WEBVTT 1 00:00:03.439 --> 00:00:08.199 Deborah, with her thirty years of being an ltrepreneur and creating over seven companies, 2 00:00:08.400 --> 00:00:12.080 knows exactly what it means to accept the mission. When you make that 3 00:00:12.199 --> 00:00:16.359 decision, when you accept the mission to become a solo preneur to take yourself 4 00:00:16.399 --> 00:00:20.280 and your talents to market, then you embrace a life of not only unlimited 5 00:00:20.320 --> 00:00:25.280 possibilities, but also the unknown. It's an elixir of fear and bravery that 6 00:00:25.440 --> 00:00:30.480 only someone who's taken the leap really understands. On our show, deb digs 7 00:00:30.559 --> 00:00:34.479 deep with her guests to highlight what you the listener wants to know, the 8 00:00:34.560 --> 00:00:38.759 stories, the whys, and the hows to navigate the journey to success. 9 00:00:39.159 --> 00:00:43.320 Get ready to hear from some of the most incredible mission takers from Generation Z 10 00:00:43.640 --> 00:00:47.119 to boomers. So sit up, perk up, and get ready to be 11 00:00:47.200 --> 00:00:52.520 blown away. Now Here is your host, Deborah Drummond. Hello, Hello, 12 00:00:52.600 --> 00:00:58.359 Hello, you best listeners you. I'm so excited today. You know 13 00:00:58.600 --> 00:01:02.840 can alop you the best listeners and thank you for coming to Mission Accepted podcast. 14 00:01:03.000 --> 00:01:07.120 If you are a listener, you know we love you and there's many 15 00:01:07.120 --> 00:01:11.000 of you that I have great relationships with because you call me and you email 16 00:01:11.079 --> 00:01:12.480 me and if you want to be on the show, I want you to 17 00:01:12.480 --> 00:01:17.319 be on the show, so you know where to go. But I got 18 00:01:17.319 --> 00:01:23.400 to tell you, but man, you are hungry. You're hungry for life, 19 00:01:23.519 --> 00:01:30.560 You're hungry for Oh let me guess that takes me into introducing are incredible, 20 00:01:30.799 --> 00:01:37.680 fabulous fellow foodie. You guys know a live food you know they say, 21 00:01:37.799 --> 00:01:40.480 you know, people shouldn't be scrolling on their phone and it's not a 22 00:01:40.519 --> 00:01:44.120 way to get to decompress. I have a serious addiction to the Food Channel. 23 00:01:44.719 --> 00:01:49.799 And a fellow foody friend of mine who we both are inspired by the 24 00:01:49.840 --> 00:01:53.280 same person which we'll get to later, is here with us today. This 25 00:01:53.359 --> 00:01:57.400 is Mary Lumberting and you may recognize her from the two sixty two project. 26 00:01:57.879 --> 00:02:02.439 Yes she's in the book. Yes she spoke. Yes she's speaking again because 27 00:02:02.439 --> 00:02:06.799 people are hungry to hear what she has to say too, not just you 28 00:02:06.920 --> 00:02:10.159 cool people. So if you don't know Mary, Mary is a personal chef 29 00:02:10.240 --> 00:02:15.639 and a cooking coach. Okay, don't we all want a personal chef? 30 00:02:15.680 --> 00:02:19.400 Isn't that something that goes on your treasure map, on your dream boards, 31 00:02:19.520 --> 00:02:23.560 on your vision I'm like I have written that many times I just want someone 32 00:02:23.599 --> 00:02:28.319 to cook for me. It's so incredible and it feels so pampering, and 33 00:02:28.360 --> 00:02:30.639 honestly, sometimes it doesn't even matter what it looks like or tastes like, 34 00:02:30.680 --> 00:02:34.879 even though that's important. And Mary's going to tell you that and just let 35 00:02:34.919 --> 00:02:38.439 someone cook some meal for you. Sometimes it can be poached eggs on toast, 36 00:02:38.520 --> 00:02:43.639 and it feels good to have someone love on you. But here's what 37 00:02:43.919 --> 00:02:47.199 is nice about Mary is that she teaches us how to do that for ourselves 38 00:02:47.280 --> 00:02:53.240 as well. So Mary, welcome to the mission accepted podcast show. Thank 39 00:02:53.280 --> 00:02:57.360 you, deb, thank you for having me. It's wonderful to be here 40 00:02:57.560 --> 00:03:01.319 on your presentation. Yeah, well what you do is super important, not 41 00:03:01.400 --> 00:03:06.639 only to like you to cook for usoo, but you know what, there's 42 00:03:06.639 --> 00:03:09.639 so many things about food that's so like you know, we listen to like 43 00:03:09.719 --> 00:03:15.360 nutrition for the soul and having a good digestion. It allows you to digest 44 00:03:15.400 --> 00:03:17.240 all the things going on in your body. And I think, you know, 45 00:03:17.280 --> 00:03:23.240 we've had this great, you know revolution around food in terms of you 46 00:03:23.240 --> 00:03:27.280 know, the things that people, you know, we're eating that aren't good 47 00:03:27.319 --> 00:03:30.360 for you. I don't think it's a surprise anymore that our body really needs 48 00:03:30.400 --> 00:03:36.400 good nutrition and cellular and there's all sorts of awakening that's happened around food. 49 00:03:36.879 --> 00:03:40.120 But on the other side, as our world has become awakened and there's been 50 00:03:40.240 --> 00:03:45.919 you know, a rise in entrepreneurship and a rise in bigger families, and 51 00:03:45.960 --> 00:03:50.120 a rise and abundant things to do. Because we don't use the word be 52 00:03:50.240 --> 00:03:57.080 here is that it also can scrimp on people's times. And some times when 53 00:03:57.159 --> 00:04:00.800 people are tested in terms of the clock, they don't eat as well. 54 00:04:01.080 --> 00:04:04.639 They grab things quickly. The world has become abundant, but it's also become 55 00:04:04.719 --> 00:04:10.080 really convenient. So I am so glad that you're here today. And a 56 00:04:10.120 --> 00:04:13.680 lot of people probably haven't heard of the word cooking coach, right, They're 57 00:04:13.719 --> 00:04:15.519 like, oh, you can go to a cooking class. You know, 58 00:04:15.560 --> 00:04:18.920 you can watch a show that'll teach you how to like you know Julia childa 59 00:04:19.160 --> 00:04:23.800 duc range, But we don't know what a cooking coach is. So can 60 00:04:23.839 --> 00:04:29.959 you please enlighten us? Sure? Thanks, jev a cooking coach. I 61 00:04:29.959 --> 00:04:35.639 think I created the position because I see people going for cooking lessons and they 62 00:04:35.680 --> 00:04:42.360 go home they have a pile of recipes, but they don't have this necessarily 63 00:04:42.399 --> 00:04:47.519 the skills, the food at home or with the equipment or even the space. 64 00:04:48.279 --> 00:04:53.720 So I like to help people to figure all of that stuff out so 65 00:04:53.759 --> 00:04:57.759 that they can make the recipes. Yeah, well, I can imagine that 66 00:04:57.800 --> 00:05:00.040 happens quite a bit, right. We get inspired and then we get motivated 67 00:05:00.160 --> 00:05:04.399 and then or sometimes things look really great and it requires all these you know, 68 00:05:04.399 --> 00:05:10.319 maybe spices or herbs or even terminologies that we don't really know. Right, 69 00:05:10.360 --> 00:05:15.319 it's like and how that works. And there's always something different about you 70 00:05:15.319 --> 00:05:17.480 know, you know, going to the movie and then writing the movie yourself. 