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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 one hundred and one

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Speaker 1: meal Planning for my Closet. Hey, thank you for celebrating

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Speaker 1: our one hundredth episode with me last week. It was

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Speaker 1: such a treat to hear from so many of you

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Speaker 1: who've enjoyed this podcast over the years and used it

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Speaker 1: as part of a weekly system in your life to

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Speaker 1: make planning dinner a little easier. As most of you

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Speaker 1: guys know, I celebrated a big birthday last month, my fortieth,

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Speaker 1: and I've joked with my husband that over the past

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Speaker 1: three weeks, I think I might be able to identify

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Speaker 1: a midlife crisis that's unfolding, and it has to do

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Speaker 1: with my closet. After a super aggressive weekend closet clean out,

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Speaker 1: I decided that I wanted to revamp the way I

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Speaker 1: dressed in my forties, largely building off of a capsule collection.

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Speaker 1: Now we'll chat about what that actually means. But as

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Speaker 1: I was tossing shirts and pants into my donation bags,

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Speaker 1: I found myself thinking, this is just like meal planning.

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Speaker 1: I am looking at everything I have before making decisions

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Speaker 1: about what I need and want to buy. I started

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Speaker 1: thinking about like outfits, this, recipes, this can go with this,

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Speaker 1: kind of looked at everything, and I thought, I found

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Speaker 1: place for managing what I wear, similar to having a

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Speaker 1: system in place for what I make for dinner. I

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Speaker 1: am craving more order, and I think that that's just

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Speaker 1: going to continue in this next decade. But I want

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Speaker 1: this order in the way that I approach clothes, so

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Speaker 1: I want to focus more on investing in classic pieces

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Speaker 1: that I can build on year after year. So we're

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Speaker 1: going to dig into this a bit because I can't

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Speaker 1: stop thinking about it. But before we do that, let's

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Speaker 1: discuss a few recipes you could throw on your meal

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Speaker 1: plan for the week. We just launched our October Recipes

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Speaker 1: and Recipe Club, and we're fully embracing comfort food, soups, stews, chili,

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Speaker 1: as you get it. The way it works in the

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Speaker 1: club is that each month we release a handful of

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Speaker 1: new recipes to add to our growing collection. That's kind

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Speaker 1: of seasonally driven. So as a member, you get access

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Speaker 1: to all of them, and there's hundreds of recipes now.

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Speaker 1: But by developing and publishing new recipes every month, it

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Speaker 1: keeps things fresh so that you never feel like you're

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Speaker 1: stuck making the same recipes over and over again. And

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Speaker 1: then we provide weekly support for helping you stick to

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Speaker 1: a system for getting on the table, weekly meal plans,

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Speaker 1: shopping lists, things like that. So for our first October

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Speaker 1: weekly meal plan, this is what's on my lineup. I

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Speaker 1: am making the slow cooker chicken and biscuits. This is

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Speaker 1: a recipe. So before living in southern California, I lived

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Speaker 1: then it's like I forgot about it. It's such a

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Speaker 1: good slow cooker recipe. You basically like it uses things

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Speaker 1: it's so easy, and you can make biscuits from scratch.

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Speaker 1: There's a recipe for buttermilk biscuits and recipe Club or

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Speaker 1: you can just buy them. And my actually I grew

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Speaker 1: up with this. My mom would buy the frozen Gran's biscuits.

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Speaker 1: that is usually what I do for a quick weeknight dinner.

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Speaker 1: When I'm making this recipe, that's what I plan to

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Speaker 1: It's kind of like chicken pop pie, but infinitely easier. Okay.

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Speaker 1: The second recipe is my green chili chicken and rice soup.

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Speaker 1: This was on our meal plan a couple of weeks ago,

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Speaker 1: that's what's on our lineup for the week. You can

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Speaker 1: find and print them all in Recipe Club individually or

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Speaker 1: in our weekly meal plan with an easy to follow

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Speaker 1: shopping list where it's broken down by recipe. We wrapped

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

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Speaker 1: this is how this unexpected event slash midlife crisis went down.

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Speaker 1: And I was like, yes, owning too many clothes is

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