Episode 129: How to Cook and Meal Plan with Ease with Sara Forte of Sprouted Kitchen
Sara Forte is a two-time cookbook author, award-winning food blogger at Sprouted Kitchen, co-creator of the Sprouted Kitchen Cooking Club, mom of two, and equal opportunity salad and brownie enthusiast living in Southern California. Sara’s food blog, Sprouted Kitchen, launched over a decade ago and has been an adventure Sara pursued with her wildly talented husband, Hugh, who is responsible for all of their food photography.
Sara has worked at a grocery store, two farms, and has spent the last decade creating recipes for her blog, two cookbooks, and her weekly meal planning program, Sprouted Kitchen Cooking Club. Her intention is to make healthy-ish food that fits into that fits into the everyday life of families. She doesn’t subscribe to particular diets, or label foods as "good" or "bad." Her food philosophy is to try to eat mostly vegetables and listen to your body outside of that.
Sara is authentically interested in the entire concept of wellness, including mental health, relationships, mindfulness, movement and eating well. To Sara, caring for ourselves and others with nourishing foods is a big piece of that “wellness” puzzle. She cooks for pleasure, to slow her mind down, and to foster relationships by gathering those she loves around the table.
Knowing how food connects us, Sara and Hugh recently founded Sprouted Kitchen Cooking Club - a weekly meal planning subscription, that helps home cooks get dinner on the table by organizing their time at the market and in the kitchen, and offering recipes to prepare a handful of healthy-ish meals during the week.
In this episode we discussed:
Sara’s journey with starting her blog, Sprouted Kitchen, and how that led to two cookbooks and a meal planning service, the Sprouted Kitchen Cooking Club
Why Sara cooks and how it connects her to herself, her food, her relationships and so much more
Easy ideas for how to get started in the kitchen
How to cook and meal plan with ease using Sprouted Kitchen Cooking Club
Sara’s inspiration to start her weekly meal planning service to empowers members to put tasty, real food in their bodies and on the tables
What wellness means to Sara
Getting started with feeding children and ways to sneak vegetables in their diet
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