Hatten Health Podcast Episode 3

In this episode we speak directly to YOU. Yes you the busy parent. We address some of your pain points that many of you face dealing with family mealtimes with your little ones. We also break down our Hatten Health Family Meal Planning Guide. We also bring to you MORE EXCITING NEWS! 

We dive into how busy parents can simplify nutrition without sacrificing quality. 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. 

Visit this link for more info on the topics that we discussed in this episode:

https://www.hattenhealth.com 

Family, Health, Growth, Empowerment

Let's make it happen, together!

Transcript

SPEAKER_02 0:03

Hi everybody. Welcome to another episode of our Hatton Health Podcast, where we are all about family, health, growth, and empowerment. So let's make this happen together.

SPEAKER_00 0:15

Together.

SPEAKER_02 0:16

Yeah, well, I'm excited. Thank you. This is episode three. Yep. And right off the bat, I just want to give a big shout out and thank you to our mindset, mindset, and leadership coach Donna McConnelly for joining us on our recent um our previous episode. She dropped a lot of gems on that episode. And if you didn't see that yet, I would like you for you to tune in. It's on here on our YouTube channel, Hatton Health. You can also watch the video there. Or you can check out the audio on Amazon Prime, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts right now. So go ahead and check that out if you have if you have not already. And this has been an interesting week and we've learned a lot. We went to the farmers market last weekend, picked up some amazing veggies.

SPEAKER_00 1:02

Yep. Our local farmers market in Parker, Colorado.

SPEAKER_02 1:05

Yeah, it was our first time coming to this one. And we were amazed at everything that we saw. And we just like to share some things that we've, information that we come across in our journey, our parenting journey, based off of some pain points that have been expressed to us through parents that we know, parents that have contacted us through social media. And they're common threads with what we have experienced also, and things that we've learned from and grown with. And we've been able to implement these into our life with our child and been able to teach these to other families as well. So we'd like to share some of those things with you. And what was like one of the biggest things we've learned with Ayla recently, as far as like, I know one of the things we learned a while back that we started implementing here is changing of the atmosphere in our mealtimes. Like when she like moving somewhere else, or put putting having our breakfast or our lunch or our dinner in a different location in the house, or maybe outside the house, how that has helped. But you experience that on a more regular basis than I do because you're here with her more than I am.

SPEAKER_00 2:17

So yeah. So for those of you who don't know, we uh recently moved to Parker, Colorado, um, the beginning of this year, it's in feb end of February 2026. And leading up to that point, um, we had a lot of big life changes, and this move was a big life change. So it definitely impacted not only our eating habits and our mealtime routine, but definitely had a big impact on our daughter too. And beforehand, what before our move, um, you know, we had our mealtime rituals, mealtime routine, sitting at the table. Um, at that point, she was just getting out of her high chair kind of phase.

SPEAKER_02 3:00

Yeah. Um interesting time.

SPEAKER_00 3:03

And so back before we moved, you know, mealtime, she didn't want to stay in her high chair, so we were trying to find new ways of entertaining her and keeping her in her chair, right? And just sitting at the table sometimes was like painful for her. And so we would do indoor and outdoor picnics, we would go eat in our sunroom, we would change the location a lot, and that seemed to really help her with being motivated to eat because it was something new and exciting, versus just like sitting at our well, our island at the time for every single meal that was just starting to get really boring. But then it was interesting to change when we then moved to our new house. We were in kind of the same situation, like we weren't eating at a table. We we didn't have bar stalls, we didn't have a dining room table, we didn't have dining room chairs. Yeah, all we we didn't even have a couch yet, we were just sitting in a couple of chairs that we had with a TV tray, which in our living room, which wound up leading to her eating in front of the TV more and stuff like that. But not having that table then really caused chaos within our mealtime. And once we did finally have that structure again of having chairs and tables, mealtime changed again and it became so much easier. She knew exactly what to do as soon as we got our bar stoles. She was so excited, and she like immediately ran upside down at them, started eating better. Um, so that was it's just interesting to observe and change of environment has on toddlers and as they age too.

