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Speaker 1: Hi, everyone, Welcome to Kitchen Prescription, the podcast you listen

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Speaker 1: to and you don't know what to make for dinner.

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Speaker 1: I hope you have all had a wonderful week filled

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Speaker 1: with love, lots of good game day food. I mean,

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Speaker 1: how about that halftime show, my goodness, and maybe even

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Speaker 1: some good food family memories. I really did love the

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Speaker 1: halftime show. It was so great. We attended in Super

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Speaker 1: Bowl party with friends, and for Valentine's Day, I did

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Speaker 1: donuts in the morning and then chocolate covered strawberries in

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Speaker 1: the evening. So it seems that I like the traditions

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Speaker 1: that are are sweet. Oh, and steak. We did steak.

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Speaker 1: We've also been in this crazy mid winter heat wave,

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Speaker 1: and my sincere apologies if that cuts you deep as

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Speaker 1: winter temperatures where you are. I grew up in Utah,

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Speaker 1: so and I spent ten years in New York City,

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Speaker 1: can feel. But it really threw me. I am so

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Speaker 1: not into ninety plus degree temperatures in February. I'm not

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Speaker 1: ready to put the sweaters away. It's really thrown before

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Speaker 1: else out there who loves that. Luckily, we're returning to

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Speaker 1: somewhat seasonally appropriate temperatures this week, but pulling the sprinklers

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Speaker 1: out for my kids to run through it was just crazy.

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Speaker 1: It was so crazy. Speaking of crazy, I feel like

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Speaker 1: the craziness is really picking up around here, and it's

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Speaker 1: what we've all been hoping for, right normalcy, things getting

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Speaker 1: the next two weeks, I'm heading to both New York

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Speaker 1: City and Chicago for work while also keeping things running

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Speaker 1: here on the home front. And you working moms out there,

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Speaker 1: you will understand this. Not only am I stoked for

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Speaker 1: the work opportunities, but I cannot wait for a few

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Speaker 1: nights three to be exact, to sleep completely uninterrupted and

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Speaker 1: have multiple hours on an airplane of uninterrupted laptop work time.

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Speaker 1: So I don't know what that says about my stage

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Speaker 1: I cannot wait. That's gonna be so fun, and I

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Speaker 1: stuff that's going on with those opportunities. With this uptick

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Speaker 1: in busy schedules, I will certainly be relying on a

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Speaker 1: few helps in the kitchen, including my trusty friend, rotisserie chicken. Now.

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Speaker 1: A few weeks ago on Instagram, I dedicated a whole

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Speaker 1: week to simple recipes that can be made utilizing a

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Speaker 1: rotisserie chicken. And I even did a video that many

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Speaker 1: of you loved about how to properly break down a

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Speaker 1: rotisserie chicken. I couldn't believe how many people had never

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Speaker 1: a few points here. Let's talk about this. So if

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Speaker 1: you happen to be a Costco shopper, you guys know

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Speaker 1: that I am. But I've also heard Sam's Club has

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Speaker 1: great rotisserie chickens as well. But you must, must, must,

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Speaker 1: must try the rotisserie chickens from Costco if you're already

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Speaker 1: a member. If you're a Costco member and you're not

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Speaker 1: someone who regularly buys the chickens. I am dumbfounded because

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Speaker 1: to me, it's one of the it's one of the

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Speaker 1: primary reasons to have the membership. They are next level

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Speaker 1: when it comes to flavor and juicing. This eyes there

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Speaker 1: are always five dollars. In fact, they very publicly operated

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Speaker 1: a loss with these, but they get so many people

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Speaker 1: if I'm being completely honest, the rotisse chickens alone would

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Speaker 1: fee to Costco. That is how passionately I feel about

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Speaker 1: the Costco chickens. Rotess chickens are great anywhere. They just

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Speaker 1: All Right, so let's talk about a couple of different

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Speaker 1: you know what, I'm going to rely on a rotisserie

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Speaker 1: take up real estate in your mind, because it's so

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Speaker 1: that's totally something you can try. And all of those

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Speaker 1: Then another thing to just keep in mind is I

