Family Meal Planning for Busy Families with Marie Fiebach

October 28, 2021

Is family meal planning sometimes the hardest part of your week? As moms with busy families, we tend to really struggle with getting healthy meals on the table. If you resonate with this, you are not alone.

Marie Fiebach, married mother of four active kids ages 13-18, founded Feed Your Family Tonight to help busy families eat dinner together at home and recapture a little calm in the crazy. She is a business owner, podcaster, and has a weekly cooking segment on her local ABC affiliate. Marie knows how hard it is to get dinner on the table whether you are working until 6:00, running kids to after-school activities, or chasing toddlers all day. She has dealt with picky eaters, food allergies, and busy schedules but still manages to feed her family a home-cooked meal almost every night. In this episode, she is here to help you do the same!

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Show Notes and Transcript: Family Meal Planning

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Joining us today is Marie Fiebach, wife and mom of 4 teenagers. She is literally me in 6 years!

Marie is the founder of Feed Your Family Tonight and helps busy families eat dinner together at home and recapture a little calm in the crazy. She is a business owner, podcaster, and has a weekly cooking segment on her local ABC affiliate.

Marie knows how hard it is to get dinner on the table whether you are working until 6:00, running kids to after-school activities, or chasing toddlers all day. She has dealt with picky eaters, food allergies, and busy schedules but still manages to feed her family a home-cooked meal almost every night.

As supermoms, the family meals are not always but often our responsibility. If you have a partner who is in charge of the meal planning, you can pass this episode right along. But, if not, listen in for strategies with picky eaters, tricks to use for even the busiest schedule, and what to do when the wheels fall off and all you want to do is hit the drive-thru. I know I’ve been there for sure!

For all the links mentioned in this episode including Marie’s Weekly Meal Planning Sheet, head to the show notes at secretsofsupermom.com/29. Let’s do it!

Family Meal Planning for Busy Moms

You are going to love today’s episode. Today we talk about strategies for family meal planning including quick tips and easy strategies WITHOUT having to meal prep. (Hallelujah!)

The biggest challenge for busy moms (6:00)
What does dinner planning have to do with good time management? (6:45)
Can solid weekly meal planning for meals actually make your entire week easier in ALL THE THINGS? (8:50)
Why I hate meal prepping and why you don’t have to do it [yee haw!] (11:20)
Grocery store shortcuts I bet you don’t know! (12:45)
How you could even save time with meal planning instead of grabbing last-minute fast food (14:50)
How decision fatigue impacts family meal planning and causes evening stress (16:15)
What can you do when you really just don’t have time to make dinner…like zero (18:30)
Ideas for backup meals to keep in the freezer that are fast and easy (18:35)
What to do with those picky eaters whether toddlers or teens (21:25)
The magic trick to progress the palette of picky eaters (22:30)
What every mom needs in the kitchen…it’s not what you think! (28:15)