{12.2} Stuck in a Cooking Rut? Here’s How to Get Out of It
Release Date: 09/10/2024
{12.12} Stress-Free Dinners When You’re Running on Empty
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{12.10} Why I Hate 'Family-Friendly' Meals
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{12.9} Using Instagram to Build Freedom in Motherhood with Kimberly Espinel of The Little Plantation
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{12.8} The Empowered Menopause: Talking HRT, Perimenopause and Nutrition with Keris Marsden, Nutritional Therapist
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{12.7} How to Feed a Fussy Toddler and a Hungry Baby
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Today I answer a question from a mum who feels guilty that her younger baby is not getting a good exposure and variety to food at mealtimes because of her toddler's fussy eating. I totally sympathise, because this is exactly the experience I'm having with my younger child. I offer some tips to help expand her toddler's exposure to food in a safe and fun way, as well as suggesting ways to maintain a good variety of food for the baby without having to spend much more time cooking multiple meals. I discuss: The positives of a child eating well at a a childcare or school setting, even when they...
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{12.6} How to Support Loved Ones Recover from an Eating Disorder with Deirdre Reddan of SupportED Families
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{12.5} When Gentle Parenting Is Far From Gentle on Mums: My Honest Experience
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{12.3} Gut Health 101: The Key to Immunity, Mood, and Wellbeing
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info_outlineA couple of years ago I found myself sobbing into my husband's shoulder saying 'I'm so SICK of cooking dinner every day!'
It was SUCH a wake up call. Because that wasn't me. Cooking is my language of love. Cooking is how I relax. Cooking is my creative outlet.
And cooking good food for my family was always my greatest mission in life.
But given a fussy eater, and a few years later I was exhausted.
I suddenly realised that it had been a LONG time since I'd cooked for me. For my pleasure. For my tastebuds.
From that moment on I knew something had to change. And I knew the way I was feeling wasn't unique. If cooking food was becoming exhausting for me, a nutritional therapist and trained natural chef, then it must be true for many other mothers out there.
I started putting myself first once in a while. I started cooking the food I like again.
And just like that I found myself crawling out of my cooking rut.
- The 4 reasons you've found yourself in a cooking rut
- 4 ways to help you find your way out of it
- The secret sauce to meal planning that will save you time and energy... and remove decision fatigue
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