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Speaker 1: chicken enchiladas. Now I love this recipe. It also happens

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Speaker 1: this marinade. This may be the best marinade I have

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Speaker 1: and you'd get this recipe. All right, there's your recipes

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Speaker 1: for the week. Now let's get into the kitchen prescription

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Speaker 1: part of the podcast. I can't wait to introduce you

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Speaker 1: all to my guest today. She is the ultimate follow

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Speaker 1: on Instagram, and I mean that from the bottom of

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Speaker 1: my heart. She shares simple, realistic, and tasty weeknight recipes

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Speaker 1: and not only is she incredibly relatable and likable, she's

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Speaker 1: also a cookbook author, a professional recipe developer, and an entrepreneur.

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Speaker 1: Oh she's also a mom to to delicious toddler boys

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Speaker 1: was getting messages from people, like you said, I was

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Speaker 1: getting messages from people. Oh my god, I thought I

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Speaker 1: didn't like cooking, and now I love cooking. Thank you

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Speaker 1: for these recipes. My husband and my kids are obsessed

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Speaker 1: with what I'm cooking now versus being you know, being

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Speaker 1: jerks about it every night. Right, for these recipes and

431
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Speaker 1: just seeing the confidence that like I can give other

432
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Speaker 1: people through my work is so empowering that those first

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Speaker 1: say for the past year and a half, until like,

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Speaker 1: I don't know, six months ago, I was working like

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Speaker 1: one hundred hour weeks. Yeah, not sleeping, like going to bed.

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Speaker 1: Because I have two young kids, right, so I would

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Speaker 1: like work all day long. I because I'm a woman

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Speaker 1: and we think we can do everything. I didn't have

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Speaker 1: proper childcare lined up until like six months ago. I

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Speaker 1: now am able to see lay out and see my

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Speaker 1: worth and see like, Okay, if I do six hours

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Speaker 1: of I have six childcare hours. AKA, let's say that's

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Speaker 1: one hundred fifty bucks. I don't know, I'm not doing

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Speaker 1: that one hundred fifty bucks. I can earn eight hundred

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Speaker 1: dollars in that time by filming a brand partnership going

446
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Speaker 1: on Kelsey's podcast, that's going to get me exposure to

447
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Speaker 1: new faces. Like whatever these different things are. I'm now

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00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:52,600
Speaker 1: able to see my worth so much more when you're

449
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Speaker 1: in that building phase where that's the risk, right, that's

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Speaker 1: the risk you're taking because there are going to be

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Speaker 1: some months, if beyond months where that doesn't equal out.

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Speaker 1: And that's okay, right, because it takes time to build something.

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Speaker 1: And I just found for me that take the you know,

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Speaker 1: one to one finances out of it. For me to

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Speaker 1: be able to build and develop something that I felt

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Speaker 1: so passionately about that felt like I was serving this

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Speaker 1: other side of my brain differently from motherhood. Was just

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Speaker 1: I mean, it was so energizing to me and I've

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Speaker 1: just loved it. Yes, it's so I mean, and I

460
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Speaker 1: have so many moms who were staying at home with

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Speaker 1: their kids as their full time job, and I think

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Speaker 1: that is so awesome. If you find power and you

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Speaker 1: find like joy in that, I think that is such

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Speaker 1: a rad career path for me. I really my first

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Speaker 1: year with Mattis, who was my first son, I kind

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Speaker 1: of took things slow and wasn't doing a ton of work,

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Speaker 1: and I wasn't feeling good, I wasn't feeling like myself,

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Speaker 1: and I wasn't feeling like I just wasn't feeling like

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Speaker 1: one hundred percent me. And once I started working outside

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Speaker 1: of the home and developing this career path, I am like,

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Speaker 1: I truly think I'm such a better mom because I

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Speaker 1: like know my worth and I know kind of who

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Speaker 1: I am and what I'm working towards. And I really

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Speaker 1: I don't like when working moms say, well, I want

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Speaker 1: I want my kids to see that I'm working hard,

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Speaker 1: because stay at home moms are also really working hard.

