Why the blog?

One of the biggest issues for my clients, and for most people who find out I am a dietitian, is DINNER.  People don't have time, people don't have cooking skills, people don't have money or access to the freshest or healthiest groceries...  And so we buy pre-made frozen meals, or boxed meals, or fast food, we eat in the car, or order out, or go out (not to say there is no place in the kitchen for some of these items, I can make a mean meal out of an organic box of macaroni and cheese!).  I do get it.  But most of these options are very processed, full of salt, chemicals, sugar, and trans fat to name a few culprits. You all know it, dinner is dying and along with it our bodies.  Yes, dinner is very important.
However, I have never been good at really helping people with this struggle because making meals has always come very natural to me and I don't exactly know how to explain what I do…  I don't use recipes, I hardly plan, and yet I make good, healthful dinners on a budget, most nights of the week.  I don't have hard and fast rules to follow or much concrete advice (see resource pages for the few guidelines I did come up with).  In fact, those very structured and planned systems of tackling dinner seem more complicated and time consuming to me. 
So, I invite you into my brain!  I thought if I could just tell you everyday what I do and how I thought of it; where I started and what I got-- then maybe you too, could start to enjoy making healthy dinners for yourself and your family and know that it does not need to consume your life or your wallet. 
I want to invite others to free themselves from the shackles of fear-based cooking.  I want to teach people how NOT to cook like a French chef!  Cut your vegetables into any shape you want, try making garlic paste without directions, make a meal around a can of soup!
My goal is to help bring people back into their kitchens.  To re-teach basic cooking skills so that cooking becomes easy.  To help you make a nutritious dinner in a short amount of time with a few amount of dishes.  To help people eat real whole food for meals instead of processed ‘food.’  To bring families together if just once a day, for dinner.
Food is important.  We quite literally are what we eat.  And our families are how much time we spend with them.  Dinner is a perfect time to feed our whole body and our whole family.  Let's not complicate things, let's sit down together.
I invite you start enjoying food, making it, messing with it, and eating it! 
Please be interactive with this blog.  Let me know your thoughts, opinions, questions so that I can better help.