Hello my lovelies,
Thank you for being an early supporter of FED The Newsletter. I am entirely tickled and almost giddy to announce that I am ready to start sending out weekly ancestral and family focused meal plans.
The path of service really is a wild one. If you would have told me that to serve Nourishment and the Mother I would be sharing something as ordinary as my family’s weekly meal plans I would have definitely laughed, but here I am. I tell you, the mind always wants it to be flashier than it ends up being.
This is humbling, simple, and foundational information, and yet, I can feel the immense service that sharing an ancestral meal plan, recipes, and grocery list every week with potentially hundreds of mothers and women wanting to feed themselves and their loved ones well can be.
To take the effort of finding nourishing recipes, thinking up a variety of meals, and making grocery lists out of the equation and instead have it done for you could make all the difference between an easeful experience with nourishment and a more taxing one.
I also love the idea of so many women eating the same thing around the same time. A thread moving through us. Just another blessed point of connection between women and mothers in a world where women connecting and backing each other is exactly what the world needs.
That being said, these meal plans, recipes, and grocery lists won’t do the shopping, pantry auditing and stocking, and cooking for you.
So, as part of this newsletter I also want to offer periodic kitchen wisdom from my own many, many years in the kitchen and personal experience of feeding a family whole, traditional, ancestral foods, as well as my professional knowledge, gifts, and insights into nutrition and caring for our bodies.
For being an early supporter of this project I want to offer those of you who subscribe this first week my Meal Planning Guide. This guide has ancestral ideas for breakfasts, lunches, and dinners. It’s got some of my all time favorite dinner recipes, as well as kitchen stocking tips, brands I love, and recipes for the best snacks to have on hand.
I am always a firm believer of clear boundaries. So, I want to be very clear and concise about what FED The Newsletter is and give you a solid grounding of what to expect.
What exactly do I get for signing up?
I am committing to sharing the weekly dinner meal plan I make for my family every single week with those of you who decide to make the investment of at least $7/month. There will be no breakfasts, lunches, snacks or anything other than dinner meals and recipes. However if you sign up between now and when the first meal plan goes out on Wednesday (10/4) or as a founding member anytime, you’ll get my downloadable Meal Planning Guide that does have breakfast, lunch, and snack ideas, along with pantry basics, brands of foods and kitchen staples I love, and some of my most favorite family dinner recipes.
Will I take a week off here and there?
Yes, but I do promise to send out a weekly dinner meal plan on most weeks, especially at the beginning, but we all need to take a week from the kitchen at times and just get by on what’s in the freezer and cupboards.
Will I repeat recipes?
Yes and YES. I have a few recipes that really hit the trifecta of a good family dinner: everyone enjoys it, it’s hearty, deeply nutritious and fills you up and makes great leftovers (leftovers are a key to eating well in my opinion), and it’s something I can make in 30 min or less. You will see these recipes rotated quite a bit.
Will every single recipe be a winner?
No. I do like to experiment quite often and sometimes I’ll probably share stuff that isn’t going to absolutely wonderful.
Are the meals dairy free, vegetarian, gluten free, sugar free, etc?
No. All of the meals I make are whole food based. They are all rooted in an ancestral philosophy around food and nutrition. These are all meals your grandma may have eaten, with a little modern day twist of Asian, Mexican, Mediterranean, Italian and maybe others cuisine. I will never use seeds oils, nut flours, nut milk, plant based protein powders/meat alternatives, things that come from boxes or cans (with a few exceptions), or major convenience-based cooking shortcuts. Every single meal will be centered around bioavailable protein (properly raised meat). When I am using grains they will always be properly prepared eg soaked, sprouted and fermented. I will note this in the recipes.
My Kitchen Philosophy: Efficiency and Reverence in the Kitchen
As I’ve felt into the launch of FED The Newsletter, I’ve really been thinking about how to translate my unique kitchen philosophy.
It comes down to two words: Efficiency and Reverence.
These two words normally are not used in the same setting.
It’s all about the bottom line and getting the job done eg efficiency at all costs OR it’s about the beauty, soulfulness, and feeling into every single piece eg reverence, but in my kitchen these two words work together.
To be efficient, in the way I’m talking about it here, is be reverent. To be reverent is to be efficient. Reverent of the ingredients and what it took to get them on your chopping board or in your pan. Reverent of your time. Reverent of the fact that you are feeding the bodies of your loved ones.
Efficient because mothers of small children are the busiest humans on the planet. Efficient because we need a lot of good food on a regular basis if our families and ourselves are going to be well fed. Efficient because as much as cooking can be a devotional, reverent act, we would also love to snuggle on the couch with a loved one and put our feet up.
It struck me how efficiency and reverence in the kitchen is actually a perfect example of Divine Union, which is something I write more about on my other Substack Matriarch by Clara Wisner.
Divine Union is the masculine and feminine energies working together in right relationship toward creation.
That is what cooking nourishing food is to me. It is a creation and creation needs both the masculine efficiency and the feminine reverence.
Subscribe now and you’ll get a welcome email with my downloadable meal planning guide and the first weekly meal plan will send out on Wednesday next week.
Happy harvest moon my beautiful friends. It’s going to be an abundant autumn.
I don't even need a split second to think about this invitation. I'm excited to start receiving these meal plans and I'm really inspired by the idea of something you do as part of your everyday life can be a valuable offering for other people.
YESSS. I’m so excited about this