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Speaker 1: That's line that I like totally. I work work or

478
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Speaker 1: so much harder when I'm got my full time mom

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Speaker 1: had on like so much harder. But I just appreciate

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Speaker 1: you sharing because I think that one of the reasons

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Speaker 1: that working motherhood is so difficult is because not enough

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Speaker 1: people share exactly what it looks like. It's not like

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Speaker 1: you go and get a job and accountant and you

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Speaker 1: go work nine to five like it looks so different

485
00:27:53,320 --> 00:27:55,880
Speaker 1: for so many people. So the more women we can

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00:27:55,920 --> 00:28:00,400
Speaker 1: get sharing about what this looks like and sharing about

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Speaker 1: why it works for them, I think I think the better.

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Speaker 1: So I'm just so grateful. And what's great about what

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Speaker 1: you share on Instagram is yes, we see like working, Caroline,

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Speaker 1: but you, maybe more so than anyone I can think of,

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Speaker 1: are so great at integrating what that family life looks

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Speaker 1: like as you're building something. And I just love it.

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Speaker 1: I just love it. Thank you. Yeah, I just use

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Speaker 1: the term like work outside of the home. I work

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Speaker 1: in the home. I like mom in the home, and

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Speaker 1: I work in the home. So the lines for me

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Speaker 1: and for you I now are so blurred, like my

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Speaker 1: nanny just took Calum to the park, but they'll be

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Speaker 1: back any minute. Like it's we are very very much

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Speaker 1: like we need a new phrase after especially after COVID,

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00:28:44,200 --> 00:28:47,959
Speaker 1: like work. Everybody's working outside the home anymore. But I

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Speaker 1: know what you mean, I know what We're all working

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Speaker 1: in the work outside of the kids. I don't know.

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Speaker 1: Speaking of Instagram, Caroline, I think I heard you mentioned

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Speaker 1: the other day that you are also getting ready to

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Speaker 1: for a kitchen renovation. Is that true? Yes? Oh my gosh, Okay,

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Speaker 1: this gets me so excited because on the Kitchen Prefection podcast,

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Speaker 1: we like to talk about how people organize their kitchens,

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Speaker 1: outfit their kitchens, and then set them up with really

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Speaker 1: good systems, and so you are in the position where

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Speaker 1: you're probably going to build out your dream kitchen. So

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Speaker 1: so I am building this dream kitchen in a not

513
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Speaker 1: dreamy footprint. I am working with it within really realistic boundaries.

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Speaker 1: I think you, at least I look at like every

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Speaker 1: influencer in the world seems to be renovating their house

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Speaker 1: right now or building their dream house right now. And

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Speaker 1: we have a fifteen hundred square foot house were it's

518
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Speaker 1: going to be I think a two thousand square foot

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Speaker 1: house by the time we're done with it. But my

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Speaker 1: kitchen is small, and so I have a really unique challenge,

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Speaker 1: which is I have a really unique opportunity, I should

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Speaker 1: say not challenge, which is that I have really limited

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Speaker 1: space to work with. Food is obviously my career. So

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Speaker 1: I have a ton of kitchen tools, so more than

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Speaker 1: even the average kitchen person. Mine needs to be like

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Speaker 1: really hyper organized and I need to like have one

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Speaker 1: of each tool that I need and not have all

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Speaker 1: this like riff raft floating around my kitchen as it

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Speaker 1: is currently as it currently lives. I think these cabinets

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Speaker 1: were probably built in the nineteen sixties. Yeah, the house

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Speaker 1: was built in the nineteen sixties. For all tiny cabinets.

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Speaker 1: They all have like these tiny doors, and then you

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Speaker 1: go in and it's like Narnia, Like there's like all

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Speaker 1: this space back there that you can't read. You have

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Speaker 1: to like if I have my whole body in the cabinet,

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Speaker 1: I can't reach to the back of it. So I

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Speaker 1: have a great opportunity to like really streamline this space

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Speaker 1: and make it right for my family. Like right now,

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Speaker 1: the bar is up really high, so my kids can't

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Speaker 1: sit and like watch me cook. So they have this

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Speaker 1: giant stool that's like takes up half of my kitchen

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Speaker 1: that they're constantly on. So it's all going to be

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Speaker 1: optimized around and it's like one of the open concept

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Speaker 1: into our living room. The entire point of this kitchen

545
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Speaker 1: will be a organization. Be like me never feeling like

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Speaker 1: I'm off in the kitchen cooking while my family's having fun.

