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Speaker 1: Hi everyone, I'm Kelsey Nixon and this is Kitchen Prescription,

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Speaker 1: the podcast you listen to when you don't know what

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Speaker 1: to make for dinner. Today's episode thirty six how to

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Speaker 1: be a guest at Thanksgiving. Now, most of the messaging

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Speaker 1: out there surrounding Thanksgiving is all about how a host

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Speaker 1: Thanksgiving right. It's hard, there's lots of steps involved. We've

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Speaker 1: got a guide for that. But I'm convinced that it's

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Speaker 1: just as important to be a good guest as it

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Speaker 1: is to be a good host. So today we're going

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Speaker 1: to break down some dues and don'ts of being a

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Speaker 1: meal that someone invites you to. I'm excited to get

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Speaker 1: into it, but first we are going to give you

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Speaker 1: three simple ideas to throw on your meal plan for

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Speaker 1: this week. If you're looking for some inspiration, you know.

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Speaker 1: Kitchen Prescription the podcast was really created to be part

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Speaker 1: of a meal planning system. And I know a lot

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Speaker 1: of people do not like the term meal planning because

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Speaker 1: I don't know. For years I felt like I tried

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Speaker 1: meal plan and just continue to fail over and over

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Speaker 1: at it. And when you fail at something, you don't

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Speaker 1: like it, but I've tried to create tools, whether it's

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Speaker 1: Recipe Club or this podcast, that makes it more simple.

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Speaker 1: And so the idea being that if you listen to

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Speaker 1: this twenty minute podcast once a week, it's the perfect

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Speaker 1: reminder to you that you should take a look at

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Speaker 1: going to make. It's a gift to your future self.

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Speaker 1: So I like to start the podcast always with three

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Speaker 1: simple recipe ideas. So this week, guys, this is a

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Speaker 1: so we're going to keep it real simple here. Okay,

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Speaker 1: and maybe you're not going to make all three of

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Speaker 1: these recipes. In fact, let me take this opportunity for

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Speaker 1: you to give yourself permission to have a cold cereal night,

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Speaker 1: especially if you're hosting. I know it's a lot, but

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Speaker 1: if you're a guest, which we're going to talk about,

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Speaker 1: and you've got pretty typical week otherwise, then here's some

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Speaker 1: I've just included a guide in there for converting all

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Speaker 1: So this is salsa verde shredded beef and we're making

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Speaker 1: them into tacos because my kids love tacos and this

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Speaker 1: work with one ingredient. So this is very simple. This

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Speaker 1: And then finally, tangy barbecue chicken bowls. This is a

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Speaker 1: rescues for the week. If you're looking for even more

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Speaker 1: of an exhaustive meal plan, you can get my weekly

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Speaker 1: find these three recipes on my meal plan for this week.

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Speaker 1: maybe it's watching the Charlie Brown Thanksgiving Special. Whatever, whatever

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Speaker 1: what matters most to you. What's your plan? Everyone needs

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Speaker 1: a plan. No one successfully wings it, even if you're

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Speaker 1: have enough serving spoons, tongs, spatula's, pie servers, whatever to

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