WEBVTT - Treat Yo Self with @lauraleabalanced 0:00:01.240 --> 0:00:03.880 Maybe that's Lisa, and we're just two girls that want 0:00:03.880 --> 0:00:07.360 to have a conversation with you. Dear sixteen year old Andrea, 0:00:07.480 --> 0:00:12.360 Hey gorgeous, Dear younger Lauren. Each episode is stories from people. 0:00:12.400 --> 0:00:15.760 I would deprive myself by myself obsessively because I was 0:00:15.800 --> 0:00:18.360 eating healthy. I couldn't understand that I had a problem 0:00:18.360 --> 0:00:21.079 with food. Losing my period scared me the most. My 0:00:21.200 --> 0:00:24.159 story starts when I was around seven. That's when I 0:00:24.160 --> 0:00:27.400 started to hate my body. Body image is like our 0:00:27.480 --> 0:00:31.319 inner picture of our outer self. Healthy behaviors play a 0:00:31.400 --> 0:00:33.720 much bigger role at all health than the actual number 0:00:33.760 --> 0:00:37.239 on the scales. Internal dialogue could be so powerful, and 0:00:37.320 --> 0:00:40.080 often it's super negative and critical in a way that 0:00:40.120 --> 0:00:42.360 we wouldn't talk to other people that we care about. 0:00:42.479 --> 0:00:44.760 When you start to share your story, that gives other 0:00:44.800 --> 0:00:46.920 people the courage to share theirs. I know you would 0:00:46.960 --> 0:00:49.159 be proud now of how far you have come in 0:00:49.159 --> 0:00:53.640 your relationship to food, exercise, and to yourself. I felt freedom, 0:00:53.880 --> 0:00:57.600 I've gained relationships. I've found my true sense of self worth. 0:00:57.760 --> 0:01:01.360 There's one thing I need you to take away. You're 0:01:01.400 --> 0:01:06.319 going to be okay. So I'm excited to have my 0:01:06.440 --> 0:01:11.520 friend Laura Lee on for today's episode. Amy here. Lisa 0:01:11.720 --> 0:01:15.520 is not on this episode. Just me and Laura Lee say, Hey, 0:01:15.600 --> 0:01:18.720 hi guys. She came over to my house and when 0:01:18.760 --> 0:01:21.360 I opened the door, I saw she had tup aware 0:01:21.440 --> 0:01:23.560 with her, but I didn't know exactly what it was. 0:01:23.640 --> 0:01:25.959 And then she told me that she made s'mores bars, 0:01:26.000 --> 0:01:28.320 and of course she brought some with her, which I 0:01:28.360 --> 0:01:30.840 think last time we did a whole cooking thing together 0:01:30.880 --> 0:01:32.560 a long time ago and I got to take home 0:01:32.680 --> 0:01:35.800 tons of amazing food from your house. But really, Laura 0:01:35.880 --> 0:01:37.160 Lee is the type of guest to have over to 0:01:37.200 --> 0:01:39.880 your house because since she's a chef, she brings things 0:01:40.000 --> 0:01:42.840 I can't not. I I feel like naked if I 0:01:42.880 --> 0:01:45.520 show up with nothing. So yeah, so now after this, 0:01:45.600 --> 0:01:49.360 I have s'mores bars to enjoy. Now, if you listen 0:01:49.480 --> 0:01:52.000 to the special Outweigh series that we did on my 0:01:52.040 --> 0:01:55.680 four Things podcast, we had people share their stories and 0:01:55.760 --> 0:01:58.800 Laura Lee was one of the stories shared in the 0:01:58.840 --> 0:02:02.040 four part series. But now Outweigh is its own podcast, 0:02:02.160 --> 0:02:05.120 so she's coming back on as a guest, and I'm 0:02:05.120 --> 0:02:07.640 thankful she took the time to do that because I 0:02:07.680 --> 0:02:10.000 spotted something on her Instagram that I think she's doing. 