Feeding Yourself with ADHD

Food, Creativity, and Feeding Yourself with ADHD
An interview with Catherine Smart (Not From Concentrate)

In this episode of ADHD FM, Elianna sits down with Catherine Smart, founder of Not From Concentrate, to explore the deeply intertwined relationship between ADHD, food, creativity, and daily life.

As someone who works as a food coach and culinary educator, Elianna brings her own experience and professional perspective into the conversation, especially around how ADHD shapes our relationship with cooking, meal planning, and feeding ourselves consistently.

Together, they unpack what it really means to feed yourself when structure feels hard, motivation comes in waves, and pleasure matters just as much as practicality. Catherine shares candid insights into her relationship with food and exercise, her career path, and the systems (and hacks) that actually work for an ADHD brain.

The conversation covers everything from hyperfixation meals and hosting strategies to meal planning, organization, and reducing food waste while also naming the very real challenge of having to figure out what to eat every single day.

At its core, this episode is about permission: to prioritize creativity, to seek pleasure in food, and to let go of perfection.

✨ Key Takeaways

• Creativity and pleasure are essential when it comes to food and ADHD
  
  
• Meal planning and reducing food waste can be especially challenging with ADHD, but flexible systems help
  
  
• Hyperfixation meals can be a tool, not a failure.
  
  
• Feeding yourself consistently is real labor and it’s okay to acknowledge that.

Accessibility

A full transcript of this episode is available at adhdhfm.com

Contributors

Guest Interview: Catherine Smart

️Producer & Editor: Marion Cunningham

️Logo Art: Jennifer Cooper

Resources Mentioned

Not From Concentrate Recipes — Recipes and food inspiration by Catherine Smart

Let’s Connect

What is your current hyper fixation meal?

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