Shannon Lyon: "Simple Methods to Feed Your Family Without Going Insane + Have Fun in the Kitchen Again"

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Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 9 October 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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ALL moms, regardless of if they love to cook, know what it feels like to get the "dinner dreads." In this session, Shannon Lyon shares refreshingly real talk about the obstacles moms face in the kitchen—and the simple strategies that make family meals less stressful and more meaningful. Discover why planning a few “big” meals, repurposing meat, and even scheduling takeout can transform your week. Plus, hear how finding joy in the process of cooking and eating (not just the food) can change so much for a family. It's time to put the joy back in dinnertime. FREEBIE for all: Baking Basics Workbook download Get the Basic Pass to watch and/or read each speaker session for free through Sunday, October 12th. Upgrade to the All-Access Pass for ad-free listening on a private podcast feed, + lifetime access to all content visual, audio, and written. Shannon Lyon is a food blogger and recipe developer from Portland, Oregon. In addition to developing her own recipes, she works with food brands to create new recipes, and she also teaches cooking techniques at conferences, on TV programs, and on her Instagram page. She loves balanced flavor combinations and simple changes to basic recipes that elevate the flavors (and make them seem a little more gourmet than they really are). Shannon and her husband Mitch live in beautiful Portland, Oregon with their four kids, ages 15, 14, 12, and 8. She loves that meals, no matter how simple or complex, bring people together. FOLLOW ON IG WEBSITE Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Monica Packer. What you're about to hear is a session from my five-day online event going on right now,
0:06.2	The More for Mom's Conference. This event is for the mom who is ready for more in her happiness,
0:11.9	habits, health, home, and hobbies. Audio versions of each speaker session will only be available
0:17.1	on the public about progress feed through Sunday, October 12th. For ad-free video and
0:22.1	audio versions of all content, be sure to sign up for the basic or all-access pass before the
0:27.4	conference ends on October 12th. You can do so at aboutprogress.com slash more for moms. Now
0:33.4	on to our special session.
0:43.7	Thank you. on to our special session. Shannon Lyon, welcome to the More for Moms conference.
0:46.8	It's so great to have you here.
0:48.3	Thank you so much.
0:49.4	I am really excited to be here, and I love what you're doing with the conference.
0:52.9	I'm such a longstanding fan. I have made
0:54.9	so many of your recipes over the years. And it's one of those weird things. I love to cook. I know
1:00.7	you love to cook. I know not everybody loves to cook or bake, right? But at the same time, we all have to feed
1:07.0	our families. And it always surprises me, but then it doesn't because I'm in the middle of it
1:12.1	too, just how stressful it is to do so and how waning it is on this ongoing process. It never
1:19.4	ends. So I wanted to begin with what you can see are the obstacles that moms face to feeding
1:26.4	their families and how that can often create
1:29.1	that kind of like, I'm going nutty feeling. Yes. Well, when you say what are the obstacles,
1:35.0	immediately what comes to mind is only every single obstacle. Our energy, our planning,
1:41.5	or our pre-planning, right? Our desire, because let's face it, even
1:45.1	someone like me that loves to cook a lot of days, it feels like drudgery to have, get, you muster up
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