We begin in the comfort of your home by spending a couple hours talking about your history with food and your new food goals. I have a list of questions that can guide the conversation, and we work with whatever comes up. I use components of ethnographic interviewing to help you bring your silenced food stories to the surface, so we can both better understand your complex, lifelong relationship with food. Then we come up with a plan together on how to implement your new food goals with a focus on ease, comfort and pleasure.

Next, we buy groceries together. Each person has their own routine for how they get their groceries. Some people go to the stores themselves, while others have caregivers who shop for them. Others still may order their groceries online. However you get your groceries, I will be at your side helping you to navigate the new purchasing habits and food choices that we decided on in our first session together.

The last step is getting into your kitchen together. Here, we can address how you organize your cupboards and draws, fridge and freezer, countertops and pantry. The goal is to help you feel as much ease as possible in your physical space, to remove any physical barriers between you and your new food goals. Then we can do some light food prep that helps you get into a new rhythm that is also focused on ease, to improve your odds of sticking to your new dietary habits.

Want a weekly or monthly meeting for some hands-on help? Between food prep, kitchen organizing and meal planning, having a food companion could be a big help for some people. We can decide together how often you’d like me to come over, and what would be most helpful. Maybe you’d like me to come once a season to help you reorganize your space, or once a week to help with food prep. This can be custom tailored to each person’s needs, and can be changed over time as your sink into your new routines.

If in-person support isn’t what you need, maybe you’d prefer some digital support. The app Voxer can allow us to stay in communication during prearranged “office hours” when we can check in with each other to celebrate your successes, trouble shoot anything that isn’t working, and get creative about any goals that need to be updated.

The goal of the original 3-part sessions is to help build a solid foundation for making meaningful, lasting changes. After that, I am more than happy to work with you on meal planning that can help you find ease with your new food habits. We can come up with a list of go-to meals that you can chose from at random. Or if it’s more helpful for you, we can create an actual rotating menu that tells you what meals to make each day. Again, this will be customized for each person’s needs and desires, because every body is different.