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Mar 5, 2025
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hey there so I baked a chicken yesterday in the crock pot so we had that for dinner that was good we had some baked
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potatoes and a vegetable so now I took the chicken cut it up I had I was
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thinking that I wanted to tell you that I have some fun kitchen gadgets and I've bought Pampered Chef stuff over the
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years I love this little egg slicer it's been really
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helpful cuz I use them on salads so the rest of these eggs I'm going to make some salads later I'm going to put some
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boiled eggs on those I'll use my egg slicer for that but in the meantime I had my eggs and my
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chicken so that's all here so I haven't put my spices in there yet but I have some
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mayo and a little Dijon mustard that I'm going to add to it few spices so stick with me you going
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see how that goes together so right now I'm my lazy season so you guys are coming back home from
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college so I want to have stuff here that you guys can eat some home cooking I don't want to be eating out a lot cuz
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that means figuring out what you want to eat go out to get it that whole kind of stuff we're not doing that spices
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here never too young to look at your salt intake so Mrs
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Dash good option little black pepper garlic onion
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powder I like a lot of garlic so
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empty onion powder and I'll taste this at some point
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just to make sure it's good I'm so glad you guys are home
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I always tell your father thank you for my babies and I'm trying to get better CU I'm like you know you're his sons too
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you're his kids too I should share so now I say thank you for our babies so he appreciate so one spoon to
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mix one to
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taste this was
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I EAS squeeze the mustard into the trash can just so I make sure I don't get a bunch of water in there so mustard
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sometimes when it sits sometimes the the vinegar and the mustard can separate so
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you get a little water on the top so just a little couple squeezes of Dijon
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mustard now to
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stir probably should have done this in a different bowl and then put it in here but we'll
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see so I season the chicken really well when I put it in the crock pot so it's
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got flavor
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there so there's a little kind
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of that kind of Squish
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sound so that's what it's looking like now so now we need our tester spoon
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little
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bit taste the seasonings that's good
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mhm three spices plus a little
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extra to manage your salt but I think we're good so I'm going to clean up this
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this so I like making the chicken salad a little bit in advance so that way it
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has time to sit in the fridge and it can kind of set up that um perfect seasoning
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blend is going to taste really great so you guys can have this later have have it on crackers put it on bread whatever
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or put it on salad it's good too we got today ho ho hey hey what salad have we
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got today we have iceberg lettuce
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wow and some baby spring mix
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Wow Cherry tomatoes cucumbers and I like to buy them like
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this because when you buy one big one once you cut it that's opening that up to the air it's better just to cut them
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this way I find then that way also too I keep the same consistency with the size
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and this reminds me too maybe I can talk your father into making some of that um summer salad
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Tomatoes cucumber and onion so I have some red onions over
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here yeah whatever your father does to them I don't know it just very good so
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I'll ask him to make some of that for me but we're putting together the salad now
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okay I also don't want to forget to say something about kitchen safety maybe you guys remember your dad
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showing you this trick but put a wet paper towel underneath your cutting board actually this one's getting a
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little
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dry a wet towel underneath your cutting board
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to stabilize
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it so once it's on a flat surface then it doesn't move around so when you cut your stuff if you have anything that has
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like a water base like some of this lettuce might produce a little bit of water um so actually I'm going to clean
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this off but yeah the water can spill and get under the cutting board so you
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don't want that sliding around so safety in the kitchen yes
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progress I see my
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apron
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e e
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not worried these are kind of bitter to me the white parts so I take those
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out it just messes with the lovely flavor of the salad for
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me there we go all right
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I'm just going to enjoy those fresh flavors yes yes
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yes I do actually feel better when I eat more
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salads CU your body needs to process all that good stuff
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okay so that's half a head of
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lettuce so that spray mix seems to be lighter so I'll
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just toss that so it doesn't and I'm going to cut the this other side and
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then I'm going to make individual salads for myself so today's Saturday
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but I'll work through the week and it'll be good to have readymade salad or two
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and then I like to put a few different things in there that you guys don't usually like to eat so that's the other thing
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and yes I will go back and pull out those little white parts that I don't
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like okay looks like I have enough for like two
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salads that's good so two salads for work lunches salad so
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the iceberg lettuce is on the bottom and the baby spring mix is on the top cuz
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it's lighter and just more fragile yeah a balanced medley of tender
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baby lettuces and baby greens a few cucumbers then I'll put some there I'll
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put some in my other s
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and I'm going to rinse my cherry
