Subtitles section Play video Print subtitles - It's all good. 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) So, I'm about to cover this up and I'm gonna put another hand on top of it. (foil paper thudding) (giggles) This isn't a meal that you make on a weeknight for your family. This is a meal you make on a Saturday for a dinner party and you definitely don't start cooking it at almost seven o'clock. I'm wanna have to order dinner. I made the space for the chicken and the potatoes. I got them both in, they were cooking nicely, but then it was Henry's bedtime and I had to put him to bed. I did not set myself a timer. There's so much I could have done to prevent what happened and I just didn't do it. Did I over cook it, yes. Is it completely charred and stuck to the bottom, also yes. I did not take my time with this one and make sure that the potatoes were completely dry so I don't know what that did, but I think it ruined it. Why did I do that? I was not ready to throw in the towel. I was not ready to give up on those potatoes and so I came up with the only solution I could think of. It's not charred if you cover it with cheese, that's our new family motto. It's Not Charred If you Cover It With Cheese. (babbles) I got carried away, I thought I was on a roll, I am an excellent cook, I'm pulling these foods off that I didn't think were possible, I'm Ina Garten. Today is not my day. Let's try a potato. They're good, it's just not worth it. Chicken is tasty. Never again. What do you think? - It's good. The potatoes are a little - [Hannah] Don't even. (Matt laughing) - [Hannah] The potatoes are a little what? - Tasty - [Hannah] A little too good for your palette. - It took like three hours to make this. - I know it really did After day five, I was kind of ready to quit. I didn't wanna try anymore. So day six, I went easy on myself. Here's my plan. The kids got pasta. I'm gonna make two bags of this because you know leftovers, they're terrible. They did not get me pasta sauce though. They got me petite, diced tomatoes, several cans of this. The boys are usually really good at observing in the kitchen and I feel that overall their grocery shopping instincts were good. But in this case to them, pasta sauce and tomatoes are the same thing. So I'm gonna have to turn this into tomato sauce into a pasta sauce without proper ingredients that I usually use to make a bolognese or- - [Boy] I want some saltine crackers. - You want saltine crackers? Is that what you'd like for dinner? - I guess, - I don't even know why I try, There are some really core pieces to pasta sauce that make it really good one is adding some pasta water into it and one is making sure that it's seasoned really well and then it has time to simmer. I'm not saying this is authentic Italian pasta sauce, I'm saying this is my pasta sauce.(laughing) Well we made something. What do you think Jackson? - [Jackson] It looks yummy. - [Hannah] How's the pasta sauce? - Good! - You like it? (soft music) - Good! - That's amazing. - Well good! The pasta turned out delicious. Day six was an easy win which was good because I had a crazy idea for day seven. By day seven, I only had random ingredients left, but I had an idea. This, complete Taco Dinner Kit. Naturally, I was gonna do spaghetti tacos because that's just what we always do. But I realized I used the pasta, on the night that I was going easy on myself. So what I have left from the grocery haul that Jackson handpicked, is Mac and Cheese. I'm gonna to try to do a Mac and Cheese taco party. Let's see how this works with the Taco sauce. Seasoning, let's mix this up. We'll give it a little taste. (bouncy orchestra music) Ooh that's good. It's not too salty. I thought it would be kind of salty. It might just work. Wallah! ♪Mac and cheese ♪ ♪Taco night ♪ How is it? (boy Mumbles) Is this the next spaghetti taco? - Yeah. - There's mac and cheese in a taco? - This is the epitome of having a picky eater. Why I chose all the ingredients, they're all foods that he liked separately but together he wasn't willing to try it at first. It takes a little coaxing, It takes a little encouragement. - It's good. - [Hannah] It's good? - Do you like it? - Mhm - It's really good. (bouncy orchestral music) - It's weird but good. You know, like the thought of it is weird, but the taste of it is really good. Our mac and cheese tacos is a thing? Heck yes they are! It's the new and improved version and I'm here for it. At the end of the week, I was very proud of my kids' grocery choices. There were healthy options in there. So I consider that a mom win. But what I did learn, is there some meals that I had forgotten about that I can continue to make. The slow cooker meal made my life really easy and there are just fun ways that we can shake things up, moving forward, to make meal time more fun. So that's all I got for today. I'm Hannah and I wanna know, would you try this with your family, would you try any of the recipes I made? And most importantly, would you eat a mac and cheese taco party? Let me know on Instagram and if you'll please excuse me, I'm gonna go order take out for dinner tonight, till next time. (cheerful music)
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