we're going to be doing, might be doing some live um podcast episodes in the near and far future. And wherever you're maybe if you're seeing this podcast on YouTube, uh, make sure you subscribe to our channel. It's Hatton Health, H-A-T-T-E-N Health across all social media platforms. Um, make sure you share this, drop a comment and let us know how you feel. If you have any questions, you want to talk to us, if you're listening to this on Spotify or Apple Podcasts, do the same, share, drop a comment. Um, make sure you follow and tell people anybody that you may know could use this information or just interested in what we're doing, or if you have any inquiries and maybe wanting to collab with us or something, maybe a podcast like Abby said, or uh recipes, or just anything. Uh we're we're open.

SPEAKER_01 27:14

And we plan for these to be more educational too. This we're so we're just mostly talking about ourselves, but we'll have a lot more nutrition and cooking information that we'll be diving into in future episodes as well.

SPEAKER_02 27:25

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_01 27:27

And we also do a free virtual cooking class once a month on the first Sundays of every month. It's called Sunday Family Dinner. And we do a different one-pot recipe every month that's easy for you to follow. And like I said, it's free. It's a free virtual cooking class. You get to hop on Zoom with us and cook along with us, and so you have meal ready to go for Sunday evening.

SPEAKER_00 27:52

Um, yeah, we do it right here in our home. And if you um hop on with us, you can do it, follow along in your home, cooking with us, or just taking notes. But the whole goal of that is just to educate and enjoy Sunday family dinner as a family. It's virtual, or if you happen to be in the area and you want to stop by and do it with here with us in person, we're open to that too. Yeah, yeah, it's just it's a we try to create a family atmosphere from our family to yours, really. And this podcast will be evolving. We'll always have ideas for new things we're going to be doing. If you've seen the masterclass already, just know stay along with us because we got some cool things coming up for us. Um, production is going to step up. We have uh menus going to step up, everything. So, like you said, if you've seen this now, you're here in the ground, the ground level foundation where you can grow with us. If you're in the future and you're seeing this video as a as a past, if you're going back in the past watching this, um it's good to know where we started, humble beginnings. And thank you for joining us now.

SPEAKER_01 28:52

Yeah. And we have different coaching programs too. And so we always like to have usually we start our coaching calls with a positive affirmation, and then we also include some nutrition tips of the day on those calls. So we'd like to do that on these podcasts as well.

SPEAKER_00 29:11

Yeah, do you want to go and get one?

SPEAKER_01 29:13

Yeah. So to start, we're just we have these different motivation cards, and we figured those could be our positive affirmations for this podcast.

SPEAKER_00 29:28

Do two or just one?

SPEAKER_01 29:29

Let's just do one.

SPEAKER_00 29:30

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 29:31

All right. So it says nothing is so often irretrievably missed as a daily opportunity. Mary von Abner Esch. I'm gonna butcher this. Eschenbach. Eschenbach.

SPEAKER_00 29:47

Eschenbach. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 29:50

Nothing is so often irretrievably missed as a daily opportunity. Mary von Abner Eschenbach.

SPEAKER_00 29:59

These are really deep. I really like these. Um, if you've been following either one of us for a while, you may have seen us post a couple of these as a story or something on Facebook and Instagram every now and then. But like she said, we plan on doing these every one, every podcast, every coaching call, and diving deep into them.

SPEAKER_01 30:17

They got these for college graduation gift.

SPEAKER_00 30:20

Yeah, they're really nice.

SPEAKER_01 30:21

I think Margaret Leader got these for me. Shout out to Margaret. And been having them out ever since. So um, and then nutrition tip that I want to share with you guys. We are in mid-May right now, and May is a huge uh produce month. So lots of different produce are in season for the month of May. So definitely make sure you're getting your feel of your produce every week because take taking advantage of these in-season produce because not only are they more flavorful, they are more nutrient dense, uh tend to be less expensive too because they're in-season and grown locally. Yeah. So you know there's not so much expense of bringing them in from a different country. Um, and so they're fresher too, so they last longer as well. So is there a way to like attach this to the pocket like on YouTube?

SPEAKER_00 31:20

Let me attach a link to that.

SPEAKER_01 31:22

Yeah, well, okay.

SPEAKER_00 31:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 31:24

Um also you can go to our website in hattonhealth.com and we'll have this posted as well, and we'll update it every month. Um, so if you're watching this later on, just go look to see what the latest produce list is on Hattonhealth.

SPEAKER_00 31:40

That link will be in the description too on the YouTube version of this.

SPEAKER_01 31:43

Okay. Um, so I'm just gonna give you a quick rundown of some popular ones that are in season for the month of May. Um so as far as fruits go, we have strawberries. We just got some strawberries and uh they're really good. You could tell. Um, and so if you go to local farmers markets too, they just started up the majority of them this weekend. Um, so they should have all of this produce as well. Excuse me, to support your local farmers. Uh blueberries, cherries, apricots, mangoes, pineapple if you live somewhere tropical. Um, bananas, avocados, even blackberries and raspberries. So all your berries, if your toddler is in love with blueberries berries right now, big is your month. Oh, rhubarb, cattaloupe, grapes, and peaches. Those are your fruits. Um, as far as veggies go, artichokes, asparagus, beets, carrots, spinach, your lettuce and spring greens, peas and snap peas, radishes, green onions and scallions, kale.

SPEAKER_00 33:00

I don't think so. If you made it this far, you definitely made it far here to bring it up.

SPEAKER_01 33:04

Broccoli, cauliflower, cucumbers, green beans, zucchini, peppers, so bell peppers, any kind of peppers, bava beans, leeks, bok choy, and pea shoots, mushrooms, and potatoes. And then also on this list, I included some fresh herbs. So if you're making a certain dish, and you'd rather use fresh versus dried or even different beverages. So mint, for example, is in the season. So you want to make a mojito mocktail, or include in some sweet tea or even some water, mint is the time to use right now. Um, parsley, cilantro, dill, and chives. So hopefully that's helpful for you. Um again, we'll have this all listed on our website.

SPEAKER_00 34:02

Okay. Well, want to thank you for joining us for our first episode of the Hadden Health podcast.

SPEAKER_01 34:18

Also, allergies are in season right now. Pollen is really high. That's why I'm a little snipply. Apologize for that.

SPEAKER_00 34:25

No worries, it still sound great.

SPEAKER_01 34:28

All right.

SPEAKER_00 34:29

Well, let's grow together, one meal at a time as a family. Growth, empowerment, and family and health.

SPEAKER_01 34:42

Woohoo!

SPEAKER_00 34:44

We got so many sayings in mind, so many. We just like to pick our favorite ones and just get them out to you.

SPEAKER_01 34:48

So we are focused on family health, growth and empowerment.

SPEAKER_00 34:54

Yes, yes.

SPEAKER_01 34:55

Make it happen together.

SPEAKER_00 34:58

Hi did it.

SPEAKER_01 35:02

Here's you.

SPEAKER_02 35:04

Here's your health.