Becoming a More Conscious Food Shopper for your Family

The PedsDocTalk Podcast: Child Health, Development & Parenting—From a Pediatrician Mom

Dr. Mona Amin

Medicine, Kids & Family, Health & Fitness, Parenting

4.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Am I giving my child a well-rounded diet? How much salt and seasonings is okay? What is the deal with marketing for kid's foods and why is it a problem? How can we balance "convenience" foods and healthy foods? These are all common questions I get asked as a Pediatrician and on my Instagram @pedsdoctalk. I welcome Monica Auslander (@eatlikemonica on Instagram). She is a Registered Dietician and founder of Essence Nutrition. We both discuss food-shopping for our families, how to be a more conscious food shopper, and how to remove the guilt surrounding what we feed our kids. Make sure to follow @eatlikemonica and @pedsdoctalk for more! Check out my weekly videos on child health & development by ⁠⁠subscribing to PedsDocTalk on YouTube⁠⁠. Get trusted pediatric advice, relatable parenting insights, and evidence-based tips delivered straight to your inbox—join thousands of parents who rely on the PDT newsletter to stay informed, supported, and confident. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Join the newsletter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠! And don’t forget to follow ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@pedsdoctalkpodcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ on Instagram—our new space just for parents looking for real talk and real support. We love the sponsors that make this show possible! You can always find all the special deals and codes for all our current sponsors on the ⁠⁠⁠⁠PedsDocTalk Podcast Sponsorships⁠⁠⁠⁠ page of the website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You are listening to episode 55, becoming a more conscious food shopper for your family and understanding
0:06.2	food labels. Welcome to this week's episode where I welcome Monica Oslander, who is a registered
0:21.0	dietician and lead and founder of essence nutrition and is on
0:25.0	Instagram as Eat Like Monica and we're going to be talking today all about how to be
0:30.4	a more conscious food shopper for your family and how to understand food
0:34.1	labels a little bit better. Thank you for joining me today, Monica.
0:37.1	Thanks so much for having me. I'm so excited. I connected with you on
0:41.7	Instagram. I would say probably almost a year ago and we
0:45.5	both have boys around the same age you live about 40 miles for me but we haven't
0:49.6	seen each other yet because of the pandemic and I love your page eat like Monica so much you keep it so
0:54.1	real in terms of you know being a mom and the foods that you provide for your family and I
0:58.8	can't wait to talk about this today tell me what led you to find essence
1:02.0	nutrition so just to be a dieting today. Tell me what led you to find essence nutrition.
1:02.9	So just to be a dietician in the first place,
1:06.7	you know, 16, 15 years ago when I chose the career,
1:09.8	it wasn't cool or trendy to be in food.
1:12.0	It was pretty much like a hardcore science and it was a pre-med
1:15.0	major which initially kind of scared me off so I was actually a linguistics major, a French
1:19.3	minor, a teaching English as a second language minor, I was going to move to France and have these big dreams,
1:24.4	but then 2008 recession.
1:26.3	And I'm like, okay, well, food is magic because I also
1:29.4	was diagnosed with Crohn's disease when I was a teenager.
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