8. How I meal plan- from scratch food the easy way!

Simple Farmhouse Life

Lisa Bass

Home & Garden, Leisure

4.9 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Learn my 5 tips for having healthy meals every night without meal planning. Making 3 meals a day does not have to be complicated. In fact, it is super simple! I've noticed that when people want to start cooking from scratch, they think they need elaborate meal plans with dry erase boards neatly filled in with three meals a day.

Baked blueberry pecan oatmeal for breakfast, Asian pesto curry for lunch and almond crusted parmesan tilapia for dinner...

(I just made those titles up, by the way, but they really do all sound fabulous.)

Just do a quick Pinterest search for "Paleo Recipes" and prepare to be overwhelmed.

I love a good crispy coconut chicken with squash and parmesan fritters as much as the next person, but maybe for a Saturday night special dinner, or a night when I have a little extra time to spend in the kitchen...

Which is pretty much never.

I am a mom of six small kids!

If you think you need to make Paleo safe coconut tortillas for every meal, that plan isn't something sustainable . No wonder people limit their healthy eating attempts to 30 days.

Eating real food can feel so overwhelming when we hold ourselves to these standards!

What ever happened to good old fashioned meat, vegetables and herbs?

Back when my grandma was a mother of young children, I imagine she cooked a whole chicken, baked potatoes and maybe served it all with a biscuit and canned jam.

No fancy recipes. Just real food.

Recipes/techniques I mentioned in this podcast:

Instant Pot Pot Roast Recipe

How To Make A Perfect Roasted Chicken

Easy Salmon Burger Recipe

Where We Source Real Organic Food | TIPS FOR BUYING LOCAL FOOD

Healthy One Pot Meals- Sourdough Skillet

Grab my Sourdough Skillet Ebook HERE.

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 8 of the simple farmhouse life podcast.
0:04.1	Today we're going to talk about my tips for getting easy meals on the table
0:09.7	without needing a meal plan and a whiteboard and going on pinchers for hours searching for recipes.
0:17.0	These practical tips are how I feed my family without having to stress about meal planning.
0:23.2	My name is Lisa, a mom of six and creator of the blog and YouTube channel Farm House on Boone.
0:28.8	Join me as I share with you my love for creating a handmade home from scratch cooking and a
0:34.6	little mom and entrepreneur life along the way. I wrote a post about this on my
0:39.2	blog a few years ago and it is something that really really resonated with people. I have
0:44.9	gotten more messages and comments on this particular topic probably than almost any
0:51.3	other I venture to say.
0:53.5	And the reason is a lot of us feel like
0:56.2	we are falling short whenever it comes
0:59.1	to feeding our family healthy meals
1:01.2	because of pretty much people like me bloggers.
1:04.3	Okay I can't totally blame bloggers but what I mean is Pinterest you go on there and
1:09.9	there are fancy recipes you read about how to make pumpkin parmesan fritters.
1:18.5	I am completely going to be just making these up.
1:21.3	These are just ideas popping into my head or how to make
1:25.6	coconut encrusted tilapia and they're all wonderful, wonderful ideas. I have
1:31.9	recipes like that on my blog that I do hope that you'll try on a weekend
1:35.7	when you have lots of time. But I think what starts to happen is we've kind of lost sight of maybe how our grandparents used to cook and we think that this is the only way to cook from scratch.
1:49.3	So for example, I see people on the internet go onto a diet like Whole 30. They go to the store and they stock up on Whole 30 hot dogs and whole 30 bread. I don't even know what exactly they make for Whole 30
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