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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. So thrilled to have you here today.

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Speaker 1: We're going to chat about how you rally at dinner

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Speaker 1: time when you're in a rut. And I know you

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Speaker 1: have all been there. I have been there, I am

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Speaker 1: there regularly. In fact, if you're not in a dinner

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Speaker 1: ret you should expect to be in a dinner ret

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Speaker 1: sometime soon. And it's the worst to pull yourself out

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Speaker 1: of it. But I am going to help, going to

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Speaker 1: give you some strategies, a system that I used to

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Speaker 1: pull myself out of a dinner rut. But first, let's

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Speaker 1: talk about three recipes you could throw on your meal

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Speaker 1: So first up, Oh, I'm excited to make this one

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Speaker 1: sheet pan barbecue meatballs. So this one is delicious. Meatballs

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Speaker 1: have been a hit at my house ever since my

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Speaker 1: ten year old son Ali was little and was obsessed

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Speaker 1: with anything that was a ball he could throw. But

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Speaker 1: meatballs are hit and I don't care if you use

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Speaker 1: store bought meatballs or you make your own meatballs. I've

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Speaker 1: got a great five ingredient meatball recipe on my website,

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Speaker 1: or you can use this specific recipe which is in

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Speaker 1: Recipe Club during the month of October, and it's awesome.

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Speaker 1: So you actually put some of the barbecue sauce in

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Speaker 1: the meatballs and it's delicious. Barbecue sauce is one of

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Speaker 1: it in recipes. So this is awesome because the sheet panmeal,

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Speaker 1: it uses a couple other ingredients my kids always love,

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Speaker 1: and nor has been on a pineapple kick, so there

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Speaker 1: is pineapple in this recipe too. We served over rice.

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Speaker 1: It's delicious, such a hit, and it's also an easy

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Speaker 1: one to freeze. So if you wanted to make this,

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Speaker 1: is great. Or if you wanted a meal prep the

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Speaker 1: first recipe. Oh the second recipe, Okay, this is one

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Speaker 1: be like, Okay, Mom, we're sick of this. Now we

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Speaker 1: have to take a break. And now all of a

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Speaker 1: sudden they're asking for it again. And that's the cheesy

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Speaker 1: chicken broccoli bake. It is so yummy. It is comfort

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Speaker 1: food at its finest. I make it a big old

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Speaker 1: skillet or you could do it in like a casserole dish,

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Speaker 1: but it's got equal parts rice and orzo in it,

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Speaker 1: and that classic flavor combination of broccoli and cheddar so good.

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Speaker 1: I have heard from so many of you that your

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Speaker 1: this has got to be one of those that is

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Speaker 1: really really popular. It's in Recipe Club. It was one

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Speaker 1: of the bonus recipes that you got when you initially

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Speaker 1: signed up. But if you search cheesy Chicken Broccoli Bake

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Speaker 1: in speak Club you will find it. It's awesome. And then,

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Speaker 1: finally making my life easy, I'm doing a five ingredient

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Speaker 1: bowt caesar salad. This is one of the five ingredient

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Speaker 1: recipes that I like to share on Instagram. But it's

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Speaker 1: it's great for like a summer barbecue, but it's also

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Speaker 1: which we usually do on Fridays, and I don't really

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Speaker 1: making this five ingredient bowt caesar salad because I take

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Speaker 1: in this, so it's a bow tie sees or salad.

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Speaker 1: So you get the pasta, which makes it kind of

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Speaker 1: You'll plan this week too, So there you have it.

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Speaker 1: Sheet pan barbecue meatballs with peppers onions and pineapple cheesy

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Speaker 1: And I'm in the process of moving all of my

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Speaker 1: the back half of the podcast, where we're going to

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Speaker 1: chat about everything you need to know when it comes

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Speaker 1: to rallying at dinner time when you really don't want

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Speaker 1: to make dinner. So sometimes you just really don't want

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Speaker 1: to cook, either because you're too tired or you simply

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Speaker 1: have decided you don't like cooking. But whether you like

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Speaker 1: your family. What you need to make this bearable is

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Speaker 1: a simple plan and a handful of satisfying recipes that

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Speaker 1: don't require a ton of effort. I'm talking about like

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Speaker 1: to provide a maximumum joy. This is going to provide

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Speaker 1: maximum enjoyment with minimal effort. In fact, I got a

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Speaker 1: comment on Instagram this week that made me laugh. She

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Speaker 1: was like, Kelsey, help, dinner is breaking my brain. I

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Speaker 1: used to love cooking and I hate it now. I

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Speaker 1: have been there, I really have. And you know what,

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Speaker 1: there again. Because when we have to do something over

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Speaker 1: like the minimum eighteen years that you're putting dinner on

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Speaker 1: A lot of times you should expect that feeling of

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Speaker 1: it helpful to simply identify the problem why I'm in

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Speaker 1: two things circumstantial, Like there's a reason you're feeling depleted,

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Speaker 1: The second thing is this idea of repetition. I feel

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Speaker 1: know my family likes spaghetti and meatballs, but we have

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Speaker 1: those are two reasons I think you're probably in a rut.

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Speaker 1: Hopefully there's an end in sight that may help lift

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Speaker 1: that when we're tired, we're stressed, overwhelmed. Our ability to

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Speaker 1: make decisions plummets, and one of those decisions you have

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Speaker 1: that question feels infinitely harder. So let's be kind to ourselves.

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Speaker 1: Let's acknowledge that it may be our circumstances which we

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Speaker 1: able to change. It may be a repetition problem, and

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Speaker 1: all of that impacts our energy around making and eating dinner.

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Speaker 1: food connects us. You know that it's important to gather

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Speaker 1: sustains us in so many ways, whether that's physically, spiritually, emotionally, socially.

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Speaker 1: So if you're feeling stuck, it's worth digging yourself out

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Speaker 1: about this. The most important thing to focus on is simplicity.

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Speaker 1: So when you're trying to pull yourself out of a

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Speaker 1: dinner rut, you must start small and simple. Do not

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Speaker 1: build some big plan. So when you're coming from this

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Speaker 1: something small. But I need you to accept one thing.

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Speaker 1: And if you really are stuck in a rut, you're

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Speaker 1: to do it, Kelsey, I don't want to do it,

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Speaker 1: but you need to accept that you're going to need

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Speaker 1: a plan. If you're listening to this on a night

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Speaker 1: that you're so overmaking dinner, then what I want you

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Speaker 1: plan first. When I'm in a rhut, it's often because

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Speaker 1: I'm making those same things over and over again. You

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Speaker 1: have to plan something new. So what are you going

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Speaker 1: to need, Well, you're going to need a calendar of

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Speaker 1: some sort, or you're just gonna need a blank piece

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Speaker 1: of the week. Now, I'm talking about starting small. I

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Speaker 1: am not suggesting that you make dinner seven days a week.

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Speaker 1: I would never suggest that to anyone unless that's what

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Speaker 1: you do and it works for you. Great. That doesn't

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Speaker 1: work for me. I need some days off. Start with

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Speaker 1: a weekly meal plan. First fill in the days where

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Speaker 1: you know you're not going to cook, Like I don't

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Speaker 1: cook on Fridays. We do pizza Fridays. Occasionally I'll make

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