0:02:10.080 --> 0:02:13.160 That's pretty cool. That is a perfect example of food freedom, 0:02:13.360 --> 0:02:15.960 and I wanted her to come on and talk about it. 0:02:16.080 --> 0:02:19.120 So I think the first video I saw you do, 0:02:19.320 --> 0:02:22.919 and you call these treat videos, right, the first one 0:02:23.000 --> 0:02:25.960 I saw was you eating a Chick fil A sandwich. Now, 0:02:26.000 --> 0:02:28.760 I think you maybe had done some before, and I 0:02:28.800 --> 0:02:31.240 know you did some after. I don't always see every 0:02:31.240 --> 0:02:34.320 single one, but I watched the whole thing and I 0:02:34.360 --> 0:02:38.320 was like, there she is eating an entire Chick fil 0:02:38.360 --> 0:02:42.840 A chicken biscuit for breakfast, just talking to people, and 0:02:43.120 --> 0:02:45.560 you're not focused on the sandwich the whole time, but 0:02:45.680 --> 0:02:47.600 you sit there and eat it. So I'll get into 0:02:47.600 --> 0:02:49.440 my own Chick fil A biscuit story in a second, 0:02:49.440 --> 0:02:51.400 but I want you to share when you were first 0:02:51.440 --> 0:02:55.000 inspired to do a treat video and why and what 0:02:55.120 --> 0:02:58.160 you hope people will get from it. Absolutely, so thank 0:02:58.160 --> 0:03:00.400 you for having me. So I have a story with 0:03:00.440 --> 0:03:04.160 disordered eating, and I talked a little bit about that, 0:03:04.280 --> 0:03:07.359 and one of the things that really helped me create 0:03:07.639 --> 0:03:11.160 this relationship with food that is really healthy now is 0:03:11.240 --> 0:03:16.120 watching what is considered like cheat videos on YouTube. There's 0:03:16.280 --> 0:03:21.280 all these cheat YouTube YouTubers, and I didn't love the 0:03:21.320 --> 0:03:24.760 word cheat, but I really enjoyed the content of these 0:03:24.840 --> 0:03:27.679 videos where they would do something similar. They would get 0:03:27.760 --> 0:03:30.320 donuts or what are considered fear foods to a lot 0:03:30.360 --> 0:03:34.000 of people and hang out with you and they enjoy 0:03:34.080 --> 0:03:37.280 the food, but as you said, that's not the primary focus. 0:03:37.440 --> 0:03:40.280 So that was really helpful for me in my recovery. 0:03:40.480 --> 0:03:43.040 So I wanted to create something similar but call them 0:03:43.080 --> 0:03:45.920 treat videos, just to get away from that stigma of 0:03:46.080 --> 0:03:49.520 a cheat. And I just hope that people have a 0:03:49.560 --> 0:03:53.000 similar experience to them that I had and how it 0:03:53.040 --> 0:03:57.240 helped me just watching them and normalizing these foods that 0:03:57.320 --> 0:04:00.200 are fears for people. And in the health food we're old. 0:04:00.240 --> 0:04:02.280 I mean, I'm trying to move away from that kind 0:04:02.320 --> 0:04:04.920 of health language as much as possible as time goes on, 0:04:05.040 --> 0:04:10.200 because there's a lot of people who have quote food freedom, 0:04:10.240 --> 0:04:13.280 but it's still sort of like a paleo banana bread 0:04:13.640 --> 0:04:16.760 or you know, a sugar free chocolate chip cookie, but 0:04:16.920 --> 0:04:21.400 God forbid, like candy or sort of you know, fast food, 0:04:21.400 --> 0:04:24.280 which I don't recommend on a regular basis, but there's 0:04:24.279 --> 0:04:26.280 still a lot of foods that I think are off limits. 0:04:26.279 --> 0:04:28.520 To people. So those are the kinds of things. And also, 0:04:28.600 --> 0:04:30.839 like you said, timing a chocolate cake, I ate that 0:04:30.920 --> 0:04:34.039 for breakfast, that can really mess with a lot of 0:04:34.120 --> 0:04:37.880 kind of traditional food rules and breakthrough for people. And 0:04:38.040 --> 0:04:41.040 diet culture has told us you can have cake, but 0:04:41.200 --> 0:04:44.200 if you have cake, you probably need to have it 0:04:44.440 --> 0:04:47.080 once a year or once a month, or only if 0:04:47.080 --> 0:04:49.920 you're celebrating something. And if you do, then you better 0:04:49.920 --> 0:04:52.599 work out or you better restrict the next day, So 0:04:52.720 --> 0:04:55.640 eat all you can at that moment kind of mentality 0:04:55.760 --> 0:04:59.120 where you're being a part of breaking that mold of 0:04:59.160 --> 0:05:02.680 saying cake is just cake, right exactly. I mean, I 0:05:02.720 --> 0:05:05.359 think that's so much of it is when we get 0:05:05.400 --> 0:05:08.559 into where a piece of cake turns into a whole cake. 0:05:08.680 --> 0:05:11.240 And I'm not a medical professional at all, just from 