Hi, I'm Amanda! I help active women 40+ create a healthy relationship with food and their body through intuitive eating, mindfulness, and gentle nutrition. Learn to undiet your life with the latest Savor Food and Body Podcast episodes, blog posts, and free downloads at www.alpinenutrition.org
It's not Thanksgiving unless you hear the slurrrp
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"It's not Thanksgiving unless you hear that slurrrp, plop as the cranberry sauce exits the can," said one of my grad school housemates. With the rings of the can tattooed loud and proud around the middle of the burgundy-colored jello-like cylinder, that sound was the holiday for her, not in my world. I'm NOT team-canned cranberry sauce. Can it even be called a sauce if you have to slice it with a knife? My culinary dietitian brain exploded when my housemate assured me that the canned cran texture is what Thanksgiving is all about. "It's what makes Turkey worth eating," she said. Hey Reader! What makes Thanksgiving or any meal satisfying for you? Thanksgiving is complicated when you live in diet culture for decades. It's hard to know what satisfaction with food even is! I remember the mental gymnastics and stress of planning how many miles I needed to run to earn or burn off my food, or how I could health-ify the recipes to reduce the food-guilt hangover. You probably learned holiday eating survival tips, too, from whatever plan(s) you followed. Like how to strategically divide your plate into food groups based on how many points or macros you are allowed to eat. Maybe that was helpful back then to reduce the food noise and after-eating guilt. But now, you're tired of diet culture holiday tips (to be honest, they stopped working anyway). Try this instead... Chef Shannon recently returned to the podcast to chat about how to reduce the holiday food noise and kick up the satisfaction factor with easy flavor-building hacks. We also talked about when it makes sense to healthify a recipe and when it's a really bad idea. Listen to the podcast audio episodes below or wherever you get your podcasts. Recipe Mistakes You Need to Stop Making: episode 108 Boost Your Cooking with 3 Easy Taste Tips: episode 109 Want to put faces to names? Join our conversations on the Savor Food and Body YouTube channel! Episode 108: Recipe Mistakes You Need to Stop Making! Episode 109: Boost Your Cooking: 3 Easy Taste Tips What's your favorite Thanksgiving dish? Hit reply! I'd love to hear from you - especially if you have a recipe to share :) Wishing you a delicious holiday weekend, savoring food and your body! Amanda PS: Turn down the holiday food noise and turn up the satisfaction! Chef Shannon is back on the Savor Food and Body Podcast to chat about the essential elements of taste and flavor, exploring how they contribute to a satisfying dining experience. Listen to the 2 conversations wherever you get your podcasts, episode 108 and episode 109, or on the Savor Food and Body YouTube Channel |
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Hi, I'm Amanda! I help active women 40+ create a healthy relationship with food and their body through intuitive eating, mindfulness, and gentle nutrition. Learn to undiet your life with the latest Savor Food and Body Podcast episodes, blog posts, and free downloads at www.alpinenutrition.org
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