hi, I'm meagan -
And I’m dedicated to helping you do things differently in your kitchen.
After several years of practicing as a Registered Dietitian, I recognized that many, many people struggle to make food for themselves and feel comfortable in the kitchen – because of an eating disorder, because they were never taught, or because their brains weren’t wired for “traditional” recipe- and instruction-following.
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- Cooking classes were an obvious choice, but there were no guarantees the instructors wouldn’t make triggering jokes about calories
- I’d search out meal ideas to send, but couldn’t control the long, diet-culture-laced stories on food blogs (or the nutrition info attached to recipes)
- Even cookbooks seemed to cause more problems than they solved, with their over-the-top ingredients and casual food moralizing
After years of searching for a “safe” cooking resource that approached cooking from a truly realistic, food-positive perspective, I realized:
If I couldn’t find what my clients needed, I would just have to make it instead.
common kitchen
The first diet-culture-free, recovery-informed space for people who want cooking to feel less stressful and more supportive: of healing and everyday real life.
Named after our common ground – the shared desire to cook without the stress of conflicting food rules and expectations – Common Kitchen exists to empower you with practical kitchen skills that make cooking feel manageable instead of overwhelming.
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✅ Ditching the ~Pinterest-perfect~ recipes in favor of things you actually want to eat, that you can make within your budget and schedule.
✅ Learning how to handle food when your energy levels and capacity change (you’re human! It happens!).
✅ Letting cooking be both an ~enjoyable~ activity and a practical one that just has to get done sometimes.
✅ Building a rotation of meals you can make without thinking too hard (brain space is valuable), while also creating space to play with new recipes.
out
❌ Treating cooking like a performance, like a test you can pass or fail, or like anything related to your value as a person.
❌ Recipes with 32 ingredients (half of which you’ll never use again), that require trips to three separate grocery stores.
❌ The assumption that everyone “just knows” how to cook and you must be doing something wrong if it’s hard.
❌ Calorie counts, “clean” eating, and any other moralizing of food, period.
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- My absolute favorite apron
- Some Spice Girls in the background (or something equally fun and nostalgic).
- Something snacky as cooking fuel
- 4,000 spoons for taste testing as I go
- 4 canine sous chefs who are also ready to taste test as I go
- Set all of your ingredients on the counter. Realize you forgot one (because you’re human). Roll with it, find a substitute, move on.
- Trip over a dog or two. Take a quick break to pay the cheese tax.
- Grab a slice of cheese for yourself, because… I mean, it’s cheese.
- Start cooking, keeping one eye on the recipe while measuring the garlic with your heart and making it taste how you want.
- Serve immediately with a side of not sweating the small stuff and staying present in the moment.
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