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Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.

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Speaker 1: Good Morning, This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

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Speaker 1: Today's tip is to keep a list of family favorites.

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Speaker 1: Make it easy to remember the crowd pleasers so you

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Speaker 1: can quickly make plans. Let go over will. If you

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Speaker 1: listen to my Best of Both Worlds podcast, you may

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Speaker 1: have heard last fall's episode with Claire Tancy, a blogger

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Speaker 1: and the author of the cookbook Dinner Uncomplicated. Claire aims

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Speaker 1: to make it easy and fun for families to enjoy

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Speaker 1: delicious dinners together. One of her tips for doing that

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Speaker 1: post your family's favorite meals. Make a list of the

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Speaker 1: five or so meals that reliably satisfy and delight everyone

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Speaker 1: at the table. Maybe everyone likes pasta with Mary narrow sauce,

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Speaker 1: or maybe it's tacos. Maybe chicken and veggie stir fry

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Speaker 1: is a hit at your house, or what about hamburgers

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Speaker 1: and hot dogs from the grill, or even a breakfast

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Speaker 1: for dinner option like scrambled eggs. You can probably identify

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Speaker 1: a few family favorites off the top of your head.

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Speaker 1: You can also ask your family members for their favorite

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Speaker 1: meals and take notes. Once you've found out the meals

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Speaker 1: that everyone around your table likes, post the list somewhere prominent,

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Speaker 1: like on your fridge or on the inside of a

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Speaker 1: cabinet or pantry door. You might want to make a

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Speaker 1: few notes next to the meals, like about which take

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Speaker 1: more time than the others, and which you're highly likely

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Speaker 1: to have the ingredients for, even if you haven't been

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Speaker 1: to the grocery store in a while. But most likely

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Speaker 1: you'll start getting in the habit of always buying the

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Speaker 1: ingredients for these meals when you do go to the store. Then,

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Speaker 1: as you're thinking about the upcoming week's meals, or if

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Speaker 1: you're pondering on Tuesday afternoon what you're going to have

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Speaker 1: for dinner, you can pull something from this list of

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Speaker 1: family favorites and know that everyone will be happy. Knowing

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Speaker 1: your family's favorites is useful for other aspects of family

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Speaker 1: life too. For instance, make a list of your family's

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Speaker 1: favorite weekend activities the science museum, the zoo, a bike ride, swimming.

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Speaker 1: Be sure you have some indoor options on your list

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Speaker 1: for days when it's too hot or cold or rainy

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Speaker 1: to want to be outside. You can mark things that

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Speaker 1: are seasonal or any that need a reservation, but most

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Speaker 1: will probably be things that you can do whenever. The

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Speaker 1: goal is that if you're thinking what should we do

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Speaker 1: this weekend, you can look at the list and pull

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Speaker 1: something off and know that everyone will be satisfied. A

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Speaker 1: list of at home family favorite entertainment can be wise too,

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Speaker 1: if you aren't going anywhere. What will make everyone satisfied

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Speaker 1: with the evening movie night with sleeping bags and popcorn,

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Speaker 1: baking and decorating cookies, building lego projects, board games, drawing

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Speaker 1: or painting whatever your family reliably enjoys. Right down. With

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Speaker 1: lists of family favorites at the ready, you won't feel

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Speaker 1: you have no ideas while simultaneously being overwhelmed by a

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Speaker 1: world of possibilities. Instead, you're just asking a multiple choice question.

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Speaker 1: Do I want to make breakfast for dinner chicken and

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Speaker 1: asparagus stir fry or pasta with butter and parmesan. Should

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Speaker 1: we go for a bike ride or two the children's museum?

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Speaker 1: Should we have a movie night or play monopoly? Multiple

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Speaker 1: choice questions like these require way less bandwidth and energy

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Speaker 1: to answer, especially when you are choosing from a list

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Speaker 1: of reliable success You know you can't go wrong. If

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Speaker 1: you try making a list of family favorites. I'd love

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Speaker 1: to hear how it goes and what's on your lists.

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Speaker 1: You can reach me at Laura at Laura Vanderkam dot com.

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Speaker 1: In the meantime, this is Laura. Thanks for listening and

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Speaker 1: here's to making the most of our time. Hey, everybody,

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Speaker 1: your tips, your questions, or anything else. Just connect with

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