The Family Table: Dinner + Beyond with Dr. Reshma Shah EP 420
Best of Both Worlds Podcast
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 761 Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2025
⏱️ ? minutes
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Summary
Dr. Reshma Shah is a board-certified pediatrician and expert on feeding families and plant-based nutrition. In today's episode, Sarah and Laura open by talking about how their families are doing dinner these days, and then Sarah interviews Reshma who provides insights on her Family Table approach, including her recommendations for selective eaters and cultivating a welcoming dinner atmosphere even with kids going off in every direction to different activities.
In the Q&A, Laura and Sarah share crowd-pleasing dinner ideas for a listener in a rut.
Find Reshma here: https://www.reshmashahmdparentcoaching.com
Her recent book is NOURISH: The Definitive Plant-Based Nutrition Guide for Families, available wherever books are sold.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:13.6 | Hi, I'm Laura Vanderkamp. |
| 0:15.8 | I'm a mother of five, an author, journalist, and speaker. |
| 0:19.7 | And I'm Sarah Hart Unger, a mother of three, practicing physician, writer, and course creator. |
| 0:25.0 | We are two working parents who love our careers and our families. |
| 0:28.9 | Welcome to Best of Both Worlds. |
| 0:30.9 | Here we talk about how real women manage work, family, and time for fun. |
| 0:35.3 | From figuring out child care to mapping out long-term career goals, |
| 0:38.7 | we want you to get the most out of life. |
| 0:45.3 | Welcome to Best of Both Worlds. This is Laura. This episode is airing in mid-August of 2025. |
| 0:51.7 | Today, Sarah is going to be interviewing Dr. Rashma Shah, who is a pediatrician, also a parent |
| 0:57.1 | coach, and has expertise in nutrition, I guess plant-based nutrition in particular, and feeding |
| 1:03.2 | families. You guys are going to talk a lot about family meals and family rituals, correct, Sarah? |
| 1:09.7 | Yes, we are, and I get into some details. So since you're |
| 1:12.8 | not part of the interview, why don't you share how your family meals are going lately? Well, we do |
| 1:17.9 | try to eat together. Whoever is in the house is generally expected to be at the table at the time |
| 1:25.7 | that dinner is happening. That's different times. Like, |
| 1:29.8 | we don't have a set dinner time. It's sort of based on the schedule for the day. Although I would |
| 1:34.9 | say it's generally sometime between six and seven is when it happens. I am relaxed about some |
| 1:42.3 | things related to family dinner. |
| 1:45.3 | Alex likes to sit at the counter rather than at the table with the rest of us. |
| 1:49.6 | I don't really know why, but I pick my battles. |
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