SPEAKER_02 4:48

Right. Yeah, you see it in real time. And we started learning what her time triggers are in mealtime as far as like knowing when she's full or knowing when she gets bored with her food or just raid and move on to something else. And you start to see that. So we start figuring out different ways to keep her engaged in the meal, keep her excited in what she's eating, or just keep her attention there at the table. Because if any of you watching this, listening to this, have toddlers or have had toders and they're grown now, you have seen or are going through now witnessing them wanting to run around and move around so much because they have all that contained energy. They don't know what to do with it. They just need to go, go, go, go, go all the time. So I had to keep that energy focused and on that on that chair, on that, on that plate, and not being just so militant about it, but still keeping your firm hand on it, keeping your rules, but keeping it relaxed and fun at the same time. And a lot of that comes with just knowing your own child's personality because every we can say one strict thing, guideline, but that's not going to work for everybody. We're not naive and think that all children are the same. We all know they're not. So we notice notice the triggers, knowing their, you know, their emotions, know what they're going to respond to, what they're not going to respond to. We'll help you figure out how to keep them entertained or keep them engaged in that meal. You don't have to be comedian parents. You don't have to be super like big, fantastic, entertaining TV parents, whatever. You know your kids, you know what they're like, you know how how they respond to you. And it's it may be like a frustrating process at times. It's not going to happen, snap finger overnight or one exact time. But having the patience and keeping the calmness, if we may not feel that calmness, just showing them that calmness, calmness, then it kind of relaxes them. Because your meal time is going to take longer with them than it will be with just you and your significant other. So just take that time. They're not going to, your other food's going to sit drinking cold, but they're still going to want to eat it. They're not going to care. They like what they're eating. If they like, if it's fun for them, they're just going to keep eating. And that's what I've had to learn too. Like you're not feeding an adult, you're feeding a kid. So it's totally different.

SPEAKER_00 6:54

I think, like you said, making up fun is such an important part of it. Um, especially, you know, as our kids get older into older toddlerhood area, you know, age area, we there's that line of teaching them table manners, right? And how to be proper, and but then also still making it fun and enjoyable for them because at this age, toddlers, yes, they need structure, they need a routine, but also they need play, they learn from play. Yeah. So if you can bring play to the table too, you're gonna it's gonna take a little more effort as a parent, right? Sometimes you wish at the end of the day you could just sit and just eat your meal. But at this stage in life, that's rarely gonna happen. Yeah, and that's okay, and it's just a short window of time. So if you can have your kid pick out a toy to have join them at the dinner table, like a stuffed animal or anything, that has helped our daughter a lot. Like asking her, like, which friend do you want to bring, especially since she's an only child, like which friend do you want to bring to the table? Yeah. Um, and sometimes she has a few different friends, and that's okay. You know, we a lot of kids, you know, have tea parties and stuff like that. But so making that into mealtime fun for them, having somebody that they recognize that they can play with at the table is totally fine. Or we started doing too friend is part of the meal too. Yeah, like the friend is eating also, sharing their food with them, and all and she loves that and it just makes it easier, and then that little bit of jealousy factor too. Like sometimes we feed her her stuffed animal or a toy too, and then she sees them eating, so then she wants to try it and gets a little jealous, too. And uh in my I mean, in my eyes, I think that's totally fine at this stage in the game. She's two and a half years old.

SPEAKER_02 8:53

Yeah, communication's growing, so we our communication grows along with that too. She's able to understand more about what we're saying, and there's a little more conversation now than just um we're saying this, we're saying this, we're saying this. You have to do it.

SPEAKER_00 9:08

Now she's actually responding and and having you know set routines too helps, right? We learn that with sleep routine, all you know, everybody, all the parenting books, everything says, you know, routine, routine, routine. But it goes with mealtime too, whether you're saying grace at the table, um, washing hands. We talked about this on our last episode too, in a little more detail, like having that structure, but also being okay to like deviate if you need to, like not having their kids sit at the table for 30 minutes if they're squirming and like can't focus. Like last night, we had our daughter told her to go run a lap around the table because she just could not sit still. She didn't get enough activity before the meal. Yeah, and so we're like, okay, run a lap, get some energy out, and then she came back to the table. It took a little bit of effort, but she did come back to the table and she wound up eating a lot more. So it's okay to have those breaks.

