13 // MEALS MADE EASY MONDAY
MEALS MADE EASY MONDAY
5 easy ways to add variety to your everyday scrambled egg
Welcome to Meals Made Easy MONDAYS! A new episode airing on Mondays, in addition to my main weekly episode on Wednesdays.
These Meals Made Easy episodes are quick, easy, actionable meal and snack ideas you can add to cart and begin incorporating into your busy life RIGHT AWAY.
In episodes that are 10 minutes or less, I will share a breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snack ideas with you each month (plus a bonus on the months with five Mondays!). I hope these help you begin adding in some EASY variety with the ingredients you already have on hand or during the grocery shopping you are already doing.
So, appropriately in time for Easter, we are going to kick things off talking about EGGS and why you shouldn't get too stuck on serving them just scrambled every day. Instead, take advantage of the Easter season to try one of the five ways I share here, and help your child learn to like eggs LOTS of ways!
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Full Episode Transcription
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[[00:00:00] Mama, are you struggling with how to feed your kids? Right? Do you wish that there was a way to help your child try new foods? Do you look at a pantry cluttered with pirate, booty and a fridge full of the same food every week and wonder how you're going to get your family's meals off the hot mess express.
[00:00:16] I know what it feels like to scroll through all the feeding accounts on Instagram and to see a bunch of Fuji food that my family would never eat. And I too have pinned all the healthy recipes with good intention. But zero execution. I understand as a busy mom of three, that it can feel really unattainable, especially on the days when I'm exhausted.
[00:00:34] I have a short fuse. He really disliked an easy button and the date way. Well, that's where these meals made easy episode ideas come from with everyday ingredients that you already have on hand, I give you one meal or snack idea week that's dietician, mom approved, and is going to fit in your family's busy life.
[00:00:52] So get ready to press, add to cart and to make meals. Again, Hey y'all I am so excited to launch a new episode on Mondays. This will be my meals made easy Monday episode. It will be much shorter, quicker, just an easy win for you guys. I just finished a podcast mastermind that was so helpful to me personally and professionally.
[00:01:17] And if you have questions about it, feel free to reach out to me because I'd be happy to talk to you. But in the process I've been working on a new course, y'all might have known depending on how long you've been around. I used to do the academy, which was like a really intense group coaching program.
[00:01:31] And then COVID hit and most parents didn't have the capacity for an intensive group coaching program. And I just didn't really like how it converted to an automated course. That was never the intent of it. And so I've just been praying over how I can show up and serve you guys in a new way through a course.
[00:01:47] And I'm really thankful because. As I get the wheels turning on the meals made easy method course that will be released in a few months. I just wanted to start sharing little bits and pieces that I thought would be helpful for you guys in the meantime, because the number one thing I hear from you guys that you want is simple meal and snack ideas.
[00:02:05] And while I don't ever want to overwhelm you, my hope with these episodes is that each week you will just hear something new or just a little inspiring in the way that it's. That made you think of a very simple food in a new way that maybe you hadn't thought of before? So that's really my heart and my mission behind adding these episodes.
[00:02:24] I told myself I would give myself the first quarter to get through that course and mastermind and make sure I wasn't overextending myself or, you know, committing to something that I couldn't keep up with. But as that course wraps up this week, I am really excited jumping into April and Q2 to just start, I'm sharing with you guys, some of these.
[00:02:43] And so just so you know, kind of the framework for these events. Like I said, they're going to be quick, simple, easy, actionable meal and snack ideas. They'll be under 10 minute episodes. So you can just listen while you're washing dishes and be inspired in that way. And throughout the month, I'm going to share a breakfast, a lunch, a dinner, and a second.
[00:03:04] And I'll probably throw in a bonus if there's five weeks in the month. I haven't quite figured all that out yet, but I have a lot of ideas lined up for you guys that I'm really excited to share. So with it being Easter and us being a few weeks away, or excuse me with it being April and it being a few weeks away from Easter, I thought, what better way to kick off this new episode series then talking.
[00:03:26] Eggs. We're going to start talking. Obviously eggs can be offered really any meal of the day or any snack of the day. I love their versatility. I love their nutrition, but I wanted to just run through some really easy ways that you may not have been thinking about offering them so you can see how this can be a simple idea to integrate into any day.
[00:03:45] So as I'm going over this, I am literally looking at my combination cards for by. We eat eggs every meal of the day. Truly we eat them, breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks. We eat a lot of vents here and I love them. They're just so economical, so easy, but on my combination cards, breakfast stack, I wanted to let you all know that during the month of April, I am celebrating one, my 35th birthday in a few weeks.
