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Speaker 1: Hi everybody. 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 is episode one hundred and

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Speaker 1: twenty seven, Shortcut Ingredients Saving Me during a busy month.

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Speaker 1: Let's kick off this week with a wellness check as

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Speaker 1: we are smack dab in the middle of May. Are

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Speaker 1: you hanging in there? I hope. So. While we're juggling

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Speaker 1: end of your activities, I'm also feeling a bit of

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Speaker 1: stress when it comes to beginning to think about summer.

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Speaker 1: I feel like all of our systems and schedules will shift.

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Speaker 1: And not anytime that happens, even if it's just slightly,

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Speaker 1: and even if it's to a technically like more laid

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Speaker 1: back state, everyone in this house has a bit of

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Speaker 1: a tough time adjusting. So I like that I'm thinking

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Speaker 1: about it now so it won't shock me once it arrives.

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Speaker 1: But I do just feel like, Okay, here we go,

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Speaker 1: We're we're gonna shuffle things up. I spend a little

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Speaker 1: time this weekend reviewing all of the camps that we

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Speaker 1: have scheduled along with our summer travel plans, and we've

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Speaker 1: got family coming to visit us. But speaking of camps,

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Speaker 1: did you know that we are doing a Recipe Club

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Speaker 1: kids cooking camp this summer. It's gonna be so fun.

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Speaker 1: I've actually been spending so much time on it lately,

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Speaker 1: so it's top of mine. But it's four classes via Zoom,

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Speaker 1: and the whole experience comes with a recipe binder specifically

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Speaker 1: for the kid chef in your household. It's still that

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Speaker 1: the recipes will be cooking. It's got this Darling sticker sheet.

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Speaker 1: It's got instructions, intro, paid shopping list, everything you need.

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Speaker 1: But I just finished testing the recipes and I sent

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Speaker 1: everything off to the printer today so we can get

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Speaker 1: all of those Darling binders into the hands of our

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Speaker 1: butting chefs. They are like this swimming pool blue color.

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Speaker 1: They are so cute. It's been super fun to pull

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Speaker 1: it all together. But in between wrapping that work project

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Speaker 1: up and keeping my household running, I've found that, especially

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Speaker 1: this week, I've been relying on a lot of shortcut

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Speaker 1: So I want to briefly chat with you about that

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Speaker 1: today and let you know what's working for me in

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Speaker 1: case it might work for you. But first let's tackle

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Speaker 1: a few recipe ideas you could throw on your meal

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Speaker 1: plan for the week. Reminder, mapping out your meals is

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Speaker 1: so worth it. Deciding what to make is the hardest part,

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Speaker 1: so let's check that off for you. Okay. First up

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Speaker 1: is Oh, this one, so good, so good. This is

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Speaker 1: new to recipe Club. It's a skillet coconut chicken with

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Speaker 1: sweet potatoes. I like coconut milk. In fact, you're gonna

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Speaker 1: flavor and it instantly creates a sauce and not only flavor,

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Speaker 1: so great because it does a lot of the things

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Speaker 1: So so good. So this is ground chicken with a

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Speaker 1: So this one super great and I love I love

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Speaker 1: on the list. I'm doing peanut chicken bowls. Our Peanut

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Speaker 1: chicken bowls are is a five ingredient recipe, super simple

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Speaker 1: peanut sauce that comes together I do PANTSI or chicken cutlets.

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Speaker 1: There's also lime and cilantro not but the flavor profile

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Speaker 1: that with rice. Then I'm gonna do a summer slow

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Speaker 1: having a couple of slow cooker recipes that are better

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Speaker 1: are your recipes. You can find and print all of

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Speaker 1: our weekly meal plans that we put out every week.

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Speaker 1: our membership. I create a Recipe Club to fix all

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Speaker 1: the things that drove me crazy about getting recipes online,

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Speaker 1: namely the ads, the banner ads, the long blog posts,

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Speaker 1: and all those drawn out stories. So in Recipe Club,

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Speaker 1: I provide just the recipes you need to help you

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Speaker 1: a pretty great app within Recipe Club. But if you

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Speaker 1: recipe Binder. I like to store all of the recipes

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Speaker 1: I make most often in my recipe binder. It's my

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Speaker 1: Mother's Day. I cannot wait for you guys to get

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Speaker 1: of your simple dinner system. When you combine an annual

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Speaker 1: membership of Recipe Club with the Binder, you always save

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Speaker 1: twenty bucks. And that really is a system in itself,

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Speaker 1: that's the perfect way to kind of pull yourself out

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Speaker 1: That makes my life easier and I have fewer decisions

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Speaker 1: the specific recipes that I use them for so number one.

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Speaker 1: Marinera sauce. I love it. It is the best. It

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Speaker 1: So you put the sauce, you put the cheese, you

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Speaker 1: So I always use my pesto for that. Another tortellini dish,

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