SPEAKER_02 10:07

Yeah, take your break, stretch your legs, just like driving on a long road trip. You don't want to sit in the car for six, seven hours just sitting there and staying in position. You want to get out, walk around a little bit. Same thing with the little kids. She's sitting at the table for 10 minutes feels like a long time for her for them to just be sitting there. Even no matter how good the food is, no matter how much they like it, just sitting there feels might feel like a long time. So let them get out, stretch your legs a little bit, then come back if they didn't have that busy activity before meal time.

unknown 10:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 10:33

It's amazing how that works sometimes. And I can't say, not gonna say it won't always work 100% of the time, but it's gonna work a lot of the time, especially if you feel like you're at your wits' end and can't figure out anything else. That was a really good tip you just said, because it blew my mind when it when it happened. And on top of changing the atmosphere, even if you like, even if you're in like a small one-bedroom apartment in a building surrounded by a bunch of other apartments, um, if you're limited on space or limited on rooms, the movement or if you can't even get out of the house, uh, just change where in that room that you're eating if you can.

SPEAKER_00 11:08

Or just changing seats.

SPEAKER_02 11:10

That too.

SPEAKER_00 11:11

Just change musical chairs. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 11:14

Um play a little bit of music sometimes.

SPEAKER_00 11:16

Yeah, even if it's kids' music, something then keep them engaged at the table, or if you need it, step away for a second and have them come back. But and I think at two and a half years old right now, our our goal is to get her as much activity before mealtime, so she is hungrier and more willing to sit there and eat because she's tired from running around.

SPEAKER_02 11:42

Yeah. Yeah, if it feels so good that when she's gets excited for well, no matter what what it is that you cook for them, that's that's a very, very unfulfilling um moment. And something that it's helped us along the way, too, is you've all heard the term, we eat with your eyes, we eat with our eyes. Kids do too, probably more even more than us, because they don't always know exactly what they're eating. We know if we see a flight of something or food, we know about what that food is. Um, that goes with portion of size also. They can be intimidated by what we think of me a small portion, it might even still be too big for them. Then you end up getting discouraged when they don't eat, eat half of it or eat most of it, then you get mad thinking it's a waste, or you get mad at them thinking they're intentionally wasting it. It may not be the case. It probably just might feel like it's too much for them.

SPEAKER_00 12:30

And adults are the same way. If you go eat at a restaurant and I don't know, like Olive Garden or something and give you that baked powder.

SPEAKER_02 12:38

Family meal dish for you.

SPEAKER_00 12:39

Of all those noodles that never, you know, that are constantly like growing, and you're like, I can't, I'm eating and eating and not getting to the bottom of this dish. It's the same thing with us, right? Like we see these huge portions sometimes at restaurants or at your grandma's house, she loads your plate up. You're like, oh my gosh, I'm never gonna be able to eat all of that. That's the same for our kids too, and they they have way smaller stomachs and we are just excuse me, I think, conditioned of mega portions, especially in the US, that our kids are more in tune to their bodies than a lot of us adults are because they haven't had that. That's the word I'm looking for. Thank you. Conditioning of having overly sized portions than more than we need. So even if you think there's a small amount, if worried about them just eating a small amount is actually fine.

SPEAKER_02 13:50

As long as they're staying hydrated, they're having energy, they're not crashing, they're having regular movements, movements, then yeah, because even like all my years as a child, I just been so used to cooking for adults, whether it's been mass portions like buffets or just cooking for a lot of people, or just cooking for people, like cooking big American meals or whatever. When it came time to being a parent, or even just before being a parent, just um living with somebody, having a significant other, not cooking for just myself, but cooking for somebody else too. I was always making portions big without realizing I was doing it. And she's called me on that a lot, like you're not at work, make some other portions, like down eat all this. Like, oh yeah, sorry, it's just naturally making big portions. So making my child's plate, make a small portion, but then my mind shrink it down again, half of that. So give her a small portion, then she's less intimidated, and it'll be more fun for her to eat. And it's easier to make it look fun and pretty on the plate if that's what you want to do.

SPEAKER_00 14:49

Well, and then that gives room for them to ask more too.

SPEAKER_02 14:52

For sure.

SPEAKER_00 14:53

Because if you just constantly overload their plate, because people like to go back for seconds, right? And so same goes with your kid. If they find something they like and they see that it's gone and then they want more, that just enhances them enjoying that food even more.

SPEAKER_02 15:11

Yeah, I love that. That's as a game as a game changer. That term comes up a lot, but it's easy to say because it's it's real. It really is.

SPEAKER_00 15:18

But to go off of what you said about making big portions doesn't necessarily mean that you need to like limit the amount that you're cooking. Right. But just spreading the love, right? Enjoying the batch cooking.

SPEAKER_02 15:33

For sure. Um we definitely want to talk about that because that's a huge tip.

