Family Food for Moms Podcast I Inspiration for Family Cooking and Dining I How to Enjoy Special Meals Together

Hi friends! I’m Karyn and this is the Family Food for Moms podcast. We’re talking about inspiration for family cooking and dining. Do you ever feel overwhelmed or discouraged as a Mom trying to feed your family healthy meals. Would you like to be inspired in the kitchen. Would you like your mealtimes to be full of joy, fun and healthy delicious food. Come hang out with me on the Family Food Podcast so I can inspire you to bring the purpose and inspiration back into your family meals. We’ll learn about food from our grandmother’s ways of cooking, from other cultures and from ancient traditions. And in the process, we’ll make the family table a special place that you and your children will remember forever. I help Moms feed their families nourishing, delicious food, find purpose in their cooking, learn from past generations and other cultures; and celebrate special meals together through practical advice, tips, inspiration and encouragement.

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10 hours ago

 Today we're going to talk about what we can learn from Enland about food and dining.
England is quite fascinating. I always think of the famous five books by Enid Blyton and picture the children riding on their bicycles through the fields, having a picnic in the sunshine, enjoying the outdoors. Their picnic would have been packed by their cook at home and have things like meat pie, fruit cake, ginger, pop, or they would eat at an old farmhouse where they were staying. And the kitchen table would be piled with goodness from the farm, raw milk from the cows, clotted cream, a ham, again, meat pie made by the farmer's wife and many more wonderful fruit tarts and things that they so enjoyed.
When thinking about British cuisine, it's inspiring to think of hearty food from scratch that nourishes your family, and to try things that are going to help you to sit down together, enjoy a long, slow meal, and be well nourished.

3 days ago

It's fascinating to think about nutrition and what food was available both during the World Wars and in the time after them, and about what our grandparents and great grandparents did to be able to feed their families nutritious food during those difficult times.
Today we're going to talk about food and nutrition in World War II.

Wednesday Feb 05, 2025

Have you ever wished you could dine out at a fancy restaurant with your hubby or with one of your children, but you can't leave home, maybe because it's just one of you at home, or you have a baby or kids that you can't leave, and no babysitter? Today we're going to talk about how to bring the fancy restaurant to you.
This works great for a date night with your hubby, or for if you want to have a date night with one of your kids. We've done this often where it's mom and dad and one of the children. It’s a special night for them, and they get to choose the menu. Today I'm going to talk about some ideas of food you can make that's fancy; how to bring the fancy restaurant to you when you can't go to it, and a couple of other ideas to make the whole evening fancy. 
Sometimes we just need a break, a refreshing time, a reprieve, and we just need some good food, and some relaxed conversation without having to jump up every five minutes, or make a complicated meal. A restaurant's so great for this. It's a change in atmosphere, a new place with delicious food that you don't have to cook. So, how can we bring some of those elements home without it being a huge effort with a huge amount of cooking and preparation before? I'm going to talk about some ideas for how to do that easily and in a way so that you can also relax and enjoy the evening.

Monday Feb 03, 2025

Today we're going to talk about what we can learn from Russia about food and cooking, traditions, they have..
I don't know a lot about Russia, but it's been fascinating researching this because they are such rich culinary and cultural traditions and I think there's so much we can learn from the way they do things.
It's not an easy country to live in because of the extreme cold and other factors. So they've had to learn to make the best of what they have, to adapt. And then, they have a long history of aristocratic and imperial traditions. So their cuisine is fascinating. Also, it reflects the diversity of its regions because it's such a vast country.
The Northern Coast is well known for its fish dishes. And then Siberia for the meat heavy meals. The food varies greatly depending on where you go in Russia.
Lets talk about some Russian food and traditions!
 

Wednesday Jan 29, 2025

As busy moms, there's always something that needs cooking, there's always a meal that needs preparing, and so I'm sure you have found that bulk cooking helps with that - cooking more than one meal at a time, storing half of it, putting it in the freezer, and then the following time you only have to reheat it. I thought it would be fun to look at how cruise ships and restaurants do their bulk and their batch cooking, and just get some ideas and inspiration from them. So, let's think about bulk cooking from the perspective of a cruise ship and what we can learn from that. 
In order to do bulk cooking effectively, a lot of planning, consistency, and efficiency must go into it. I think the more you plan, the more effective it's going to be, no matter whether you're thinking about doing some batch cooking on a day to have meals for your freezer, or just bulk cooking if you're having a large event, large family over, or if you want to double up on a meal you're doing. There's a few principles that I think we can apply. 

