April 27, 2025 • 10 mins
Katie is having a few dramas with her kids complaining about EVERYTHING she makes! So as always, there's a solution!
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Apogae Production.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Welcome back to another episode of Am I A Bad Mom?
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Podcast?
Speaker 3 (00:25):
We're on Instagram too. At am I A Bad Mum?
Speaker 1 (00:29):
We are You'll always tell when we're on. Because we're on.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
There's so many memes that will go up in a
row that get sent to us from the other mums
and dads that pick up the same vibes that we're
picking up on.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
They're so funny.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
We love literally receiving them to be able to share them.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
I got a message from a lovely lady the other
day on Instagram and it said, I've just discovered your podcast.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
I feel so seen.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Oh yes, we are absolutely not alone in this wonderful
world of parenting.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
And don't be offended as well if you're on our
Instagram and we don't reply back straight away. We have
moments I feel like going ages without responding, and then
all of a sudden, we'll respond to everyone in one day.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Yeah, that's just life as a parent.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
One minute, I can reply today, and then three weeks
later I'll.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Come back to you.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Am I a bad Mum?
Speaker 2 (01:38):
For not feeding them?
Speaker 1 (01:40):
In general?
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Generally speaking, there's a few things involved with this. The
first one and the reason why I was bringing it up,
is because Amelia came down. Obviously, school holidays, they've been
sleeping in a little bit longer. So literally they're wanting breakfast,
like lunchtime, skipping breakfast, going straight to lunch. And she
was like, there is no food in this house. Out
(02:05):
there was food rage. But I pride myself in being
able to make something out of nothing. Yeah, I'm very
good at that. Jay and the girls are terrible at it.
They will look in the fridge, open it up, stare
at everything, and go, there's literally nothing that I can
just take out and eat. So she's always saying things
like that. They're both always saying things like that. But
this particular day, rage, we really had nothing really, So
(02:29):
even though you can make something out of nothing, that
particular day you were even like stretching your own ability.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
You were like, how far can I push them?
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (02:38):
I reckon, could I make out of all of nothing
that we've got in the house today?
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (02:44):
I think at a stretch, if I included the freezer,
I still would have been able to make something.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
It just wouldn't have been as quickly on hand.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
Right. So this is the difference where I think some
people and I'm not putting myself into J and the
girl's category because I'm not that far in because I'm
a little bit like you aroundm like no, no, no.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Let's use what we've got and let's do that.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
But like some times even I go fuck rage, you
really let yourself down and your family because genuinely you
can't make anything right now, and you're usually.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
They're on the fly, hungry, and then I get angry.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Life is busy, Like I feel like going grocery shopping
is a real luxury.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
To be inture that it's at the same time, your
girls are at a different age where what are they
looking for?
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Though?
Speaker 1 (03:28):
This is what I'm thinking.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
If I'm getting up at midday and I've slept, what
am I looking for at twelve o'clock? In my head,
I wouldn't know what I'm looking for a twelve o'clock
because my body clock is so far gone that I
don't know what's going on.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
I don't even know, Like I'm so lost with what
to even get them, Like they don't like anything, anything, nothing,
But this particular day, Amelia was like, there is no food.
There is literally no food in the house, and she'd
come out to where I was in the lounge room
and both our cats were there. Now, our cats are
never usually close by each other. It's a very angry relationship.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
They've never come around.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
And on this particular day, both cats were laying there
and I was like, tried to distract Amelia from the
fact there was no food in the house and went
look at the cats living in harmony. And she turned
around to me and she went, yeah, the cats are
all right. There's more cat food in this house than
there is human food.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Do you want us to start eating the cat food?
Speaker 2 (04:28):
I was like, shit, I should really go to the shops.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
You know. I think that's a great idea.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
I mean, there's a lot of nutrition in cat food
and maybe you should give it a go and see
me one hundred percent. But this is where it comes
off for me is the fact that your children also
have access to Uber Eats. Yeah, and they do utilize
this a bit, don't they, the Uber eat But RT
is my credit cardge I know this, But that's why
(04:55):
I was like, I would just turn around and go, well,
there's something here, so i'd Uber eats the groceries here, well,
ken Now.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
I like getting chef good now microwave meals. I feel
like there's a bit of shame over microwave meals, that
they're not healthy and they're a bit lazy. Now, these
particular ones, we're not sponsored by Chef Good. I'm sure
there's plenty of companies that do healthy ones.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
These are healthy ones, proper ingredients. They're nice.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Where are you getting them from?