SPEAKER_00 15:37

Because that's also what we wanted to talk about today, kind of our main nutrition tip of the day is time-saving hacks for cooking, especially going into summer. Everybody's outside, no one wants to spend time cooking indoors, right? Or you're traveling on weekends, you don't have time like we think you don't have time to cook during the school year or winter funds. Like summer is ten times that big. Especially when the kids are home and yeah, or you're just outside doing things and the days are longer, you want to be outside longer. So we wanted to talk about some different time-saving hacks that you can start doing for you and your family. And one of those is batch cooking. So, like you said, instead of loading up your plate, save those portions for later, and then uh also saves you a lot of time because you're not having to cook more often, right? So if you just go ahead and when you're at a grocery store, buy double, triple of a recipe that you plan on cooking, go ahead and cook it all at one time and then save it, and you all you have to do is reheat it or reuse it throughout the week. That saves you time having to cook every single meal during the week.

SPEAKER_01 16:50

Yep.

SPEAKER_00 16:52

Um, to go with that two weekend meal prep, and it doesn't have to be on a weekend either, just meal prep in general. Excuse me. And like I said, you're gonna most people you know travel on the weekends, so how can you meal prep when you're out of town and you come back and got laundry and kids and you have to get ready for the week? Um, so maybe set aside a night or two during the week where you do fetch meal prepping as well, and then you have that also for the weekend, whether it's road trip snacks, yeah, easy dinners, um, no cooked dinners, stuff like that. Um, that could be a total game changer for you. Um other things like overnight oats, making those weed on to make breakfast the next morning.

SPEAKER_01 17:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 17:38

Um, egg McMuffins, just bake them the night before, and just reheat them. Um mason jar salads are really popular right now, too.

SPEAKER_01 17:47

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 17:48

Um sheet pan meals where you just throw everything onto a sheet, whether it's roasted veggies, some type of meat, salmon, chicken, whatever, all in one pan, less of oil, some seasoning, just throw it in. It's you can make a big portion that will last.

SPEAKER_02 18:03

Exactly.

SPEAKER_00 18:04

You'll last a couple days.

SPEAKER_02 18:05

Yeah, you don't have to be a formerly trained chef to do any of this. And you've got crock pot meals are great for like time saving during the day. Like you mentioned about the um batch, the batch cooking and keeping all your ingredients like the meal prep. You have already say you did your meal prep, right? You have all your ingredients together. And the reason batch crock pot meal is a good time-saving hack is because you're a busy parent or a busy parent, and you're running around chasing your child, you have your own stuff going on, or you may have your own personal business that you're working on from home, like us. Time, you know, time during the day is limited. You have to pick and choose your spots. So why not just have something where you just take your batch ingredients you already have prepped, whether you prepped them yesterday or earlier in the week, throw them on the pot. As we say in the restaurant, set it and forget it. You don't literally forget, but you set it in the pot, cover it, hit the few buttons, boom, you go about the rest of your day for two or three hours or however many long it takes to do that dish. And during those two or three hours, you can handle your business, whether it's what you chitter, your business, or just errands around the house. Before you know it, it's done. And you don't have to worry about burning it because your crock pot's gonna stop and just hold it for you until you're ready. Scoop it, eat it.

SPEAKER_00 19:11

Yeah. And speaking of crock pots, just make sure that they're pushed as far away from the edge of the counter as possible. Make sure your kid can't pull it over on themselves, they can't grab the cord, make sure the cord's tucked away.

SPEAKER_01 19:24

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 19:24

Um, because crock pots are known to be huge hazards with little kids. Um, and lots of tragic events happen with kids pulling the cord or pulling the pot over on themselves and burning themselves. So if you are using your crock pot, just make sure that you're using safe techniques as well. Yeah. Keep that away from the counter edges.

SPEAKER_02 19:45

Yeah, it's scary to think about. Like we're always pushing stuff pushing stuff back on the counter, even regular things. Like we have an island in our kitchen where it's pushing things towards the middle of the island because she's that our daughter is definitely at the age where she's curious about everything. And she's tall too, so she can reach a lot more than we think she can sometimes. So we just constantly like get towards the middle as far as we can, even though even just the harmless stuff sometimes we just get we keep that practice of moving things towards the front because yeah.

SPEAKER_00 20:15

And crack pots are nice too because it doesn't heat up your house.

unknown 20:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 20:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 20:21

Especially during the summer, you know, if you're using your stove a lot or your oven, even if you have air conditioner, it's gonna heat up your house. And you're already, if you're using your AC, your energy bills are already going up. Um, or in our old house we didn't have air conditioner, so we hated using our oven during the summer.

