Damn Dinner
The Girl Next Door Podcast
Kelsey Wharton
4.8 • 766 Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2026
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
From our family table to yours, we have an honest episode about that ever-important and burdensome daily meal: damn dinner!
We chat about the state of dinner in our households and what we're actually feeding out families. We dissect what makes dinner so damn hard and share some little actions we can take to make dinner better.
Just for Friends of the Show on Patreon, we're sharing our recent dinner wins and fails.
See full show notes on our website: Damn Dinner
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to The Girl Next Door. I'm Kelsey. And I'm Erica. In every episode, we bring our different |
| 0:09.0 | perspectives to candid conversations that feel like chatting with good friends. We started this show |
| 0:14.0 | years ago when we were next door neighbors and still haven't run out of things to talk and laugh |
| 0:18.6 | about yet. Okay, when we asked all of you what we should |
| 0:23.0 | talk about in 26, so many of you, so many said dinner. Exclamation point. In a very like pleading, |
| 0:31.1 | like please talk about dinner. And then that was one of the very first things that Erica and I |
| 0:35.8 | actually talked about and complained about |
| 0:38.1 | on our podcast planning retreat. That was the state of dinner in our houses. It was just like, |
| 0:43.5 | how was this going? We talked about it for at least an hour. Yeah. It's a great just like taking the |
| 0:48.1 | temperature of your life. Yeah. How is dinner going? Because it just touches so many things. Totally. |
| 0:52.2 | So today's episode is by popular request, |
| 0:55.6 | but with our own twist, we're calling it damn dinner because that often sums up our sentiment |
| 1:03.0 | about this daily meal. Here comes again. And I think I think many of yours too. We'll be talking |
| 1:09.7 | about what we actually feed our families, why dinner can be so challenging, |
| 1:14.7 | and share ideas for small actions to help improve our dinner lives. |
| 1:19.3 | In our segment just for Friends of the Show on Patreon, we'll be sharing our personal dinner wins and fails lately. |
| 1:25.9 | So join us for that extended episode. And if you want |
| 1:29.2 | more from us on this topic, which clearly you do, make sure you've listened to or perhaps |
| 1:34.8 | relisten to our past episodes about dinner. Those include feeding your family and a week of |
| 1:40.6 | dinners and more. We will link to those in the show notes on our website. |
| 1:45.9 | Okay, friend, how is dinner working in your house right now? Are you menu planning? |
| 1:52.1 | Who is giving input? Who is cooking? And for the love, what are you actually feeding to your |
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