Simplifying meal prep, planning, and feeding our kids

The PedsDocTalk Podcast: Child Health, Development & Parenting—From a Pediatrician Mom

Dr. Mona Amin

Kids & Family, Parenting, Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Meal planning, shopping, prepping, and feeding our families can be met with a lot of stress. And it’s important to find ways to REMOVE the stress from the equation and bring joy back to meal-times. On this episode, I welcome Amy Palanjian. She is a mom, founder of Yummy Toddler Food, and author of the new book Dinnertime S.O.S. She joins me to discuss: How to streamline meal prep for your family How to reduce cost and waste when shopping How to bring joy back to meal times (and less stress) Cozy Earth Get ready for the ultimate upgrade in comfort and luxury with CozyEarth's bedding, loungewear and pajama collections! From cooling bamboo viscose sheets and indulgent silk pillows to cozy and stylish loungewear, Cozy Earth brings comfort to busy moms. Right now, get up to 35% off site-wide using the code PEDSDOCTALK and treat yourself to the ultimate comfort at CozyEarth.com Amy Palanjian Learn more about Amy and Yummy Toddler Food for tips and recipes at yummytoddlerfood.com or connect on Instagram @yummytoddlerfood Get Amy's Book: Dinnertime SOS:100 Sanity-Saving Meals Parents and Kids of All Ages Will Actually Want to Eat Check out my weekly videos on child health & development by ⁠subscribing to PedsDocTalk on YouTube⁠. Get trusted pediatric advice, relatable parenting insights, and evidence-based tips delivered straight to your inbox—join thousands of parents who rely on the PDT newsletter to stay informed, supported, and confident. ⁠⁠⁠⁠Join the newsletter⁠⁠⁠⁠! And don’t forget to follow ⁠⁠⁠⁠@pedsdoctalkpodcast⁠⁠⁠⁠ on Instagram—our new space just for parents looking for real talk and real support. We love the sponsors that make this show possible! You can always find all the special deals and codes for all our current sponsors on the ⁠⁠PedsDocTalk Podcast Sponsorships⁠⁠ page of the website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	So the first thing is to let go of the pressure of the idea of being perfect
0:05.5	because that is not a thing that exists and it's just going to make everything
0:09.5	harder. So you can just take a breath and know that you are in a particular phase
0:14.3	of life where cooking might be different than what before you had kids or
0:17.7	after the kids are older, which is totally fine. And then for me we'd assign
0:23.7	categories to each night of the week. So like Tuesdays always tacos or
0:28.9	burrito bowls or something Mexican. We have a pasta night, we have a salad night,
0:33.0	when the warmer months or soup night in the colder months. So starting with
0:37.5	categories means that I'm never starting from scratch so that I go into the
0:42.4	kitchen and I know it's pasta and then it's easier to choose okay we're
0:47.0	going to go with like white beans and spinach or we're going to go with like a
0:51.7	broccoli pasta. Welcome to the Piedstock Talk podcast. A show that continues to
0:56.4	grow because of you and your reviews. The way you share this podcast with friends
1:01.2	and loved ones means so much to me because that's how people continue to
1:04.9	discover the show. A podcast where I get to welcome the most amazing
1:08.7	guest to chat about all things parenting, child health, child development and
1:13.4	parental mental and physical health and also just to make our lives easier.
1:18.4	Today's guest is helping us do just that. She's Amy Pelangian, she's a founder of
1:23.8	yummy toddler food on Instagram and her website which is amazing
1:28.0	and author of Dinner Time SOS and she's joining me to talk about
1:32.7	simplifying meal prep, planning and feeding our kids. Thank you so much for joining us
1:38.5	today Amy. I'm so happy to be here. I'm so happy to have you. I
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