Baby Steps for Eating Real Food

We all want to live healthier lives, eating real food instead of processed food. But sometimes it’s overwhelming as a mom to try to live naturally while managing all of life’s other responsibilities.

Today, Katie sits down with Katie Kimball, founder of KitchenStewardship.com. She’s a teacher and a mom of 4 kids. She has also created of the Kids Cook Real Food course, which helps moms include their children in the healthy cooking process.

In this episode, Katie Kimball will share helpful, real-life tips for creating a healthier lifestyle for you and your family.

Baby Steps to Switching to Real Food

Katie Kimball offers this advice for fellow moms seeking a healthier kitchen:

1.Give yourself some grace!

Creating a healthy lifestyle is a journey, and it’s not easy to do all at once. Rest assured that nobody is perfect, and making the switch to real food takes time.

2. Look for something that takes minimal effort that would make a big impact.

Rather than trying to overhaul everything at once, Katie recommends focusing on something small that affects your family’s diet on a regular basis. Maybe that mean replacing cereal for breakfast a couple times a week or replacing packaged potato chips with nuts and dried fruit.

Food staples to keep on hand

When time is running short to make a wholesome meal for your family, it’s hard to turn to healthy options. It’s for that reason that Katie Kimball keeps these healthy staples on hand in her kitchen:

1. Homemade yogurt
2. Chicken Stock (for soups)
3. Frozen fruit and healthy smoothie ingredients
4. Nuts and dried fruit
5. Cheese
6. Snackable veggies like celery

Katie Kimball’s experience with Whole 30

The Whole 30 is a 30-day diet is intended to remove food groups that can promote inflammation, and in the process, kill your cravings for artificial sweeteners and processed food. Katie Kimball and her husband have each tried this method of eating with great success. The benefits they have experienced include:

• weight loss (without feeling hungry)
• resetting their palette to curb negative cravings
• gut health reset

Better Than a Box

Katie Kimball has written an excellent book about replacing processed food with real food alternatives. In it, she has reverse engineered many common store-bought favorites like casseroles, soups, and desserts—even Velveeta cheese!

The result of her process is a book of excellent, healthy recipes that can replace your traditional meal-in-a-box choices from the store. Not only that, in the first 80 pages of the book, she explains how to reverse engineer your own recipes, a skill that goes beyond the recipes in the book. Check it out here.

Resources Mentioned:

• Better Than a Box — Katie Kimball’s book for replacing processed food
• How to Make Homemade Yogurt
• Azure Standard

Kitchen Skills for Kids!

Katie Kimball has offered her video series, Kitchen Skills for Kids, for free to listeners of the podcast to help moms get their children involved in the meal preparation process.

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