SPEAKER_01 20:39

Yep.

SPEAKER_00 20:39

Because it would just really make our house super hot.

SPEAKER_02 20:43

Yep, and we know that um just in reality, where we're in the store sometimes, or we're just at home and we really don't have anything, it's very convenient to quickly grab frozen meals. Believe it or not, there are healthy frozen meals out there. Some of you do know this, know this, but there are a lot of people that don't think there are healthy frozen meals. We've experimented with quite a few, and yeah, they are tasty. They don't just taste like cardboard, like you may think. There are healthy frozen meals out there. Yes, there are a lot of different flavor flavor profiles, may not all be for you, but believe it or not, they are. There are some frozen meal, healthy frozen meals out there, and we have some of our favorites that we get that we keep in stock just in case.

SPEAKER_00 21:27

Yeah. Um, like Kevin's, we love Kevin's, and they're becoming more and more um accessible. Before you just found them at a lot of health food stores, but now they're on most grocery stores. Um, even Walmart carries some of their flavors, and they're growing too. Yeah, they're having a I mean, they have anywhere from cilantro lime chicken to coconut chicken, barbecue. There it's there's a lot of different options. So those are great to have just as backup if you need. Or you have a really busy day and you don't feel like cooking from scratch. Kevins are nice.

SPEAKER_02 22:08

Amy's Kitchen, um Saffron Road, tattooed chef.

SPEAKER_00 22:13

Those are all great, healthier options. And um majority of Kevin's too, if you buy like the single dinners, they don't come in plastic either. They come in like a recyclable, reusable container. But a lot of them still do come in plastic. So if you're like anti-plastic, like we're starting to be, we're transitioning right now from trying to limit our plastic use as much as we can. Nothing says you can't just pop those out and put them into a glass dish to put in your toaster, oven, air fryer, microwave, or stovetop too. You don't have to necessarily cook them in the container that they come in. You can change it out very easily. Yeah. It's easy to do.

SPEAKER_02 22:55

Yeah, we get it. It's a learning curve. It's a transition that I've struggled with for a while when we started doing that. Still sometimes do I forget sometimes because when you use plastic your whole life, then you kind of hate to use the word get enlightened, but we start waking up and a little bit and start learning more. Start saying, okay, yeah, I want to transition out of using plastic for hot meals and things like that. Um, you start to appreciate what the long-term effects of not letting those microplastics and things creep into your food. We spoke about that, I think, the first episode or second a little bit. But you can you can do your own research on that. But we do have information on that if you want to get to know a little more about that too.

SPEAKER_00 23:36

Maybe we'll do a whole episode.

SPEAKER_02 23:39

I think we should. I think we should. There's a lot of people that want to hear from that, not just reading text off of a Google search, but here people talk about that with real life experiences. And the frozen meals that we just mentioned, um, they don't just look like airplane food. You know, you don't that stigma doesn't carry over in all um healthy frozen foods, especially with the healthy foods. There are bright whole vegetables in there. The meats just don't look like frozen blocks of mystery meat. Actually, it looks like something and tastes like that too.

SPEAKER_00 24:08

Um and the meat quality is better too when they're sure versus if you try anything of like a specific brand, but a lot of them, you know. But um where it's just like I don't know, it's just like fatty pieces of chicken, right? Or it's like the leftover chicken probably from the factory, and it just doesn't taste very good, and it's just like kind of gritty and yeah, like this is like true like white meat chicken or like real sauce, real like food.

SPEAKER_02 24:38

Doesn't taste like dehydrated powder mixed with water and here's your sauce. Like, no, I'm not eating that crap. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 24:45

Um also no shame in getting healthy meal kits too. Sometimes you just need that or you know, getting groceries delivered to your house. Like, no shame. Um, we a lot of times, and especially in our family time course, we encourage parents to go grocery shopping with their kids to help build that awareness and education. And we go over all of that in our family time course. But sometimes it's okay to get food delivered to your door if you need to. Um, and some healthy meal time kits can really help with that. I mean, it's already portioned out for you, um, but there are some definitely unhealthy ones out there. So some of our favorite ones that we have researched and really like the ingredients and are cost effective are green chef, uh, daily harvest, thistle, thistle, and trifecta nutrition seem to be the higher um quality ones as far as nutrition. And they are always running deals and stuff too. So even if you just need it for a couple weeks, um, even just a month.

