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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 is episode seventy eight, how

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Speaker 1: to Save and Organize family Recipes. We have just wrapped

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Speaker 1: up the Easter holiday and Spring break for many of us,

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Speaker 1: so the next holiday on my calendar is really Mother's Day.

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Speaker 1: And Mother's Day can be a tricky holiday, and quite frankly,

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Speaker 1: it's been tricky for me personally in the past. I'm

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Speaker 1: lucky to have a great relationship with my own mother,

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Speaker 1: but I know that that's not that way for a

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Speaker 1: lot of people. But as many of you know, I

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Speaker 1: lost a child around Mother's Day about ten years ago,

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Speaker 1: and so for many years it made the holiday really

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Speaker 1: really heavy for me. After working through aspects of my grief,

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Speaker 1: I now look forward to celebrating the holiday, but it

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Speaker 1: has certainly been a journey for me. And if that

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Speaker 1: is you, I see you and I have been there.

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Speaker 1: But regardless of how you feel about the holiday, you

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Speaker 1: might be starting to think about a gift you could

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Speaker 1: give the leading lady in your life, whether that's your

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Speaker 1: mom or another really important female figure to you, or

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Speaker 1: maybe you're looking to give your own family some hints

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Speaker 1: about what you want for Mother's Day. One gift I

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Speaker 1: think that would be perfect for giving or receiving on

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Speaker 1: this upcoming holiday is a collection of family recipes. So

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Speaker 1: we are going to spend the last half of the

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Speaker 1: podcast discussing how i'd suggest you go about a project

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Speaker 1: like that. But before we really get into that, let's

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Speaker 1: do what we always do on this podcast and start

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Speaker 1: by giving you three ideas of recipes you could throw

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Speaker 1: on a meal plan for the week. We can almost

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Speaker 1: all agree that the hardest part of making dinner is

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Speaker 1: simply deciding what to make, so hopefully sharing a few

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Speaker 1: ideas with you every week helps with that decision fatigue.

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Speaker 1: I swear to you that mapping out my meals in

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Speaker 1: advance has single handedly been the most pivotal part of

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Speaker 1: work to develop. So with that said, let's talk about

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Speaker 1: what is on my meal map for the week, what

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Speaker 1: we're planning on. First recipe, pineapple fried rice. Okay, my

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Speaker 1: girls are going through a rice phase, you guys. They

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Speaker 1: we have exchanged rice for pasta. They used to always

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Speaker 1: I've been trying to get created with a few rice recipes,

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Speaker 1: and this pineapple rice is so delicious. I love that

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Speaker 1: I can add some ground meat to it, adding a

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Speaker 1: up leftover rice. So since I'm making a bunch of

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Speaker 1: It's also perfect for meal prep. It's one of those

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Speaker 1: recipes you can make in advance story have it for

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Speaker 1: so many great reviews. The second recipe I'm making is

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Speaker 1: green chili chicken enchiladas, a hit around here. We have

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Speaker 1: been making this recipe for as long as I can remember.

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Speaker 1: My kids just like it. It's a great way if

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Speaker 1: This is a great way to tackle Mexican food that's

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Speaker 1: already looking forward to it. So those are your recipes

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Speaker 1: for the week. You can find and print them all

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Speaker 1: in Recipe Club individually or in our weekly meal plan

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Speaker 1: with an easy to follow shopping list broken down by recipe.

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Speaker 1: I received this awesome DM yesterday from somebody who said

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Speaker 1: Recipe Club is the next best thing to having a

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Speaker 1: personal chef, And I truly think that might be one

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Speaker 1: all want a private chef more than anything else, like

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Speaker 1: house cleaner, travel agent. I don't know someone to do

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Speaker 1: the laundry. No, the biggest burden is getting dinner and

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Speaker 1: we have trained very hard to make Recipe Club not

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Speaker 1: really provide a simple dinner system that you can return

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Speaker 1: to over and over again as you manage the ebbs

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Speaker 1: solves problems in your real, everyday life. Anyways, I'm so

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Speaker 1: excited about it. We've got a little bit more work left,

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Speaker 1: but it's coming. All right. Let's jump into the back

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Speaker 1: and organize family recipes. Some of my best memories are

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Speaker 1: extended family dinners I grew up attending, where my other

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Speaker 1: grandma would make pot roast and mashed potatoes in the

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Speaker 1: way it makes us feel inside. Having the recipes that

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Speaker 1: means something to you collected in one place is such

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Speaker 1: these recipes down to your kids. So with Mother's stage

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Speaker 1: As I think about gifting a binder filled with your

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Speaker 1: family's recipes would be the ultimate Mother's Day present. Talk

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Speaker 1: you buy one of our recipe binders that includes kind

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Speaker 1: It's a great template where there's a place to include

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