0:05:11.240 --> 0:05:14.600 my personal experience, it's because of the stories we're creating 0:05:14.640 --> 0:05:17.360 around what it means to be eating that slice of cake. 0:05:17.440 --> 0:05:20.159 It's not necessarily that we want the rest of the cake, 0:05:20.279 --> 0:05:23.000 but we create a story like you said that, well, 0:05:23.040 --> 0:05:24.839 this is a treat that I can only have one 0:05:24.920 --> 0:05:28.000 severy however long, and so I might as well, with 0:05:28.040 --> 0:05:30.960 the scarcity mentality, get as much as I can. So 0:05:31.080 --> 0:05:33.400 it's not the food content itself. It really is the 0:05:33.400 --> 0:05:36.279 stories that you're making up around it. And I think 0:05:36.320 --> 0:05:38.640 what you said about just that kind of all or 0:05:38.720 --> 0:05:41.000 nothing mentality is really important as well. And one of 0:05:41.040 --> 0:05:43.080 the reasons I wanted to do the treat videos is 0:05:43.160 --> 0:05:46.680 to see that that can be incorporated into what is 0:05:46.760 --> 0:05:51.359 otherwise a sort of traditionally quote traditionally healthy day. And 0:05:51.400 --> 0:05:54.320 it doesn't have to become a treat day or a 0:05:54.400 --> 0:05:56.800 quote cheat day. It can just be a day where 0:05:56.800 --> 0:06:01.919 I also a cake particulately, and it's that makes it cake. 0:06:02.279 --> 0:06:07.080 It's cake, it's a salad, it's pizza, it's broccoli. Everything 0:06:07.200 --> 0:06:09.760 is on the same. Now, we do have inner and 0:06:09.839 --> 0:06:12.320 outer wisdom, which is something that Lisa and I get 0:06:12.360 --> 0:06:14.760 into a lot. She's a registered dietitian and I co 0:06:14.880 --> 0:06:17.880 host with her, so she has all the education and 0:06:17.880 --> 0:06:20.679 and why is a dietitian how she'll approach certain things 0:06:20.680 --> 0:06:24.320 with clients, Because nutrients is a big deal. We're not 0:06:24.400 --> 0:06:27.320 just throwing that out the window. You can educate yourself 0:06:27.360 --> 0:06:30.080 on certain vitamins and nutrients and minerals and things that 0:06:30.120 --> 0:06:34.320 your body needs. But we've just done such damage in 0:06:34.839 --> 0:06:39.520 you know, separating good foods and bad foods to where 0:06:39.560 --> 0:06:42.280 you know, then we have this list and all these 0:06:42.360 --> 0:06:45.839 rules and all these things that society says this is 0:06:45.839 --> 0:06:47.960 how you're supposed to live. And then if we do 0:06:48.040 --> 0:06:51.080 something bad, then we have the guilt and the shame, 0:06:51.320 --> 0:06:54.799 and then there's this cycle depending on what you're disordered 0:06:54.839 --> 0:06:58.680 habit is of you know, binging and restricting or purging 0:06:58.760 --> 0:07:01.280 and whatever form working out too much, which some people 0:07:01.320 --> 0:07:03.560 don't think of. They may think of purging as binging 0:07:03.560 --> 0:07:06.279 and purging of like if you actually were to get 0:07:06.360 --> 0:07:09.159 rid of the food somehow, whether it's throwing up or 0:07:09.480 --> 0:07:11.640 we talked about laxatives here on the show too, of 0:07:11.680 --> 0:07:15.000 what people use, but also working out for hours at 0:07:15.000 --> 0:07:18.040 a time that is a form of purging. So really, 0:07:18.280 --> 0:07:21.680 what I love back to your videos is that you're 0:07:21.720 --> 0:07:24.680 being a part of helping normalize the food like it 0:07:24.800 --> 0:07:26.880 is what it is. You ate the cake for breakfast 0:07:26.880 --> 0:07:28.640 that day, I bet because of where you are in 0:07:28.680 --> 0:07:31.440 your journey, it didn't shape anything else that you did 0:07:31.520 --> 0:07:33.520 the rest of the day. If you wanted salad, you 0:07:33.680 --> 0:07:35.880 ate it. If you wanted bread, you ate it. If 0:07:35.880 --> 0:07:37.960 you wanted to work out you did. If you didn't, 0:07:38.000 --> 0:07:42.960 you didn't. I mean, I think that emotional neutrality around 0:07:43.000 --> 0:07:46.680 it is so key, and it does kind of go 0:07:46.800 --> 0:07:49.360 back to what are your thoughts around it? And if 0:07:49.360 --> 0:07:51.240 your thoughts are just to be present with it, and 0:07:51.280 --> 0:07:53.440 when it's done, it's done and it doesn't hold some 0:07:53.520 --> 0:07:56.120 kind of meaning or control over you, then you do 0:07:56.200 --> 0:07:57.840 go about the rest of the day. And again just 0:07:58.160 --> 0:08:02.800 speaking from my own experience, your body, my body regulates itself. 