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Speaker 1: It's like, you know, I want it to be really

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Speaker 1: like that. It's an overused phrase, but you know, hard

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Speaker 1: of the home, right of the home. I feel like

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Speaker 1: your current kitchen is the type of kitchen that probably

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Speaker 1: most people I mean, look, yes, there's going to be

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Speaker 1: the outliers who have not one, but two kitchen islands. Yes,

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Speaker 1: and so I'd love to know how you have made

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Speaker 1: this kitchen work. So when it comes to organizing, is

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Speaker 1: there any system, even if it's just one part of

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Speaker 1: your kitchen that you feel like functions really well? So

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Speaker 1: for me, finally investing in like bins has honestly been

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Speaker 1: the biggest thing. And I'm really I'm a pretty disorganized person.

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Speaker 1: Like I Organization does not does not come naturally to me,

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Speaker 1: and so if left to my own devices, things can

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Speaker 1: get like really unruly really fast. Luckily, actually, Callum's nanny

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Speaker 1: who I was just talking about, is an incredibly organized

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Speaker 1: person and she really helps me with my kitchen systems

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Speaker 1: and she is a bin lover and it has like

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Speaker 1: totally changed my life. So, like my snack cabinet, which

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Speaker 1: again is one of these awful deep cabinets, has now

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Speaker 1: like a chip bin, a cracker bin, a you know,

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00:32:28,600 --> 00:32:32,880
Speaker 1: pancake slash other mixes bin bins. Yeah, we even have it.

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Speaker 1: We have a peanut butter and jelly sandwich bin. We

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Speaker 1: make a lot of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna do that. We make a lot of peanut butter

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Speaker 1: and jelly sandwiches. Thank you. I that was wow, Okay,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna do that. So yeah, like having these bins

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Speaker 1: that I can then pull one out and like send

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Speaker 1: Callum to the park with four snacks whatever. Yeah, that

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Speaker 1: has honestly been the biggest game changer for me, especially

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Speaker 1: because of these like funky shape, bizarre cabinets that I have.

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Speaker 1: I have one huge cabinet that's where I keep like

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Speaker 1: my grains, my pasta, is my YadA, YadA YadA. And

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Speaker 1: for that one. The thing that's been the best is

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Speaker 1: taking And I always see this on like superorganized people's

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Speaker 1: kitchens and I'm like, who who's got the time to

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Speaker 1: do that? What do you do if it doesn't fit perfectly?

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Speaker 1: And they put it in a clear container? Right, pear

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00:33:23,680 --> 00:33:26,800
Speaker 1: container for my past or you know what. I don't

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00:33:26,800 --> 00:33:32,360
Speaker 1: do it with pasta boxes actually, but for grains, for flowers,

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Speaker 1: the clear container with the label. My labels are not pretty,

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00:33:35,440 --> 00:33:38,520
Speaker 1: they're blue painter's tape, doesn't matter. Write them off and

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00:33:39,160 --> 00:33:41,800
Speaker 1: putting something new in there. My nuts all go into

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Speaker 1: clear jars. And that's because you know, I get down

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Speaker 1: to one inch of cashows and you know, and I know,

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00:33:48,600 --> 00:33:50,520
Speaker 1: and so I fill it up with the next bit

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00:33:50,600 --> 00:33:55,000
Speaker 1: and it's just like this constant, totallybel of things and

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Speaker 1: that has been really helpful with these deep, awkward not

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00:33:59,200 --> 00:34:03,400
Speaker 1: suited for human to Actually I love it. And you know,

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Speaker 1: the one thing that I kind of rolled my eyes

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00:34:05,760 --> 00:34:08,080
Speaker 1: out forever but then finally did and it's been life

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Speaker 1: changing is the cereal bins. And I think there was

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00:34:10,200 --> 00:34:12,200
Speaker 1: even a really good meme going around for a while.