Speaker 3 (05:24):
I really love them.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
You buy them online online, because they're not at Woolies
or anything.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
No, and then you choose your recipes and then they
deliver them basically, and if you look at the cost
of living in bloody supermarkets at the moment, these Hello
Fresh Marley Spoon, they're actually not as overpriced as they
used to. Feel like Woolies is bloody one hundred dollars
I spend pretty much every time I go in to
get dinner.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
I feel because you get distracted.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
That's because you get distracted by everything else. It's like
that's on special, that's on special. I'm not I don't
even need liquid for my washing machine, but because it's
on special for twelve dollars, I'll get the six one
to go up and just in case.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
They're just in case I do that.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
I know I do that, so I don't mind buying these,
right the girls shame me or not?
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Are they individual kinges? Are they individual ones?
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Or are they Like in my head, I'm thinking, because
you said the ingredients are fresh and all the rest,
is it?
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Like what's the other one?
Speaker 4 (06:21):
Like?
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Hello fresh muley me where all the ingredients come? But
you still got to cook it?
Speaker 2 (06:26):
No, they're already made by chefts and then you just
shove them in the microwave. Now, I don't love the
idea of not cooking stuff. However, life is busy. Parents
are busy, Moms are busy. Sometimes they are really handy
to have in the fridge on those days where you
get home late and I've got to stage my life
rate where I'm like, stop shaming yourself and make your
(06:49):
life easy? Does this make my life easy? I went
through a stage of if it's sunny outside, I'm like,
I can't put washing in the dryer if it's sunny outside.
And now I'm like, is it going to help me
out to shove all of that towels and underwear and
socks and stuff in the dry out rather than spend
(07:10):
all that time hanging out each sock on the line. Yes,
it's gonna help my life. So just pay the little
bit more on the electricity bill, take away the shame
of it being sunny outside and that's not what you
should do, and just make life easy for yourself.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
We should all be.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Doing that, Yeah, I agree.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Anyway, back to the dinners, Holly shames me for buying those.
Oh you didn't kick dinner again. I went, you know what,
Me and Dad like these on the occasions that we're
home late. Now you can choose your recipes for next
week on the app. Or your other option is you
cook for yourself on two days a week, because that's
(07:50):
all I buy them for two days a week, two
days when we're back laters to sit in the fridge
and whatever. And she looked at me and she was like, okay.
I was like, you need to go down to the shop.
I'll give you the amount of money I spend on those.
You've got to find something for that amount of money.
It's like ten dollars a meal age. There you go,
(08:11):
two meals a week for the two of you. You
got forty dollars. Go down to Woolies, find something, cook
it on those two days a week.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
I'll just order the recipes.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
See, But at the same time, I'm just going to
make you feel a little bit worse about yourself, mum
and just tell you that you're a bad mum because
you're ordering chef good Okay, amazing. Yeah. I love the
theory that you just use. Then I've like, does this
make me happy? I one hundred percent agree. I am
not there yet with cooking, but again, our girls are
(08:41):
at different sort of age groups, and also I have
a fussy eater, so then if I gave her the option,
it would just be one big bowl of meat and
nothing else.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
So I'm sort of like at both ends of it.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
But I understand that feeling of going, fuck, do I
really want to do this tonight?
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (09:00):
And mine comes from the part of going do I
really want to battle them.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Having to eat dinner? Like? And it doesn't have to
be about it. I get this.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
Everyone's parenting styles allows different availability, whether they eat or.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
They don't eat.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
I hate wasting food, so mine is like about like, obviously,
if you're hungry, now eat it now, because you're not
having it's not as open small as board. The covers
are not open for snacks after no kitchen, so if
you're hungry, eat it. If you're not, it'll be there
tomorrow for lunch, or or I'll put it in your
you know, your lunch box. Grace's actually down with that
(09:34):
idea now, She's just like, yeah, just put in my lunchbox.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
I'm like, oh, I want everybody listening to this week
consciously make an effort to do something that's going to
make your life easier. The amount of times I'd be
like rushing home from work, we had to be out,
babysitter was coming. I didn't know what to do them
for dinner, and I would shame myself, going, don't get
(09:56):
the macas.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
That's so bad.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Just go through the fucking drive through. Is it going
to make your life?
Speaker 4 (10:01):
Is it? Yes? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (10:03):
What are you going to do to make your life is?
Speaker 1 (10:05):
I'm not going through McDonald's. That makes my life sucking harder,
I can tell you that much.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
The amount of guilt that I put my own self through,
it's not my kids. So I was like, I absolutely
punish myself thinking you have to go to the gym tomorrow. Yeah,
that's just my own head noise. But I'm with you
and saying, how can you lighten the load.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Yeah, the moment of shame. Choose what's going to make
your life.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Easier and what's going to make you happy.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
Mine is like that little part of me going, do
you really want this?
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Do you really want to be doing this? I mean parenting.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
Don't try and opt out of it all the time
because we don't want these wild animals of children.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
But I mean, yeah, I get it, I get it.
