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Speaker 1: Hello, Hello, 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. I'm so glad you're here today

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Speaker 1: because I want to talk to you about a place

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Speaker 1: that is near and dear to me. And I know

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Speaker 1: it is near and dear to some of my listeners,

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Speaker 1: and some of you don't have a ton of experience

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Speaker 1: with it. Well, what I want to talk about is

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Speaker 1: Trader Joe's. There are a fair amount of you here

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Speaker 1: who aren't Trader Joe's shoppers for one reason or another.

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Speaker 1: Maybe it's because of location. You just simply don't have

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Speaker 1: one close to you, and I lived much of my

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Speaker 1: adult life not being close to a Trader Joe's. Or

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Speaker 1: maybe it's because you like to do all of your

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Speaker 1: be a place where you know you can get everything,

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Speaker 1: and Trader Joe's is not that store, so it just

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Speaker 1: doesn't make sense for your meal planning or your shopping routine.

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Speaker 1: Get it. In theory, this is how I would prefer

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Speaker 1: to operate one stop shopping. But I don't I make

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Speaker 1: an exception for Trader Joe's and I want to chat

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Speaker 1: a little bit about why. So we all know grocery

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Speaker 1: shopping can be a stressful and time consuming experience, and

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Speaker 1: quite frankly, many of us dread it. That's one of

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Speaker 1: the reasons I'm a huge fan of online grocery shopping,

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Speaker 1: which let's point out Trader Joe's does not offer, and

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Speaker 1: I still make an exception to go there, which makes

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Speaker 1: this conversation even more interesting. But the reason that traditional

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Speaker 1: grocery shopping is annoying is because you have to navigate

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Speaker 1: the crowded aisles. You've got to scan the shelf to

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Speaker 1: find the certain brand you're looking for, and then you're

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Speaker 1: comparing prices between two brands, and then you've got to

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Speaker 1: do self checkout. It's just an exhausting process and quite frankly,

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Speaker 1: an unpleasant experience is especially if you've got a talk

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Speaker 1: with you I digress, But at Trader Joe's, it honestly

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Speaker 1: feels different. I genuinely get a rush of dopamine every

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Speaker 1: time I enter a Trader Joe's store. And you should

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Speaker 1: all know this isn't sponsored in any capacity by Trader Joe's.

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Speaker 1: For some reason, Trader Joe's just doesn't have that dreaded

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Speaker 1: factor associated with it like a big grocery store can have.

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Speaker 1: Maybe it all comes down to the well priced, affordable,

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Speaker 1: fresh flowers that greet you every time you walk in.

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Speaker 1: If you've been at a Trader Joe's, you know what

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Speaker 1: I'm talking about. Best flowers ever. But instead I find

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Speaker 1: perusing the aisles at Trader Joe's to be a pleasant

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Speaker 1: and even relaxing experience. Truly, I love it, I absolutely

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Speaker 1: as stressful because it delivers a much simpler shopping experience.

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Speaker 1: One of the main reasons shopping for groceries can be

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Speaker 1: task involves having to make so many choices, so many decisions.

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Speaker 1: As we've talked about, grocery stores will carry multiple brands

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Speaker 1: all these decisions about what you actually are going to

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Speaker 1: actually take a mental toll on you. For many reasons.

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Speaker 1: It's called decision fatigue. And then we spend so much

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Speaker 1: time analyzing which choice to make, and then we potentially

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Speaker 1: regret the choice we make. It's a whole thing. In fact,

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Speaker 1: it's one of the reasons I created Recipe Club is

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Speaker 1: because I found that when I was going to meal

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Speaker 1: plan every week, you know, I scratched the surface of

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Speaker 1: looking for recipes, and I instantly become overwhelmed by so

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Speaker 1: many choices. And what I wanted to do in creating

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Speaker 1: Recipe Club was create a curated recipe resource for you

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Speaker 1: where I've done all of the hard work and I

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Speaker 1: have pulled together the recipes that my members want that

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Speaker 1: are simple, ideal for weeknights, and so you don't have

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Speaker 1: to do all of that. But what's interesting about Trader

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Speaker 1: Joe's is that they only carried their brand of products,

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Speaker 1: and the lack of selection reduces the number of decisions

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Speaker 1: that you have to make while you're shopping. But rather

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Speaker 1: having to spend all this time and energy sifting through

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Speaker 1: best quality and price, I simply just put the Trader

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Speaker 1: there is something so freeing and so nice about that.

