Episode 104: Moving Your Family to Real Food with Christine Muldoon
We flew to Dallas to sit at Christine Muldoon’s kitchen table, where she served us picanha (Tim’s favorite cut, the one we only ever order at Brazilian steakhouses), sourdough zucchini bread, and a Caesar salad with dressing she made from scratch, and it was so delicious. Christine co-hosts Modern Ancestral Mamas with Corey Dunn and is a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner with four kids, and her youngest, Nico, was seven months old and made a cameo partway through.Christine found Weston A. Price through her mom. Her mom is an immigrant who grew up in a coastal city eating bone marrow, pig’s feet and plenty of shellfish, and she let most of that go after moving to the US. When Christine’s dad was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, her mom started cooking those foods again to nourish him. About a year after he passed, her mom handed her a copy of Nourishing Traditions and said, “You might be interested in this.” Christine read it cover to cover, took her mom to the 2017 Wise Traditions conference in Minneapolis, came home fired up, and enrolled with the Nutritional Therapy Association. That’s where she read Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, which she thinks should be required reading for everyone.We also talk about the months before her fourth pregnancy. Her husband works in finance and travels a lot, so his weeks were full of restaurant dinners and drinks. From January into spring of 2025 he ate only meat, gave up coffee and alcohol, and went to the gym and the sauna regularly. Christine got pregnant quickly at 39, and it turned out to be one of her easiest pregnancies, with no morning sickness. She shares what she’s been reading about how much a father’s health before conception shapes a pregnancy.If your pantry still runs on boxed food, Christine’s advice is to eat what you have, and when the cereal box is empty, don’t buy another one. She explains how the five-ingredient rule from 100 Days of Real Food took a huge part of the grocery store off her list. She also tells us why she skipped the grain chapter of Nourishing Traditions for years (soaking and fermenting grains scared her more than organ meats ever did), and how she now mills her own flour for sourdough, while still texting Corey for baking help more often than she can count.Be sure to follow Christine at Nourish The Littles.Tune in to her top performing podcast, Modern Ancestral Mamas where she co-hosts with Corey Dunn. Check out Sophia's interviews on Modern Ancestral Mamas below:Food Freedom Starts in the Soil: An Ancestral Asian ApproachEpisode 42: Nourishing Asian Food with Sophia Eng~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Our book, published by Chelsea Green was just released! 📖 Order The Nourishing Asian Homestead 🌱 Join the free Call To Farms communityHave questions on buying or selling real estate? Reach out to Tim directly here!