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Speaker 1: Hello friends, Vans listeners of this podcast and body in

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Speaker 1: Soul called Healthyish. Of course, I am Felicity Harley. We

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Speaker 1: are joined by the effervescent Poe today. I love chatting

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Speaker 1: with her. She's, of course a judge on Master Chef,

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Speaker 1: an artist and self talk cook, and today we are

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Speaker 1: discussing how she stays healthy when surrounded by so much

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Speaker 1: delicious food on the set of Master Chef, and she

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Speaker 1: shares her tips for saving money on food. If you

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Speaker 1: do like what you hear from Poe listening to Extra

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Speaker 1: healthy Ish, where she shares her life lessons at turning fifty,

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Speaker 1: you can catch that wherever you get your podcasts.

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Speaker 2: Poe, nice to have you back on Healthy Ish. How

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Speaker 2: are you.

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Speaker 3: I'm really well. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I have to say, last time I spoke to you

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Speaker 4: on your podcast it was my favorite interviews that I've

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Speaker 4: ever done.

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Speaker 5: Well.

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Speaker 1: I have to say the feeling was mutual because every

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Speaker 1: time we go to Adelaide, my kids go, oh, let's

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Speaker 1: go looking for that person in the markets that.

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Speaker 2: You know that you really like talking to.

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Speaker 1: So there we go, but we've never found you there

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Speaker 1: when we've been so yeah, I think he went.

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Speaker 3: To Central Market, which I used to be at Ah.

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Speaker 2: That's it.

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Speaker 5: I'm at the farmer's market on Sundays only.

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Speaker 1: Now okay, oh well there we go. Okay, Farmer's Market

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Speaker 1: here we come in Adelaide. Yeah yeah, Now I want

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Speaker 1: to talk to you about today about healthy cooking on

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Speaker 1: the cheep. I suppose that's what we all want. But

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Speaker 1: first of all, how do you stay healthy and how

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Speaker 1: do you cook healthy? And especially when you're in the

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Speaker 1: master chef kitchen.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I keep it really simple, and luckily I have

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Speaker 4: a bit of a superpower on my side, and that

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Speaker 4: is that I was raised by my Auntie Kim, who

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Speaker 4: ate a lot of vegetarian food, and I used to

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Speaker 4: always think it was really fun. Too fast with her

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Speaker 4: went because there are certain points in the lunar calendar

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Speaker 4: where you have to eat very sort of austere Buddhist

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Speaker 4: food and it's always vego.

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Speaker 3: And I think from.

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Speaker 4: That I learned to really appreciate really simple flavors. So

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Speaker 4: it comes very naturally to me to eat things that

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Speaker 4: some people might find really bland. But for me, if

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Speaker 4: I go to the farmer's market, grab a whole bunch

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Speaker 4: of seasonal ingredients, and they can be so common, like broccoli,

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Speaker 4: cauliflower whatever, and I'm happy to just steam or roast

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Speaker 4: that a bit of butter, olive oil, lemon, salt, pepper,

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Speaker 4: and I am so happy.

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Speaker 3: So it just it's not.

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Speaker 4: And it's very holistic to me. I'm never ever conscious

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Speaker 4: of being happy. I find that if I've eaten something

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Speaker 4: that's a bit heavy and meaty the night before, I

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Speaker 4: would just naturally gravitate towards a salad or like a

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Speaker 4: steam veg the next day.

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Speaker 2: That makes sense.

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Speaker 1: What about when you're actually in the kitchen or mastership,

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Speaker 1: I mean, you obviously have to try these different foods.

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Speaker 2: How does that get?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I thought it was going to be really have

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Speaker 4: to not put on weight doing that, but I didn't

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Speaker 4: remember that the contestants are usually only serving one dish

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Speaker 4: that we have to share between the four of us,

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Speaker 4: and we're really tasting. You don't want to atrophy your

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Speaker 4: palette because you're going through so many tastings, so you

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Speaker 4: always take really tiny bits and sort of your thinking

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Speaker 4: and trying to formulate words with and you know how.

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Speaker 3: To describe that flavor or texture or whatever.

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Speaker 4: So it's quite a sort of intellectual process as opposed

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Speaker 4: to sometimes they're a soluious woo, scarf it down.

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Speaker 3: But you know what it is, it's the snacking off camera.

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Speaker 2: That's the Oh okay, yeah, what happens with that? How

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Speaker 4: Oh?

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Speaker 3: You know, there's always like a trolley full of like they're.

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Speaker 4: Pretty good, they're pretty good. They really look after us.