71 00:05:17.519 --> 00:05:20.879 I mean, there's always something different about that. So how does that 72 00:05:20.920 --> 00:05:25.600 start for people? Like? When people contact you? What is what's going 73 00:05:25.639 --> 00:05:29.000 on for them? Like? Why do people need I mean, we all 74 00:05:29.000 --> 00:05:30.920 need a cooking coach, we all need a personal chef. Okay, we 75 00:05:30.959 --> 00:05:33.879 chick that box already. But when do people call you? Why should they 76 00:05:33.959 --> 00:05:40.040 call you? What is it that you're doing for people? They contact me 77 00:05:40.160 --> 00:05:46.879 because they don't feel like cooking, but they feel that they shouldn't be cooking. 78 00:05:47.040 --> 00:05:51.000 That maybe they used to cook and they're bored with it and they want 79 00:05:51.040 --> 00:05:57.439 some directions, some inspiration, and I like to help them to get back 80 00:05:57.480 --> 00:06:03.439 on track cooking or get started, like get organized and make it easy for 81 00:06:03.480 --> 00:06:09.079 them. Well what inspired you? I mean, I'm sure that wasn't you 82 00:06:09.120 --> 00:06:13.399 know, Like, hey, what is maybe your professional background? How did 83 00:06:13.439 --> 00:06:15.879 you decide that you wanted to do this? Where did that inspiration? You 84 00:06:15.879 --> 00:06:20.279 know? Well, I have been a professional cook. I took my chef's 85 00:06:20.319 --> 00:06:26.079 training at George Brown College in Toronto. That was a two year course because 86 00:06:26.160 --> 00:06:30.920 it included chef training, the baking, and managing a kitchen. And I 87 00:06:30.959 --> 00:06:38.120 cooked professionally for ten years. But then I moved into working for the government. 88 00:06:38.199 --> 00:06:41.959 It was a little bit more stable, and I raised my son, 89 00:06:42.079 --> 00:06:48.800 who has ADHD, and worked with him, helping him, and we worked 90 00:06:48.879 --> 00:06:51.879 side by side in the kitchen. He liked cooking, he liked coming in 91 00:06:53.000 --> 00:06:58.720 and cutting the vegetables for me. So we actually had a little truck that 92 00:06:58.759 --> 00:07:01.680 he would stand on, got them up to the counter, and then we 93 00:07:01.680 --> 00:07:08.360 would cut the vegetables. And it was a good time. Because when you're 94 00:07:08.399 --> 00:07:13.160 with kids, they don't always they don't want to be drilled about their day 95 00:07:13.240 --> 00:07:16.079 or what's going on. But if you can work side by side with your 96 00:07:16.199 --> 00:07:24.360 child, then it helps. They're sort of focusing on cutting the vegetables and 97 00:07:24.399 --> 00:07:28.279 then we can talk at the same time and they're more likely to share. 98 00:07:29.319 --> 00:07:36.680 And also they're learning to cook. So I did that, and just like, 99 00:07:38.279 --> 00:07:43.399 I bought a cookbook called for Poquet making the bowl with the grains and 100 00:07:43.480 --> 00:07:46.519 vegetables and stuff, and it had all these ingredients. So I made a 101 00:07:46.560 --> 00:07:50.920 list and I went to a Japanese store to pick up the ingredients, and 102 00:07:51.000 --> 00:07:55.279 it turned out to be more of a takeout place. All these young people 103 00:07:55.319 --> 00:07:58.920 were hanging around and I showed her my list and she had no idea what 104 00:07:59.040 --> 00:08:05.360 I was talking about. So, you know, people need help to figure 105 00:08:05.439 --> 00:08:09.399 these things out, or else you're going to go back to, like say 106 00:08:09.439 --> 00:08:13.959 the chicken nuggets, or you know, go back to McDonald's because it's a 107 00:08:13.000 --> 00:08:18.040 lot easier. Yeah, it's easy to fall back on convenience, right, 108 00:08:18.160 --> 00:08:24.480 It's easy to tell ourselves we don't have time nurturing our you know, our 109 00:08:24.560 --> 00:08:28.959 meals isn't something that you know, we normally think about it. I also 110 00:08:28.040 --> 00:08:31.240 noticed, so I'm with you, like, hands down, we must have 111 00:08:31.480 --> 00:08:35.519 raised the kids the same way, because I have pictures of my son ocean 112 00:08:37.000 --> 00:08:41.519 in the kitchen sink at two, learning how to crack eggs right. And 113 00:08:41.960 --> 00:08:46.159 by the time he was twelve, he literally was cooking the Thanksgiving turkey and 114 00:08:46.240 --> 00:08:48.840 we used to call him Mini Martha Stewart, but he really took to cooking 115 00:08:48.879 --> 00:08:52.120 because it is creative. And my daughter cooked as well. And now, 116 00:08:52.159 --> 00:08:54.519 I mean, I keep saying that we need to buy our bakery, but 117 00:08:56.480 --> 00:09:00.000 she loves to bake and loves to cook. It is a time of commune, 118 00:09:00.240 --> 00:09:03.159 right, I mean, I think it's such a bonding time. And 119 00:09:03.200 --> 00:09:07.679 you are absolutely right. Now, I got more out of my daughter going 120 00:09:07.720 --> 00:09:09.879 shopping and just but you know, and as we were shopping, she would 121 00:09:09.919 --> 00:09:13.399 divulge all this stuff that was going on at school and her feelings. And 122 00:09:15.279 --> 00:09:18.519 in the kitchen, I think for my son it was a lot about community 123 00:09:18.559 --> 00:09:22.960 because he didn't know any different. I'm sure he thought all his friends cooked 124 00:09:22.000 --> 00:09:24.080 in there as well. Every time his buddies came over, you know, 125 00:09:24.120 --> 00:09:26.919 of course, we would cook things like cookies and brownies and things like that 126 00:09:28.159 --> 00:09:31.600 with no sugar. And they didn't know it. But the yeah, they 127 00:09:31.600 --> 00:09:37.759 didn't know it, but they it was almost it didn't look like a craft. 128 00:09:37.879 --> 00:09:39.519 It wasn't like I was learning something that wasn't you know, but it 129 00:09:39.559 --> 00:09:43.519 was a very creative, but it was an instant, instant gratification, sense 130 00:09:43.519 --> 00:09:46.960 of accomplishment. So literally we could do something and within half an hour an 131 00:09:46.960 --> 00:09:50.799 hour there was a product. Whatever it looked like, whatever it tasted like, 132 00:09:52.200 --> 00:09:54.120 it didn't really matter, but there was a great sense of accomplishment, 133 00:09:54.200 --> 00:10:00.080 like we made these so we can eat them almost more legitimized, instead of 134 00:10:00.120 --> 00:10:01.159 coming in and saying, hey, can I have you know, three brownies, 135 00:10:01.159 --> 00:10:03.559 and you'd normally say no, So it was like that when we need 136 00:10:03.600 --> 00:10:07.440 these, So for us it was really it was really that as well. 137 00:10:07.960 --> 00:10:11.320 We were talking a little pre show about one of the people that inspired you. 138 00:10:11.399 --> 00:10:16.080 Maybe share with us how who that is and how they