Speaker 1: Welcome to Healthy Ish. Thanks for joining us on the
Speaker 1: daily podcast from Body and Soul. I am your host,
Speaker 1: Felicity Halle and Yes. To celebrate summer, we're dropping our
Speaker 1: top Healthyish episodes from the year now. I'm not sure
Speaker 1: if you follow best selling cookbook author Leah ititsteinus on socials,
Speaker 1: but if you do, you will know she loves cooking
Speaker 1: from TikTok's abundance of recipes. We spoke to her in April.
Speaker 1: We quizzed her on how she chooses the right TikTok
Speaker 1: recipe and then makes it her own. Hey, if you
Speaker 1: want more from Leah listening to extra healthy Ish, where
Speaker 1: she shares more about her current approach to food, her
Speaker 1: healthy Ish cooking tips, and of course how she's learnt
Speaker 1: to love running, you can catch that episode where we
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Speaker 2: Lee.
Speaker 1: I'm nice to have you finally on the podcast. We've
Speaker 1: had your sister a few times, so I'm glad we've
Speaker 1: got you on.
Speaker 3: Oh, I'm so glad to be here. Definitely be more
Speaker 3: of a fun conversation than fitness.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, it's good. Actually, that's quite fun. I
Speaker 4: never thought about that food versus fitness. Yes, a fun one.
Speaker 1: Now, one thing that I do actually find fun is
Speaker 1: seeing your Instagram's the way you well, the way you
Speaker 1: cook off TikTok and cook these recipes.
Speaker 2: I mean a TikTok fiend.
Speaker 1: I mean like TikTok is a gold mine for finding recipes.
Speaker 1: How do you actually find ones that are going to
Speaker 1: be tasty and easy and we can cook them well?
Speaker 3: To be fair, my home tied TikTok for you page
Speaker 3: is literally just like the trending recipe. So I just
Speaker 3: go on, I just flick a few and I find
Speaker 3: something amazing. But usually if I'm like, I really want
Speaker 3: a brownie and I know someone will have a good
Speaker 3: brownie recipe, I like our search chocolate, brownie, delicious, something,
Speaker 3: so I would do all the words that I want
Speaker 3: and then it pops up with and I always go
Speaker 3: for the first one because I'm like, that's most like
Speaker 3: has to be good. But I did find I'm not
Speaker 3: sure if you saw on my Instagram, I did an
Speaker 3: easter krap It's called Easter crack wild recipe that I've
Speaker 3: found on TikTok. I said, I rang my sister straight
Speaker 3: away and I said, this is the best is it?
Speaker 2: I have ever eaten in my entire life. I was shocked.
Speaker 2: I love TikTok so much because it.
Speaker 4: Was, come on, you can't, you have to give us more?
Speaker 4: What was in that recipe?
Speaker 3: So basically it's a it's apparently not just TikTok.
Speaker 2: Apparently it's this is.
Speaker 3: Like a wild thing that's gone on for years, mears
Speaker 3: and years, but I've just discovered it. Someone did Christmas
Speaker 3: crack with Christmas things and now we've changed to Easter.
Speaker 3: So basically it's alata biscuits.
Speaker 2: I do you know what?
Speaker 3: You know the square salata biscuits. Someone's with a four
Speaker 3: if you can snap those those I said. When I
Speaker 3: said that to someone, I was like, what is that happened?
Speaker 4: I think I used to have.
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, everyone has them.
Speaker 3: So solata biscuits on the bottom, and then you make
Speaker 3: your own caramel sauce with butter and sugar, make your
Speaker 3: own camel. You pull that on top, and then you
Speaker 3: basically melt cara milk block and a regular chocolate block
Speaker 3: and you melt and chucked that over the top, and
Speaker 3: then you put sprinkles and whatever, and then you put
Speaker 3: it in a fridge and it's like a salty biscuit
Speaker 3: caramel chocolate.
Speaker 2: I don't even know how to explain it. And it's no,
Speaker 2: it's no cook it's no cork. It's literally just melting
Speaker 2: in the chocolate.
