Comfort Food

Even if you're a somewhat reluctant meal prepper, there is one meal of the week that you probably often wish you had planned ahead for: Weekday lunches! Most of us don't have time to cook 'em, but we also don't love eating a sad desk salad—or the leftover crust from our kid's grilled cheese. We asked Talia Koren of Workweek Lunch to help us out of our Thursday lunch slump. And we talk about how meal prepping can support your intuitive eating goals.

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This week we're talking to Ashley Smith, RDN, of Veggies and Virtue, where she provides parents with age-appropriate food ideas, meal time organization strategies, evidence-based insight on feeding questions and concerns, and fun ways to get the kids into healthy eating. Ashley is also a mom to three kiddos and has one of our favorite, easy to understand, approaches to handling picky eating. Plus we're talking about our favorite NON-DIET New Year's Resolutions (and why we mostly hate resolutions)!

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This week, we're chatting with Leah Koenig, author of The Jewish Cookbook and several other books and articles about Jewish cuisine around the world about why one country's comfort food is another's haute cuisine. She's also a mama of two with great tips for getting dinner on the table fast and building your own family food traditions.

Plus an Unrelated on girls, sports and body image.

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If you're like most households, there is one person (and we're guessing it's you!) who notices when we run out of milk, thinks ahead to restock the kids' favorite cereal, and remembers to pull chicken out of the freezer in time to defrost for dinner. We know this mental load work can really pile up — so today we're tackling your big questions about how to broach the topic with your partner and sharing our best tips and hacks to lessen your load.

And, because nobody can stay on top of the mental load when we're exhausted, Amy interviews Becca from Little Z's Sleep Solutions for her best tips on getting your kids to sleep.

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Eggs, sugar, red meat — we know nutrition is important, but what we're supposed to know about nutrition seems to change, a lot. And it can be hard to keep your knowledge around food and health from interfering with how you approach family meals and feeding yourself. Today we're talking with podcast favorite Jennifer Berry of Thrive By Spectrum Pediatrics about how to decode nutrition news and how to keep what you know in perspective with your larger goals for feeding your family well. Plus an Unrelated update on bottle weaning Beatrix!

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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.

This week we're chatting with Mary Ellen Phipps of Milk & Honey Nutrition about how growing up with Type 1 Diabetes has informed her approach to food and family life. Plus Virginia has a family meal planning breakthrough.

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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.

We know that motherhood (and just... life) can dramatically change how you feel about your body, whether you're newly postpartum or several years in. Today we're talking through some strategies to help you feel more body-positive and comfortable in your skin — no weight loss required (or even encouraged!). Plus an Unrelated Update on all of your feelings about chocolate milk.

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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.

You know that thing where you find yourself thinking about how your body looks, when you'd rather just be living in your body? This week, on a very special 50th EPISODE, we're chatting with Lexie Kite, PhD, a body image resilience expert and co-founder of Beauty Redefined, about why so many women experience self-objectification and the role media plays in our ability to feel good about our bodies. She's got great advice for how we can teach our daughters — and ourselves — to be more than our bodies. For starters: Buy kid pants in the boy's department!

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We're downloading a day early because it's almost Halloween! And all too often, parents biggest fear about Halloween is... what to do with all the candy. But Halloween is also a fantastic opportunity to let your kids explore new foods, learn to handle themselves around treats and (yes, really) enjoy some sugar. We're rebroadcasting this classic Comfort Food episode with tips for making the onslaught fun and manageable for the whole family. And, Amy chats with Sally of Real Mom Nutrition about her Switch Witch strategy.

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.

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Take 18% off your order of suction plates, reusable snack bags, bibs, baby utensils and more with the code YUMMYTODDLERFOOD at www.bumkins.com.

We talk a lot about intuitive eating and the Division of Responsibility or "responsive feeding" approach we like to take with family meals — but we know these big ideas can be tricky to put into practice. We've asked registered dietitian nutritionist Elizabeth Davenport of Sunny Side Up Nutrition to tackle this week's questions.

Visit our show notes at comfortfoodpodcast.com for all the links and research referenced in this episode. Send questions or comments to [email protected] or find us on social media: @v_solesmith, @yummytoddlerfood & @sunnysideupnutritionists.

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