I'm the same. I love it. Great theory. Good wrap
up there, Katie. We'll take that lak.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
We'll take that one, put it in our pocket.
Apogae Production.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Welcome back to another episode of Am I A Bad Mom?
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Podcast?
Speaker 3 (00:25):
We're on Instagram too. At am I A Bad Mum?
Speaker 1 (00:29):
We are You'll always tell when we're on. Because we're on.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
There's so many memes that will go up in a
row that get sent to us from the other mums
and dads that pick up the same vibes that we're
picking up on.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
They're so funny.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
We love literally receiving them to be able to share them.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
I got a message from a lovely lady the other
day on Instagram and it said, I've just discovered your podcast.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
I feel so seen.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Oh yes, we are absolutely not alone in this wonderful
world of parenting.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
And don't be offended as well if you're on our
Instagram and we don't reply back straight away. We have
moments I feel like going ages without responding, and then
all of a sudden, we'll respond to everyone in one day.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Yeah, that's just life as a parent.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
One minute, I can reply today, and then three weeks
later I'll.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Come back to you.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Am I a bad Mum?
Speaker 2 (01:38):
For not feeding them?
Speaker 1 (01:40):
In general?
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Generally speaking, there's a few things involved with this. The
first one and the reason why I was bringing it up,
is because Amelia came down. Obviously, school holidays, they've been
sleeping in a little bit longer. So literally they're wanting breakfast,
like lunchtime, skipping breakfast, going straight to lunch. And she
was like, there is no food in this house. Out
(02:05):
there was food rage. But I pride myself in being
able to make something out of nothing. Yeah, I'm very
good at that. Jay and the girls are terrible at it.
They will look in the fridge, open it up, stare
at everything, and go, there's literally nothing that I can
just take out and eat. So she's always saying things
like that. They're both always saying things like that. But
this particular day, rage, we really had nothing really, So
(02:29):
even though you can make something out of nothing, that
particular day you were even like stretching your own ability.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
You were like, how far can I push them?
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (02:38):
I reckon, could I make out of all of nothing
that we've got in the house today?
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (02:44):
I think at a stretch, if I included the freezer,
I still would have been able to make something.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
It just wouldn't have been as quickly on hand.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
Right. So this is the difference where I think some
people and I'm not putting myself into J and the
girl's category because I'm not that far in because I'm
a little bit like you aroundm like no, no, no.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Let's use what we've got and let's do that.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
But like some times even I go fuck rage, you
really let yourself down and your family because genuinely you
can't make anything right now, and you're usually.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
They're on the fly, hungry, and then I get angry.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Life is busy, Like I feel like going grocery shopping
is a real luxury.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
To be inture that it's at the same time, your
girls are at a different age where what are they
looking for?
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Though?
Speaker 1 (03:28):
This is what I'm thinking.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
If I'm getting up at midday and I've slept, what
am I looking for at twelve o'clock? In my head,
I wouldn't know what I'm looking for a twelve o'clock
because my body clock is so far gone that I
don't know what's going on.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
I don't even know, Like I'm so lost with what
to even get them, Like they don't like anything, anything, nothing,
But this particular day, Amelia was like, there is no food.
There is literally no food in the house, and she'd
come out to where I was in the lounge room
and both our cats were there. Now, our cats are
never usually close by each other. It's a very angry relationship.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
They've never come around.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
And on this particular day, both cats were laying there
and I was like, tried to distract Amelia from the
fact there was no food in the house and went
look at the cats living in harmony. And she turned
around to me and she went, yeah, the cats are
all right. There's more cat food in this house than
there is human food.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Do you want us to start eating the cat food?
Speaker 2 (04:28):
I was like, shit, I should really go to the shops.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
You know. I think that's a great idea.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
I mean, there's a lot of nutrition in cat food
and maybe you should give it a go and see
me one hundred percent. But this is where it comes
off for me is the fact that your children also
have access to Uber Eats. Yeah, and they do utilize
this a bit, don't they, the Uber eat But RT
is my credit cardge I know this, But that's why
(04:55):
I was like, I would just turn around and go, well,
there's something here, so i'd Uber eats the groceries here, well,
ken Now.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
I like getting chef good now microwave meals. I feel
like there's a bit of shame over microwave meals, that
they're not healthy and they're a bit lazy. Now, these
particular ones, we're not sponsored by Chef Good. I'm sure
there's plenty of companies that do healthy ones.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
These are healthy ones, proper ingredients. They're nice.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Where are you getting them from?