Speaker 3: When I say it was the best thing ever, I
Speaker 3: have it in the fridge and I don't even want
Speaker 3: to make eye contact with it because I.
Speaker 2: Know that hold.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's like almost torture like so good, but.
Speaker 2: Also it is wild.
Speaker 1: I mean, there has been a bit going around about
Speaker 1: these virtual recipes on TikTok. I mean, I think one
Speaker 1: of Australia's leading chefs came out and said recently saying, oh,
Speaker 1: they're so tasteless. They're all done for show. You know,
Speaker 1: they're all they're easy, they're super easy. There's no skill
Speaker 1: in them. I mean, what's your take on that.
Speaker 3: I mean that's the whole point, right, Like you want
Speaker 3: to find easy, easy, quick and easy things like I
Speaker 3: think that's the best thing about TikTok is people it's
Speaker 3: real people making real recipes, so it's not like you're
Speaker 3: trying to find some eighty five ingredient recipes. It's literally
Speaker 3: like some people just want honey chicken rice and it
Speaker 3: literally is the most easy ingredients and some people really
Speaker 3: love it. But I always whenever I make something, I'm
Speaker 3: so annoying that I'll follow a recipe and then I
Speaker 3: end up with something completely different because I'm like, I
Speaker 3: think I could put extra this in there, amazed, or
Speaker 3: just some of that in there, or like start sprinkling
Speaker 3: random things and it's completely different. But like you kind
Speaker 3: of just want to take something and then make it
Speaker 3: your own, that you want to put your.
Speaker 2: Favorite flavors in it. So I think TikTok's great. I
Speaker 2: don't know how people can hate it.
Speaker 1: A TikTok lover, I'm jealous of people like you because
Speaker 1: I am like, stick to the recipe.
Speaker 4: I don't want to go off it because I don't
Speaker 4: know if.
Speaker 1: It will taste you know, yeah very well, well very
Speaker 1: you know if it's tasty.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah.
Speaker 3: I think I'm just someone who just like I always
Speaker 3: believe that salt and garlic will fix anything. So I
Speaker 3: just constantly just try. If I say one garlic in
Speaker 3: a recipe for Bill, now I know they're likely you
Speaker 3: did not put one garlic, and then I'm like, nah,
Speaker 3: I didn't put five at least, So like it's so
Speaker 3: hard for me to recipe develop at the same time
Speaker 3: because I just lie to myself like I'm like, that's enough,
Speaker 3: and then like halfway through find myself sprinkling things.
Speaker 2: I'm like, I know, you have to write that down,
Speaker 2: Like it's really hot.
Speaker 4: Are you forever in the kitchen? Is your life just.
Speaker 3: And forever forever vacuuming stuff off the floor and forever
Speaker 3: just in the kitchen.
Speaker 2: But I love it, I really do. I really do
Speaker 2: enjoy it.
Speaker 3: It's it's almost calming for me, Like I just completely
Speaker 3: zone out and I just do what I need.
Speaker 2: To do and then I love to eat, so it's
Speaker 2: kind of like a wind.
Speaker 1: How do you go about planning meals for you and
Speaker 1: your family and you know, getting away from the gram
Speaker 1: or TikTok and making sure that you're nourishing yourself, that
Speaker 1: your meals are nutritious and delicious and balanced.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I mean, like Mitch and I have been,
Speaker 3: we love dinners, like dinners is our thing. Breakfasts can
Speaker 3: be like a piece of toast, don't really care, like
Speaker 3: you know, but I obviously I like to have a
Speaker 3: bigger breakfast like eggs up. But sometimes being busy in
Speaker 3: the mornings with gigis she wakes up early, she's having
Speaker 3: a tanty whatever it is, Like, sometimes it just doesn't
Speaker 3: work the way I want it to. Lunches is something
Speaker 3: that like we just have really quickly. Sometimes it's a sandwich,
Speaker 3: sometimes it's a rockbot whatever it is. But dinners is
Speaker 3: my thing where I'm like, this meal we're gonna make
Speaker 3: as nutritious as possible because I know that, you know,
Speaker 3: we've struggled in the morning or our lunch.