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Speaker 1: It was like, honey, I don't think we're going to

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Speaker 1: be cereal bin people. They have been so awesome because

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00:34:19,120 --> 00:34:23,239
Speaker 1: my kids destroy the boxes, whip off the boxes, and

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00:34:23,280 --> 00:34:25,560
Speaker 1: then they don't seal it back up, and so then

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00:34:25,840 --> 00:34:29,000
Speaker 1: the cereal goes stale, or the granolla goes stale, and

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Speaker 1: so I have turned into a clear bin cereal. I

606
00:34:33,360 --> 00:34:37,120
Speaker 1: haven't gotten there yet. And I literally five minutes before

607
00:34:37,160 --> 00:34:40,080
Speaker 1: we talked had a bowl of stale magic spoon. So

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Speaker 1: it might be time. You're inspiring me, because you know,

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00:34:44,760 --> 00:34:46,799
Speaker 1: my kids actually aren't old enough to do their own

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Speaker 1: cereal yet. Might you just wait? My darling husband, who's

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Speaker 1: really good at a lot of things, doesn't fold back

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Speaker 1: the bags back down. I know it, Like, honey, just

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00:34:58,800 --> 00:35:03,080
Speaker 1: just roll it down to about half a second. So okay,

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00:35:03,280 --> 00:35:06,880
Speaker 1: clear cereal opens Well yeah, and I will for anyone

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Speaker 1: who's like, oh yeah, I'd like to do the bin thing,

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00:35:09,400 --> 00:35:13,040
Speaker 1: but it feels too overwhelming. My advice is literally to

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Speaker 1: take one cabinet or one side of one cabinet or

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Speaker 1: one drawer at a telfy because I have been to

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Speaker 1: the container store and roamed the aisles for two hours

620
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Speaker 1: being like, they all look the same. I don't know

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Speaker 1: what to do. So really, literally, don't bite off more

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Speaker 1: than you can chew. Do one cabinet at a time,

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Speaker 1: and I think that's the best way. One shelf at

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Speaker 1: a time. Yes, that's what I've done to That's exactly

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00:35:36,520 --> 00:35:40,239
Speaker 1: what I've done. And also it feels really expensive. So

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Speaker 1: you go to the container store, you get six spins,

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00:35:42,320 --> 00:35:43,799
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden you're a one hundred bucks

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00:35:43,840 --> 00:35:46,640
Speaker 1: and you're like, how did this happen? Just to organize

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Speaker 1: my freaking cereal. It is one of those things that

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Speaker 1: you don't know till you know. It really is, like

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Speaker 1: it's well spent. And I think that since organizing has

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00:35:56,239 --> 00:36:01,960
Speaker 1: gotten more popular. There are some more affordable lines now. Specifically,

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00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:05,759
Speaker 1: the bright Land line at Target is awesome and the

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00:36:05,760 --> 00:36:08,200
Speaker 1: Home at It just came out with a line for

635
00:36:08,360 --> 00:36:12,279
Speaker 1: Walmart that it looks almost identical to their container store

636
00:36:12,320 --> 00:36:14,919
Speaker 1: line that is much more affordable. So if you're looking,

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00:36:15,040 --> 00:36:17,120
Speaker 1: if you're in the market for bins, check out those

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Speaker 1: two lines in particular, because I have a very hot tip,

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Speaker 1: I kind of want to go to Walmart right now.

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Speaker 1: So if you had to pick like three favorite tool,

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Speaker 1: I'm not going to give you a number. Just rattle

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Speaker 1: off a few of your favorite tools in the kitchen

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Speaker 1: that you use over and over again. The number one

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Speaker 1: tool I use that I'm constantly looking for if it's

645
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Speaker 1: dirty is my fish spatula. Yes, are you a fish? Oh?

