This is Megan for this week's What We're Cooking and Eating Now episode.

I'm joined by my in real life friend and friend of the podcast, Shawanda Mason.

A little preamble before I get to introduce you all to Shawanda.

These bi-weekly episodes are bite-sized digest of what we're actually cooking at home,

feeding our families right now. We share six meal ideas that you can turn into your own meal

plan for next week. We share links to the specific recipes in our free community, where you can

get even more dinner inspiration in our weekly meal planning thread. You can visit didinigestfeejoo.com

backslash community to join us there.

I was first introduced to Shawanda Mason via Instagram when I was looking for Chattanooga

food recommendations when we moved here. Shwanda has run the Food and Lifestyle website,

Eat Drink, Frolick, for over 13 years, which is so full of easy meal ideas and drink recipes as well as travel guides.

Shawanda is also the creative director and co-founder of the Chattery, a Chattanooga-based nonprofit that advocates for

lifelong learning, where I've loved taking classes and meeting new people in our new city.

Shwanda, welcome to this show.

I'm so happy to have you.

I'm so happy to be here.

Yay.

For context of the show of what we're cooking and eating now, will you tell us a little bit more about who you're feeding each week and like what your cooking experience is and like how your

general life impacts what you feed your family too. Yeah. So I am feeding my lovely self.

Most importantly. Yes. And my husband John and we have a sassy toddler, Mason, who I'm also feeding.

And we do have some restrictions there.

She has a couple of allergies that we're working with.

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