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Welcome to Dishing Up Nutrition, brought to you by nutritional weight and wellness.

I am Leah Kleinschroote and I'm a registered and licensed dietitian.

Today we're going to discuss what it means to cook the weight and wellness way.

So I know often in our show we talk about eating the weight

and wellness way, but today we're going to shift that focus a little bit, look a little further

upstream in that process to cooking the weight and wellness way and how we go about cooking

real food. Many of our listeners over the last couple of weeks and couple of months have called or

emailed us questions about how to cook certain recipes.

So we actually had one of our dietitians, Teresa Wagner, she's a registered and licensed

dietrichian, and she's a parent of three young kids herself.

She offered up some really great ways to engage kids in this cooking and food preparation process.

So her blog is called, oh, my kids want to eat all the time plus four snacks to make together for quote unquote math class.

So I love that title.

But so she really goes into some really great tips and tricks and ideas on how to set some

routines, some schedules, get some boundaries in there for kids when they need that structure

that they don't have from going to school every day right now and how to set up some of those,

some of that structure at home and as parents, how we can make our job easier now that we are

homeschool coordinators and parents that are wearing many different hats at this point.

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