Welcome to Dinner in Real Life - Start here!
If you need help getting dinner on the table, you’re in the right place
Hi! I’m Jenny, a busy parent of two kids, optimist, avid reader, lover of buttered toast & steaming hot mugs of coffee. I write this newsletter and a food blog called Kitchen Skip. In 2024 I changed careers to work in elementary education, but before that I was a culinary school graduate and recipe developer for more than a decade.
I love cooking and do it well - even so, getting dinner on the table every night for my family is the hardest job I’ve ever had. It’s exhausting, right? That’s why I’m so glad you’ve signed up for my newsletter. We’re in this together!
Dinner in Real Life is a newsletter about how families eat in real life. Let’s be honest, most nights we’re all winging it. If you want perfectly curated meal plans and gorgeous Instagram-ready recipes, you’re in the wrong place!
If you crave simple recipes, a peek at what my busy family really eats during the week and commiseration for how hard it is to feed a family every night, this is the newsletter for you! There will also be chit-chat about reading, cookbooks, parenting, juggling work & family & finding joy in a busy life.
Currently, everything I offer with this newsletter is free. As a subscriber, you can expect:
A monthly newsletter filled with recipes & real life dinner ideas. Occasionally, when I have time, I send out additional newsletters.
Bonus recipes, published exclusively for my Substack subscribers (these recipes are not published on my food blog.) I send a mix of easy dinner recipes, side dishes and snacks, directly from my kitchen to yours. It’s like an online cookbook, just for you!
How to Navigate Substack
You can scroll through my archive of past newsletters here or check out all of the bonus recipes here → Kitchen Skip Recipe Index
I love using the Substack app to read newsletters. But if I want to search a newsletter for content (like recipes) it’s MUCH easier to leave the app and use a browser to visit my Substack homepage. You can find my homepage at kitchenskip.substack.com
You can also directly access dozens of free recipes by going straight to my food blog, Kitchen Skip. The catch? You’ll have to scroll through lots of ads - necessary so that food bloggers like me get paid for our work.
The internet is filled with an overwhelming number of recipes BUT reliably good recipes from a trusted source are becoming harder and harder to find. That’s where Kitchen Skip comes in. I send reliably good recipes directly from my kitchen to yours and I only send recipes that I test multiple times and feed my own family for dinner.
I love hearing from my readers! It’s easy to contact me simply by leaving a comment on any of the newsletters I send out.
Thanks again for subscribing, this is going to be fun!
Jenny