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- It's all good.
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We're winging it.
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Wait, woo, woo, woo
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(grunts)
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The boys are gonna flip.
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- That's amazing!
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- I had a crazy idea, but it might just work.
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(Wyatt grunting)
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I don't even know why I try.
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Hi, I'm Hannah.
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I'm The World's Ok-est Mom and I am tired.
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I'm here with my kids every single day
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I'm cooking three meals a day right now
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and I'm feeling very uninspired when it comes
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to meal planning.
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I do most of my grocery shopping online
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and it's just really hard to think
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of new and improved ideas for meals.
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So I'm wanna try something.
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For this week,
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I'm gonna let my kids do the grocery shopping.
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I'm hoping I get some inspiration.
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Wish me luck.
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Up first, the rules.
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One, I'm not going over budget for this week.
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The kids are limited to the budget
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that I usually spend on groceries.
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Second, it cannot all be junk food.
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There has to be some semblance of health.
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We've done the junk food week,
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we're not going to do it again.
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Three, we can't eat the same thing every night.
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We have to have some variety
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we can't just have chicken fingers for dinner
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every single night.
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The whole point is to come up with some new meals
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that we can try together as a family.
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And last, I have full access to my pantry,
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refrigerator and freezer.
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Guess what you get to do this week?
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Don't, hey, don't sit in the baby seat.
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(bouncy music) (Jackson laughing)
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You get to do all of our grocery shopping for the week.
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(Jackson grunting) - What the heck?
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- And then I'm gonna have to figure out,
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what to cook.
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So, because we're trying to self isolate as well as we can
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we do grocery delivery.
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So it was really easy
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for the boys to be able to scroll through all of the aisles
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on the app and choose whatever they wanted for groceries.
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- Ooh yes!
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- Ooh yes! - Hot peppers.
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- [Hannah] Peppers?
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I was very nervous when they were scrolling through the app
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because I know that
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they don't know what a lot of the foods are
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and so they'll see one word
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and think it means another thing
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and maybe put that in the cart.
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- I know! - Potatoes!
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- [Hannah] You feel like you got a good list?
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- Yeah. - Yeah.
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- [Hannah] Okay, should I check out?
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- Yeah.
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- Okay, well we came in under budget, that's good.
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I'm not gonna look too deep into this list
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cause I wanna be a little bit surprised
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but, good job!
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And the next morning the groceries arrived.
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(Hanna laughing)
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I see some normal stuff, this is good.
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They ordered a lot of meat
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and they were clearly confused about
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what a couple of the ingredients actually were.
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I saw jalapeno peppers in there.
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I know that they thought they were bell peppers.
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I was pleasantly surprised
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by the lack of junk food in there honestly.
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I'm very proud of them for making good food choices,
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lots of salad, lots of greens
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and that is all I could ask for as a parent.
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Good morning, I am starting the day making dinner
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cause it's in the slow cooker.
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In the groceries,
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I noticed there was a big cut of chuck roast.
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There was also a packet of ranch seasoning in
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with this grocery haul
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so I knew the boys wanted me to make Mississippi Rose
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which is a super easy and really delicious recipe.
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I usually get pepper chennys but they didn't get any
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so all I have is banana peppers
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so I'm wanna try it.
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It might be like pretty salty.
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We're gonna cover this,
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cook it on low for nine hours.
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I don't cook a lot of red meat
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and I don't cook Mississippi roast very often
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because it is pretty high in fat.
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But it is really good,
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so I don't blame the boys for choosing it.
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It's been in here for nine hours
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and then it just falls apart.
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This is how I typically serve it
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just cut some bread, it soaks up all those juices
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and then I'm serving this
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alongside one of their bagged salads that they chose.
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How does this look to you Wyatt?
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- Yum!
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- [Hannah] Does it taste like I usually make it?
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- That's good.
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- What do you think Wyatt?
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That meal was a huge success it reminded me honestly,
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to utilize my slow cooker in the morning.
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And by dinner time, everything is ready
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and I don't even have to prepare food.
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This is good.
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It's a little less spicy and it's very very delicious
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for how easy it is to make.
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This is a good one.
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Day, one successful, easy and I was ready
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to dive into day two.
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On day two, I wanted to get one weird ingredient
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out of the way.
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Popcorn.
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I have to figure out how to incorporate this into a dinner.
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Lately we've been doing movie nights every week
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and we've been doing popcorn every night
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that we have movie nights.
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So I think the boys figured if they got a lot of popcorn
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we would have movie nights all week
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which is not how that works, but nice try.
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Were you thinking of something when you put the popcorn
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in the basket?
