Burnt Toast by Virginia Sole-Smith

Burnt Toast is a newsletter that arrives twice a week, focusing on our experiences with diet culture and fatphobia, particularly in the context of parenting. However, it's also enjoyed by those who aren't parents!

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Are Electrolytes a Diet?

2 days ago | virginiasolesmith.substack.com | Corinne Fay |Virginia Sole-Smith

Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -2:05Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Thank you so much to everyone who donated to the Me Little Me Virtual Food Pantry! We raised $13,991 with your help — more than double our original goal of $6,000!! These funds, plus the Burnt Toast match, will cover over 3,600 home-cooked meals for multiply marginalized folks in need. Learn more about this project here.
It's (Outdoor) Crowded Table Season

1 week ago | virginiasolesmith.substack.com | Virginia Sole-Smith

My kids’ school didn’t use enough snow days this year, so I’m sending this to you in the middle of a five day weekend but… I’m actually not mad about it. My best friend Amy Palanjian is visiting with her kiddos—who feel like cousins to my kids—and we’re so excited to show them the new chickens, go for ice cream, chill in the pool, and put on many movies for the kids so the adults can hang out (Jack is here too, passing the v important best friend test!).
Care For a Garden Tour?

2 weeks ago | virginiasolesmith.substack.com | Virginia Sole-Smith

Last month, when I launched Garden Toast, I asked what kind of gardening content you are most craving in…a newsletter otherwise devoted mostly to body liberation.
MAHA Has a Diet for Everything

2 weeks ago | virginiasolesmith.substack.com | Virginia Sole-Smith

Have you donated to the Me Little Me Virtual Food Pantry? No, it won’t prevent any of the MAHA shenanigans we’re about to discuss. But it will get low-income folks (many of whom are in eating disorder recovery) fed — and with the food of their choosing. Meaning yes, ultra processed foods that bring comfort and convenience, and yes to beloved cultural foods…and yes to trusting folks in need to know what they need. We’re trying to raise $12,000 and add 50 recurring donors to their rosters by June 1.
Our Next Surgeon General is Mad About Man Boobs.

3 weeks ago | virginiasolesmith.substack.com | Virginia Sole-Smith

Last week, Trump announced his new pick for Surgeon General: Casey Means, a wellness influencer who technically attended Stanford Medical School to become a doctor. Until she withdrew without completing her residency to start a “health tracking” app called Levels, where users log their food, exercise and blood glucose levels to receive “personalized guidance” about their health (you bet it’s a diet).
The Episode Corinne Has Been WAITING For!

3 weeks ago | virginiasolesmith.substack.com | Corinne Fay |Virginia Sole-Smith

Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -1:48Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. $12,000 plus the Burnt Toast match will pay for 3,600 home-cooked meals for the marginalized folks (many in eating disorder recovery) who rely on Me Little Me to get groceries. You can learn more about their work here. And donate here(and put “Burnt Toast” in the comments so we can track your awesomeness!) Thank you!Extra Butter costs just $99 per year.
When You Wear the Wrong Thing

3 weeks ago | virginiasolesmith.substack.com | Virginia Sole-Smith

Burnt Toasties, THANK YOU — we crushed our goal to raise $6,000 for the Me Little Me Foundation’s virtual food pantry!! You all raised over $7400 in just three days… and 42 of you became monthly donors. AMAZING. $12,000 plus the Burnt Toast match will pay for 3,600 home-cooked meals for the marginalized folks (many in eating disorder recovery) who rely on Me Little Me to get groceries. You can learn more about their work here.
Are We Wearing Whatever the F We Want?

4 weeks ago | virginiasolesmith.substack.com | Virginia Sole-Smith |Corinne Fay

Subscriber-only safe space to talk about how we're dismantling diet culture, divesting ourselves and our parenting of fatphobia, and generally coping in the world as people with bodies. Also, we love snacks. Subscriber-only safe space to talk about how we're dismantling diet culture, divesting ourselves and our parenting of fatphobia, and generally coping in the world as people with bodies. Also, we love snacks.
Let's Fund a Virtual Food Pantry!

1 month ago | virginiasolesmith.substack.com | Virginia Sole-Smith

Elizabeth is a food justice organizer and founder of the Me Little Me Foundation, a nonprofit committed to advancing food equity and providing free, culturally competent support services for marginalized communities. Based in Los Angeles, Elizabeth works to dismantle the systemic barriers that affect mental health and wellbeing, emphasizing the importance of meeting basic needs first.
Carb-Deprived White Men Are The Problem

1 month ago | virginiasolesmith.substack.com | Virginia Sole-Smith

CW: Includes graphic examples of children participating in diet culture. Until last week, I was living a simpler, happier life. Namely, a life in which I had somehow never heard of Andy Elliott, the “fastest growing sales trainer in the world.” If you too were living under that happy rock with me, I’m sorry, but now you must know: Andy Elliott is basically the love child of Tony Robbins and a case of Monster Energy drinks. He’s the devil spawn of a Huberman husband and a Mary Kay lady.