0:08:02.960 --> 0:08:05.680 My body is usually if I'm having a piece of 0:08:05.720 --> 0:08:09.240 chocolate cake for breakfast, I probably don't want it for 0:08:09.280 --> 0:08:11.520 a lunch and dinner. And if I did, that would 0:08:11.520 --> 0:08:14.720 be okay, because at some point I found that my 0:08:14.800 --> 0:08:17.920 body will start to crave those nutrient dense foods and 0:08:17.960 --> 0:08:20.840 it will balance it all out. And that is a 0:08:20.960 --> 0:08:22.600 huge part of what I'm trying to do is just 0:08:22.680 --> 0:08:25.840 redefine you know what that balance means. And I can't 0:08:26.000 --> 0:08:29.679 even begin to tell you how really, what an amazing 0:08:29.760 --> 0:08:32.720 feeling it is to have that kind of relationship with food. 0:08:32.720 --> 0:08:34.520 And I get it, guys, like I get that. It's 0:08:34.559 --> 0:08:38.360 scary because I think your instinct after going through disordered 0:08:38.400 --> 0:08:43.439 eating is to hold on to everything and to worry 0:08:43.480 --> 0:08:47.200 that your body won't regulate and your hunger cues won't 0:08:47.320 --> 0:08:49.840 kick in, and you will end up eating the whole cake. 0:08:49.960 --> 0:08:52.560 But most of the time, in my experience, that hasn't 0:08:52.559 --> 0:08:55.199 happened to me. But if it does, that's okay too. 0:08:55.640 --> 0:08:58.319 And really just putting a lot of faith back into 0:08:58.400 --> 0:09:01.199 into your body and then just practicing it. I mean, really, 0:09:01.240 --> 0:09:04.040 that's part of the treat videos. It's a practice like anything. 0:09:04.360 --> 0:09:06.640 The more we practice that, the easier it gets. So 0:09:06.840 --> 0:09:08.760 you know, before I used to film them. This is 0:09:08.800 --> 0:09:11.440 something I would do by myself, but without filming it. 0:09:11.520 --> 0:09:14.520 And the more I practiced, whether it was a croissant 0:09:14.800 --> 0:09:18.559 or starbursts. Again, candy was sort of like extra scary 0:09:18.679 --> 0:09:21.640 for me, you know, packaged and processed foods. The more 0:09:21.640 --> 0:09:24.240 I did it, just it just got easier. God, you 0:09:24.280 --> 0:09:27.000 brought that up, because when you made your Chick fil 0:09:27.000 --> 0:09:30.760 a Chicken biscuit video, that is a food I chose 0:09:30.840 --> 0:09:34.160 to practice on early on in my recovery. And I 0:09:34.200 --> 0:09:36.559 know it was a Saturday morning and I had had 0:09:36.600 --> 0:09:39.680 therapy that week, and I don't really know for sure 0:09:39.679 --> 0:09:42.600 if it was a challenge from my therapist. I don't 0:09:42.600 --> 0:09:44.840 even know that she would use the word challenge because 0:09:45.280 --> 0:09:49.840 or more of a homework assignment of go and practice 0:09:49.880 --> 0:09:54.199 eating the foods that you're scared of. And I love 0:09:54.760 --> 0:09:58.120 Chick fil A's chicken biscuits, but I'm scared of them. 0:09:58.360 --> 0:10:00.920 And back in the day, if I would have had them, 0:10:00.960 --> 0:10:03.640 I would have done an hour and a half beakroom 0:10:03.720 --> 0:10:06.800 yoga class hot then I maybe would have gone on 0:10:06.800 --> 0:10:09.360 a walk later and I would have done green juice 0:10:09.760 --> 0:10:13.960 because I was scared that I wasn't practicing allowing that 0:10:14.000 --> 0:10:17.320 food to properly be in my life. So I remember 0:10:17.360 --> 0:10:19.960 the Saturday that I woke up and I drove to 0:10:20.040 --> 0:10:23.080 Chick fil A by myself, went through the drive through, 0:10:23.800 --> 0:10:27.160 got my sandwich, went home, put it on a plate, 0:10:27.480 --> 0:10:30.160 cut it in half. I like to do grape jelly 0:10:30.360 --> 0:10:33.440 on one side of the biscuit and strawberry jelly on 0:10:33.480 --> 0:10:36.280 the other side, so you got that grape strawberry mixture, 0:10:36.520 --> 0:10:38.160 and then I cut it in half, and I sat 0:10:38.200 --> 0:10:40.520 down and I turned on the news, and I sat 0:10:40.559 --> 0:10:42.280 there and I ate it. I don't know where. I 0:10:42.320 --> 0:10:44.839 think my husband had taken the kids somewhere. They were 0:10:44.880 --> 0:10:46.640 out of town. So it was a Saturday morning that 0:10:46.679 --> 0:10:48.920 I had to myself, and that is how I chose 0:10:49.000 --> 0:10:52.040 to spend it. I didn't choose to go wake up 0:10:52.040 --> 0:10:54.719 early and hit up a yoga class or anything. This 0:10:54.880 --> 0:10:57.679 was my self care, if that makes sense, because it 0:10:57.720 --> 0:11:00.920 was part of me putting in the war work. Because 0:11:00.920 --> 0:11:03.360 it does take work. I'm sure you'll back me up 0:11:03.400 --> 0:11:06.359 on this, just to be encouragement that it doesn't happen overnight. 0:11:06.800 --> 0:11:09.640 Like you said, you may not know, Oh, trust yourself 0:11:09.679 --> 0:11:11.920 to stop to eat the cake or what's going to 0:11:12.080 --> 0:11:15.120 keep me from going back and ordering more Chick fil A. 0:11:15.679 --> 0:11:18.840 But your body does start to talk to you more, 0:11:19.160 --> 0:11:22.720 and that whole intuitive things starts to kick in. But 0:11:22.880 --> 0:11:26.320 it does take work. The stuff we've been brainwashed with 0:11:26.559 --> 0:11:29.520 is very powerful, so that'll start to kick in and 0:11:29.559 --> 0:11:34.040 the lies. But then you have the power to rewire. Yeah, definitely, 0:11:34.200 --> 0:11:36.280 and I think that's awesome. I'll have to try the 0:11:36.440 --> 0:11:38.600 strawberry grape jelly combo. I think I put honey on 0:11:38.679 --> 0:11:42.640 mine um, which it's just the sweetened savory is like epic. 0:11:43.040 --> 0:11:46.400 But yeah, I think that's really really interesting. And for me, 0:11:46.480 --> 0:11:49.240 an exercise that I use is really asking myself because 0:11:49.280 --> 0:11:51.280 so much of it comes down to that. On the 0:11:51.320 --> 0:11:54.920 wagon off the wagon mentality, and if you realize that 0:11:54.920 --> 0:11:57.680 there is no wagon, then all of a sudden you 0:11:57.720 --> 0:12:00.320 realize that the reason you're where a out of that 0:12:00.360 --> 0:12:02.920 fear comes from is that, well, this is an off day, 0:12:03.040 --> 0:12:05.400 so I might as well do X, Y and Z 0:12:06.080 --> 0:12:08.240 and then make up for it. And so it's just 0:12:08.520 --> 0:12:11.199 asking yourself what the thoughts are around it and then 0:12:11.240 --> 0:12:13.679 just kind of like myth busting them. Yeah, So if 0:12:13.679 --> 0:12:16.920 you want to check out one of Laura Lee's treat videos, 0:12:17.200 --> 0:12:19.599 they're on her Instagram on the I G t V 0:12:19.760 --> 0:12:22.679 part because sometimes you're sitting there for ten minutes just 0:12:22.760 --> 0:12:27.440 talking and eating bye bye bye, And her instagram is 0:12:27.559 --> 0:12:32.320 at Laura Lee Balanced, so I definitely encourage you to 0:12:32.480 --> 0:12:36.600 follow her. I have some food questions for you, since 0:12:36.640 --> 0:12:39.760 you're a chef. Lorely has her very own cookbooks, like 0:12:39.840 --> 0:12:43.360 she's legit. Like I've talked about your cookbooks plenty enough 0:12:43.400 --> 0:12:45.920 on the podcast, but in case we've got some new people, 0:12:46.600 --> 0:12:51.160 your latest one is Simply Laurely, which I love. And 0:12:51.200 --> 0:12:54.559 then as your o G is the Lorely