#85 – Ancestral Cooking When You’re Busy, Sick, Pregnant or Moving

What about cooking and eating ancestrally when you’re in times of turmoil, or busy chaotic times – like having a new baby, or when people are sick, or when you’re moving across countries!

In this episode Alison and I are going to talk about all of these things because we are going through all of them. We will share some of our strategies and plans for using up food stores before a move, or preparing food in advance when there’s a baby coming, and how we’re going to keep our systems running despite all of the disruptions going on in normal life.

Thank you to those of you who sent in the questions that inspired this episode – it’s a really good one, and I think you will find it very useful.

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What we cover:

• Sharing about the Spelt Cookbook
• What’s happening in Discord these days? Fermentation failures and successes, book recommendations, our daily meals
• Alison is in the final weeks of preparation for a major cross-country move.
• Using up food stores: planning meals around what she has, itemizing what she has, and calculating what will be needed
• Preparing and planning food for the flight and to have upon arrival
• Traveling with active ferments on an airplane
• Key kitchen tools to use upon arrival
• Finding new food sources when moving to a new place
• Andrea is preparing for a summer baby arrival!
• How did cooking during pregnancy sickness go?
• What kinds of strategies are we using to plan for continued cooking in the postpartum era?
• Plan to Eat App and how it is helping the family members to be involved and take over some of Andrea’s tasks
• Foods for sickness: the types of foods we eat, as well as how it all gets made
• Cooking in community. Ancestral food is meant to be part of community living!

Resources:

The First Forty Days by Heng Ou – lots of freezer-ready recipes that are all conducive to postpartum, recovery from surgery, nourishing patients, etc.

Pressure Canning for Beginners and Beyond: Safe, Easy Recipes for Preserving Tomatoes, Vegetables, Beans and Meat by Angie Schneider (podcast listener and patron!). If you don’t have access to freezers/room for a freezer/power for a freezer, you can can some easy to prepare meals to either always have on hand, or when anticipating an event like a new baby.

Alison’s article Eating Ancestrally Away From Home

Alison’s Bone Broth Bowl

KTC Episode #26 to hear more about Alison cooking and traveling in the UK

KTC Episode #35 to hear a more intimate conversation about the changes we are going through this summer

Plan to Eat App Link – This referral link includes a 45-day trial (rather than just the 14-day trial!) and 20% off a year membership!

Lacto-Fermented Ranch