#1 Introduction to the Family Food for Moms Podcast

Hi friends! I'm Karyn and this is the Family Food for Moms podcast. We're talking about inspiration for family cooking and dining. Check out our website on familyfoodformoms.com!

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 inspiration! We can get it from all kinds of places: from our grandmothers or our parents; the way they used to cook and eat, we can learn from other cultures like the French, the Italian, or the Mexican; and the way they do things, or from the internet and famous cooks and chefs from both the past and the present. There's so many ways we can be inspired. Even looking through a good cookbook can inspire us and it's so important to be inspired by it. 

We should know what we want to achieve and why, and then we should know how we want to go about it. Celebrating together as a family is such a wonderful thing, especially when it's done with food. Having special family meals brings connection and closeness. Fun events and traditions help us to enjoy our meals, enjoy our food and to relax after the craziness of life. 

Slow food makes time for conversation and to be together as a family unit. We need to create an atmosphere for our family that encourages celebration. 

We'll talk about all kinds of family events: 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.