inspired you. 139 00:10:16.399 --> 00:10:22.679 Yes, Jamie Oliver really inspires me, partly because I like the way he 140 00:10:22.759 --> 00:10:24.120 cooks. It's a little bit of this and a little bit of that, 141 00:10:24.720 --> 00:10:28.799 and it's fun. He just throws it all on a wooden board and then 142 00:10:28.919 --> 00:10:35.799 serves it up and it's a lot more fun. But also he travels around 143 00:10:35.840 --> 00:10:43.559 and learns from different people. There was one time where he visited markets and 144 00:10:41.080 --> 00:10:46.840 he's lucky he's able to go with the restaurant owner to the market they pick 145 00:10:46.919 --> 00:10:50.960 up a few fish and different things to eat, and then they go back 146 00:10:50.960 --> 00:10:56.120 to the kitchen and cook together, which would be so much fun. And 147 00:10:56.120 --> 00:11:03.320 he includes his children. There's some very funny stories. But also I watched 148 00:11:03.320 --> 00:11:11.039 his series when he did Cooking with America or something like that, and he 149 00:11:11.240 --> 00:11:15.679 was trying to get people to just make an omelet for themselves. You'd give 150 00:11:15.720 --> 00:11:20.679 them a burner. It was like a gym full of these little mini workstations, 151 00:11:20.200 --> 00:11:24.120 and he got them to make omelets for themselves, just to show how 152 00:11:24.159 --> 00:11:31.879 easy it can be to make your own food. You know. You buy 153 00:11:31.960 --> 00:11:35.519 a few eggs and a fry pan and a flipper, and you can make 154 00:11:35.519 --> 00:11:41.399 yourself an omelet, you know, and it can be so easy. And 155 00:11:46.320 --> 00:11:48.639 I would agree with you. We talked pre show. I think all of 156 00:11:48.720 --> 00:11:50.120 us were nodding our heads when we're talking about the Oliver. First of all, 157 00:11:50.159 --> 00:11:54.799 I think there's something very easy about him, right, like when he 158 00:11:54.919 --> 00:12:00.480 explains things, there's no I mean, I love. I mean, there's 159 00:12:00.600 --> 00:12:03.639 very few people on the World of Food channel that I don't identify with or 160 00:12:03.720 --> 00:12:07.440 have fun with. But for him, he's easy. His voice is easy. 161 00:12:07.679 --> 00:12:11.039 It's kind of poetic. I think for me, it was easy for 162 00:12:11.600 --> 00:12:16.279 Jamie Oliver to be with the kids, like when I was teaking with the 163 00:12:16.360 --> 00:12:20.039 kids. But that must have been the series that I watched. So I'm 164 00:12:20.039 --> 00:12:22.919 a foo pah. I don't anymore. But you know, we used to 165 00:12:24.000 --> 00:12:26.440 have so in our house. We had something called the family bed. It 166 00:12:26.519 --> 00:12:31.559 was mine and we would to get together once a week and I'll get together 167 00:12:31.600 --> 00:12:35.320 and if any of us had anything to say to each other, so you 168 00:12:35.399 --> 00:12:39.279 know, my ex husband who wasn't my ex at the time, obviously we're 169 00:12:39.279 --> 00:12:41.840 all sit in the family bed, but any of the kids could say something 170 00:12:41.879 --> 00:12:45.120 that bothered them and you know whatever, we just had this commune. So 171 00:12:45.159 --> 00:12:46.879 the bed was this hub, right, And so I had a TV in 172 00:12:46.919 --> 00:12:50.200 my room. It was very small, but we were watching Jamie Oliver. 173 00:12:50.480 --> 00:12:54.240 One day it just popped on for some reason, Me and my son and 174 00:12:54.320 --> 00:12:58.039 my daughter all popped in my bed obviously watching TV. And it was an 175 00:12:58.080 --> 00:13:03.120 episode that he did that he was showing how you could make your own chicken 176 00:13:03.200 --> 00:13:09.240 nuggets and what really went into like he bought all the stuff that the chicken 177 00:13:09.279 --> 00:13:11.600 nuggets that we know today. I had that you know, famous restaurant that 178 00:13:11.720 --> 00:13:16.480 made them and he showed what went in there. Now, I didn't see 179 00:13:16.519 --> 00:13:18.519 anything. To my kids, I didn't, you know, we weren't obviously 180 00:13:18.639 --> 00:13:22.559 big, We didn't go to those kind of restaurants a lot. Anyways, 181 00:13:22.559 --> 00:13:24.360 I don't think my daughter even knew what one was till she was five, 182 00:13:24.440 --> 00:13:28.159 and she was mad at me had never taken her too, because her girlfriend's 183 00:13:28.200 --> 00:13:30.679 mom took her and she's like, hey, these are French fries and so 184 00:13:30.720 --> 00:13:35.320 anyways, so my kids watched and I didn't really I didn't sit them down 185 00:13:35.399 --> 00:13:39.679 and go, you need to watch this, but it made such an impression. 186 00:13:39.840 --> 00:13:43.279 It made such an impression. It was kind of harsh though, because 187 00:13:43.279 --> 00:13:46.080 when he showed them what it was, and it was obviously young kids, 188 00:13:46.120 --> 00:13:50.840 it showed them what it was versus, you know, making them themselves. 189 00:13:50.000 --> 00:13:54.080 It was interesting. Not everybody was onto the whole new thing. It just 190 00:13:54.240 --> 00:13:58.639 was interesting how it really didn't get into their head. And here's me, 191 00:13:58.679 --> 00:14:01.039 as a parent, going, oh, thought, I didn't even know that 192 00:14:01.039 --> 00:14:05.279 those were the ingredients. But it got in my kid's heads so much that 193 00:14:05.360 --> 00:14:09.519 it almost became this like place you should never go. And it's so I 194 00:14:09.519 --> 00:14:11.720 was like, oh, thank you, Jamie Oliver. You just did. 195 00:14:11.960 --> 00:14:15.000 She just did so much, so much work for me. But yeah, 196 00:14:15.039 --> 00:14:18.440 he's a he's a really good guy. He's a really good guy. Let's 197 00:14:18.480 --> 00:14:22.200 talk a little bit about you know, get We'll get past Jamie because we're 198 00:14:22.200 --> 00:14:26.600 all inspired, and I think that we do get inspired. I think food 199 00:14:26.799 --> 00:14:31.120 is inspiring. Culinary has really it's gone from dry. You know, when 200 00:14:31.159 --> 00:14:33.960 I was in school, we had cookbooks and there wasn't very many pictures, 201 00:14:35.000 --> 00:14:37.559 and if they were, they were black and white. But the world of 202 00:14:37.600 --> 00:14:41.840 culinary has become an adventure and going to restaurants and seeing how they make these 203 00:14:41.879 --> 00:14:46.399 incredible food and and you know, just how they take care of the food 204 00:14:46.440 --> 00:14:50.879 and prepare the food, and it's it's such an experience now going for dinner 205 00:14:50.000 --> 00:14:54.279 is such an experience now, and you know, you know, maybe that's 206 00:14:54.279 --> 00:14:58.840 intimidating for people to come home and create that same environment at food. But 207 00:14:58.879 --> 00:15:01.440 what are some of the things how you help people? I mean, you're 208 00:15:01.440 --> 00:15:05.720 in your home kitchen and they're like, okay, I need to create something. 