38: The Reality of Real Food

The Wellness Mama Podcast

Katie Wells

Parenting, Education, Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Motherhood, Mom Life, Wellness, Kids & Family, Organic, Health, Natural Living, Self-improvement

4.7 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2015

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever met a friend online and had an instant connection? And then met in real life and realized that you could chat for hours over some healthy real food coffee?

That is how I feel about today’s podcast guest, Kelly (the Kitchen Kop), author of the book Real Food For Rookies. Kelly and I knew each other online for a while before we met in person, and I am happy to now call her a real life friend too!

In this episode, Kelly shares over a decade of practical tips and real food wisdom from her own journey and experience with real food.

In This Episode, You’ll Learn

About Kelly’s own journey to real food
What she learned when helping her kids learn to like real food
Some simple switches that instantly increase the nutrition of common foods
10 common ingredients to avoid and 10 to consume more regularly
Her number one trick for taking Fermented Cod Liver Oil without gagging
Kelly’s favorite “fast foods” that you can make at home using real food ingredients
Why she chose the name “Kitchen Kop”

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Katie: Hi and welcome to the “Wellness Mama Podcast.” I’m Katie from wellnessmama.com. Just a quick thank you to the sponsor for today’s podcast, Vital Proteins Collagen Supplements. Vital Proteins have pasture-raised, grass-fed organic collagen and gelatin products that are made from all natural, high quality sustainably-sourced pasture cows. So, these cows live on a grassland. They’re not constrained, they’re not given hormones or steroids or antibiotics and they eat their natural diet of grass. They have lots of open space and sunshine, and you can really tell in the quality of the gelatin and collagen products that they offer. And if you’re interested in finding about their gelatin, go to wellnessmama.com/go/gelatin. And you can find out all about Vital Proteins there.

Also, some random facts for your day. Did you know that some store-brought ranch dressings contain

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0:00.0	Music
0:20.0	Hi and welcome to the Wellness Mama podcast.
0:22.0	I'm Katie from WellnessMama.com.
0:24.0	Just a quick thank you to the sponsor for today's podcast, Vital Protein's College and Supplements.
0:29.0	Vital proteins have pasture raised, grass that organic, collagen and gelatin products that are made from all natural high quality, sustainably sourced, pasture cows.
0:40.0	So these cows live on a grassland, they're not constrained, they're not given hormones or steroids or antibiotics and they eat their natural diet of grass.
0:49.0	They have lots of open space and sunshine and you can really tell in the quality of the gelatin and collagen products that they offer.
0:56.0	If you're interested in finding out about their gelatin, go to wellnessmama.com, forward slash go, forward slash gelatin and you can find out all about Vital Proteins there.
1:06.0	Also some random facts for your day.
1:08.0	Did you know that some store bought ranch dressings contain titanium dioxide, the same ingredient used in sunscreens and paints to make them more white and chalky?
1:17.0	And that's exactly what it's used for in ranch dressing.
1:20.0	Additionally, chocolate was once used as a currency. Maybe we should go back to that.
1:25.0	The oldest soup recipe is from 6000 BC and calls for hippopotamus and sparrow meats.
1:31.0	And lastly, castorium is used as a vanilla flavor in some processed baked goods.
1:37.0	And this is actually a secretion from the anal glands of beavers. Pretty disgusting.
1:42.0	So today's guest and I are going to be talking about real food and how to actually effectively make the transition to real organic foods.
1:50.0	My guest is Kelly. She's known as the kitchen cop online and she had a huge food transformation in 2004 after a long history with processed convenience food.
2:00.0	And she became a Western A price chapter leader and researched her way into a traditional real food diet.
2:06.0	She has an online class called real food for rookies where she helps people to make that jump more easily and has recently written a book by the same name, real food for rookies.
2:14.0	And she lives in Michigan with her husband of 27 years and her four kids, although her oldest is now in college and not living with them.
2:21.0	And I can't wait to be here to hear this conversation. Kelly and I are friends in real life and I had a great time chatting with her in this conversation.
2:28.0	So without further ado, Kelly, welcome. Thanks for being here.
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