Btwn Meals

Hello friends, I know you all are putting in the effort making healthy meals, eating protein, fiber, hitting the gym, getting your sleep (yes, I’ve been reading your Bodywise sign up notes)…so let’s have a little fun with it. Btwn Meals is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Nutrition at it’s core is about feeling good and let’s be real: a good outfit can really turn a day around.

Sunday, August 30th, 2026 After I graduated culinary school I had an idea for a cooking show—I was serious about it too. I wanted to call it something like Your Go-To Dish or Hero Meals. I was 23 or 24 living in New York and literally none of my friends knew how to cook (you know who you are….). I feltfeel strongly that everyone needs at least one good dish under their belt: coq au vin, a great roast chicken, spaghetti carbonara.

Packing lunch is easily one of my least favorite parenting duties (up there with teeth brushing and anything that involves the bathroom). I love cooking, but trying to think of foods that my son likes, are relatively nutritious, and okay to eat cold or room temp is a much more annoying task than it should be. Ozzie just started first grade, but it wasn't until last year that I had to pack lunch.

Sunday, August 23rd, 2026 Ozzie started first grade this week and never have I felt the passing of time more vividly than I do right now. Everyone always says it goes so fast, and I really feel it. 😭 Emotions aside, I am thrilled that 1/2 kids is now back in school, but also felt a little tinge of dread about all the lunches, snacks, pickups, and emails (oh the emails).

Hello friends, I've been working on something and today I finally get to tell you about it. But first, a little personal story and a bitch about how much I hated being pregnant and the journey it started me on. Thank you to everyone who reads my total overshares every week. I’m excited about this, and hope you will be too. I know some women love being pregnant, but not me—I did not like the changes in my body, not being able to do everything I wanted to do, or the anticipation of giving birth.

Sunday, August 16th, 2026 Okay this may be an extremely unpopular opinion, but (as they say) this is a hill I will die on. This is from a text exchange with a friend visiting family in Italy (we were also there in July). I’m sorry for all of you reading this that don’t get the bounties of the Golden State, but it really is spectacular right now—a special time of year when summer produce starts to bleed into fall.

I have a very dear French friend who is so chic and cool she has a private instagram and says “beach” instead of “bitch.” We have essentially raised our children together and her level of organization and cleanliness is so impressive it teeters on annoying. Okay, so this friend of mine is notorious in our tight-knit mom group for a little caddy she keeps with her kids’ hygiene products that we have appropriately named: The French Caddy. It’s honestly brilliant.

Sunday, August 9th, 2026 I was talking to a client this week, a working mom trying to get her energy back, feel good in her body, and, you know, get dinner on the table. It really isn’t too much to ask, but some weeks, I know, it feels like a Herculean effort. And when you’re getting a hundred inputs about what “healthy” is supposed to look like, taste and ease are the first things to fall off the list.

This headline has been in my feed all week. If this is the first time you’re hearing it, lucky you. I mean, does it get any more confusing? Here’s what happened in case you missed it: Last Friday, two researchers at the University of Wisconsin published a review in Cell Press Blue pulling together more than 350 papers on protein restriction and aging—their conclusion was that eating less protein promotes metabolic health and a longer life.

Sunday, August 2nd, 2026 Well hello, August! There are many things I love about late summer, but most especially the produce. Peaches, tomatoes and corn are all in season at the same time, so naturally I had to make roasted salmon with a charred corn peach relish. I didn't have a choice. The beauty of this recipe is that it’s actually quite simple—while the salmon cooks, I blanch the green beans and make the relish.