The Secret to Successful Meal Planning & Cooking at Home

The Minimal Mom

Dawn Madsen

Self-improvement, Education:how To, Education, How To

4.8 • 743 Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Is the thought of dinnertime stressful and full of overwhelm? Has meal planning failed for you in the past? Listen in as Lauren as Liz from Tastes Better from Scratch talk with Dawn on how to implement simple steps that allow dinnertime to turn from a stressful event to a great time bringing your family together. When you have a plan, cooking can become a joyful experience! IN THIS EPISODE: -The passion behind cooking from scratch -Handling recipe overwhelm -5 key values to help get organized with meal planning -How simplifying kitchen inventory can help -GEM: Where to start (minute 12:50) -Involving kids in the kitchen ABOUT LAUREN AND LIZ: Lauren Allen grew up in a home where everything was made from scratch; from egg noodles and chicken stock to jam and bread. Upon leaving home and entering the world of dreary college cafeteria food, she, along with her twin sister, Liz, were eager to compile their treasured recipes into an online collection, and Tastes Better from Scratch (TBFS) was born! Tastes Better from Scratch creates approachable, delicious recipes you can count on, and is bringing the JOY back to cooking: https://tastesbetterfromscratch.com/ Download their FREE weekly meal plans that include a grocery shopping list with budget information. You can create your own meal plan with your favorite recipes, or you can use our preset meal plans, and even customize them in case there’s a recipe you want to swap out: https://tastesbetterfromscratch.com/category/meal-plan/ Check out the Tastes Better From Scratch Cookbook to find recipes for every meal of the day, and more, as well as a variety of different cuisines: https://tastesbetterfromscratch.com/cookbooks/Thank you so much for listening and could I ask a favor? Would you mind subscribing? It helps the podcast be recommend to more friends. Thank you! Dawn

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0:00.0	What was meant to make our lives easier and better, do you feel like it has actually made it harder on us because we get so overwhelmed by all of the recipes and all the options out there right now?
0:09.5	Yeah, I hear that a lot from people too. It's just like, I don't even know. I don't like there's too much. I don't even know what to choose or what to make.
0:16.4	And I think it probably also makes it seem like everyone else is doing such a better job than you are.
0:22.2	Welcome to the Minimal Mom podcast. Don reaches a million women each month with practical tips to simplify your home.
0:29.9	Today, Dawn is joined by Lauren and Liz from Taste Better from Scratch.
0:34.2	These two sisters grew up in a home where everything was made from scratch. After leaving
0:39.1	home and entering the world of dreary college cafeteria food, they were eager to compile their
0:44.4	treasured recipes into an online collection, and taste better from scratch was born. Today, their site
0:50.9	attracts more than 10 million readers each month, and their helpful and practical
0:55.0	cookbook is available on Amazon and other online book retailers.
0:59.2	I'm so excited to talk me about two things.
1:01.4	One is meal planning, because I know that is a big hassle for most women and something we
1:06.0	take on a lot of guilt about when we fail at it, but also some twin talk because you guys are both identical twins.
1:13.0	And so it's always fun to talk about like the questions we get asked when we're growing up,
1:17.6	the similarities, the differences. So we're going to have some fun talking about that as well.
1:21.8	But let's get started. First, why don't you introduce yourselves real quick? Tell us about your
1:25.9	blog and your cookbook. And then we're
1:27.7	going to jump into what you think is the best way that as women, we could get back on track with
1:32.0	meal planning. Great. Sure. So I'm Lauren and this is my sister Liz. Hello. And we run the
1:39.2	blog, Tastes Better from Scratch. So we both kind of have different roles within the business. I'm on more of the
1:44.7	creator end, helping, like creating recipes and she's more on the business end managing our
1:49.3	team. And yeah, so it works out great. We love working together. We live near each other in Arizona,
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