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Speaker 1: Are you kidding me? Yes? Absolutely? And I don't ever

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Speaker 1: use it. I'm like, occasionally use it for fish, but

648
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Speaker 1: I use it for everything if I in fact, I

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Speaker 1: feel like when I whenever I'm cooking fish, I like

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Speaker 1: forget to use it. No, it's I know when I

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Speaker 1: say fish spatula, it needs a rebrand. Honestly, it's basically

652
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Speaker 1: just a long, skinny spatula versus like a squatty square

653
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Speaker 1: it's got like per frated, like there's it's perforated. It's

654
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Speaker 1: like the perfect to get underneath pancakes, underneath cookies. That's

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Speaker 1: my cheap one. My fancy thing that I use all

656
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Speaker 1: the time is my leg Crusade three and a half

657
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Speaker 1: court braiser. Best. I'm a big one pot person like

658
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Speaker 1: you are. So like my rice is cooking in the

659
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Speaker 1: bottom with the stock, my protein, my vege is getting

660
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Speaker 1: stirred in and then my proteins going on top. So

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Speaker 1: I recently got a stop three and a half court braiser.

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Speaker 1: It's basically the same thing. The only reason I got

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Speaker 1: the stop is because it had a glass lid that

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Speaker 1: I was so into and moral of this story. A

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Speaker 1: three and a half court braiser doesn't matter what brand.

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Speaker 1: It is so awesome, such a great tool to have.

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Speaker 1: My Dyson stick vacuum. Oh yeah, did you say? Yes?

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Speaker 1: You did? It is in my kitchen. It is a

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Speaker 1: part of my it's the kitchen life. If so, do

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Speaker 1: you have do you keep the long do you keep

671
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Speaker 1: the long leg on it all the time? Yeah? Okay,

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Speaker 1: I have the like charging part on the wall and

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Speaker 1: then I keep the leg kind of hidden. I used

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Speaker 1: to have it all together and it was just like

675
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Speaker 1: following all the time. So I now have the charging

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Speaker 1: station on the wall, the battery pack part on the wall,

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Speaker 1: and then the leg. The leg part kind of is

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Speaker 1: like hidden. Yeah, so I have to assemble it. It It

679
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Speaker 1: takes literally half a second. So that's fine. But I

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Speaker 1: used to when my kids were eating and spilling everywhere,

681
00:38:31,920 --> 00:38:35,000
Speaker 1: I would constantly it would like bum me out. I'd

682
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Speaker 1: be like, Calum, keep it in your mouth, Maddis, don't

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Speaker 1: throw that. And now I literally don't care, Like I

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Speaker 1: swear to God, the b and sticks has lessened my

685
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Speaker 1: mom anxiety. Because there are so many things as parents

686
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Speaker 1: that can give us anxiety. The thought of having to

687
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Speaker 1: clean up a kitchen mess is warning those for me.

688
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Speaker 1: And now like if Madis wants to help me cook

689
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Speaker 1: up on his stool, heck, yeah, buddy, no problem. There

690
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Speaker 1: is flour everywhere, there oats everywhere, and I literally don't

691
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Speaker 1: think twice about it because it'll take me twenty seconds

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Speaker 1: to clean. Yeah, I'm with you. In fact, when I

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Speaker 1: had product with the Home Shopping Network a couple of years,

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Speaker 1: I took them an idea and I was like, let's

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Speaker 1: do a kitchen specific hand vacuum. Yes, And then I

696
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Speaker 1: was like, but no one's ever going to do it

697
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Speaker 1: better than Dyson, So let's not even drive never mind,

698
00:39:25,239 --> 00:39:27,640
Speaker 1: because the stickback is such a and it's another one

699
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Speaker 1: where it's gonna hurt when you buy it. It's not cheap,

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Speaker 1: and it's gonna sting a little bit. But then every

701
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Speaker 1: single day you're gonna say, this is the best thing

702
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Speaker 1: I ever bought. Amazing. I love maybe like a cooler mom,

703
00:39:39,400 --> 00:39:42,520
Speaker 1: a more fun mom. And also my house is clean

704
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Speaker 1: all the time. Yeah, it's enuinely clean. I love it.

