Comfort Food

NOTE: This episode was recorded before the United States coronavirus outbreak, so you won't hear any discussion of our current state of affairs. We hope it provides some much-needed distraction! Sending love and hope you're staying well and staying home.

Helping the kids eat their veggies can feel like a fruitless task—it can be so hard and they're often just not interested in food groups other than carbs and cheese. (We get it! We love carbs and cheese!) But there are some fun strategies you can use that won't have you in the kitchen cutting carrots into flowers or arranging their lunch into rainbows. We're chatting with Ilene Godofsky Moreno, of The Colorful Kitchen for her best tips.

FEEDING YOUR FAMILY, THE COMFORT FOOD WAY

Our new e-book takes you through 8 concepts that will form the foundation of your understanding of how to feed kids and give you a firm starting point for improving mealtimes in your house. We're here to reassure and inspire. We're here to remind you that you're doing a good job. We're here to let you know that you're not alone in the daily challenge of feeding your family. We're here to help.

Get your copy of Feeding Your Family The Comfort Food Way here.

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Visit our show notes at comfortfoodpodcast.com for all the links and recipes discussed in this episode. Send questions to [email protected] or find us on social: @v_solesmith and @yummytoddlerfood.

Mom body image is, for better or worse, a fairly universal struggle. But if you're a mom in a larger body, there can be a lot of added layers to navigate. Today we're chatting with Jen McLellan, author, speaker and creator of Plus Size Birth and the Plus Mommy Blog and Plus Mommy Podcast about how she helps plus size moms navigate birth, body love and motherhood.

FEEDING YOUR FAMILY, THE COMFORT FOOD WAY

Our new e-book takes you through 8 concepts that will form the foundation of your understanding of how to feed kids and give you a firm starting point for improving mealtimes in your house. We're here to reassure and inspire. We're here to remind you that you're doing a good job. We're here to let you know that you're not alone in the daily challenge of feeding your family. We're here to help.

Get your copy of Feeding Your Family The Comfort Food Way here.

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We want to know more about you, and what you think of Comfort Food. Please take our quick and easy survey so we can keep making this podcast better and better. Thanks so much!

Visit our show notes at comfortfoodpodcast.com for all the links and recipes discussed in this episode. Send questions to [email protected] or find us on social: @v_solesmith and @yummytoddlerfood.

Even if you think you're not "dieting," much less trying to restrict your kids' eating habits, we've found that a restriction mindset (especially around certain foods) can sneak in all too easily. We'll talk about how to spot the underlying restriction in food rules, portion sizes and the assumptions and anxieties we all carry around certain food groups. We'll also explain why it's so important to keep an eye on our restrictive tendencies—and how to let them go, in order to raise kids with a healthy relationship to food.

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Visit our show notes at comfortfoodpodcast.com for all the links and recipes discussed in this episode. Send questions to [email protected] or find us on social: @v_solesmith and @yummytoddlerfood.

As you might guess from our podcast name, we're firm believers in the comforting power of food. But diet culture gives "emotional eating" a bad rap, and convinces us that anytime we eat because we're sad, happy, tired, etc that we must be doing something "wrong." Today we're sorting through some common myths about emotional eating, and exploring the fundamental importance of "comfort food" for our kids, and for ourselves.

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Losing yourself in parenthood is such a common struggle, especially for moms, because the sheer logistics of caring, feeding, and scheduling our kids lives can be completely time consuming. But staying in touch with ourselves and the things we love (including watching trashy TV, connecting with our partners and eating food other than our kids' sandwich crusts) is vital to our happiness. This week we're chatting with Rachel Bertsche, author of The Kids Are In Bed, about how to find—and own!— your pockets of indulgence.

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This week we're chatting with Crystal Karges, a registered dietitian nutritionist, maternal health specialist, certified intuitive eating counselor, international board certified lactation consultant and mom of five. Crystal specializes in helping moms nurture a peaceful relationship with food and their bodies so they can mother from a place of abundance, confidently feed their children, and truly thrive in life. Sign us up!

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Is it possible to practice intuitive eating and have a healthier relationship with food, while also wanting to lose or maintain your weight? We're getting into this super common — and super complicated — question with Jessica Jones, RDN, co-host of the Food Heaven podcast, who recently wrote about it for Self.com.

Plus, an Unrelated about why you won't see how much our kids eat on Instagram.

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This week, we're welcoming back fan favorite Christy Harrison, RDN, host of the wildly popular Food Psych Podcast, to talk about her new book ANTI-DIET: Reclaim Your Time, Money, Well-Being With Intuitive Eating. We'll cover how writing the book changed her own relationship with food, and go over some of your common questions about intuitive eating and breaking up with diet culture. Plus an Unrelated on why everyone got worked up about Amy's kid eating a banana!

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M&Ms for going potty; a lollipop at the end of soccer practice; dessert for eating dinner; a pizza party prize from the PTA — these are just a few of the ways that parents and teachers use treat foods to reward kids for good behavior. Some parents bemoan the extra sugar that these treats represent — we're more concerned about the weird message it sends kids about needing to earn their food. We've asked Leslie Schilling, RDN, a registered dietitian and nutrition therapist who wrote about this issue for US News & World Report to help us sort through the issues and come up with some practical ways to respond.

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