Balanced Cookbook, 0:12:54.800 --> 0:12:56.800 and that is in the o G one is where 0:12:56.800 --> 0:13:01.280 you have that vegan Caesar salad dress saying I'm obsessed 0:13:01.280 --> 0:13:03.800 with I still I've been making it for years. Oh 0:13:03.840 --> 0:13:08.160 and you have some black bean brownies in there, but 0:13:08.320 --> 0:13:14.040 it's more the sauce. It's so good, you just pour 0:13:14.120 --> 0:13:16.800 it over that they're so good. But the newest one 0:13:16.840 --> 0:13:19.480 is simply Laurally, So I encourage all to check out 0:13:19.520 --> 0:13:21.199 that as well. But I want to talk to you 0:13:21.200 --> 0:13:23.640 about food since I have you here, and I've got 0:13:23.679 --> 0:13:27.239 some questions, especially you know, during this time. I think 0:13:27.280 --> 0:13:29.720 a lot of us have been looking for comfort during 0:13:29.720 --> 0:13:33.679 the pandemic, and some people feel again guilt of using 0:13:33.760 --> 0:13:38.320 food is comfort. But no, that's totally fine. Emotional eating 0:13:38.679 --> 0:13:41.480 is okay. That's when again you need to break that 0:13:41.600 --> 0:13:45.600 unhealthy mindset and know that food can bring you comfort, 0:13:45.679 --> 0:13:48.520 just like a hug or a bath, or a phone 0:13:48.520 --> 0:13:51.960 call with a friend or getting some good sleep. So 0:13:52.320 --> 0:13:56.000 my question is what food have you been making that 0:13:56.040 --> 0:13:58.640 has brought you comfort during the pandemic, whether it's one 0:13:58.640 --> 0:14:01.920 of your recipes or somebody else's. I love that it's 0:14:01.920 --> 0:14:04.400 so true. There's no definition of comfort food other than 0:14:04.440 --> 0:14:06.840 what brings you comfort. There's no connotation that it has 0:14:06.880 --> 0:14:10.280 to be traditionally healthy or unhealthy. And I will say 0:14:10.400 --> 0:14:13.040 I noticed for myself and a lot of people in 0:14:13.080 --> 0:14:15.920 my community that what we've been craving in the last 0:14:16.000 --> 0:14:19.040 year is different than usual. It is more sort of 0:14:19.080 --> 0:14:23.880 like hardy maybe some more carbohydrates that kind of less vegetables. 0:14:23.960 --> 0:14:26.880 And I think there's there is a little bit of 0:14:26.920 --> 0:14:29.720 a myth and Lisa could speak to this more. But 0:14:29.840 --> 0:14:32.000 I know that when I'm stressed out, my body is 0:14:32.000 --> 0:14:34.960 not going to digest like a really veggie packed raw 0:14:35.280 --> 0:14:38.440 meal that well. And so I've actually felt better eat 0:14:38.560 --> 0:14:41.560 listening to my body and eating a little bit maybe 0:14:41.680 --> 0:14:46.400 less vegetables than usual. So my formula for comfort food 0:14:46.480 --> 0:14:49.280 in the last year has been what is the vehicle 0:14:49.400 --> 0:14:51.760 that I'm craving And for me, a lot of the 0:14:51.760 --> 0:14:55.720 time it's been pasta or rice or you know, like 0:14:55.760 --> 0:14:58.160 a pasta but in like a lasagna form or a 0:14:58.240 --> 0:15:02.280 taco and take that food and then just ask myself, 0:15:02.320 --> 0:15:05.480 how can I infuse maybe one or two veggies into 0:15:05.520 --> 0:15:09.320 that but still allow myself to have I do eat meat, cheese, 0:15:09.320 --> 0:15:11.240 I eat a little bit of everything and include some 0:15:11.280 --> 0:15:14.600 of those things. So I've done a lot of pastas 0:15:14.640 --> 0:15:18.200 that have veggies added into them with a sauce sometimes 0:15:18.240 --> 0:15:21.400 it's creamy, sometimes it's tomato based, that kind of thing. 0:15:22.040 --> 0:15:26.000 And what are some necessary ingredients in your kitchen? Like 0:15:26.040 --> 0:15:30.000 if you had to pick three spices or ingredients or 0:15:30.080 --> 0:15:32.120 things that you could only have three wet three, are 0:15:32.160 --> 0:15:36.000 you picking? Oh my gosh, well assault honestly I would. 