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Speaker 1: I love it. Okay, So then I want to ask

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Speaker 1: about one thing. I like to talk about systems, like

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Speaker 1: systems that work in your kitchen. I've noticed that you

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Speaker 1: pull from your freezer a lot. I feel like you

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Speaker 1: use your freezer really well. Would you agree? I am

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Speaker 1: a freezer aficionado. I freeze all the time. In fact,

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Speaker 1: some of my recipes for my newsletter i'll like, I'll

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Speaker 1: specifically write them and be like, Okay, guys, this week,

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Speaker 1: we're making double we're making half the bow and as

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Speaker 1: for tonight, and you're freezing half of it for whenever

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Speaker 1: the hell you want it. And I'm trying to get

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Speaker 1: away from my use of zip blocks. But this is

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Speaker 1: the one place where I can't quit using zip blocks. Court.

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Speaker 1: Zip blocks are my best friend. I freeze soups, I

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Speaker 1: freeze meatballs, I freeze cookie dough, whatever in quart zip blocks.

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Speaker 1: So I'll put the stew, the soup, whatever, pour it

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Speaker 1: into a quart zip block. I like fold back the

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Speaker 1: tops of the edges, put it into a bowl so

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Speaker 1: that I can really easily pour it in, and then

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Speaker 1: I squeeze all the air out. Lay it flat. Baking

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Speaker 1: sheets flat flat. I learned that from my brief stint

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Speaker 1: in restaurants. Yeah, lay it flat, freeze it, and then

727
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Speaker 1: you basically have these like sheets of paper, but there's

728
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Speaker 1: it's like it's like a file folder, file them. Like

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Speaker 1: nothing is more empowering to realize I don't know what

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Speaker 1: I'm going to make for dinner. You pull up in

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Speaker 1: the freezer and I'm like, what should we take? What

732
00:41:07,640 --> 00:41:11,840
Speaker 1: should we pull out tonight? You know, or corn chowder

733
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Speaker 1: or so before I had Mattie. Right now it's just

734
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Speaker 1: a hot, a hot mess in there, and like it's

735
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Speaker 1: like exactly what you just said, what should we have

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Speaker 1: for dinner? And I'm like rifling through my files, my

737
00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:27,040
Speaker 1: freezer files, like okay, yeah, corn chowder. Before I had

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Speaker 1: Mattie Aka, I had time to be more organized. I

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Speaker 1: my freezer files. I had a post it on my refrigerator,

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Speaker 1: or not a post it, like a big piece of

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Speaker 1: paper that was exactly what was in the freezer. So

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Speaker 1: it was like, this is the meat that you have frozen.

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Speaker 1: These are the meal, the prepared meals that you have frozen.

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Speaker 1: These are the vegetables that you have frozen. It was awesome.

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Speaker 1: Someday I will get back to that place. I'm not

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Speaker 1: in that place now. Now. I have two freezers because

747
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Speaker 1: my husband hunts, so we have like, h it's it's

748
00:41:59,040 --> 00:42:01,600
Speaker 1: too much. I'm like too overwhelmed. I need to just

749
00:42:01,640 --> 00:42:04,680
Speaker 1: like eat it all and then start over. But having

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00:42:04,800 --> 00:42:07,960
Speaker 1: if you are an organized person, keep a list on

751
00:42:08,040 --> 00:42:11,640
Speaker 1: your fridge of what you've frozen, and then you like

752
00:42:11,960 --> 00:42:13,840
Speaker 1: on a Tuesday night when you don't feel like cooking,

753
00:42:14,160 --> 00:42:15,839
Speaker 1: you just look at the list and you go, oh,

754
00:42:15,840 --> 00:42:19,200
Speaker 1: we have bulonnese. That is. I was really good about

755
00:42:19,239 --> 00:42:22,520
Speaker 1: that with our when we lived in Oregon and had

756
00:42:22,520 --> 00:42:25,440
Speaker 1: more space, we had a garage freezer. I was a

757
00:42:25,480 --> 00:42:28,600
Speaker 1: person that had a garage freezer no longer, Unfortunately, I'd

758
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Speaker 1: love to be that person again, and it was great.