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- I was thinking about eating it.
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- Just plain?
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- Mm hmm
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- But how could we use popcorn, in a meal?
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- On toast.
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- Popcorn toast?
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- You put butter on your toast
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and you put the popcorn on and popcorn is good with butter.
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- Do you know, I did that when I was your age?
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- I think like you!
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- Right now I think I have a picture of it.
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I guess weird people raise weird kids.
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Okay, I think I've figured it out.
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I'm gonna do a chicken tortilla soup
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and when I typically crash chips on top,
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I'm gonna offer popcorn, as a topping.
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Then on the side I will also have toast with butter
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and popcorn and really make it a popcorn centric meal.
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Can you help me out, by popping the popcorn?
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That's how you open a box?
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All right, let's check on (Hannah yelps)
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let's check on the soup.
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I used a pot that is far too small,
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but it looks decent, okay.
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- It's like melting when you put it in the soup.
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- [Hannah] Do you like it?
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- It gives it some crunch.
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- [Hannah] How is it? - That's surprisingly good.
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(Hannah giggling)
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- Toast with butter
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- Maybe I should have gotten you a plate. (Wyat yelping)
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So day two was a little weird, but little did I know
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that the weirdest was yet to come.
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Day three, I really wanted to do something visually splashy.
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One grocery that's plentiful in this haul is, fruit.
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So, I'm gonna try a breakfast for dinner style meal
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and I'm going to make a, fruit parfait platter
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and I'm gonna do some baked apple oatmeal
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because that's always easy
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and I think the kids will like it.
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I do oatmeal cinnamon, nutmeg, salt, eggs almond milk,
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baking powder and it's like a batter.
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So I got my honey crisp apples.
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You're supposed to skin your apples
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but I don't feel like it.
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Very excited about this oatmeal bake.
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Time to assemble
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so I have some plain Greek yogurt,
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just drizzle a little honey on top.
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Wanna do some kiwi.
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I had this vision of like the most beautiful,
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colorful platter, and I feel like it came close
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but it wasn't quite as splashy as I'd expected.
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- That is not, oat meal mom?
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- [Hannah] No, it's part of dinner.
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- This? - [Hannah] Yeah.
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- It's part of dinner?
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- Yes! - That's dinner?
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- [Hannah] What do you think?
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- I think it looks delicious.
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(blooping)
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- Too sour, try it with the fruit,
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you're supposed to eat it with the fruit honey.
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(Wyat mumbles)
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- It's delicious! (Hannah laughing)
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- I have not seen you guys this excited
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to have dinner in a very long time.
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What does Henry think?
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Day three overall was not the most traditional
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but that's how we roll in our family.
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So it was great, success, check that off the box,
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onto day four.
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Day four, I decided to tackle
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the most difficult ingredient of the week, jalapenos.
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I Honestly, I'm so tired tonight I don't feel like cooking.
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I don't feel like dealing with jalapenos,
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but it's better to just get it over with.
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We have a plan.
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I stuff these with cream cheese and shredded cheese
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and I'm going to kind of make
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jalapeno popper stuffed chicken.
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So this is ready to be batter fried,
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Jackson is mixing some eggs,
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Wyat's gonna get the panko in a bowl, right?
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- Okay, what's a panko?
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- [Hannah] It's breadcrumbs.
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- It's breadcrumbs? - Mmh,
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- Yeah, okay look at that.
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That looks descent. (Henry crying)
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Moment of truth for this chicken.(Hannah howls happily)
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That's something.
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So Jackson says he likes spicy food,
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but in his mind spicy food is mild salsa from taco bell.
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(Jackson giggling) (Hannah laughing)
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Wyatt on the other hand,
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does eat pretty spicy food and doesn't really flinch.
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- This is not spicy yet. - [Hannah] It's not?
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- It's not even spicy a single bit!
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- Do you like it? - It's amazing!
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- Am I crushing it at this point?
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75% I'd say.
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There's always room for improvement, stay humble,
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but I was very proud of that day.
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I'm very grateful that day four was as easy as it was
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because little did I know
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I was about to lose my mind.
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I don't even wanna talk about day five.
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Day five was the day.
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Day five was, challenging.
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Day five fricking sucked. (chuckles)
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We have a slight problem,
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with tonight's meal.
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I decided to tackle the whole roasted chicken.
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Here's the thing.
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It's 6:50, this chicken roasts for an hour and a half,
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and these potatoes cook for 55 minutes.
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So,
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(giggles)
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there's my chicken roasting, my house smells delicious,
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but look, but this thing is going to take,
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you know another hour and 20 minutes.
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I have my potatoes soaking
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and I'm