0:15:36.040 --> 0:15:38.800 I would make sure that I have some toasted sesame 0:15:38.880 --> 0:15:42.040 oil is something that I highly recommend having around because 0:15:42.080 --> 0:15:44.560 it makes every if you like Asian food, um, a 0:15:44.600 --> 0:15:47.400 lot of takeout dishes. What makes it so delicious is 0:15:47.400 --> 0:15:50.240 toasted setsamy oil. You can add it to anything, any 0:15:50.320 --> 0:15:52.600 kind of savory food, and it's going to be phenomenal. 0:15:52.760 --> 0:15:55.880 So like for a dressing or you cook with it. 0:15:55.960 --> 0:15:58.240 I would use it for a dressing. I wouldn't use 0:15:58.280 --> 0:16:01.000 it as a cooking oil, just be because one, I 0:16:01.040 --> 0:16:04.200 think it'll oxidize pretty easily. But um, it's a really 0:16:04.240 --> 0:16:07.560 strong nutty flavor. It's this toasted nutty flavor that's so 0:16:07.720 --> 0:16:11.240 signature of Asian inspired takeout food. And so whether it 0:16:11.360 --> 0:16:15.680 is tossing it on roasted broccoli, or on pasta, or 0:16:15.800 --> 0:16:18.400 on eggs or something like that, you you get this 0:16:18.480 --> 0:16:20.680 sense that you're eating takeout food when you have toasted 0:16:20.680 --> 0:16:22.600 sesame oil on it. So it's a go to for 0:16:22.640 --> 0:16:25.120 any Po's glad you brought that up because I've never 0:16:25.160 --> 0:16:27.560 had sesame oil in my house ever, so now I 0:16:27.960 --> 0:16:31.120 have to go get some. And then because you said salt, 0:16:31.160 --> 0:16:33.720 I want to clarify what's your go to salt that 0:16:33.760 --> 0:16:37.160 you recommend. I'm not a huge stickler about really anything. 0:16:37.200 --> 0:16:39.880 I'm just not a purist. And it is great if 0:16:39.920 --> 0:16:42.000 you can get like a cool Celtic sea salt, and 0:16:42.000 --> 0:16:44.080 you can now find them for not a lot of money, 0:16:44.480 --> 0:16:47.000 especially on thrive market. There's a really great brand that's 0:16:47.040 --> 0:16:49.320 a fine ground. So I do like a fine ground 0:16:49.360 --> 0:16:51.400 Celtic sea salt. I don't know if I'm pronouncing that 0:16:51.440 --> 0:16:54.320 correctly because it's spelled like Celtic because what I say, 0:16:54.360 --> 0:16:56.600 but I think it is. I don't know. I think 0:16:56.640 --> 0:16:59.240 it just depends on who said it originally, the first 0:16:59.240 --> 0:17:02.120 person I heard say so something like that. But also, 0:17:02.240 --> 0:17:05.520 just like a medium ground kosher salt for sprinkling on 0:17:05.600 --> 0:17:08.720 top is is great as well. Okay, so we've got salt, 0:17:09.040 --> 0:17:12.520 we have sesame oil, and what's the third thing? Oh gosh, 0:17:12.520 --> 0:17:15.200 I mean, I know it's hard to choose peanut butter. 0:17:15.720 --> 0:17:19.000 Probably no. I would say for me, gosh in the 0:17:19.040 --> 0:17:21.719 same kind of vein is sopos to sesame oil. Kimchi, 0:17:21.840 --> 0:17:25.520 a really good kimchi around is phenomenal, and you can 0:17:25.560 --> 0:17:28.359 just add it to so many dishes to elevate them, 0:17:28.440 --> 0:17:30.760 and it sounds fancy, but it's really not. I've been 0:17:30.760 --> 0:17:33.639 getting some at Walmart, I get it at Trader Joe's, 0:17:33.720 --> 0:17:37.000 and you can you can throw it onto whether it's breakfast, lunch, 0:17:37.080 --> 0:17:39.760 or dinner in a bootable. This past year, when I 0:17:39.800 --> 0:17:42.080 have not had the mental and emotional energy to make 0:17:42.119 --> 0:17:45.080 a vegetable, I literally just open up my jar of 0:17:45.160 --> 0:17:47.920 kim chee and dollop some on and it's so nutrient 0:17:48.000 --> 0:17:50.280 dense and has a lot of probiotics in it. It's 0:17:50.320 --> 0:17:53.360 just a really delicious food. To add this stuff. It's 0:17:53.359 --> 0:17:55.800 funny you said kim chi. I did not have quote 0:17:55.840 --> 0:17:59.240 unquote kim chee today, but I had fermented sour krout, 0:17:59.480 --> 0:18:03.119 which is very similar, right, very similar. Yeah, I mean 0:18:03.160 --> 0:18:05.399 it's a I think it's like a it's it's the 0:18:05.560 --> 0:18:09.439 same process but from sort of a different cultural background. 