Monday Jan 27, 2025

 Today we're going to talk about how to arrange a special dinner for your family on short notice. Lately I've been feeling like I'm missing all those wonderful Christmas meals that we had in December. We had some graduation meals for our kids. There were the Christmas Eve and Christmas Day meals. There were other celebrations. There was a birthday, and another birthday in January. There was so much slowing down during that time, and making things special - having a special meal where we enjoyed each other's company. We relaxed, we played games, we did stuff that we hadn't done before, and we ate good food and made memories together. 
Suddenly things were very busy in January. Homeschool was going on, and work, and lots of cooking for various things, plus some extra challenges on top of that. Then it felt like we hadn't spent as much time with our kids, and we hadn't spent enough family time together enjoying each other, so on the spur of the moment, I decided to have a special meal that evening. I had the day to plan it, though I did have other stuff going on during the day, so I kind of did it in between. I didn’t have a lot of preparation time, so I wanted to talk to you about how that worked and how I was able to put that together in a short time. 
So, we're going to go through some steps to help you get there if you want to do this. Hopefully this will make it easy and practical. We'll talk about the food, but also the activities and ambience, and all those things.

Wednesday Jan 22, 2025

 Today we're going to be talking about what we can learn from the Amish about food and eating and dining. The Amish are a very healthy community because they eat very simply from food that they cultivate on their land and they have a huge amount of physical exercise having to look after their farms, grow their food and do a lot of manual labor that we would use machines for they're good at working as a community and helping each other buying from each other. 
But today we're going to talk about what they eat and the healthy lifestyle that they live. 

Monday Jan 20, 2025

Today I'm going to talk about some ways you can balance your blood sugar throughout the day. It's something I try to be aware of, and it's not easy for me to remember to do things the right way, but it makes a big difference to how I feel, and how much energy I have. 
Making sure your blood sugar is balanced in the morning is the best way to have it balanced throughout the day.

Wednesday Jan 15, 2025

Today, we're going to talk about date nights at home. My hubby and I often enjoy having our date nights at home. And for many years, we weren't really able to go out because our children were young and we didn't have babysitters that we wanted to use. And so we had date nights at home and they've been so amazing.
Nowadays, we have older children, adult children. And so. We try to go out once a month to a place, but it is more expensive. So we still like to have three out of the month at home. So today I'm going to tell you how they, how we do that, how they work and give you some ideas for what you can do for date nights at home.

Monday Jan 13, 2025

 Today we're going to talk about some things we can learn from elegant restaurants about food and dining - things that we can apply at home without making it a huge big effort, but still making our dinnertime more special, more meaningful, and more nutritious. 
Certainly there are fast food restaurants and things that we wouldn't want to emulate. And, we're not going to be able to create a restaurant at home - that's a lot more work than we have time and ability for. You'd need all the waiters and waitresses and all the chefs. But I just want to think about ways that we can apply some of the principles to make our own mealtime special. 

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About the Family Food for Moms Podcast

Hi friends, I'm Karyn and this is the Family Food for Moms podcast.

Do you ever feel overwhelmed or discouraged as a Mom trying to feed your family healthy meals? Would you love to be inspired in the kitchen. Would you like your mealtimes to be full of joy, fun and healthy delicious food.

Come hang out with me on the Family Food Podcast so I can inspire you to bring the purpose and inspiration back into your family meals. We'll learn about food from our grandmother's ways of cooking, from other cultures and from ancient traditions. And in the process, we'll make the family table a special place that you and your children will remember forever.

We're talking about inspiration for family cooking and dining! 

I want to help you with the inspiration, the perspiration, and the celebration of food in your family. So often we only talk about the middle one of these, the perspiration. That's all the practical stuff. We need to plan meals, we need to shop, we need to actually cook the meals, and we need to serve them to our family. And that’s what takes up a lot of the time, but I think there's so much more to food in our families than the perspiration. The first category, inspiration and the third category, celebration are just as important as the practical part, the perspiration.

So on this podcast, we're going to be talking about all three of these things. We need the inspiration. It's the information that we can get from all kinds of places, from our grandmothers or our parents, the way they used to cook and eat,  learning from other cultures like the French, the Italian, the Mexican, and the way they do things,  the internet and  famous cooks and chefs from the past  or the present. We should know what we want to achieve and why, and then we should know how we want to go about that. 

Celebrating together as a family is such a wonderful thing, especially when it's done with food. Having special family meals that bring connection and closeness.  Fun events, traditions,  those just help us to enjoy our meals, enjoy our food and to relax after the craziness of life. 

We'll talk about all kinds of family events, uh, family, fun nights, date nights at home, larger family celebrations, or just all kinds of things you can do to help to celebrate your dinners together.

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