A Feed Yourself Intensive, Pesto is the Besto, and a New Podcast
We live in shape-shifting diet culture, we'll likely have to eat our words and apologize over and over. The unlearning and learning never ends.
Things have been pretty crazy lately - work projects, more work projects, company, icky weather, and, of course, tax season. A lot is happening, but that doesn’t make it all bad. It’s just a lot.
One of the things I’m excited to share with you is my partnership with Emersion Intensives. This five-day program will dive deep into the underpinnings of how diet culture interferes with our lives, help us deconstruct its stronghold, and redefine our journey to true well-being. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed planning this therapeutic getaway with the Emersion Intensive team. It will blend outdoor adventure, unlearning, learning, expansion, and, hopefully, freedom.
Now for Menus & an Apology
This week, we’re cooking up salmon and chicken with pesto. It really is the besto! When my family and I visited Italy two summers ago, we got to make pesto in a beautiful little seaside town called Manarola. It was dreamy, and the pesto was honestly the besto. You can make your own if you have time, but I'll grab a jar of pesto to get dinner done when I don’t have fresh basil in the winter months. We’re also having tacos, sausage and cheese plate, and more. I sure hope you enjoy it!
I also owe you an apology. I’ve been writing and revising these menus for more than a decade. Over the years, I’ve moved further and further away from diet culture. Even when I started writing them, I thought that diet culture couldn’t get past me. Yet, I’ve made plenty of mistakes over the years. One of you brought to my attention (which I very much appreciate) that I mentioned “quality ingredients” in a previous menu. This is something I used to say, and now I know better. But I missed it in the menu and didn’t remove it.
Now, you may be thinking, that’s not a big deal. But it’s just another way to dichotomize food, and I don’t want to do that in any way. Now I know that every food has/is quality, and I want to honor that and the fact that different people have different needs. So, please accept my apology. Let’s keep unlearning and learning together because diet culture is sneaky!
Now, for the pesto-themed menus you’ve been waiting for…
Get your March Week 1 Menu HERE
New Podcast
A couple of weeks ago, I sat down with author and podcast host Meghan Tschanz. We had such a good conversation about how diet culture shows up in safe places, particularly churches, on her Faith and Feminism podcast. She asked me some questions no other host has asked - direct questions about problematic books on the market - and I answered them. If you want to hear more about it, click below.
Thanks for reading my newsletter and fighting the good fight against diet culture. Catch you soon,
Leslie