We're winging it.

Wait, woo, woo, woo

(grunts)

The boys are gonna flip.

- That's amazing!

- I had a crazy idea, but it might just work.

(Wyatt grunting)

I don't even know why I try.

Hi, I'm Hannah.

I'm The World's Ok-est Mom and I am tired.

I'm here with my kids every single day

I'm cooking three meals a day right now

and I'm feeling very uninspired when it comes

to meal planning.

I do most of my grocery shopping online

and it's just really hard to think

of new and improved ideas for meals.

So I'm wanna try something.

For this week,

I'm gonna let my kids do the grocery shopping.

I'm hoping I get some inspiration.

Wish me luck.

Up first, the rules.

One, I'm not going over budget for this week.

The kids are limited to the budget

that I usually spend on groceries.

Second, it cannot all be junk food.

There has to be some semblance of health.

We've done the junk food week,

we're not going to do it again.

Three, we can't eat the same thing every night.

We have to have some variety

we can't just have chicken fingers for dinner

every single night.

The whole point is to come up with some new meals

that we can try together as a family.

And last, I have full access to my pantry,

refrigerator and freezer.

Guess what you get to do this week?

Don't, hey, don't sit in the baby seat.

(bouncy music) (Jackson laughing)

You get to do all of our grocery shopping for the week.

(Jackson grunting) - What the heck?

- And then I'm gonna have to figure out,

what to cook.

So, because we're trying to self isolate as well as we can

we do grocery delivery.

So it was really easy

for the boys to be able to scroll through all of the aisles

on the app and choose whatever they wanted for groceries.

- Ooh yes!

- Ooh yes! - Hot peppers.

- [Hannah] Peppers?

I was very nervous when they were scrolling through the app

because I know that

they don't know what a lot of the foods are

and so they'll see one word

and think it means another thing

and maybe put that in the cart.

- I know! - Potatoes!

- [Hannah] You feel like you got a good list?

- Yeah. - Yeah.

- [Hannah] Okay, should I check out?

- Yeah.

- Okay, well we came in under budget, that's good.

I'm not gonna look too deep into this list

cause I wanna be a little bit surprised

but, good job!

And the next morning the groceries arrived.

(Hanna laughing)

I see some normal stuff, this is good.

They ordered a lot of meat

and they were clearly confused about

what a couple of the ingredients actually were.

I saw jalapeno peppers in there.

I know that they thought they were bell peppers.

I was pleasantly surprised

by the lack of junk food in there honestly.

I'm very proud of them for making good food choices,

lots of salad, lots of greens

and that is all I could ask for as a parent.

Good morning, I am starting the day making dinner

cause it's in the slow cooker.

In the groceries,

I noticed there was a big cut of chuck roast.

There was also a packet of ranch seasoning in

with this grocery haul

so I knew the boys wanted me to make Mississippi Rose

which is a super easy and really delicious recipe.

I usually get pepper chennys but they didn't get any

so all I have is banana peppers

so I'm wanna try it.

It might be like pretty salty.

We're gonna cover this,

cook it on low for nine hours.

I don't cook a lot of red meat

and I don't cook Mississippi roast very often

because it is pretty high in fat.

But it is really good,

so I don't blame the boys for choosing it.

It's been in here for nine hours

and then it just falls apart.

This is how I typically serve it

just cut some bread, it soaks up all those juices

and then I'm serving this

alongside one of their bagged salads that they chose.

How does this look to you Wyatt?

- Yum!

- [Hannah] Does it taste like I usually make it?

- That's good.

- What do you think Wyatt?

That meal was a huge success it reminded me honestly,

to utilize my slow cooker in the morning.

And by dinner time, everything is ready

and I don't even have to prepare food.

This is good.

It's a little less spicy and it's very very delicious

for how easy it is to make.

This is a good one.

Day, one successful, easy and I was ready

to dive into day two.

On day two, I wanted to get one weird ingredient

out of the way.

Popcorn.

I have to figure out how to incorporate this into a dinner.

Lately we've been doing movie nights every week

and we've been doing popcorn every night

that we have movie nights.

So I think the boys figured if they got a lot of popcorn

we would have movie nights all week

which is not how that works, but nice try.

Were you thinking of something when you put the popcorn

in the basket?

- I was thinking about eating it.

- Just plain?

- Mm hmm

- But how could we use popcorn, in a meal?

- On toast.

- Popcorn toast?

