Why can the question “What are we having for dinner?” fill you with rage at the end of a long day?

Food should be simple. We need it to live. And yet somehow it has become tangled up with health, body image, family, culture, pleasure, guilt, responsibility and a seemingly endless list of things we're told we should be doing.

In this episode, I sit down with dietitian and eating behaviour specialist Melanya Kushla to talk about what it's actually like trying to feed ourselves in real life.

We talk about why food decisions can feel so much harder at the end of the day, the all-or-nothing thinking so many of us carry around food, and practical ways to reduce some of the mental load.

Melanya shares her “rule of three,” how creating your own menu of go-to meals can make the dreaded dinner question easier, and why froze ...