Well, hello and welcome back. My name is Stephanie Safarian and you're listening to

sustainable minimalists, a twice weekly show about intentional and eco-minimalist living.

We're all time crunched, We're all over tired. And so today we're talking about ways in

which we can cook a bit more at home, order out a bit less, rely on those meal subscription boxes slightly less for our

health, for our wallet, and for the planet's health as well. Now a quick word

before we get into today's interview, cooking from scratch means

different things to different people, right? If you're making a pizza, it might mean making the

dough, making the sauce, going out to your cow and getting the cream to make the cheese.

That could be cooking from scratch for you.

Today, as you're listening, I would love you to think about cooking from scratch as

Looking at your baseline wherever you are whatever you're currently doing and taking one baby step closer to cooking more at home. So if you are a

meal subscription family and you get a box every day on your doorstep and

that's how you cook your meals.

Perhaps you get one less box a week and you cook a meal from scratch that night.

Or going on the pizza example, if you're the family who goes to the pizzeria every Friday night for Friday pizza,

perhaps instead of that you just buy a crust, buy some sauce, and buy the cheese and assemble it at home.

That might be cooking from scratch for you.

So find your baseline and cook slightly more at home.

We're not reinventing the wheel, we are not adding stress onto our lives but we are hopefully by the end of today's

episode getting the motivation to cook slightly more

today I am speaking with blogger Rachel McKinnon. Rachel has a passion for

cooking and she's here to impart it on all of us. We're going to have a quick pause

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