- You put butter on your toast

and you put the popcorn on and popcorn is good with butter.

- Do you know, I did that when I was your age?

- I think like you!

- Right now I think I have a picture of it.

I guess weird people raise weird kids.

Okay, I think I've figured it out.

I'm gonna do a chicken tortilla soup

and when I typically crash chips on top,

I'm gonna offer popcorn, as a topping.

Then on the side I will also have toast with butter

and popcorn and really make it a popcorn centric meal.

Can you help me out, by popping the popcorn?

That's how you open a box?

All right, let's check on (Hannah yelps)

let's check on the soup.

I used a pot that is far too small,

but it looks decent, okay.

- It's like melting when you put it in the soup.

- [Hannah] Do you like it?

- It gives it some crunch.

- [Hannah] How is it? - That's surprisingly good.

(Hannah giggling)

- Toast with butter

- Maybe I should have gotten you a plate. (Wyat yelping)

So day two was a little weird, but little did I know

that the weirdest was yet to come.

Day three, I really wanted to do something visually splashy.

One grocery that's plentiful in this haul is, fruit.

So, I'm gonna try a breakfast for dinner style meal

and I'm going to make a, fruit parfait platter

and I'm gonna do some baked apple oatmeal

because that's always easy

and I think the kids will like it.

I do oatmeal cinnamon, nutmeg, salt, eggs almond milk,

baking powder and it's like a batter.

So I got my honey crisp apples.

You're supposed to skin your apples

but I don't feel like it.

Very excited about this oatmeal bake.

Time to assemble

so I have some plain Greek yogurt,

just drizzle a little honey on top.

Wanna do some kiwi.

I had this vision of like the most beautiful,

colorful platter, and I feel like it came close

but it wasn't quite as splashy as I'd expected.

- That is not, oat meal mom?

- [Hannah] No, it's part of dinner.

- This? - [Hannah] Yeah.

- It's part of dinner?

- Yes! - That's dinner?

- [Hannah] What do you think?

- I think it looks delicious.

(blooping)

- Too sour, try it with the fruit,

you're supposed to eat it with the fruit honey.

(Wyat mumbles)

- It's delicious! (Hannah laughing)

- I have not seen you guys this excited

to have dinner in a very long time.

What does Henry think?

Day three overall was not the most traditional

but that's how we roll in our family.

So it was great, success, check that off the box,

onto day four.

Day four, I decided to tackle

the most difficult ingredient of the week, jalapenos.

I Honestly, I'm so tired tonight I don't feel like cooking.

I don't feel like dealing with jalapenos,

but it's better to just get it over with.

We have a plan.

I stuff these with cream cheese and shredded cheese

and I'm going to kind of make

jalapeno popper stuffed chicken.

So this is ready to be batter fried,

Jackson is mixing some eggs,

Wyat's gonna get the panko in a bowl, right?

- Okay, what's a panko?

- [Hannah] It's breadcrumbs.

- It's breadcrumbs? - Mmh,

- Yeah, okay look at that.

That looks descent. (Henry crying)

Moment of truth for this chicken.(Hannah howls happily)

That's something.

So Jackson says he likes spicy food,

but in his mind spicy food is mild salsa from taco bell.

(Jackson giggling) (Hannah laughing)

Wyatt on the other hand,

does eat pretty spicy food and doesn't really flinch.

- This is not spicy yet. - [Hannah] It's not?

- It's not even spicy a single bit!

- Do you like it? - It's amazing!

- Am I crushing it at this point?

75% I'd say.

There's always room for improvement, stay humble,

but I was very proud of that day.

I'm very grateful that day four was as easy as it was

because little did I know

I was about to lose my mind.

I don't even wanna talk about day five.

Day five was the day.

Day five was, challenging.

Day five fricking sucked. (chuckles)

We have a slight problem,

with tonight's meal.

I decided to tackle the whole roasted chicken.

Here's the thing.

It's 6:50, this chicken roasts for an hour and a half,

and these potatoes cook for 55 minutes.

So,

(giggles)

there's my chicken roasting, my house smells delicious,

but look, but this thing is going to take,

you know another hour and 20 minutes.

I have my potatoes soaking

and I'm gonna do those in a cast-iron.

It's fine, I've lost my mind

my kids are already hungry

I don't know what I'm gonna do.

Cause the food's gonna be finished at 8:30, at the earliest.

They go to bed, at 8:30.

(clock ticking)