SPEAKER_02 25:54

Just to get through a transition like a move or house renovations or just things where it would hinder you to be able to make meals from scratch as often or as conveniently as you would like. Um, it can just get you through those transitional periods or rough patches in in your life if you have things going on, or forbid something happens in the family where you just don't feel motivated to do anything. Just have it there. And when it arrives, you can definitely tell it's fresh real ingredients too. And also because there's a um we said there's a clock on those things that don't you give you something that we can just store in your cupboard refrigerator forever because you know it has a bunch of fillers and preservers. You see real fresh real ingredients, it actually looks like it and smells like it when you get it. We've tried a couple and we were happy with them.

SPEAKER_00 26:42

And also, uh as far as toddlers go, there's little spoon too. We really enjoyed them for our daughter um when we needed them. So check out Little Spoon 2. Um, three other tips that we have for you guys is no shame also in getting pre-portioned snacks or like pre-cut veggies or snack packs at the grocery store. Um, that way you're not spending time having to cut, slice, and dice in the kitchen. Go ahead, buy the pre-packaged cut up, whether it's mixed veggies for a stir fry or you know, cut up carrots and celery, um, pre-portioned snacks. Go ahead, go do that. I'd rather have you do that than get just like a bag of Cheetos.

SPEAKER_02 27:35

And if you're reading the transcript of this episode, or if you happen to be seeing the subtitles, I don't know why you would do that only. But if you are, which it says snack packs, that's not to be confused with snack pack pudding cups. No, snack packs. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 27:51

And um, we have a whole meal guide that we're gonna talk about too in a second. But a lot of those lunches include those like pre-portioned snacks. You can either buy them already pre-made or make them at home, but those are included in our meal plan guide as well.

SPEAKER_02 28:10

Excellent. Loving it.

SPEAKER_00 28:13

Um, so I kind of combined the last two.

SPEAKER_01 28:16

Well, that's great.

SPEAKER_00 28:17

Yeah, but she says the pre-portioned snacks and pre-cut fruits and veggies kind of go hand in hand. And then summertime.

SPEAKER_02 28:25

Just to sorry, I didn't cut you off, but just to piggyback on top of that, the pre-cut veggies and fruits and um vegetables are also good for car rides too. Like whether it's a road trip or just going somewhere where your child might be in the car for a while and they get they get hungry before they get hangry.

SPEAKER_00 28:41

And they're already pre-washed, like it's better to buy those. Like if you are not able to go home and wash them a hand ahead of time, like buying a bag of grapes versus ones already in the container, they're already washed, ready to go.

SPEAKER_02 28:55

Um feed a sweet tooth because the sweet fruit's in there. Yeah, yeah. It's it's great.

SPEAKER_00 29:01

Then smoothies are also a really quick, easy way to get good nutrition. Summertime, they're cool, they're refreshing, um, and it's cost effective, but you just get a couple bags of frozen fruit, that's a milk or nut milk in there. You can add any variety of proteins with you know almond butter, peanut butter. If you wanted to add protein powder, you can, but it's just a fun way to get a variety of different fruits, human veggies too. If you wanted to add some kale, frozen spinach. Um, they're fast, they're effective. Kids love them too.

SPEAKER_02 29:37

Yeah. And get creative with your recipes too.

SPEAKER_00 29:40

It's they can taste like this shakes that they allow that they think is or you can make it and then put it into a popsicle mold, and then you got three easy popsicles too.

SPEAKER_02 29:52

Yeah, that that's awesome. Um, yeah, before we get out of here, though, we want to leave you with something that we're also very excited about that we want to continue sharing with you soon and into the future, with you and anybody who may think about, I can think about who do want to join Family Time or just see what we're all about when we go to our website is our meal planning.

