Plant to Plate is a casual podcast that I co-host with my gardening pal, Alyson from Sassy Daffodil. Whether you have a sprawling backyard garden or just a few pots on your patio, we’re here to help you grow, harvest, and cook with confidence.
Our first 4-episode series is focused on herbs! Naturally, I couldn’t resist calling it the “Herb Your Enthusiasm” series because I love a good pun (as you’ll quickly see from the episode titles!).
Read MoreYou know how squirrels in the fall are constantly picking up treasures and burying them in special little hiding spots around the yard? They are stocking up for the cold winter ahead. Saving the abundance of now for later.
I am exactly like that with my freezer. I am constantly finding little culinary treasures and tucking them away.
Read MoreI have found that having gentle parameters or themes can actually be incredibly helpful for fostering creativity, including when it comes to meal planning. Instead of restricting, it’s about focus. It means picking a food category or ingredient you’d like to explore more of and looking for fun ways to make that happen.
This summer, I am taking a focused approach to add interest, excitement, and creativity to the table. My summer meal planning theme is sandwiches.
Read MoreSince eating is required for survival, feelings of pleasure, satisfaction, and comfort related to it are hardwired into humans to make eating a desirable activity. Many of us learn to use food to help soothe or distract ourselves from uncomfortable emotions because food is readily available and reliably provides, at least momentary, comfort and distraction.
Read MoreThere is not one official definition of food noise but, in general, it is the nearly non-stop thoughts about food, eating, hunger, and fullness that flit through the brain. This could include feeling preoccupied with food or constantly thinking about food, increased cravings for food, or a desire to continue eating even when physically full, to name but a few.
Read MoreWorking in the anti-diet and intuitive eating space has always been counter cultural, getting plenty of push back from individuals, doctors, and institutions steeped in the weight-centric paradigm of health and wellness (despite so.much.evidence that diets don’t work).
The last few years have brought a new set of challenges. As more people have started to understand that health is more than that size of one’s body, the people profiting from the status quo have started to co-opt the language of anti-diet and body liberation to sell more diets.
Understandably, confusion ensues.
Read MoreIn the long term, improving your relationship with food makes food-centric celebrations easier to navigate and more pleasurable. The challenge with changing your relationship with food is it doesn’t happen quickly. However, if you are reading this just weeks or days before the holidays, all is not lost. There are some simple things you can do now that increase your short-term pleasure in holiday foods and lay the groundwork for deeper work in the future.
Read MoreSocial media is a hot topic these days. It is both blamed for the downfall of humanity while at the same time providing life-affirming connections for those who may be otherwise isolated.
My decision to quit social media took a few years and a good amount of personal reflection. For me, I found the toll it took on my mental and emotional health was greater than the benefits I gained from being on it.
Read MoreIntuitive Eating is not a random list of rules. The principles were developed to help you better sense, understand, and respond to your body’s internal cues. They help you improve your body awareness or remove obstacles that make it harder to have body awareness.
Strengthening interoceptive awareness will make it easier to notice and respond appropriately to your body’s internal signals, including hunger, fullness, and tricky emotions.
Read MoreThe long and short of it is that intuitive eating is not a diet. Not even a non-diet diet. Or an anti-diet diet. Diets are about changing your physical body, usually to make it smaller. Focusing on weight will make it impossible to truly eat intuitively.
Intuitive eating is about changing your relationship with food and your body; it is not about changing your body size.
Read MoreTo change my relationship with exercise, I had to first decouple the idea that exercise was only for weight loss. Second, I had to find physical activities that I actually liked doing. One of those activities happens to be hiking.
Read MoreBinge eating is consuming a large amount of food quickly and mindlessly without regard to hunger, fullness, or physical comfort.
Dieting taught me how to binge eat.
It started with calorie counting…
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