[00:04:10] So I'm excited about that, but equally. So for those of you who have been around for a while, you know, My gift to myself on my 30th birthday was veggies and virtue. I formed my LLC that year. And that means that I've officially been in business for five years, which is a little bit surreal. But when I added in that there was a pandemic and homeschooling and some years that I was a little bit slow to grow I'm just really thankful to see where God has brought this business and brought this community.
[00:04:34] And so to celebrate, I want to offer 35% off of any of my combination cards during the month of. So, all you need to do is you can buy the physical deck or the digital deck, depending on whether you'd rather flip through it. It's like a laminate plastic type substrate that's used on the physical deck.
[00:04:53] So you can really easily wipe them clean, flip through them with sticky fingers, no problem there. Or if you're more the type who likes to have things on your phone and easy access, when you're maybe Roman through the grocery stores, you can get the PDF version, but hop on over to my site. And use discount code, happy birthday.
[00:05:09] And that's going to get you 35% off my combination. All through the month of April. And so really excited to offer that discount to you guys this month and celebration of our five-year anniversary for hedges and virtue and my birthday as well. But as I'm looking at this eggs combination card, I just wanted to share with you guys a few things, because it will be another meals made easy episode that I talk about other protein alternatives for breakfast.
[00:05:35] Sweet mom. New Facebook group simple meal and snack ideas for kids over on Facebook. If you want to come join us, this sweet mom, Sarah had asked for high protein breakfast ideas other than eggs. So I'm definitely going to tackle that in an upcoming episode, but for now, I just want to share with you some of the ways that you may not be offering eggs that could kind of help you branch out because as another mom shared with.
[00:05:59] What better and the way she said it was what better nutritious food than X for breakfast. But what she realized is she was serving up this same scrambled eggs every day. And we can fall into a trap really quickly with this. If we are offering the same food, the same. Even if that's a healthy food. So what I want to help you think about here is how you can have a really simple staple, like eggs.
[00:06:21] And yet you can add variety in the way that you're offering it. So as I show on my combination cards, you might be changing up the shape of it. One of my kids' favorite is making it into like a little egg pizza. It's almost like you're making an omelet, but you're not folding it in half. So you're just making it in a circle and then you slice it up like a pizza.
[00:06:38] The kids eat it in little triangles. Anytime my kids. Start phasing out of loving eggs. I bring back in the egg pizza and it stays on the Lovett list, but the caution I would give to you there is if your kids stop loving this, love it food. And you've only offered it one way. You kind of lose in this example, eggs.
[00:06:58] And so I want you to think about is how can we get these different variations? And so going through some of the ones on the combination, You also might consider, how can you add color to it, blending your eggs instead of like, just whisking them in a bowl, but planting them in the blender with a little spinach can give you like Hulk eggs or Shrek eggs and give you a little bit of spinach to it, but change the color a little bit and see if your kids receptive to.
[00:07:23] Also things like the texture can change like very widely with eggs. So whether you do a fried egg or a poached egg, or a hard-boiled egg experiment with that texture and see which ones that your kid likes. Additionally, think about how you can change up the taste. It might be something super easy and kid-friendly like sprinkling cheese on or mixing cheese into it.
[00:07:42] Or it might be something like offering broccoli sprinkles on it, or mixing it with like some roasted sweet potatoes. Or turning it into an omelet with everyone, getting to kind of build their own and create their own taste profile. Additionally, let's think about how can we change that temperature? You all know, I love hard boiled eggs at home.
[00:08:00] It is a go-to staple snack for us, but it also acts as a really easy breakfast. So think about how a cold, hard boiled egg in the fridge might create a simple addition app. If you want to know more ideas on how to learn to like eggs nutritionally, why I think your family should learn to like eggs, please be sure to go use that coupon code, happy birthday for 35% off my combination cards.
[00:08:22] I run through all of these details and more on that card. But for today, let's go ahead and wrap up and review the five ways that you can begin adding variety through this meals made easy method. You can change the shape of the eggs that you're offering, the color, the texture, the taste, or the temperature.
[00:08:43] So think back to the ideas we discussed in this episode and apply one to your upcoming. At these meals made easy ideas are helping you in any way, or this show is encouraging you and the message in the mail times of motherhood, I would love to hear about it. All you need to do is scroll down on all apple podcasts and tap, write a review.
[00:09:03] I check each and every one of these, and they truly blessed me to read. And to know how this show is helping shape your family's relationship with food so that I can continue to create content that serves you best. Thank you. For taking the time to leave me a review. And I look forward to seeing you back here next time.
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