The What's For Dinner Show: Recent Episodes
Lynne OHalloran
We’ve all asked ourselves, or someone else, this question thousands of times. It’s a phrase that has framed our lives since we were toddlers uttering our first words.What we eat for dinner needs to be addressed pretty much every day. So it’s a big part of our lives, right? The What’s for Dinner Show explores how this daily experience, this regular call for nourishment, this each and every day demand has shaped our attitude to food and cooking. I'll also be sharing a 'Nugget of Knowledge' that could be a deep dive into a particular item of food, food news or a current food trend.My name is Lynne and in each episode of the What’s for Dinner Show I will be talking to my guest about their personal food memories and exploring how they approach their health and well-being today. We’ll also discuss our favourites foods and how we go about putting food on the table to answer the daily call, ‘What’s for Dinner’?
My guest Gary Knight believes that you must walk the walk not just talk the talk, so when his football career ended due to injury he embarked on a journey to become not just a great footy coach, but someone who now coaches others to live the fullest, happiest and healthiest life they can. Gary explains how his research and his own health scares in middle age have given him a genuine passion to help others find a way to overcome their less healthy habits and become the best version of themselves, no matter what their age or background.
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Alison is a Nutritional Therapist who specialises in helping women mitigate, minimise and manage the effects of the menopause through diet and lifestyle changes. Her mother was a professional-chef, but Alison believes it was also her own teenage acne that kick-started her interest in how food and nutrition affects our bodies.
I talk to Alison about growing up on a farm and also her current life in Sweden where, much to her regret, Sunday roasts and stuffing are not fully appreciated! Of course, we also explore some of the steps women can take to help themselves thrive during the menopause and beyond.
Guest: Alison Bladh, Nutritional TherapistHost: Lynne O'Halloran
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How to make hassleback potatoes
How to make Jansoons Frestelse (Swedish potato gratin)
Trish is THE NAME in Somerset for enticing comedy acts to visit the county and share their comedy genius. But laughter and mayhem have not always been her forte. Ten year's ago Trish was strugging with her weight and her mental health following her mother's passing and in this episode she talks to me about how mindfulness changed her approach to life and to the food she eats each day and is giving her the energy and enthusiasm to pursue and share her passion for comedy entertainment.
Michelle Beck is the founder of the Taunton Independent Market which runs monthly in the town centre. After launching just days before COVID-19 hit the country, it has been a tough journey for Michelle, but persistence and a strong belief in the community's willingness to support local traders kept her going and the footfall for the 60 plus stall holders that visit the town each month is growing. Join me as we chat about fave foods, strange food habits, keto diets and how grandparents play a key role in our early relationship to food.
In this episode's Nugget of Knowledge, Michael and I consider whether we really need to drink as much water as we are led to believe.
Madeleine Dampier is a young woman with a passion for salads. After growing up eating not much else other than baked beans, she realised that the only way to ensure a healthly approach to her diet was to embark on a 'side hustle' to create and share her unique salad ideas on social media. With a large and growing audience on Instagram, Maddie is forging ahead with her ideas and hopes what she posts will inspire others to a mindful and healthy approach to food. After all, as she says, it is a myth that healthy food is difficult and expensive! On the Nugget of Knowledge I demo one of Maddie's recent offerings and then Michael taste tests if and gives it a huge thumbs up.
In this episode I am joined by youth football coach Mo Hopkins who works for Bridgwater and Taunton College and for Somerset County Schools FA training the future generation of football talent. We talk growing up around football and how Mo fits a healthy diet into his busy and active life. I am then joined by Michael and we discuss the history of fish and chips. Plus we explore the calories involved in that delicious Friday night treat and consider how recent events have impacted the price of one of the nation's favourite take-aways.
To find out more about football at Bridgwater and Taunton College visit www.btc.ac.uk and for Somerset County Schools FA visit somersetcsfa.org.uk or you can both on Instagram and Facebook.
To read more about the UK fish and chip industry visit www.nfff.co.uk
From nutritional therapist to counsellor and now pop-up pub patron and gin entrpreneur, Becky Wright of New Leaf Workplace Well-being and the newly launched Dryad Inn on the Quantock Hills, is my guest on this episode. She takes us on her journey from growing up in a North Somerset hotel to her love-struck introduction to vegetarianism, a community-led dieting experiment and her innovative take on gin. In ' Nugget of Knowledge' we discuss the history and heritage of the infamous can of corned beef.
My guest in this episode is Karie Crane from Karie's Health and Fitness who reveals her journey to becoming a super fit mum of three boys running her own business and living life to the max. It's an inspirational listen and just proves, we can all bring change to our lives and help ourselves to be happier and healthier.
Foodie choices were limited for my first guest, Michael O'Halloran, who grew up in 1970s Ireland. Michael is my husband and he kindly volunteered to be my podcast 'guinea pig' interviewee allowing me to test my questioning skills and revealing some suprising facts about his life that I wasn't aware off... his secret desires involving hard boiled eggs for example... you will have to listen to find out more!
Growing up in Ireland in the 1970s and 1980s, my guest Michael did not have many foodie choices! Michael is my husband; he thankfully agreed to be my first ever guest and surprising revealed something about himself that I did not know... his secret desire involving a hard boiled egg... you'll have to listen to find out more.
From overweight teenager to super fit mum of three who runs her own fitness business... listen to this episode to find out how Somerset-based fitness coach Karie Crane transformed her well-being by getting the exercise and healthy eating bug. Oh yes, and she agress that she has a certain similarity to a popular tropical fruit!