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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 seventy one, How

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Speaker 1: to take a meal to someone? Is there anything that's

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Speaker 1: better than someone bringing you dinner? I'm convinced that one

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Speaker 1: of the best gifts you can give or receive is

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Speaker 1: a home cooked meal. But for years, anytime I'd have

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Speaker 1: the thought that it would be a really nice thing

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Speaker 1: for me to take a person a meal, maybe they

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Speaker 1: just had a baby, or surgery or a loss in

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Speaker 1: the family, I would immediately get stuck when it came

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Speaker 1: deciding what to make what to take them. I finally

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Speaker 1: and try and refine the process of bringing a meal

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Speaker 1: to a friend who needs it most. Food is always

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Speaker 1: in my love language, and I love the ritual of

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Speaker 1: knowing that when I want to support a friend, I

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Speaker 1: can do it confidently through food. So that's what we're

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Speaker 1: going to talk about today. My best advice for taking

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Speaker 1: steps you can easily follow to do the same. But first,

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Speaker 1: let's get into a few recipe ideas you could throw

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Speaker 1: on your meal plan for the week. First up, baked

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Speaker 1: chicken tiktos. These are delicious. They are top ten recipe

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Speaker 1: for my family right now. Everyone loves them, and if

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Speaker 1: you are raising young children in your house, you know

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Speaker 1: how incredible it is to find a recipe that every

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Speaker 1: single person likes. This recipe is not only good because

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Speaker 1: it's delicious, but it is a recipe that freezes great,

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Speaker 1: but it's also great for a weeknight dinner, so I

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Speaker 1: great way to take that same meat that you would

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Speaker 1: in sandwich form and bonus that we're gonna put melted

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Speaker 1: simple recipe and Recipe Club, this one is great. Finally,

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Speaker 1: we've got a super busy week coming up. I'm already

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Speaker 1: bracing for it, and so I've got a five ingredient

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Speaker 1: from Trader Jo's, which is their orange chicken and it

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Speaker 1: is their most popular ingredient sold. So it's an orange

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Speaker 1: that it's when I maybe typically would have driven through

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Speaker 1: like Chick fil A or something like that, or I

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Speaker 1: This is so much easier, cheaper, and I can get

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Speaker 1: some veggies in there. So these orange chicken and broccoli

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Speaker 1: of our busiest nights this week. So there are your

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Speaker 1: recipes for the week. You can find and print them

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Speaker 1: all in Recipe Club individually or in our weekly meal

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Speaker 1: plan with easy to follow shopping lists broken down by Recipe.

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Speaker 1: As you guys know, recipe Club is an awesome resource

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Speaker 1: that gets you access to family tested, quick and simple

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Speaker 1: recipes on the internet without being bombarded by banner ads,

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Speaker 1: long blog posts and stories. I have found accessing recipes

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Speaker 1: on the internet to be really frustrating over the years,

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Speaker 1: and so that's why created recipe Club is to have

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Speaker 1: a space to do it easily, have a trusted resource

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Speaker 1: you can come back to over and over again. All right,

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

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Speaker 1: discuss how to take a meal to someone. I can't

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Speaker 1: think of a more personal or heartwarming gift for someone

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Speaker 1: in need of a pick me up than bringing them dinner.

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Speaker 1: It's just something that can be so special about a

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Speaker 1: So we've all found ourselves in situations in life when

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Speaker 1: But it is nice and considerate to ask about allergies

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Speaker 1: Then you have to choose what to make. This is

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Speaker 1: So I have this list in two separate places. I

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Speaker 1: So I want you to think of like a bagged salad.

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Speaker 1: It's twenty bucks. Keep it, And I thought that was

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