0:18:09.600 --> 0:18:11.840 So I think sauer kraut is more from like I 0:18:12.119 --> 0:18:14.000 don't know, but I had similar like they have. It 0:18:14.080 --> 0:18:16.600 was a flavored kind, which again I think it does 0:18:16.840 --> 0:18:19.560 your You may be hearing us say kimchi and fermented 0:18:19.560 --> 0:18:21.399 sauer kraut and you're like, what, Okay, well this is 0:18:21.440 --> 0:18:25.040 not in my wheelhouse, but it really is more accessible 0:18:25.240 --> 0:18:27.960 than it used to be. And Lorley's right, you really 0:18:28.000 --> 0:18:31.840 can throw it on whatever. I had it today and uh, 0:18:31.920 --> 0:18:35.639 I made a rice broccoli bean bowl and then I 0:18:35.720 --> 0:18:38.240 had a it's like it was a jalapeno flavored and 0:18:38.840 --> 0:18:42.639 sauer kraut fermentation situation, and I scooped it up in 0:18:42.680 --> 0:18:45.480 there and it just added this right kick. But also, yes, 0:18:45.560 --> 0:18:47.160 I knew it was going to do some good healthy 0:18:47.200 --> 0:18:49.600 stuff from my gut. Yeah. I mean, it really is 0:18:49.640 --> 0:18:52.840 like just a really intense dose of nutrition that is 0:18:52.880 --> 0:18:55.640 easy to find. Um, and I think it's really delicious. 0:18:55.640 --> 0:18:56.919 And I just want to say, I mean these do 0:18:57.000 --> 0:18:59.359 sound like specialty will not salt, but I mean I 0:18:59.359 --> 0:19:01.359 obviously keep the staples around and all that, but I 0:19:01.400 --> 0:19:03.600 wanted to suggest some things you may not think of 0:19:03.640 --> 0:19:06.679 that are actually really assible, and that's what I appreciate. Like, 0:19:06.720 --> 0:19:09.800 I'm not if you're like, okay, well, catchup Mustard Mayo 0:19:10.040 --> 0:19:14.560 and I like Austin, thanks thanks for joining us, appreciate 0:19:14.640 --> 0:19:18.680 you helping us, Like thanks o our kitchen, but you did, 0:19:18.880 --> 0:19:22.080 I just will do a bonus one you did throw 0:19:22.080 --> 0:19:24.760 out peanut butter. Do you have a favorite brand of 0:19:24.840 --> 0:19:27.600 peanut butter? Oh? Yes, I do, so I'm kind of 0:19:27.600 --> 0:19:30.760 an equal opportunity peanut butter lover. But there is a 0:19:30.760 --> 0:19:33.840 brand called Santa Cruz Organics which you can get at 0:19:33.920 --> 0:19:38.000 Kroger and it They have a dark, roasted, creamy and 0:19:38.080 --> 0:19:41.360 crunchy organic peanut butter that's not wildly expensive at all, 0:19:41.520 --> 0:19:44.399 and it is so much better than any other peanut 0:19:44.400 --> 0:19:48.600 butter ever in my opinion, So Santa Cruz Organics highly recommend. Okay, 0:19:48.640 --> 0:19:50.200 I honestly think that's what we have. We have a 0:19:50.200 --> 0:19:51.800 bottle of Justins, and then I think we have a 0:19:51.800 --> 0:19:55.280 bottle of Santa Cruz. Is it? Like, yes, that's it. 0:19:55.480 --> 0:19:59.000 The labels white, green, top. Okay, I can yes, that's Stevenson, 0:19:59.080 --> 0:20:02.000 my son. That's is go to peanut butter. Actually, one 0:20:02.040 --> 0:20:04.680 time when I was not in my healthiest state of mind, 0:20:04.880 --> 0:20:07.439 I had a lot of growth and therapy, and I 0:20:07.480 --> 0:20:09.440 thought it was like hormones. But there was a time 0:20:09.480 --> 0:20:12.359 about a year ago that I had a different peanut 0:20:12.359 --> 0:20:14.800 butter and I gave it to him and he said, 0:20:15.119 --> 0:20:17.040 I'm not eating this, it's not the ripe peanut butter. 0:20:17.359 --> 0:20:20.840 And I again, it was really nothing he did. I 0:20:20.880 --> 0:20:24.760 just was in unhealthy space. And I remember I got 0:20:24.760 --> 0:20:26.879 the bowl of what he was eating and I grabbed 0:20:26.920 --> 0:20:28.560 it and I threw it in the sink and I 0:20:28.600 --> 0:20:31.120