209 00:15:05.720 --> 00:15:07.519 What are some of the things that you do to help people do that? 210 00:15:09.000 --> 00:15:13.000 Okay, Well, the first thing I would have them do is turn 211 00:15:13.080 --> 00:15:20.159 on the music, because that just lightens the mood. You know, there's 212 00:15:20.279 --> 00:15:24.039 different kinds of music. Of course, there's cooking music, there's clean up 213 00:15:24.120 --> 00:15:30.879 music, and there's eating music. Eating music is very mellow and calm sort 214 00:15:30.919 --> 00:15:37.120 of. We play old blues music and I just put on either YouTube or 215 00:15:37.159 --> 00:15:41.600 Spotify. You know, it's easy to find playlists, and so when somebody 216 00:15:41.679 --> 00:15:46.639 is starting out cooking, I would put music on in the background because it 217 00:15:46.759 --> 00:15:54.080 just helps people calm and relax. And then we would I encourage them to 218 00:15:54.120 --> 00:15:58.679 clear out their space. You know, you need working space. If the 219 00:16:00.000 --> 00:16:03.360 counter is clattered, you end up stabbing things with a knife. You know, 220 00:16:03.360 --> 00:16:07.840 if there's oranges and bananas and stuff all over the counter, you'll stab 221 00:16:07.879 --> 00:16:12.960 them. So you have to clear off your space and get all your ingredients 222 00:16:14.000 --> 00:16:18.480 ready so that you're not running all over the place, and just these little 223 00:16:18.559 --> 00:16:23.279 things that can really help to put it all together for people so that when 224 00:16:23.320 --> 00:16:29.039 they do go to make something, it's easy. And I encourage people to 225 00:16:29.120 --> 00:16:33.480 clean up as they go along so that when they're finished cooking, they don't 226 00:16:33.519 --> 00:16:37.519 have a huge mess all over the kitchen. And after dinner, all you 227 00:16:37.559 --> 00:16:41.879 do is put the dishes in the dishwasher and you're finished, So there's I 228 00:16:41.080 --> 00:16:48.320 like to give people little steps that they can build on to make success in 229 00:16:48.360 --> 00:16:53.720 the kitchen. I think that's wonderful. I mean, first of all, 230 00:16:53.720 --> 00:16:57.200 I think the should be in everyone's life. But I think that's really incredible. 231 00:16:57.200 --> 00:17:03.200 It reminds me of my first massage teacher, and she had different music 232 00:17:03.360 --> 00:17:06.880 for the beginning of the massage, different music during the massage, and then 233 00:17:06.920 --> 00:17:08.720 at the end of the massage she put on a song that let you know 234 00:17:08.759 --> 00:17:11.960 when that song was done, it was time to get up, so you've 235 00:17:11.960 --> 00:17:17.720 had some rest time. But I don't think people make cooking as fun as 236 00:17:17.720 --> 00:17:22.000 that. I don't think they set the stage right. And I know that 237 00:17:22.359 --> 00:17:26.079 I've heard you share before and I was laughing inside because you know, thank 238 00:17:26.119 --> 00:17:30.359 goodness, I have some good kitchen counter space. But I mean, I'm 239 00:17:30.400 --> 00:17:33.200 like, how many people have a kitchen office, you know, as an 240 00:17:33.440 --> 00:17:37.640 entrepreneur, we joke about it all the time. I have a coach office, 241 00:17:37.720 --> 00:17:40.440 I have a kitchen office. You know, I have a dining table, 242 00:17:40.559 --> 00:17:41.480 downing and table office. I mean, we joke about it all the 243 00:17:41.519 --> 00:17:44.519 time. And then of course we have our office, which for me has 244 00:17:44.559 --> 00:17:48.119 the least amount of paperwork but we take things with us, or people drop 245 00:17:48.200 --> 00:17:52.519 things, or they have something in the kitchen where they drop their wallet and 246 00:17:52.559 --> 00:17:56.160 they drop their keys and all that kind of stuff when they come in. 247 00:17:56.240 --> 00:17:59.319 And when as soon as you said bananas and oranges, how many people have 248 00:17:59.480 --> 00:18:02.799 food, I've got containers of tea, you know, in the space that 249 00:18:02.839 --> 00:18:07.160 you should be cooking. And it's cumbersome. It doesn't make you necessarily feel 250 00:18:07.200 --> 00:18:11.160 like this is a place where you're cooking something to make you feel good. 251 00:18:11.440 --> 00:18:14.160 And we also know that food puts you in a great happy place. And 252 00:18:14.200 --> 00:18:18.559 I'm sure you're even digesting your food better and taking in the nutrients better, 253 00:18:18.839 --> 00:18:23.920 right, Yes, yeah, So while you're saying that, I'm picturing having 254 00:18:23.920 --> 00:18:29.400 a tray on the counter so that the knives, the keys, and the 255 00:18:29.519 --> 00:18:33.359 mail go into the to the tray, and then when you want to cook, 256 00:18:33.400 --> 00:18:36.559 you just pick up the tray and put it someplace else, you know, 257 00:18:36.640 --> 00:18:38.599 instead of all these bits and pieces that you have to pick up. 258 00:18:40.160 --> 00:18:42.680 Yeah. Absolutely, that's a great idea something like that. Yeah, there 259 00:18:42.680 --> 00:18:45.079 you go. There you go, people, and you used to go by 260 00:18:45.160 --> 00:18:51.519 yourself. Another beautiful container to put your things on that you can lift up 261 00:18:51.559 --> 00:18:56.519 and move right Oh, my gosh, what's one of the favorite things that 262 00:18:56.720 --> 00:18:59.559 what is one of the favorite things about what you do like for you? 263 00:18:59.640 --> 00:19:03.279 What's one one of the most favorite things for you? One of my favorite 264 00:19:03.319 --> 00:19:07.359 things is just making suggestions and people go, oh, yeah, that could 265 00:19:07.400 --> 00:19:11.920 work. I was talking to one woman and she said her son doesn't like 266 00:19:12.400 --> 00:19:17.599 his food touching. So I said, well, do you know about Bental 267 00:19:17.680 --> 00:19:22.720 boxes? And she didn't, And Bental boxes have most of them have a 268 00:19:22.720 --> 00:19:26.759 lot of segments, and he could put each food into a segment and keep 269 00:19:26.799 --> 00:19:32.079 it totally separate, you know, And she goes, oh, And it's 270 00:19:32.119 --> 00:19:37.000 so much fun to make suggestions to people. And I guess I have a 271 00:19:37.000 --> 00:19:40.440 lot of different experiences, and I have a lot of different interests, and 272 00:19:40.480 --> 00:19:45.440 I'm able to bring all these ideas together that people don't necessarily think of. 273 00:19:45.200 --> 00:19:48.799 And it's so much fun to make a suggestion. And if it doesn't work 274 00:19:48.839 --> 00:19:52.680 for someone, we'll get together again and we'll hash it out and figure out 275 00:19:52.759 --> 00:19:59.519 something else. But it's fun to throw out ideas and encourage them to try. 276 00:20:00.240 --> 00:20:03.079 I think that once people start to get into the habit of cooking for 277 00:20:03.119 --> 00:20:07.720 themselves, like it does it at first of all, gives you a sense 278 