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Speaker 4: So there's like always nuts and stuff. But my I

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Speaker 4: got this vice and it's those harvest peace snats. Oh.

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Speaker 1: I give those to my kids in their lunchbox and

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Speaker 1: one hates them, don't give me these again, and one

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that's my little Are they mad?

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Speaker 5: But yeah yeah, so yeah that people.

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Speaker 4: it's really just a snacking in between. Because there's all

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Speaker 2: Like fill your mouth up.

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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, well, how talk to us a bit about

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Speaker 1: saving money I mean, it's a lot of people are

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Speaker 1: struggling at the moment, obviously the cost of living, and

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Speaker 1: especially when it comes to healthy eating vegetables. You love

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Speaker 1: vegetables because you go in and vegetables are more expensive

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Speaker 1: than similar packaged food products. I mean, how do you

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Speaker 3: I think you know what it is.

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Speaker 4: I did a little real of it recently, where I

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Speaker 4: want if people can commit to two meals a week

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Speaker 4: where it's a bit weird and body to use what's

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Speaker 4: often that's what gets wasted. So if you can just

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Speaker 4: have a couple of go tos, like a type of soup,

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Speaker 4: you can dress it up, you can make it.

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Speaker 3: So I constantly am.

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Speaker 4: Doing this chase with my fridge and I'm quite sort

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Speaker 5: Very prideful about what I cook. I'm just like, yeah,

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Speaker 4: Bit weird and probably tastes slightly not great, but I'm

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Speaker 4: just going to use it up.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and do you eat it anyway? Yeah, I still

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Speaker 1: A few people have mentioned to me that eating leftovers

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Speaker 1: for breakfast, even if they're meat based things like, it's

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Speaker 1: funny how we've got in our head that we have

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a very Western European thing because with Asians,

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Speaker 4: we you know, smash down us some luxo and not

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Speaker 5: You know what.

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Speaker 4: The other thing is people often don't look after their vegetables.

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Speaker 2: Oh yes, okay, you know about like get.

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Speaker 4: Some just have like a couple of cloth bags and

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Speaker 3: Be really conscientious once you finished cooking the meal to.

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Speaker 4: Just look after those bits and pieces that are left over.

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Speaker 4: And someone said this to me recently and it's so true.

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Speaker 4: Compost is not not wasted. I think we like to

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Speaker 4: comfort ourselves thinking, oh, you know, at least it's.

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Speaker 3: Going back to the land, but it's still wasted if

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Speaker 3: it's like edible.

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Speaker 4: And little things like broccoli storks, they're so delicious stir

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Speaker 4: fried like that's like a really prized bit in Asian culture.

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Speaker 3: So we just peel the skin off the side because.

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Speaker 4: So little things like that, like try and use all

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Speaker 4: the parts, things like beat the leaves. A lot of

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Speaker 4: clean them, store them beautifully, and then I'll steam them

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Speaker 1: Just back to storing, So how do you go about

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Speaker 1: storing your veggies? Can you just talk about that a

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Speaker 1: bit more? Like just for example, I actually I had

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Speaker 1: how to store it, Like I actually just whacked it

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, just covering. Yeah. I usually just chuck it

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Speaker 5: We use like an old plastic bag.

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Speaker 4: It's fine, like or if you don't have any plastic

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but plastic bag.

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Speaker 5: Everyone will have one.

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Speaker 4: So yeah, I just always keep all any bags, any

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Speaker 4: plastic that I have from packaging, I'll always keep it,

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Speaker 4: even like carrot, you.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I always like take the sticky tape off really

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Speaker 5: Just use that to store veggies in as well.

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Speaker 4: When I hear myself speak, it's sort of like stuff

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Speaker 3: The plastics from carrot bags.

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Speaker 4: But I was talking to a friend about this the

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Speaker 4: other day, how difficult it is to live.

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Speaker 5: Simply and holistically. It's so much easier to waste.

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Speaker 4: But it's like every part of the day, I'm like, oh, yes, okay,

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Speaker 5: The SnapLock bags I can use them again.

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Speaker 4: And it is hard and it's so tedious and it

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Speaker 4: adds so much labor to the day. But I don't

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Speaker 4: know if everyone thought like that, nothing would get done.

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Speaker 5: So you just have to believe that you're doing your

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Speaker 1: I think the money you save, you know, you could

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Speaker 1: afford a holiday to Asia. Well that's what I think.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for coming on healthy Ish.

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Speaker 5: Thank you so much for having me.

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