SPEAKER_00 30:14

Yeah, so the last four weeks, we've been sharing our own personal Hatton family meal plans. So, what that looked like was four weeks of a breakdown of a menu, full week menu. And within our family, it typically works out to eat out anywhere from one to three meals a week based on our schedule. So that included that too, some space or room for some leftovers. Um, but just wanted to share what we were personally doing with in ourselves. And what we did is we give all the recipes that we use for the week, all the nutrition breakdown and the cost breakdown too. I know cost is different depending on where you live, but we took the uh national averages of what it would cost for the week in per item, and explained why we chose the meals that we did, all the nutrition information, like I said, it's all included, and so we were giving that out and changing it based on what we were doing for a full month. So there's four weeks of jam-packed information. So we were sharing that on our social media to our email group, and so now our goal is it's a full month worth of a whole month nutrition meal guide with recipes, and that includes breakfast, lunch, dinner, and two snacks a day. All these recipes, as you can see, and so now we have combined it all into one mega guide, if you will, and that is leading into the creation of our Hott and Help Hott and Help Recipe Club. We're so excited to start this. We've been talking about it for a while, and what this is gonna include is a monthly membership to our recipe club where you get our full meal plan guide, along with all the recipes, and we're probably like over 140 recipes.

SPEAKER_02 32:26

Yeah, give or take, yeah, and growing, and growing, it's gonna be constantly growing.

SPEAKER_00 32:31

So you get all of those recipes, you know they work, you know they taste good because they've been tried, tested, tested by your strally and by other people. Um, and that let that recipe list is gonna continue to grow, so you don't have to worry about going to Printerest or website trying to find a recipe. It's constantly growing, and then if you have recipe ideas, we're always taking those suggestions, but also part of the membership will allow for shopping guides, more customizable meal plan guides, and all of this is gonna be accessible in an app as well. We're currently working on creating a Hat and Health app where you can customize, grab, grab, and drop your meal plan.

SPEAKER_02 33:19

There's community in there.

SPEAKER_00 33:20

Yeah, we're building a community. So if you have family recipes that you would love to share with other people, you can post those into our community group as well. And we'll also have a recipe of the week that we'll highlight and encourage everybody to try to make that week and everybody share.

SPEAKER_02 33:39

Share and swap ideas with other members. It'll be fun.

SPEAKER_00 33:42

Yeah, well, and we have our Sunday family dinners that are always the first Sunday of every month. That's automatically included. Those are free for everybody, but we'll um be posting in there as well and taking suggestions for meal ideas for those. And I feel like there's more, but it's just so exciting. So that is going to launch tomorrow, June 1st.

SPEAKER_01 34:04

Yep.

SPEAKER_00 34:05

So we're offering a 30% discount for that membership right now, today, before our launch tomorrow on June 1st. So we're offering a 30% discount today, only before our launch of the membership club tomorrow, recipe membership club tomorrow, June 1st. So if you want information, click on the link attached in the description. All the information on pricing and stuff is there and on our website, or send us an email at hello at hattinhealth.com or DM us on our socials and we'll get you all the dates and make sure that we get you signed up. But this is just a fun way to build community. Everybody gets to cook and enjoy and share recipes together.

SPEAKER_02 34:53

And what's the website again for new listeners, new watchers? Hattonhealth.com.

unknown 34:59

Yep.

SPEAKER_02 34:59

Because if you're just listening to this, hattinhealth.com, h-a-t-t-e-n-h-e-a-l-t-h.com.

SPEAKER_01 35:06

Yep.

SPEAKER_00 35:08

So, and that's our goal is to build community around food and make it realistic, right? And how many of us have a whole Pinterest board of hundreds of recipes that we are like, oh, that looks good, ooh, that looks good, and want to, you know, make them, but we never get around to do it again. This is motivation to do that.

SPEAKER_02 35:30

Yeah, keep it organized and accountable too. Let's have some let's have some fun together. Do you would you like to get into our positive affirmation cards again? Sure. Okay. So we got this big old box of positive affirmation cards. Um, we have not sorted through all these yet because as you see, there's so many of them. So we're just going to pick one at random and share how we feel about it.

SPEAKER_00 35:57

All right. It's not what happens to you, it's what you do before it, during it, and after it. Alan Lee. That's a good one.

SPEAKER_01 36:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 36:13

It's not what happens to you, it's what you do before it, during it, and after it. Alan Lee. Yep.

SPEAKER_02 36:23

Cause and effect. What do we do that brings us to the situation that's happening to us? And how are we handling what's happening to us? And how do you move forward from the thing that happened? That's my breakdown from it. That's what I got from it.

SPEAKER_01 36:38

That's good. Yeah.

unknown 36:40

All right.

SPEAKER_02 36:41

Well, as always, thank you. Be well. And we thank you for tuning in to another episode of our Hatton Health podcast. Once again, once again, find us on our website at hattinhealth.com. Same Hatton Health on all socials. And this is where we focused on family, growth. Let's make it happen.