Episode 31: Your Family’s Food ‘Whys’
What You’ll Learn
What are the priorities for your family? (00:40)
What are some areas where food values can differ? (4:55)
Recap (10:31)
Invitation (10:41)
What is the ‘why’ that guides how you feed your family? It is SO important to plan with YOUR family, YOUR season, and YOUR life in mind (not anyone else’s). Food values can (and should) vary greatly from family to family—and we are only limited by our creativity. When you’re done listening, come follow Brittany on Instagram @thedeliberateday and send her a DM with the word “meals” for your link to sign up for the “Meal Planning Made Easy” kit.
What Are the Priorities for Your Family (00:40)
What do you care about when it comes to food? What’s important to you, your husband, and your kids?
There are lots of things they say you “should” do, but ultimately it comes down to what works for you in your current stage of life!
Often, we unknowingly gravitate towards what other people are doing because we don’t take the time to think about what is important to us, for example. . .
Brittany attended a conference for mom-business owners where she listened to a woman who was feeling crushed by the burden of mealtime. HER solution was to cook the same meals each week. Brittany thought this was a great idea, until. . .
She considered her family’s own food values. Brittany and her husband enjoy introducing their kids to a variety of flavors and tastes. They value variety in dinners, and as a family, they enjoy learning ALL the time (even in the kitchen).
It is SO important to feed your mind on many different topics, listen to a variety of voices, and consider how this new knowledge can be applied to the different areas of your life!
What are Some Areas Where Food Values Differ? (4:55)
Quick and easy or organic and healthy, a blend of all, or somewhere in between.
Maybe eating dinner together is the hill you are willing to die on! Maybe it’s breakfast!
Some of the things you think you “should” do are even adaptable to fit the different seasons of your life!
Back to the conference Brittany attended, while she didn’t completely adapt the rigid form of meal planning that worked for the speaker, she did decide that breakfasts could be a bit more predictable (in order to save time AND keep her diverse dinner menu).
Maybe you don’t enjoy eating with your kids! There are happy moms with happy children in beautiful families who do this!
Some families with a working parent adjust dinner times for when the one who works returns home!
When you understand that mom-life is made up of seasons that are constantly changing, it releases so much guilt, stress, and anxiety because:
These seasons don’t last forever.
You have the ability to pivot and change with these seasons as they come in.
Maybe you have a kiddo who goes to bed at 6:00pm, and it requires dinner at 4:00!
Perhaps you want to start a weekly date night where you feed the kids early and your husband cook together (in quiet) after the kids go to bed!
If your family is constantly on the go, but healthy food is your thing, you may have to send your people off with a healthy pre-packed meal!
For those who deal with spouses who deploy or travel often, you need to decide what the most important part of mealtime is. . .do you value eating together? Maybe you need to feed the kids early and enjoy your own warm dinner later with a movie.
It’s all adaptable, it’s all figureoutable, it’s all fixable.
If food allergies are your challenge! This definitely isn’t the end of the word (more on this in later episodes), but it will greatly affect your food ‘why.’
All of these things can factor in to your family’s food ‘why’ and will reveal what you need out of meal planning.
Recap (10:31)
What is your food ‘why’ for this season of your life?
Keep in mind it WILL change, so be prepared to review your family’s ‘why’ at regular intervals!
Invitation (10:41)
Go to Instagram, follow @thedeliberateday, and send Brittany a DM with the word “meals” and she’ll give you a link to get the beautiful “Meal Planning Made Easy” kit she’s created (Image featured below)! Or, since you’re here already. . .just click here.
