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Speaker 1: Hi, everybody.

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Speaker 2: I'm Kelsey Nixon and this is Kitchen Prescription, the podcast

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Speaker 2: you listen to and you don't know what to make

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Speaker 2: for dinner. Today is episode ninety five. The one habit

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Speaker 2: that saves me big on groceries. It's been a very

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Speaker 2: exciting week at my house. Everyone is back in school

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Speaker 2: and we're all adjusting to our new normal. At the moment,

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Speaker 2: everyone seems to be very excited and ready for the

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Speaker 2: change of pace. It's been super fun to see my

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Speaker 2: kid's excitement about the new year. Honestly, both Nora and

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Speaker 2: Penny so Penny's t k in Nora's in second grade.

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Speaker 2: Their only criticism of the first day of school is

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Speaker 2: that it was not longer. They wanted to stay longer.

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Speaker 2: So I think that's a good sign. It makes it

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Speaker 2: easier for me to get back in to some of

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Speaker 2: my routines and get some stuff in order. And you

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Speaker 2: guys know that one of those routines that I swear

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Speaker 2: by is meal planning like a broken record. But as

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Speaker 2: a result, I have a pretty good pulse on what

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Speaker 2: I spend on groceries every week. And we all know

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Speaker 2: that the past couple of years have been tough when

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Speaker 2: it comes to the cost of groceries, they just seem

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Speaker 2: to keep going up and up and up. So I'm

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Speaker 2: excited to chat with you today about the one habit

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Speaker 2: that I believe saves me big, like hundreds of dollars

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Speaker 2: a month and thousands of dollars a year. But first,

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Speaker 2: we're going to run through three really simple recipes you

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Speaker 2: could throw on your meal plan if you're stuck trying

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Speaker 2: to decide what to make for dinner this upcoming week.

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Speaker 2: I know that so many of you are very similar

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Speaker 2: to me, where you don't mind the cooking, it's just

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Speaker 2: deciding what to make night after night that feels so daunting.

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Speaker 2: So hopefully by me sharing a few ideas with you

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Speaker 2: every week, it helps with that decision fatigue.

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Speaker 1: So here we go.

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Speaker 2: First recipe, I am doing a costo order getting a

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Speaker 2: rotisserie chicken, and to serve with that rotisserie chicken, I

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Speaker 2: am making my peach, tomato and barta salad with a

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Speaker 2: basil vinegrette. It is the perfect end of summer recipe

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Speaker 2: where you should be able to get delicious peaches right now,

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Speaker 2: delicious tomatoes and pair with that barrata and this basil vinaigrette,

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Speaker 2: which the basil vinagrette is used in a lot of

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Speaker 2: recipes and recipe club because I love it so darn much, but.

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Speaker 1: It is so so delicious.

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Speaker 2: In fact, I will one hundred percent double it and

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Speaker 2: then just have it in my fridge throughout the week

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Speaker 2: did some garden tomatoes with that basil vinaigrette, and even

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Speaker 2: a little cottage cheese for my protein girlies.

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Speaker 1: So so good, Chef's kiss, all right.

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Speaker 2: Second recipe is a really simple, five ingredient recipe. I'm

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Speaker 2: we have made it so many times this summer because

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Speaker 2: it's just such a great meal to feed a crowd,

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Speaker 2: and we like to grill it. So it's my sesame

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Speaker 2: for the peppers and the onions.

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Speaker 1: It is such a delicious meal.

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Speaker 2: So we're gonna do that. We're gonna have another pool day.

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Speaker 2: then the third recipe is my sheep han Greek chicken.

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Speaker 2: This is an o g recipe of mine, many years old,

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Speaker 2: I'm very deliberate when I make our meal plans in

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Speaker 2: Recipe Club, and since especially this week, we're talking about

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Speaker 2: So the sesame chicken subs with avocado and peppers that

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Speaker 2: you're using similar ingredients, but because you're seasoning them differently,

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Speaker 2: it's a whole different recipe experience. So as I think

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Speaker 1: Thanks.

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Speaker 2: If you guys are anything like me, you've noticed that

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Speaker 2: But given what's happening globally from wars, we're still kind

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Speaker 2: tell you that you've got to start a new habit

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Speaker 2: So I call it shopping my own kitchen. And this

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Speaker 2: Not only will this create a habit of wasting less food,

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Speaker 1: So I kind of want to give you an example

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Speaker 2: So this week my son requested baked CD yet again,

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