00:20:07.720 --> 00:20:11.480 of accomplishment, but also from an economic standpoint, Mary, what are some 279 00:20:11.519 --> 00:20:15.880 of the things that people can do, because I've heard many times now I'm, 280 00:20:15.160 --> 00:20:18.640 you know, not your typical recipe person. When I cook some me 281 00:20:18.720 --> 00:20:21.359 and my son, we've been cooking for a long time, so we just 282 00:20:21.359 --> 00:20:23.039 look at a picture and adapt it to the way we want, or we 283 00:20:23.119 --> 00:20:26.720 know enough what to use. But I hear people go, yeah, but 284 00:20:26.759 --> 00:20:30.359 then I got to go buy this and this and this and this and this, 285 00:20:30.440 --> 00:20:33.119 and then I don't know what to do with it again. What are 286 00:20:33.160 --> 00:20:37.960 some of the suggestions that you can suggest for people around like how do they 287 00:20:37.960 --> 00:20:45.599 get started or how do they keep going? Or like you know, that 288 00:20:45.759 --> 00:20:51.079 reminds me of one time I was visiting a friend of mine and she was 289 00:20:51.119 --> 00:20:56.359 a good friend, so I was able to go through a fridge and I 290 00:20:56.480 --> 00:20:59.480 found out half an avocado, and I said, well, what's this for? 291 00:20:59.640 --> 00:21:02.559 And she said, well, I made a recipe and I didn't know 292 00:21:02.599 --> 00:21:06.039 what to do with the other half, and so I looked a little bit 293 00:21:06.079 --> 00:21:11.119 more and she had some sour cream and green onions and a tomato. So 294 00:21:11.319 --> 00:21:15.440 I made a guacamole for her. But actually these days, you can just 295 00:21:15.440 --> 00:21:19.599 go on the computer and put in, you know, half an avocado and 296 00:21:19.720 --> 00:21:26.680 you'll probably get you'll get in a guacamole recipe for sure. But yeah, 297 00:21:26.480 --> 00:21:34.000 it's just encouraging people to the computer makes it much easier. Yeah, well 298 00:21:34.039 --> 00:21:37.720 that's that's great. I mean I never even thought to say that to people. 299 00:21:37.319 --> 00:21:40.759 You've got some spices and your you know, go into the computer and 300 00:21:40.799 --> 00:21:45.279 say, hey, I've got human coriander and you know, ginger leftover from 301 00:21:45.279 --> 00:21:48.240 this one curry I made. Now what do I do with it? Right? 302 00:21:48.359 --> 00:21:52.359 And yes, what people what people can do with the ingredients that are 303 00:21:52.359 --> 00:21:59.359 in their home. I think that also there's people that come up against like 304 00:21:59.400 --> 00:22:02.359 so, you know, I see you're a cooking family or a cooking family, 305 00:22:03.039 --> 00:22:04.440 but there's people that don't come from a cooking family. And one of 306 00:22:04.480 --> 00:22:10.680 my dearest best friends of forty years plus literate, literally, I'm like, 307 00:22:10.839 --> 00:22:12.960 why do you never have me for dinner? I was like, why do 308 00:22:14.039 --> 00:22:17.279 you never have me for dinner? You're you know kids, She's like, 309 00:22:17.279 --> 00:22:18.240 I don't know how to cook. I'm like, you have three kids, 310 00:22:18.279 --> 00:22:21.279 what do you mean you never had to cook? I mean I just obviously 311 00:22:21.279 --> 00:22:23.400 I was never there for dinner. To know, She's like no, and 312 00:22:23.440 --> 00:22:26.519 I'm like okay. And I literally had to teach her how to make spaghetti, 313 00:22:26.559 --> 00:22:29.720 which for some people to be like, well, you just put us 314 00:22:29.759 --> 00:22:33.480 it. But so there is there's people that just really don't know how to 315 00:22:33.519 --> 00:22:37.599 cook because they weren't taught how to cook, right. Sure. Yeah, 316 00:22:37.680 --> 00:22:44.720 there's generations now that grow up with take out food, and there's I know 317 00:22:44.799 --> 00:22:48.279 of one lady that it's part of her story is that she never saw her 318 00:22:48.359 --> 00:22:52.960 mom cook. They would go to Wendy's for a period of time, and 319 00:22:52.000 --> 00:22:56.279 then they'd go to the other ones for another and then they'd switch around. 320 00:22:56.079 --> 00:23:00.799 And yeah, some people don't. And I think that delivery services really help. 321 00:23:02.440 --> 00:23:07.599 I know one person that was gifted a year with the home delivery service, 322 00:23:07.279 --> 00:23:14.880 and that actually helped her to start cooking regularly. All of the ingredients 323 00:23:14.880 --> 00:23:18.240 are portioned out, the recipe comes in a card, and it made it 324 00:23:18.359 --> 00:23:22.319 very easy. But when you were talking, it also reminded me of a 325 00:23:22.319 --> 00:23:26.200 fellow I met at a summ at once and I was talking about what I 326 00:23:26.319 --> 00:23:32.200 do, and he said that he tried one of those delivery services, but 327 00:23:32.440 --> 00:23:37.079 it took thirty minutes to make the meal, and he's used to just popping 328 00:23:37.160 --> 00:23:41.680 something into the microwave for five minutes. I should he spend thirty minutes making 329 00:23:41.759 --> 00:23:45.279 something? And I said, well, how did the taste compare between the 330 00:23:45.519 --> 00:23:51.039 microwave dish and what you made? And he thought for a minute. I 331 00:23:51.079 --> 00:23:55.839 don't think he even really considered, and he said it was much better. 332 00:23:56.880 --> 00:24:00.400 And I said, well, maybe it's worth the thirty minute. But there's 333 00:24:00.440 --> 00:24:07.240 also other value in spending that thirty minutes in the kitchen. Partly, like 334 00:24:07.319 --> 00:24:11.599 you say, you're nourishing yourself, your body. It's a good break from 335 00:24:11.640 --> 00:24:22.160 his work. It it actually helps the brain in a neurological way, sequencing, 336 00:24:22.559 --> 00:24:29.039 following directions, making decisions. There's all different kinds of things that add 337 00:24:29.079 --> 00:24:33.240 to the value of cooking. But it was very interesting that he just saw 338 00:24:33.279 --> 00:24:38.480 the thirty minutes versus five minutes and didn't even consider the flavor and the nourishment 339 00:24:40.279 --> 00:24:45.400 that was in the dish that he made. That is eye opening to me, 340 00:24:45.000 --> 00:24:48.400 and not in an insulting kind of way or oh my gosh, in 341 00:24:48.440 --> 00:24:52.759 a way that because that wasn't how I was raised. I just don't think 342 00:24:52.799 --> 00:24:56.079 that for me. Take off food was a treat for us, you know, 343 00:24:56.240 --> 00:24:59.799 oh you know, you know, look, it won't take out what 344 00:24:59.839 --> 00:25:03.160 I I was younger was you had two choices. You could do Chinese food, 345 00:25:03.519 --> 00:25:07.359 you could do pizza. Sometimes they had lasagna. That's pretty well it. 346 00:25:07.480 --> 00:25:10.400 I'm not thinking. I don't think there was anything else that we chose 347 00:25:10.400 --> 00:25:12.759 from Greek. Maybe I don't know, but for us it was it was. 348 