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The Mom Room

Christine Pittman on Cooking for Busy Families

The Mom Room

Renee Reina & Podcast Nation

Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.8602 Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Renee sits down with Christine Pittman, founder of Cook The Story, to talk about how her passion for food turned into one of the most trusted online recipe hubs for busy families. Christine shares how her cooking evolved from feeding a new baby to feeding teenagers (and herself!) — and the real-life systems she’s built to make dinner less stressful. They get into the mental load of meal planning, teaching kids to cook, tackling leftovers, and why it’s okay to skip the “perfect” family dinner. Plus, Christine shares her best tips and tricks for weeknight cooking — and how to actually use those kitchen gadgets that have just been gathering dust.


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Website: https://cookthestory.com/

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0:00.0

Is drinking raw milk safe like RFK Jr. suggests? Can you reduce a glucose spike if you eat your food in, quote, unquote, the right order? I'm registered dietitian Abby Sharp. I host a nutrition myth-busting podcast called Bite Back with Abby Sharp. And those are just some of the questions I tackle with qualified experts on my show.

0:21.4

There is so much food misinformation and disinformation out there, and it can feel impossible

0:27.9

to know what's real and what's BS.

0:30.7

On Biteback, my goal is to help listeners create a pleasurable relationship with food,

0:35.3

their body, and themselves, which in my opinion is the

0:38.6

fundamental secret to good health. Listen to bite back wherever you get your podcasts.

0:48.4

Christine, welcome to the mom room.

0:55.6

Renee, thank you so much for having me. I'm excited to talk with you.

0:59.0

I'm very excited also because I'm pretty sure I'm the person.

1:04.6

Like, this is why you started this whole career was for people like me.

1:09.2

And my listeners know that I struggle with cooking. I actually recently

1:14.0

just tried to, I started this journal and there's like all the habits in the journal that I check

1:20.5

off each day when I do it. And I just started it September 1st and I've made two homemade meals,

1:28.8

September 1st, September 2nd,

1:33.9

and tonight's going to be grilled cheese and tomato soup. So all wins. That's amazing. Yes. So I am the perfect person to have this conversation with you. So for my listeners who

1:41.0

maybe don't know who you are, don't know what you've done, like what you've

1:45.0

created, can you take us back to where you started, cook the story and how you built this

1:52.3

career for yourself? Yeah. So it really started. I was on maternity leave from grad school at the

2:00.3

University of Toronto.

2:02.0

Oh, yeah.

2:03.1

And I had a little baby and I had all this time off.

2:08.0

And my then husband got a job offer in Florida.

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