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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 and you don't know what

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Speaker 1: to make for dinner today is episode sixty nine. Organize

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Speaker 1: your Pantry. You know. I'm finding that I'm still kind

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Speaker 1: of in the new Year, New me mentality, even though

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Speaker 1: we're six weeks into the new year now. I don't

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Speaker 1: necessarily endorse that mentality and think everyone should approach the

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Speaker 1: new year whatever way works best for them. And unfortunately,

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Speaker 1: I am just wired the way I am, and I

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Speaker 1: cannot help myself or my brain from just wanting to

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Speaker 1: be excited about a fresh start. And one of the

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Speaker 1: things I found myself yearning for at the beginning of

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Speaker 1: the year is not necessarily completely new routines or habits

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Speaker 1: or schedules, but simply more of a reset. And a

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Speaker 1: reset feels a lot more manageable to me than starting

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Speaker 1: For example, I moved to my current home almost exactly

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Speaker 1: I would be working out of my home kitchen rather

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Speaker 1: than a studio kitchen like I worked out of previously,

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Speaker 1: so I wanted to get really dialed when it came

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Speaker 1: after all, this kitchen was going to be getting a

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Speaker 1: lot of use between professional and family needs like it

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Speaker 1: that was gonna be hard on this kitchen. So I

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Speaker 1: spent a lot of time getting things set up. I

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Speaker 1: invested in the bins, I labeled everything, I was very

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Speaker 1: into maybe the craziest year of work that I've ever had,

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Speaker 1: as we worked to launch our first physical product, the

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Speaker 1: Recipe Binder, while also running my recipe Club company, where

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Speaker 1: I regularly test, develop and publish weekly meal plans, new recipes,

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Speaker 1: all of that. So my kitchen worked great for supporting

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Speaker 1: all of this development. But naturally there are certain things

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Speaker 1: that have just started to get sloppy. Systems that I

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Speaker 1: them to, and so I'm feeling the urge to kind

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Speaker 1: of reset and reevaluate. And that feels so much easier

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Speaker 1: foundation for that. So today we're going to talk about

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Speaker 1: organizing your pantry. I recently offered to help a friend

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Speaker 1: organize her pantry and it pushed me to reset my own,

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Speaker 1: and my goodness, it feels so good. But before we

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Speaker 1: do that, I want to discuss a few recipes you

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Speaker 1: can throw on your meal plan for the week. I

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Speaker 1: just did my meal plan, and these are the steps

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Speaker 1: on hand. I select the recipes, I make my shopping list,

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Speaker 1: say that the whole process took eight minutes. Took eight

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Speaker 1: minutes for this week. It's one of the most valuable

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Speaker 1: habits I have and it benefits our family tremendously. So

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Speaker 1: hopefully this podcast can help support a similar system for you,

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Speaker 1: because I truly believe that it can be life changing

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Speaker 1: to get your family's dinner situation under control. All right,

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Speaker 1: here's what we are making this week. First recipe is

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Speaker 1: stew than February. It is hearty, it is delicious, it

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Speaker 1: is warm, it is romantic. Even I love it. It

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Speaker 1: can be made on soa cooker. It can be made

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Speaker 1: on stove top, it can be made in an instant pot.

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Speaker 1: This is maybe the most classic recipe we have in

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Speaker 1: recpee Club, Like it is so good, you must try it.

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Speaker 1: It's so, so, so good. The second recipe is actually

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Speaker 1: what I'm gonna make on Valentine's Day. We're doing Parmesan

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Speaker 1: crusted pork chops and broccolini. It is very delicious, and honestly,

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Speaker 1: the parmesan dredge that I do on the pork chops

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Speaker 1: It's a five ingredient recipe. You guys like this one's

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Speaker 1: great lunch. All right, there are your recipes for the week.

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Speaker 1: let's jump into the back half of the podcast and

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Speaker 1: discuss organizing your pantry. I can't overemphasize enough just how

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Speaker 1: Home Edit amazing. They suggested somewhere along the way having breakfast, lunch,

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Speaker 1: Bakery Fresh bread or something like that. The dinner basket

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Speaker 1: could be like quick sides, like maybe you buy the

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Speaker 1: Now it's the fun part. You can open up Amazon

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