00:25:12.839 --> 00:25:17.079 It was a big treat. But when you think about it like that 349 00:25:17.200 --> 00:25:21.680 from a time frame, now that is for us, it was like, 350 00:25:21.720 --> 00:25:23.519 oh, we're in a hurry, let's do it as an occasion. But 351 00:25:23.599 --> 00:25:30.400 I never really thought about people not comparing the difference or having you know, 352 00:25:30.480 --> 00:25:33.440 even I think that I think the difference between even when you have a really 353 00:25:33.480 --> 00:25:37.440 great restaurant, like I got a great restaurant up the street and they're like, 354 00:25:37.440 --> 00:25:40.599 oh, here comes the cauliflower chick. Like, I mean, I'm 355 00:25:40.640 --> 00:25:45.119 always ordering that, right, So I we have our favorite restaurants, but 356 00:25:45.440 --> 00:25:51.359 sometimes I think we don't realize how food, how good it does taste at 357 00:25:51.359 --> 00:25:55.319 home, right that you know, some people do it at home. They're 358 00:25:55.319 --> 00:25:56.640 like, oh, it's cheaper to cook at home, but I don't think 359 00:25:56.680 --> 00:26:00.720 they realize can you share with this a little bit on that insight about what 360 00:26:00.720 --> 00:26:03.160 you're talking about, because some people are like, but what do you mean 361 00:26:03.559 --> 00:26:07.359 nutritionally or better for my brain? Or like just the difference because some people 362 00:26:07.440 --> 00:26:11.160 like, oh, let's go home for dinner has such a ring to it, 363 00:26:11.519 --> 00:26:14.480 Oh we got to stay home tonight for dinner. Sometimes I don't think 364 00:26:14.480 --> 00:26:18.000 people have that sense of appreciation of just the value of staying home for dinner. 365 00:26:19.880 --> 00:26:23.599 That's huge. It is huge right here now we're winning, Okay, 366 00:26:23.920 --> 00:26:30.599 we're getting into long to have. Those are not all the questions we talked 367 00:26:30.599 --> 00:26:33.839 about. No, it's no, it's not that. It's just like there's 368 00:26:33.839 --> 00:26:37.920 so much in there, you know, like, yeah, the flavor of 369 00:26:38.000 --> 00:26:44.559 food. It's it's part of the slow food movement. I think we got 370 00:26:44.599 --> 00:26:48.519 that hashtag slow food movement. That's you've heard it, Yeah, Mary tell 371 00:26:48.599 --> 00:26:52.640 us about this. Yeah, it's it's part of slowing down in your in 372 00:26:52.680 --> 00:26:57.240 your life, like they talk about not scrolling all the time, like put 373 00:26:57.279 --> 00:27:03.319 on the music, you know, invite some people over and enjoy your food. 374 00:27:06.200 --> 00:27:11.559 You know, restaurants are are often loud and busy, and you can't 375 00:27:11.599 --> 00:27:15.880 always relax unless you're rich and get the private dining room in the back corner. 376 00:27:18.240 --> 00:27:23.880 Yeah, it's it's part of just slowing down and enjoying your food. 377 00:27:25.079 --> 00:27:30.480 Some people eat really slowly, you know, like just chew your food and 378 00:27:30.960 --> 00:27:34.519 enjoy it. Like my husband eats really fast, and it's like slow down, 379 00:27:34.640 --> 00:27:45.240 slow down. But yeah, and I guess it's it's just inviting people 380 00:27:45.319 --> 00:27:51.039 to find a simple recipe. Make a salad. You don't go to the 381 00:27:51.160 --> 00:27:56.759 store and buy a beautiful head of lettuce. You know, some nice fresh, 382 00:27:56.880 --> 00:28:00.240 right red tomatoes. Find the reddest tomatoes, whether they're little ones or 383 00:28:00.279 --> 00:28:04.119 big ones. Get the reddest one. You know, a nice cucumber, 384 00:28:04.880 --> 00:28:08.920 and smell the cucumber when you cut it, like, you know, cucumber 385 00:28:10.000 --> 00:28:15.640 smells so good. And maybe try a mango cud a mango and put that 386 00:28:15.759 --> 00:28:19.200 in your salad, you know, try something different, and some sprouts, 387 00:28:21.200 --> 00:28:25.240 and a nice salad dressing. I often don't make my own salad dressing because 388 00:28:25.240 --> 00:28:30.079 we buy a range of them. But yes, salad dressing can be simple. 389 00:28:30.160 --> 00:28:34.519 But that's something else. But yeah, just put together a nice salad, 390 00:28:34.640 --> 00:28:38.799 turn on the music, set a place at the table, and sit 391 00:28:38.880 --> 00:28:45.359 down and eat and enjoy your food. And I invite people to just just 392 00:28:45.440 --> 00:28:52.240 start with a simple salad and taste it. I love that slow food movement 393 00:28:52.359 --> 00:29:00.839 because, Okay, I know that a lot of our listeners are entrepreneurs adventurists 394 00:29:00.640 --> 00:29:04.279 taking on the mission. You know, what can we do? I know 395 00:29:04.359 --> 00:29:08.039 someone that listens to our show while they're doing yoga, which is awesome, 396 00:29:08.079 --> 00:29:15.279 thank you very much. But there's a lot of people working from home that 397 00:29:15.839 --> 00:29:19.319 eat standing up in between meetings. Right. They run to the kitchen, 398 00:29:19.319 --> 00:29:22.359 They're like, oh, I'm kind of hungry a little bit. They stand 399 00:29:22.359 --> 00:29:23.400 there, they show some food in their face, and they get back to 400 00:29:23.440 --> 00:29:29.759 their desk. Yeah, what's your opinion on eating at your desk while you're 401 00:29:29.799 --> 00:29:33.960 working? Do I need to ask you these? This is truth, right, 402 00:29:33.000 --> 00:29:37.240 this is you know, hashtag real truth around food. But I don't 403 00:29:37.279 --> 00:29:41.960 probably know how nourishing that is. Maybe, well, I think that's where 404 00:29:41.000 --> 00:29:47.960 smoothies come in, right, Yeah, buy a really nice splendor. If 405 00:29:47.960 --> 00:29:52.559 you're a successful entrepreneurur, you can you can invest in one of those beautiful 406 00:29:52.640 --> 00:29:57.680 big ones and just put put a whole bunch of stuff together, find a 407 00:29:57.759 --> 00:30:02.920 recipe. And I haven't made it smoothie in a while, but I know 408 00:30:03.000 --> 00:30:06.480 that some people make them put them in the fridge. You could portion them 409 00:30:06.519 --> 00:30:11.720 out into the bottles. And yeah, if you have a busy day with 410 00:30:11.880 --> 00:30:18.000 back to back meetings, have some smoothies put together ahead of time. And 411 00:30:18.119 --> 00:30:22.720 yeah, sometimes that's the way life is to get us squished in. And 412 00:30:25.200 --> 00:30:29.680 yeah, it's just taking that time, that prep time. When you have 413 00:30:29.799 --> 00:30:36.240 some time available, make a few smoothies or something easy so that you can 414 00:30:36.319 --> 00:30:41.359 get something more nourishing in between, because that'll help keep your energy up for 415 00:30:41.400 --> 00:30:45.119 those meetings as well. You know, I'm sure you know, you get 416 00:30:45.119 --> 00:30:49.799 through all those meetings and you're just wiped. If you can have a smoothie, 417 00:30:49.880 --> 00:30:55.839 a good, solid, nourishing smoothie in between, then your energy is 418 00:30:55.880 --> 00:31:00.240 going to stay good right through the last meeting. Well, here's the that 419 00:31:00.279 --> 00:31:03.920 I like in our conversation is that there has been just a multitude of different 420 00:31:03.000 --> 00:31:07.279 pieces of advice that you've given that some people are really going to blomp onto. 421 00:31:07.640 --> 00:31:10.839 And I think that's where the personal cooking coach comes from. It's like, 422 00:31:10.920 --> 00:31:14.319 look, it's like going to a trainer, right, Like I know 423 00:31:14.440 --> 00:31:17.920 I should and I want to, but I don't know where to start. 