Today’s show is a celebration in honor of National Family Meals Month and National Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Month. For dietitians, it doesn’t get much more exciting than that! Join us to learn more!

Elise Compston and Stephen Compston are joining me with tips for gathering your family around the table more often. They also have clever ways to increase your fruit and veggie consumption. This husband and wife dietitian duo are the parents of two young kids, and they run the blog, Straight Outta Compston Kitchen. Their blog is loaded with healthy recipes and mealtime inspiration galore, and there are lots of freebies in the resources for today’s show, so check it out!

 

Show Highlights:

 

• More about Elise and Stephen, their family, and their work
• Elise’s passion is recipe development, while Stephens’ specialty is working with diabetes sufferers
• How their business, Straight Outta Compston Kitchen, exists to develop healthy, simple, family-friendly meals
• Why Elise, Stephen, and Liz all serve as Fruit and Vegetable Ambassadors in Action for the Have A Plant Program of the Produce for Better Health Foundation
• The benefits of family meals include cooking at home, trying new things, eating meals together, and helping kids develop palates for healthy foods
• From Elise and Stephen: Top tips for family meals at the table include cook together with your kids, and start simple if you think you can’t cook
• What family mealtime was like for Elise and Stephen as they grew up
• The best tips for fulfilling the pledge to eat one more fruit or vegetable every day
• The Family Meal Mystery Basket ingredients: rotisserie chicken, carrots, apple, parsley, and honey
• • Elise and Stephen created a Harvest Chicken Waldorf Pita Pocket
  • Liz created Chicken and Carrot Shawarma Salad Bowls
• The Pantry Survival Guide, Top Ten Staples:
• • From Elise and Stephen: frozen fruits and vegetables, canned vegetables, broth, salsa, eggs, canned tuna, canned pumpkin, ground flaxseed, nuts and seeds, and herbs and spices
  • From Liz: corn tortillas, shredded cheese, canned salmon, frozen fruits and vegetables, eggs, nut butter, canned beans, pasta, and pasta sauce
• Go-to favorites for Elise and Stephen: Turkey Jerky and Pesto Chickpea Salad
• What’s next for the Compston family--maybe a cookbook in the future?

Resources:

Straight Outta Compston Kitchen website and blog

The Compstons on Instagram

 

Harvest Waldorf Pita Pockets

Chicken and Carrot Shawarma Salad Bowls 

National Family Meals Month

National Fruits & Veggies Month

 

Freebies discussed on the podcast:

Liz's Top 10 Pantry Essentials

Fridge/Pantry Checklist from the Compstons