Speaker 3 (05:24):
I really love them.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
You buy them online online, because they're not at Woolies
or anything.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
No, and then you choose your recipes and then they
deliver them basically, and if you look at the cost
of living in bloody supermarkets at the moment, these Hello
Fresh Marley Spoon, they're actually not as overpriced as they
used to. Feel like Woolies is bloody one hundred dollars
I spend pretty much every time I go in to
get dinner.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
I feel because you get distracted.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
That's because you get distracted by everything else. It's like
that's on special, that's on special. I'm not I don't
even need liquid for my washing machine, but because it's
on special for twelve dollars, I'll get the six one
to go up and just in case.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
They're just in case I do that.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
I know I do that, so I don't mind buying these,
right the girls shame me or not?
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Are they individual kinges? Are they individual ones?
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Or are they Like in my head, I'm thinking, because
you said the ingredients are fresh and all the rest,
is it?
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Like what's the other one?
Speaker 4 (06:21):
Like?
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Hello fresh muley me where all the ingredients come? But
you still got to cook it?
Speaker 2 (06:26):
No, they're already made by chefts and then you just
shove them in the microwave. Now, I don't love the
idea of not cooking stuff. However, life is busy. Parents
are busy, Moms are busy. Sometimes they are really handy
to have in the fridge on those days where you
get home late and I've got to stage my life
rate where I'm like, stop shaming yourself and make your
(06:49):
life easy? Does this make my life easy? I went
through a stage of if it's sunny outside, I'm like,
I can't put washing in the dryer if it's sunny outside.
And now I'm like, is it going to help me
out to shove all of that towels and underwear and
socks and stuff in the dry out rather than spend
(07:10):
all that time hanging out each sock on the line. Yes,
it's gonna help my life. So just pay the little
bit more on the electricity bill, take away the shame
of it being sunny outside and that's not what you
should do, and just make life easy for yourself.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
We should all be.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Doing that, Yeah, I agree.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Anyway, back to the dinners, Holly shames me for buying those.
Oh you didn't kick dinner again. I went, you know what,
Me and Dad like these on the occasions that we're
home late. Now you can choose your recipes for next
week on the app. Or your other option is you
cook for yourself on two days a week, because that's
(07:50):
all I buy them for two days a week, two
days when we're back laters to sit in the fridge
and whatever. And she looked at me and she was like, okay.
I was like, you need to go down to the shop.
I'll give you the amount of money I spend on those.
You've got to find something for that amount of money.
It's like ten dollars a meal age. There you go,
(08:11):
two meals a week for the two of you. You
got forty dollars. Go down to Woolies, find something, cook
it on those two days a week.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
I'll just order the recipes.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
See, But at the same time, I'm just going to
make you feel a little bit worse about yourself, mum
and just tell you that you're a bad mum because
you're ordering chef good Okay, amazing. Yeah. I love the
theory that you just use. Then I've like, does this
make me happy? I one hundred percent agree. I am
not there yet with cooking, but again, our girls are
(08:41):
at different sort of age groups, and also I have
a fussy eater, so then if I gave her the option,
it would just be one big bowl of meat and
nothing else.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
So I'm sort of like at both ends of it.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
But I understand that feeling of going, fuck, do I
really want to do this tonight?
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (09:00):
And mine comes from the part of going do I
really want to battle them.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Having to eat dinner? Like? And it doesn't have to
be about it. I get this.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
Everyone's parenting styles allows different availability, whether they eat or.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
They don't eat.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
I hate wasting food, so mine is like about like, obviously,
if you're hungry, now eat it now, because you're not
having it's not as open small as board. The covers
are not open for snacks after no kitchen, so if
you're hungry, eat it. If you're not, it'll be there
tomorrow for lunch, or or I'll put it in your
you know, your lunch box. Grace's actually down with that
(09:34):
idea now, She's just like, yeah, just put in my lunchbox.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
I'm like, oh, I want everybody listening to this week
consciously make an effort to do something that's going to
make your life easier. The amount of times I'd be
like rushing home from work, we had to be out,
babysitter was coming. I didn't know what to do them
for dinner, and I would shame myself, going, don't get
(09:56):
the macas.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
That's so bad.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Just go through the fucking drive through. Is it going
to make your life?
Speaker 4 (10:01):
Is it? Yes? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (10:03):
What are you going to do to make your life is?
Speaker 1 (10:05):
I'm not going through McDonald's. That makes my life sucking harder,
I can tell you that much.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
The amount of guilt that I put my own self through,
it's not my kids. So I was like, I absolutely
punish myself thinking you have to go to the gym tomorrow. Yeah,
that's just my own head noise. But I'm with you
and saying, how can you lighten the load.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Yeah, the moment of shame. Choose what's going to make
your life.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Easier and what's going to make you happy.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
Mine is like that little part of me going, do
you really want this?
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Do you really want to be doing this? I mean parenting.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
Don't try and opt out of it all the time
because we don't want these wild animals of children.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
But I mean, yeah, I get it, I get it.
I'm the same. I love it. Great theory. Good wrap
up there, Katie. We'll take that lak.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
We'll take that one, put it in our pocket.
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