424 00:31:18.119 --> 00:31:22.200 And I look at all these weights in the gym, and I'm intimidated my 425 00:31:22.400 --> 00:31:26.279 ground. You know, my uncle isn't Jamie Oliver. You know, I 426 00:31:26.319 --> 00:31:29.680 don't watch the Food channel, like I look at pictures of food and go, 427 00:31:29.839 --> 00:31:32.839 hmmm, someone probably put that together and that would never be me. 428 00:31:33.160 --> 00:31:37.880 So I think, you know, eating is necessary, but it can be 429 00:31:37.960 --> 00:31:41.079 also pleasurable, and it can also be nutritious, and I don't think it 430 00:31:41.160 --> 00:31:44.920 needs to be from what I've heard, it doesn't need to be expensive. 431 00:31:45.880 --> 00:31:48.599 There's things like time batching and even just that whole thing like I can't get 432 00:31:48.640 --> 00:31:52.640 my kid to eat their lunch because their food is touching and you're like, 433 00:31:52.759 --> 00:31:56.480 oh, well that's easy, go get a bento box, and they're like, 434 00:31:56.519 --> 00:31:59.079 what the heck is a bento box? Like those kind of things can 435 00:31:59.119 --> 00:32:01.480 make a whole big of differ between you know, a kid coming home and 436 00:32:01.559 --> 00:32:05.640 hasn't eaten their lunch and their mom's like, I'm wasting food, And honestly, 437 00:32:05.680 --> 00:32:08.559 there's just some really simple solutions. And I think that the nice thing 438 00:32:08.599 --> 00:32:13.079 about having a cooking coach is you can take I can take my lifestyle and 439 00:32:13.160 --> 00:32:15.400 have a conversation with you with my lifestyle. You know, I start here. 440 00:32:15.559 --> 00:32:20.519 I start here. My kid has food allergies to this, you know, 441 00:32:20.599 --> 00:32:22.279 da da da. I'm finding them cooking three different meals. My kids 442 00:32:22.319 --> 00:32:25.319 don't want to eat, like all those things that people come up against, 443 00:32:25.480 --> 00:32:29.240 which is about, you know, the battle within to learn something new. 444 00:32:30.039 --> 00:32:32.559 But as a cooking coach, you're giving them those things that allow them to 445 00:32:32.599 --> 00:32:35.799 do what we all know that we need to do. I mean, this 446 00:32:35.880 --> 00:32:37.640 is not like, oh, really, we all need to eat better, 447 00:32:37.839 --> 00:32:40.920 we all need to eat healthy. I you know, my aribated coach is 448 00:32:42.000 --> 00:32:45.200 like, you know, get up from your desk, go to your living 449 00:32:45.279 --> 00:32:49.000 room, leave your phone in your you know, your office, and go 450 00:32:49.079 --> 00:32:52.640 have that twenty minute just I'm going to have a snack. I'm going to 451 00:32:52.680 --> 00:32:54.559 eat my lunch have it at the same time. Like all those little things 452 00:32:54.559 --> 00:32:59.519 that we yeah, the decompression that happens. So many people are shoveling food 453 00:33:00.079 --> 00:33:02.240 right like you know, I call my son a vacuum. Now he's twenty 454 00:33:02.279 --> 00:33:05.319 and he shoves his food in his face. And I don't think he does 455 00:33:05.319 --> 00:33:07.720 it for any other reason. Then you know, he just shoves his food 456 00:33:07.759 --> 00:33:09.480 in his face, you know, like you know, he's not mature enough 457 00:33:09.599 --> 00:33:15.640 yet. To understand and appreciate. But I think those are all the things 458 00:33:15.640 --> 00:33:21.799 that you're telling us that solves the solution for people. And even you know, 459 00:33:21.920 --> 00:33:25.000 if someone is busy, that whole this is you know, it's a 460 00:33:25.039 --> 00:33:30.839 technique where you go and do something what people consider brainless, to let your 461 00:33:30.880 --> 00:33:35.640 brain decompress and relax. And there's nothing like going And can you talk to 462 00:33:35.680 --> 00:33:39.960 people about food batching time blocking for food batching, Like it's easy to say, 463 00:33:39.960 --> 00:33:43.920 well, you can make all your food in one in one hour for 464 00:33:44.000 --> 00:33:45.319 the week or whatever it is, which are people are like, yeah, 465 00:33:45.359 --> 00:33:49.039 it doesn't it go bad? And I don't know how to like, can 466 00:33:49.039 --> 00:33:52.079 you talk about food batching a little bit because I think we think people know 467 00:33:52.160 --> 00:33:59.000 what it is, but I don't think they do. Food batching is actually 468 00:34:00.599 --> 00:34:04.799 picking a time in your schedule where you have a few hours to be able 469 00:34:04.839 --> 00:34:09.480 to make meals that you can make through during the week, and some of 470 00:34:09.480 --> 00:34:15.920 them can be frozen. They only take a day or two to thought out. 471 00:34:15.360 --> 00:34:20.880 It's usually a time first of all, you go shopping and pick up 472 00:34:20.920 --> 00:34:25.360 what you need before that. Even is meal planning, you know, figuring 473 00:34:25.360 --> 00:34:30.760 out what you're going to make, maybe invite a friend or two where I 474 00:34:30.840 --> 00:34:35.280 know someone that gets together every Sunday with a friend and they get together and 475 00:34:35.800 --> 00:34:40.199 make food to help with the week. Some people they just chop a big 476 00:34:40.239 --> 00:34:45.639 pile of onions and celery and their vegetables so that it's easier to cook during 477 00:34:45.639 --> 00:34:51.519 the week. So it can be very simple as chopping, pre chopping your 478 00:34:51.599 --> 00:34:55.719 vegetables and putting them in the fridge, or some things can be frozen, 479 00:34:55.880 --> 00:35:01.519 but just pre chopping your vegetables so or having them cleaned up. I like 480 00:35:01.599 --> 00:35:08.960 having my salary container and I've trained my husband to clean up the celery so 481 00:35:09.000 --> 00:35:13.079 that I can just go in the fridge and grab a couple of pieces of 482 00:35:13.159 --> 00:35:19.159 celery, so when you get home from shopping, prep some of your vegetables 483 00:35:19.360 --> 00:35:25.920 and that they're easier to prepare during the week. But also the batching. 