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Speaker 1: And we can't exit this conversation without talking about the pleasant,

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Speaker 1: helpful staff who are almost always decked in cheerful Hawaiian shirts.

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Speaker 1: And I think that that contributes to a better shopping

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Speaker 1: or initially, I've found it jarring that I would get

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Speaker 1: guy was like, oh, these are the best, but if

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Speaker 1: you tried these other ones, they are also pretty good.

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Speaker 1: And we have conversations about, you know, the best things

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Speaker 1: they sell there. It's so awesome. It's just a really

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Speaker 1: nice environment. They give my kids stickers, And I don't

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Speaker 1: know if you're actually in a better mood when you're

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Speaker 1: finishing your weekly shopping and Trader jos you know that

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Speaker 1: the store is onto something, whether it's the fact that

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Speaker 1: they've designed it to help reduce stress. Who knows. And

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Speaker 1: those low prices don't hurt either, because you really can't

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Speaker 1: beat some of the pricing at Trader Shoes. So we're

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Speaker 1: What I want to do on the back half of

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Speaker 1: the podcast is talk you through my favorite items that

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Speaker 1: especially if you are a Trader Joe's shopper, you'll want

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Speaker 1: to listen to that. And maybe you've never been to

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Speaker 1: It's life changing. Anyways. Okay, you're here for meal plan

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Speaker 1: ideas and that is what I intend to give you.

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Speaker 1: Let's jump in to this week. So first up, very

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Speaker 1: exciting recipe Club launched this week four July. Five recipes

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Speaker 1: that were voted on by our club members that you

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Speaker 1: need to make meal time feel more manageable. And I

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Speaker 1: was so happy to see this one selected Mexican street

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Speaker 1: corn Allote's bowls and I'm guessing many of you have

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Speaker 1: had allow taste before. It's typically grilled corn that has

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Speaker 1: And it's so yummy, and dare I say, even more

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Speaker 1: and that's what it is here. I am such a

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Speaker 1: is a great recipe. It's got quenoa, it's got the corn,

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Speaker 1: Recipe Club member, I highly recommend making a low taste

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Speaker 1: bowls this week. They would be awesome for any simmer

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Speaker 1: barbecues or picnics things like that. If you're not a

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Speaker 1: A recipe you can find on my website is at

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Speaker 1: my creamy spinach arter choke pantry Pasta. Then I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: It is hearty delicious. It's like, if you like spinach

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Speaker 1: charter choke dip, you're gonna like this. It's basically spinach

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Speaker 1: charti choke dip meets a simple skillet pasta dish. My

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Speaker 1: kids go crazy for it, and it's really really yummy.

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Speaker 1: Light right, there's some lemon in there and it's just yummy. Finally,

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Speaker 1: barbecue pork sliders, and these are a costco friendly recipe.

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Speaker 1: You can pick up all of these ingredients really easily

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Speaker 1: at Costco, but you can also pick up these ingredients elsewhere.

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Speaker 1: I use sweet Baby raised barbecue sauce. I always love

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Speaker 1: my favorite barbecue sauce. Costco sells a really delicious pre

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Speaker 1: much flavor. I wouldn't go that far, but it's really good.

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Speaker 1: And then you use these Hawaiian rolls and you use

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Speaker 1: talking about Trader Joe's, specifically through the lens of summer.

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Speaker 1: I want to share everything I'm buying this summer to

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Speaker 1: why I love the simple shopping experien at Trader Joe's.

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Speaker 1: it so many times. All right, But let's talk about

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Speaker 1: they're salad kits, because this is one of the first

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Speaker 1: places I hit when I walk into Trader Joe's. I

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Speaker 1: produce section, and they've got some great salad kits. This

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Speaker 1: the reason I love a salad kit so much it

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Speaker 1: your foundation for building dinner, turning something into a grain bowl,

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Speaker 1: say we're going to make a grain bowl. And I'm

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Speaker 1: typically doing grain bowls at least once a week for

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Speaker 1: my family. First of all, it's great because I can

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