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Speaker 1: Hello, Hello, I'm Kelsey Nixon and this is Kitchen Prescription,

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

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Speaker 1: make for dinner. I'm very excited to chat with you

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Speaker 1: today about this what I consider to be a brilliant idea.

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Speaker 1: I had to get my kids motivated to sit down

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Speaker 1: and I came up with this really fun idea that

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Speaker 1: my kids are excited about. I'm excited about and I

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Speaker 1: can't wait to tell you about it. But first, let's

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Speaker 1: jump into three simple recipes you could potentially throw on

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Speaker 1: your meal plan this week to make meal time feel

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Speaker 1: a bit more manageable. Now. The first recipe, ooh, buckle up.

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Speaker 1: These are a new favorite for us, cheesy chicken skillet enchiladas.

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Speaker 1: I added the cheesy in front of the title to

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Speaker 1: make it more appealing to my ten year old. There's cheese,

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Speaker 1: There's got tons of cheese, but there is some cheese

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Speaker 1: of this. But this is I love an inchilada, and

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Speaker 1: I actually have another skillet enchilada recipe on my website

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Speaker 1: that's really delicious. But this is an even easier version

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Speaker 1: than that. It's a Recipe Club recipe for October, and

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Speaker 1: it is so quick to come together. You literally, rather

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Speaker 1: than rolling the enchilada mixture up in your tortillas and

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Speaker 1: baking them, you actually cut the tortillas strips. You cut

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Speaker 1: them into like, you know, one by three inch strips,

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Speaker 1: like the perfect skillet meal, so so delicious. My kids

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Speaker 1: pantry meal for you as long as you can have

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Speaker 1: chicken in some capacity. I used a rotisserie chicken for

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Speaker 1: this recipe because it was just so simple. But this

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Speaker 1: is like knock down, drag out delicious. It is so good.

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Speaker 1: It's what we had instead of Taco Tuesday, and Mexican

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Speaker 1: Food's like always a hit from my family anyways, but

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Speaker 1: this one was particularly fantastic. So make sure you check

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Speaker 1: that out if you're a member of Recipe Club. If not,

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Speaker 1: we love to have you. Recipe Club is where I

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Speaker 1: share five new recipes every month that have been voted

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Speaker 1: on by club members. So I am developing the recipes

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Speaker 1: you want and need. All of them are quick and

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Speaker 1: simple and ideal for busy family life. All right, the

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Speaker 1: next recipe one pot pumpkin chili. And if you have

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Speaker 1: been following me for a while, this is one of

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Speaker 1: those recipes that people rave about. It's one of my

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Speaker 1: most popular recipes. It's delicious. I always moved into the

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Speaker 1: it so much. Now I don't want I hesitated putting

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Speaker 1: pumpkin in the title, because if you were to taste

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Speaker 1: this chili, you would not taste it and be like, oh,

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Speaker 1: that's pumpkin chili. You can't even taste like the pumpkin

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Speaker 1: flavor is so muted. But it's the texture of the

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Speaker 1: canned pumpkin and what it does to the chili. It

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Speaker 1: great body and delicious flavor. So if I were to

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Speaker 1: those signature Fall family recipes for us. And then finally,

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Speaker 1: I'm really simple five ingredient recipe, my maple mustard salmon.

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Speaker 1: Salmon was I found some good deal at the store

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Speaker 1: It's really simple, and you can find this recipe on

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Speaker 1: Instagram in one of my reels. It's in my five

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Speaker 1: ingredient Highlight. Could not be easier and it is like

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Speaker 1: foolproof and so delicious. So that's what our lineup looks

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Speaker 1: one pot pumpkin chilien cornbread, and the five ingredient maple, mustard, salmon.

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Speaker 1: Hopefully that gives you some great ideas if you still

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Speaker 1: you feel completely overwhelmed by how many options there are.

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Speaker 1: Recipe Club is a great option. It's only five new

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Speaker 1: recipe is a weeknight recipe. So while I love a

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Speaker 1: going to be a site that has fifty thousand recipes.

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Speaker 1: you need to make your life easier. So join us

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Speaker 1: a recipe club. It is my best recipes are there

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Speaker 1: and I have such a blast in that community. All right,

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Speaker 1: We are calling it Dinners to Disney. So a few

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Speaker 1: weeks ago I celebrated my birthday. It was a great

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Speaker 1: day where I did many normal birthday things like blow

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Speaker 1: birthday cards, which is the best part. But as we

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Speaker 1: the day, my oldest son, Ollie, asked me, Mom, what

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Speaker 1: regularly having dinner as a family. And it's not that

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Speaker 1: episode was all about why family dinner is important to

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Speaker 1: they were very excited about this idea. And if I'm

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Speaker 1: them that. I'm like, oh, we can two for one here.

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Speaker 1: But we had to create some boundaries, right, so what

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Speaker 1: of our fifty dinners working towards Disneyland, and I created

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Speaker 1: like a very simple chart. I got these stickers off

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Speaker 1: We're making this fun. It's all part of something that

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Speaker 1: we're earning together as a family. We always have to

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Speaker 1: start with a prayer, and whether that's grace or a

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Speaker 1: And in our family, that rotates, so someone different has

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Speaker 1: All Right, you guys there you have at Dinners to Disney.

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Speaker 1: Let me know if you decide to do something similar

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Speaker 1: if that's where you feel like you're getting stuck, check

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Speaker 1: It's helped me personally to just feel inspired and not

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