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Speaker 1: When you get in the habit of doing that, your

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00:42:32,440 --> 00:42:34,879
Speaker 1: freezer can be such a great resource. So I love

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Speaker 1: that you're always always sharing that. Yeah, the freezer is

762
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Speaker 1: a huge resource for me. I pretty much cook something

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Speaker 1: every single day for my job. And even though I

764
00:42:43,719 --> 00:42:46,120
Speaker 1: always am cooking some recipe that day, sometimes at the

765
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Speaker 1: end of the day, I'm either like I can't look

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Speaker 1: at corn chatterer one more time because I thought about

767
00:42:52,080 --> 00:42:54,160
Speaker 1: it all day long. I don't want to eat that,

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Speaker 1: I've already eaten it for lunch. Whatever's that's my problem.

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Speaker 1: It's like, how many days do I eat for lunch

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Speaker 1: and I can't whatever, I can't think about the recipe

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Speaker 1: in or I can't make myself cook a proper dinner

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Speaker 1: if I've like only been cooking appetizers like whatever. So

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Speaker 1: many times that happens, and we're not big takeout people.

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Speaker 1: So I go to the freezer and like it is.

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Speaker 1: It makes my life a lot of a Lotian You're

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Speaker 1: the best. You really are just such a light. I

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Speaker 1: tell everybody where they can find you. I'm Carol Chambers

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Speaker 1: on Instagram. Caroline Chambers dot com is my website where

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Speaker 1: you can find my newsletter and whatever else I'm up to.

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Speaker 1: Chambers on Instagram don't forget. She has an amazing recipe

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Speaker 1: subscription called what to Cook when you don't feel like cooking.

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Speaker 1: I am a member. It is wonderful. I remember for

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Speaker 1: over a year now, and it's really great. If you

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Speaker 1: like my style of cooking, I feel like you'll like

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Speaker 1: caroline style of cooking. They're similar. We're both, you know,

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Speaker 1: moms trying to get food and young people's house and

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Speaker 1: my weeknight dinner, I say. And I often people back

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Speaker 1: and forth between our instagrams and I'll get messages it's like,

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Speaker 1: did you see Kelsey's latest recipe? And I'm like, oh no,

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Speaker 1: what is it? Oh you're the best brain crossover. Well,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much, and be sure to check her out,

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Speaker 1: you guys. She's the best. And I wish you nothing,

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Speaker 1: but oh and I can't. Will you come back on

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Speaker 1: when your kitchen's done? Yes, do a video podcast. Ye.

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Speaker 1: Kelsey and I can see each other right now, but

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Speaker 1: I don't think you guys are going to see this.

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Speaker 1: We will do a proper video walk through because I

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Speaker 1: the number one thing I want to do is when

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Speaker 1: I when I do like the drawers, I want to

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Speaker 1: have the proper inserts. Keep them for you guys, like

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Speaker 1: real deal. You'll be an official grown up at that point.

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Speaker 1: That's the that's the thing in my drawers. I want

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Speaker 1: the drawer to be the bin. Yes, now you're the best.

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Speaker 1: Thank you. That's it for our episode today. I hope

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Speaker 1: you enjoyed getting to know Caroline a bit better, and

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Speaker 1: please tell me that you will immediately go and follow

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Speaker 1: her on Instagram. You'll think me later. I promise. She's

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Speaker 1: so fun, funny, relatable, all the good things. Remember that

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Speaker 1: new episodes will drop every Thursday, and in the meantime

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Speaker 1: you can follow me on Instagram, join recipe Club, or

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Speaker 1: sign up for my Family Me'll Makeover course. If your

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Speaker 1: kitchen needs some organizing, if you'd like to call in

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Speaker 1: and ask me a question, you can call in the

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Speaker 1: hotline at eight one eight five, eight three seven six

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Speaker 1: with cooking or your kitchen. It would mean so much

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Speaker 1: to me if you took just a few minutes to

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Speaker 1: rate and review this podcast so that others who are

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Speaker 1: stuck trying to decide what to make for dinner, can

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Speaker 1: find it all right. Thanks so much you guys, and

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Speaker 1: talk soon everyone,