Speaker 2: Was really quick.
Speaker 3: So Mitch and we speak on the weekend and I'm like,
Speaker 3: all right, what are you vibing throughout the week?
Speaker 2: And write a big list.
Speaker 3: We think about it something like I've actually i used
Speaker 3: to mill prep a lot more and I'm getting back
Speaker 3: into it slowly now that I've got like my rhythm
Speaker 3: being with Gigi. But I try to meal prep, but
Speaker 3: I don't meal prep fully. I'll make like a sauce
Speaker 3: for a past or, I'll make like a seasoning. I'll
Speaker 3: marinate my meats or something like that so I can
Speaker 3: cook fresh on the night. So I just kind of
Speaker 3: like help myself out during the week. But yeah, sometimes
Speaker 3: it's just on vibes, Like I like we get to
Speaker 3: a Monday and like tonight, I'm like, we had planned
Speaker 3: to have this barrel Monday thing and I might not
Speaker 3: mentioned I want dumpling soup.
Speaker 2: And he's like, I a breath. So tonight there's getting cold,
Speaker 2: isn't it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, if it was maybe thirty five outside, you'd be like, oh, yeah.
Speaker 2: I understand. But now tonight I'm like, sorry, no, can
Speaker 2: do you gotta have dumplings?
Speaker 3: Like it just we just we make sure that whatever
Speaker 3: we eat is just thought out. Like I want to
Speaker 3: make sure I've got some noodles to make me full.
Speaker 3: I want to make back tonight. I want to make
Speaker 3: sure the dumplings got some protein in it, some bed,
Speaker 3: extra bed, you know, do you know what I mean?
Speaker 3: Like I just kind of think about the meals to
Speaker 3: make sure we're actually fueling ourselves, because like this morning,
Speaker 3: I had a piece of toast, and I think I
Speaker 3: had half piece toast because gen ate the other half.
Speaker 2: So like I just try and make sure just kind
Speaker 2: of do what you can. Really.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I was going to ask you how motherhood's
Speaker 1: changed your approach to eating and cooking, but in many ways,
Speaker 1: you know, you seem even more relaxed about it all.
Speaker 2: Perhaps so relaxed.
Speaker 3: I Like before, like pre Gig, I would make sure
Speaker 3: like my meals to a tea were you know, planned.
Speaker 2: Out, thought out.
Speaker 3: I would make sure I had you know, X y
Speaker 3: Z on my plate or whatever. And now it's just
Speaker 3: like whatever goes, whatever goes. Whatever makes it easy. Like
Speaker 3: I obviously really like to cook. I like to enjoy food,
Speaker 3: like foods my thing, so it comes maybe more easy
Speaker 3: for me, but definitely having Gigi has made me stress
Speaker 3: less about things because like for her, she's in her
Speaker 3: chicken sausage and chicken spensele era and she doesn't want
Speaker 3: anything else but that, you know what she's.
Speaker 2: Too she just turned to okay, so she's going through that.
Speaker 3: I'm a beige girl, and I'm like, you know what,
Speaker 3: I just it's fine, it will eventually you're going to
Speaker 3: eat something Like last night she ate three broccoli.
Speaker 2: Stemps and I was like.
Speaker 3: Whatever you like, you like, But I just think that's
Speaker 3: kind of my approach now. It's like it just you
Speaker 3: have to enjoy it.
Speaker 1: You got to just yeah, yeah, she'll get to the dumplings,
Speaker 1: don't worry, she'll be there and then you'll be like,
Speaker 1: oh you want you want more dumplings.
Speaker 3: They or more dumplings like you can eat my dumplings
Speaker 3: are kind of happy with her Spinsel.
Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly what she wants. Leah love it you chat.
Speaker 4: Thank you for coming on healthy Thank you so much.
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