While one part of the key to successfully making real food choices is preparation, I often think the other part is in making real food more appealing. For me, part of that is about shifting my mindset. Years of making poor food choices have left me with a ridiculous sweet tooth and senses that need the flavour to be bursting off the plate to entice me away from processed options.
With access to the Internet there are thousands of real food meal ideas out there to inspire you to make some interesting meals, but sometimes it's really a case of trial and error to see what will make the kids flip and what will be a flop.
I don't know about everyone else, but the last thing I want to deal with is a flop on a busy work night where the kids refuse to eat dinner. I refuse to force my kids to eat food they genuinely don't like (I'm fussier than both of them so I don't think it's fair to enforce a take it or leave it approach) so meals that are sure fire winners are a necessity.
I get my inspiration from both hard cover cookbooks (who doesn't love flipping through the glossy photos) and online. Some of my favourite cookbooks and websites are:
- Quirky Cooking (both the blog and the cookbook)
- Pete Evans' Family Food
- Skinnymixers
- Nourish by Lorna Jane Clarkson
- Well Nourished
- 100 days of real food
- Wholefood Simply
My lovely friend Lena has also recently pointed me to My Kids Eat by Sophie Guidolin so expect to see me trying some of her recipes over the coming month. :)
What are your favourite recipe inspirations?
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