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tomatoes and then let them drain in the sink until I'm ready for
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them oh my God if your father saw me using this tidy little knife he cringe so let me find a different knife
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knife safety if you're going to walk away from where you are with the knife stay sharp so that way if you turn
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around and somebody's behind you you're telling them that you're walking with
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something sharp so but this one I'm just going to put over by the
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sink then I'm going to use this joint this
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one so I cut off that that okay one had a kind of a weird end
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I cut that off I'm just small cubes for
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these for the other salad over there
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one day I want a gourmet kitchen to cook in with island in the
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center I love
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those cut off the ends of
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these and if you're feeling good about it I was just thinking I can get a lot
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of green vegetables in there together that I could slice some of these cucum cumbers and put them in with the green
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tomatoes and then I
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have unique little vegetable snack
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later so I I find that we don't eat this salad mix soon enough I'll just put them
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in smaller containers like this and I'll take them as my work lunch
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stuff all right one more oh Donnie's coming home tonight so
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he might eat too so I'm going to braid his
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hair that's another thing do you guys remember when I would spend an entire
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Saturday and I would just be doing everybody's
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hair I love you guys but y'all have a lot of hair I did your father's locks Jimmy I did your locks I washed and re
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braided Tommy's hair we did his braids your girl was tired but I I would
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do that for y'all again in a heartbeat we did that for years always got to take care of
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yourself CU you're worth it not just because you're my babies but
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because you're worth it so always make sure you take time to take take care of yourself that's
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important and hopefully that's a lesson that you guys learned from your father and I that taking that time is important
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to take care of yourself and I have to be honest that I don't always do that it is a lifelong
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journey in selfcare so let it be said I'm not
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perfect at it I have to work at it I'm going to add a little more seasoning since I just put those raw
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cucumbers in sometimes I think when these sit they
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absorb the flavor and I like the flavor even better
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so not mad about that but then that also reminds me that hey I have food in there that's going bad so I better eat it so
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instead of um trying to eat those sweets that maybe my body is telling me Oh you want that more than the other stuff you
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know I don't cuz this is the stuff these vegetables are the things that are going
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to really give me nutrients and give my body energy they're going to keep my mood in a better state they're going to
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keep my body balanced um I'm a woman of a certain age and I take medication for different
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things so um but I take vitamins too and
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vitamin D so yeah I want to help my body help me CU I'm trying to be around a long time
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cuz you're going to give me grandbabies I love the grandbaby that I have but I'm going to wait for my sons to give me
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some grandbabies too if that's what you so choose I not pressured no pressure no pressure If you don't mind giving me
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grand babies that would be fun too but there's really no pressure there's really no pressure so the cherry
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tomatoes that's more my thing so I'm not going to put those in the family salad
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I'm just going to slice them and then put them in my little thing but look at the color pretty solid already and I'm
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not even like really into it yet I got more stuff to add
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yes okay so this morning at breakfast we were talking about your father's theme song Rick Ross is every day I'm hustling
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hustling hustling every day I'm hustling hustling hustling cuz that's what your
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father does he gets up at 3:30 4:00 every morning goes to work he takes care
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of us it's yep that's just what he does but I know you guys are hustling at
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school I know your sister's hustling with her job and taking care of your [Music]
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nephew I see y'all I see your hard work I see you
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okay so that's why I love on you extra hard I send you care
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packages y'all I have to admit I feel like I've been slipping on the care packages lately I just feel like I'm off
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my care package game I'm not sure what's happening there it's something that I'm working on okay so that's more tomatoes for
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right now so back to those eggs put a few of
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those in here I know you guys don't like the yolks so I'm going just save the yolks for my salads but I'm going to put
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the egg whites in the main salad but it's looking good
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so I found these bacon bits in the refrigerator that your father was brought them from something
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so going to add those to our salad is looking pretty
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good yes yes yes yes okay and then I'm going to add some
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of that bacon that I made this morning so can't figure out crains that's something your grandmother got us doing
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she put those in salads for me one time and I was like wow that just burst of sweet sour
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whatever just a nice little justos flavors
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here this side so you know I'm trying to be a
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little little creative with this one I'm being more SLO than anything but
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whatever okay
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I got my trash can over here so I can put my shells right away in the
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trash I can't wait till my first time to go to your homes and have
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dinner your sister made us a lovely pot roast and let's see was pot roast and
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then we had this soup which was really good
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and um your nephew had pizza I don't know I don't know what it
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was but yeah when you guys just you know have
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your own spaces it's just going to be so interesting just to
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see your personality come through with that I can't wait for that I am
