40 min

31: The Mental Load of Meal Planning Comfort Food

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In which Virginia realizes that her reluctance to meal planning is really a one woman protest against yet more emotional labor — that essential work of caring and keeping our families that so disproportionately falls onto moms. We talk about why meal planning is requires so much mental load work, and ask: How can we even things out and make it work better in our homes? 
Struggling with your own meal planning mental load? Tell us your stories: comfortfoodpodcast@gmail.com or @v_solesmith & @yummytoddlerfood on social media. 
And check out our show notes for all the articles and other resources discussed in this episode at comfortfoodpodcast.com. 

In which Virginia realizes that her reluctance to meal planning is really a one woman protest against yet more emotional labor — that essential work of caring and keeping our families that so disproportionately falls onto moms. We talk about why meal planning is requires so much mental load work, and ask: How can we even things out and make it work better in our homes? 
Struggling with your own meal planning mental load? Tell us your stories: comfortfoodpodcast@gmail.com or @v_solesmith & @yummytoddlerfood on social media. 
And check out our show notes for all the articles and other resources discussed in this episode at comfortfoodpodcast.com. 

40 min