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Speaker 1: Hi everybody. I'm Kelsey Nixon and this is Kitchen Prescription,

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Speaker 1: the podcast you listen to when you don't know what

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Speaker 1: to make for dinner. Today's episode fifty six a simple

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Speaker 1: dinner system. Let me ask you something. Are you a

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Speaker 1: paper person or a digital person? I'm not sure I

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Speaker 1: back and forth depending on what it is. So for example,

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Speaker 1: I love to set reminders in my phone and even

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Speaker 1: alarms to remind me of things that I might forget,

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Speaker 1: like taking my kids to an activity, people's birthdays, returning

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Speaker 1: library books, whatever it may be. I have so many

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Speaker 1: reminders and alarms set in my phone it's crazy, but

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Speaker 1: they are so helpful. It is a critical way for

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Speaker 1: on the flip side, when it comes to cooking, I

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Speaker 1: much prefer cooking from a printed recipe versus my phone,

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Speaker 1: and I think that's for a couple of reasons. And

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Speaker 1: anytime I pull people on Instagram or in recipe Club,

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Speaker 1: I find that it's about at least seventy percent of

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Speaker 1: you agree that it's a better experience to cook for

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Speaker 1: my physical copy of a recipe than on your phone.

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Speaker 1: And I think for me, the thing of it is this.

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Speaker 1: and then I've got, you know, butterfingers, and I'm trying

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Speaker 1: I trade really hard that when my kids get home

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Speaker 1: phone out to cook, it's just a distraction. It's just

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Speaker 1: for me. So I find it easier to organize my

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Speaker 1: recipes when they're printed. The other problem is I can

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Speaker 1: take screen I've done this before. I take screenshots of

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Speaker 1: But by having one central place, a home base for

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Speaker 1: So today I want to get into my simple dinner

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Speaker 1: system that is rooted in having physical, printed rescis stored

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Speaker 1: my simple dinner system. It's always close by in my

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Speaker 1: every single night. So before we dive into why I

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Speaker 1: We are still in slow cooker season. Big focus for

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Speaker 1: us and Recipe Club this month has been soups, stews,

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Speaker 1: The definition of a pantry meal, meaning that it used

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Speaker 1: It's a brilliant idea, especially for me. I'm a costco shopper.

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Speaker 1: Lots of great ideas in there, and we're cooking one

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Speaker 1: It looks as if it's a page straight from a cookbook.

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Speaker 1: when things are It's why I like to cook from

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Speaker 1: So I realize I'm kind of a type a person.

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Speaker 1: And just like someone may think that exercise is critical

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Speaker 1: So I call it my simple dinner system just rolls

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Speaker 1: I will reference a like set meal plan so that

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Speaker 1: I have a fall, one, a spring, a winter, a summer,

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