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just excited about that sometimes when I um peel these eggs I
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think I'm going to make deviled eggs one day and then I never do cuz then I think oh that's a
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lot I'll eat them but I can't see all
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good okay okay let me just be honest there
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going to be eggshells on this thing I'm going be it's not be bright okay
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whatever so those lovely little
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slices boom boom okay so these are whites I'm
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going to save those cuz I know you guys like those so I'll just put those other ones over
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here I'll pop that little part of the yolk out then I'll just do a light Chop on
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these add these to the salad I love for you guys to have
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options when you come home now I just did something with that knife that's not safe I should have turned it this way so
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if I picked up something I wouldn't run the risk of slicing my finger so keep that in
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mind I got eggshells all in this thing okay all right
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this right here is probably why my cholesterol is high because I love
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eggs I'm not shame I'm not I'm not saying that because I'm sham I'm just saying I like eggs and my cholesterol is
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high cuz that's what the doctor said anyway
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okay so it's going to be a lot of eggs just take those yolks out that's
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what I said I was going to do boom lovely
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loveely so we just we going to work it out okay and I made a lot of eggs Lord have
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mercy what was I thinking I put the whole carton in there okay now I got all these eggs okay so that gives me see and
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now I have no reason not to make devil eggs cuz I have eggs here if I actually make de deviled eggs
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I'm going to show you how I do it okay I might just sweet talk your father
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in the doing that you might doing it for me I don't know we'll
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see it is interesting being married to a chef
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yes yes yes because he will help you raise one
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wonderful children that have palettes that are out of this world and Lord knows I feel bad for
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y'all going to school I'm thinking Lord these babies are probably starving but then that gives me a chance
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to when you come home I can cook and it's all good so it's lovely okay I'm going turn
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the camera around so you can see all this stuff because you just see me but I see all this stuff and I'm starting to
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make me itch
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oh your father told me no more kitchen work I'm trying to your father got me to like onions and that I thought I would
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never ever see cuz I was like o onions honey Satan that's what it felt like but
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now I have a new affinity for onions so
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so just keep those little things on hand that you like to go in your salads obiously so as you can see it is almost
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gone so I'm going to try sunflower seed gust or something in here but I don't
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I'm try to sit through that make sure I don't put that in
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my so it should keep out all thatt stuff and just
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the seeds yep
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okay I like walnuts in my salad sometimes or
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pistachios yeah different little things that's
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good those are good vitamins too nuts so Donnie I know you like those store-bought salads where they have the
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little protein and then whatever little side something and then the lettuce so that's
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cool to do but it can get pricey so this way you can make your own salads the way
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you like them with things that you like so like with this I could put some of
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the chicken with it I won't do it now but I'll I'll probably put some in a
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smaller container with the chicken then that way lunch stuff is ready I don't have to think about it I don't have to
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Scurry around Sunday night thinking okay what am I going to eat so these are good amount
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of good sized containers for adding some
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protein now Jamie you're an athlete so you probably need probably twice this but um Johny you're a solid guy so you
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probably need more than that too but for me this works
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do you guys remember teaching your grandfather or Donnie do you remember teaching your grandfather to use chopsticks when you were about
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five when we went to the sushi
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place so this meat is some of the meat that I took out of the bottom of the the
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crock poot chicken so I can see some of the those little oils so this is really
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good those little things are good when you heat it up the next day and then you add it to the salad so
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it's a little warm it's nice all
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right I think that's a good amount of chicken
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M so just thinking ahead planning for some of these things you
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know it's just a way to keep your stress down and maximize your
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money so now you know how I do what I
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do for you and for me so
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some of my slow self- care it's a new idea I came up with slow
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self care things I try to do
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so launch one I need to put this on the list more
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sunflower seeds
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two oh and because I like to take dressings and sometimes I don't always
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have those little containers like more of these to put those in I'll put them in a sandwich
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bag so I've also been adding Ginger to my salads too so I'll probably chinger
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in the corner of each salad bowl cuz I just like so I mix it up I don't know I
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just like the flavor of it I've um but Ginger is supposed to be good for you too so that's the other reason I use it
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too but so this my poyc dressing so it is basically
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done so I'll take a little sandwich
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bag thr it inside out so that I can get the container in there and what
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I'm trying to do is get to one corner so that I get all the dressing
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there so it is slowly painting into the
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Container or into the bag
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so don't forget your self-care so this is a little bit of self-care so I'll see you the next time if you
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