484 00:35:27.440 --> 00:35:32.119 There's of course Facebook sites and YouTube channels that show that. And there was 485 00:35:32.199 --> 00:35:37.360 one woman that laid out she made them for kids too, So she made 486 00:35:38.079 --> 00:35:45.000 the egg wraps and so she had her paper out, I think it was 487 00:35:45.079 --> 00:35:51.960 nine pieces of the paper and she did all this egg meals and then put 488 00:35:52.000 --> 00:35:53.920 them in the freezer and then the kids could get up in the morning, 489 00:35:54.480 --> 00:35:59.960 pop it in the microwave for I think it was a minute thirty seconds way 490 00:36:00.000 --> 00:36:04.440 whatever they figured out it needed, and the kid could eat on the way 491 00:36:04.480 --> 00:36:08.199 to school, which is not sitting at the table relaxing and eating, but 492 00:36:08.840 --> 00:36:14.840 it works for them. Yeah, there's different ways of doing it. You 493 00:36:14.920 --> 00:36:16.840 just have to feed. You have to look at your schedule, when are 494 00:36:16.880 --> 00:36:22.079 you available to do the work. One of my friends, one person I 495 00:36:22.119 --> 00:36:29.079 worked with, would they did their shopping on Sundays, so Sunday afternoon they 496 00:36:29.079 --> 00:36:34.559 would do a bit of prep and Mondays she was often home either doing housework 497 00:36:34.679 --> 00:36:39.559 or entrepreneur type work that she would do at home. So we had her 498 00:36:39.639 --> 00:36:45.679 putting on the slow cooker in the morning on Monday mornings and she was able 499 00:36:45.760 --> 00:36:50.360 to make a bigger meal, say chili or you know, some kind of 500 00:36:50.400 --> 00:36:54.159 stew, and then the extra would be frozen so that later in the week 501 00:36:54.199 --> 00:36:59.039 when they were really busy, they could take that meal out of the freezer 502 00:36:59.119 --> 00:37:01.960 and just heat it up, which I call it heat and serve. And 503 00:37:02.039 --> 00:37:07.760 you can get nice little containers and they stack up in the freezers so they 504 00:37:07.760 --> 00:37:09.519 don't take a lot of space, they don't end up all over the place 505 00:37:10.280 --> 00:37:15.159 and and yeah, you can. You can do a batch by just putting 506 00:37:15.159 --> 00:37:21.800 on the slow cooker. And there's books of slow cooker recipes where people have 507 00:37:22.599 --> 00:37:27.840 rewritten the recipes so that there they taste better, they cook better, Like 508 00:37:28.519 --> 00:37:30.719 it used to be that everything went in at the very beginning, the raw 509 00:37:30.800 --> 00:37:36.039 meat and the vegetables, and the vegetables would be overcooked and the meat is 510 00:37:36.079 --> 00:37:40.800 not seared, and yeah, it's they were kind of gross. But you 511 00:37:40.920 --> 00:37:46.639 can find really good cookbooks for slow cooking and get it. Get a slow 512 00:37:46.679 --> 00:37:52.719 cooker, and but you have to put some some planning into it. It 513 00:37:52.800 --> 00:37:58.199 starts with meal planning and what do you like to eat? You know what, 514 00:37:58.199 --> 00:38:01.159 what can you get your local store? How can you adapt for the 515 00:38:01.199 --> 00:38:09.280 recipe if you find something. It sounds to me very like probably the first 516 00:38:09.280 --> 00:38:14.119 decision is just making a decision to eat better, care for yourself a little 517 00:38:14.119 --> 00:38:17.639 more, recognize and do something about the fact that we need to take care 518 00:38:17.639 --> 00:38:22.719 of our bodies. They are taking care of us and that food for the 519 00:38:22.719 --> 00:38:28.480 most point, port but the most point is our nutrition, like it's our 520 00:38:28.679 --> 00:38:35.280 fuel. And so really I think it's the same kind of decision we take 521 00:38:35.400 --> 00:38:37.480 when we're going to bed a little earlier because we know we need sleep. 522 00:38:37.519 --> 00:38:43.480 It's the same mindset around getting some exercise. It's the same mindset around hanging 523 00:38:43.519 --> 00:38:49.039 around with good people because it affects how we feel. And also that it's 524 00:38:49.079 --> 00:38:52.440 just a piece of self care and basic nutrition. People call it like it's 525 00:38:52.440 --> 00:38:55.639 a basic nutrition, and I think eating well is a basic nutrition. It's 526 00:38:55.719 --> 00:39:00.599 basic need. Is there anything else that you want to share with us before 527 00:39:00.639 --> 00:39:02.320 we kind of go into some I'm going to ask you a question or two 528 00:39:02.320 --> 00:39:07.559 that's kind of maybe off other than I would love to hear what your favorite 529 00:39:07.599 --> 00:39:13.280 pastime is. My favorite pastime. I like going out in the garden. 530 00:39:13.639 --> 00:39:16.599 I like just stepping out the door. I just took a deep breath and, 531 00:39:17.679 --> 00:39:22.480 like you say, decompress. It just helps me relax. We have 532 00:39:22.519 --> 00:39:25.280 a marvelous bird feeder, so I get to watch the birds flittering around. 533 00:39:27.119 --> 00:39:30.519 And yeah, we grow a lot of our own food, and I just 534 00:39:30.599 --> 00:39:36.800 really like being out there nourishing the garden and working in the garden. We 535 00:39:36.960 --> 00:39:40.320 grow right now, we're hard, well we're not today because it's snowing, 536 00:39:40.480 --> 00:39:45.079 but we have we have carrots and beets in the garden that we can pull 537 00:39:45.199 --> 00:39:51.000 up and they're just marvelous. And we also in the garage we have our 538 00:39:51.119 --> 00:39:57.000 garlic and onions and squash from now from the garden in the summertime. And 539 00:39:57.719 --> 00:40:00.880 yeah, I just love being out in the garden and also have a couple 540 00:40:00.880 --> 00:40:06.960 of nice cape con chairs where you can just sit back and relax and drink 541 00:40:07.000 --> 00:40:13.519 my smoothie and relax and have you know, read or listen to music. 542 00:40:13.719 --> 00:40:16.000 Yeah, I like being out in the garden. Good for the soul. 543 00:40:16.039 --> 00:40:22.400 Good for the soul. Well, anything else food or personal chef or cooking 544 00:40:22.440 --> 00:40:25.159 that you want to talk about before we kind of start to wrap up here, 545 00:40:27.960 --> 00:40:32.119 dont thinks. So I just encourage people to consider close your eyes and 546 00:40:32.159 --> 00:40:37.760 where does food sit in your life? You know, just think about where 547 00:40:37.760 --> 00:40:44.079 does it sit in your life and how can you change or improve it or 548 00:40:44.280 --> 00:40:52.840 inspire yourself to discover something different. Yeah, that's awesome. That'd make for 549 00:40:52.840 --> 00:40:57.760 a great meditation. All right, great lead into a self care retreat. 550 00:40:57.800 --> 00:41:00.719 Oh, I know one of those that's going on. Okay, so we're 551 00:41:00.760 --> 00:41:04.360 going So look, we talked a little bit about music today and the power 552 00:41:04.360 --> 00:41:07.360 of music. Get a band anyone knows or has watched the show before they 553 00:41:07.400 --> 00:41:12.760 all know that. I think music's probably been my best therapist. So you, 554 00:41:13.719 --> 00:41:15.280 Ms Mary, if you were on your way to go to one of 555 00:41:15.320 --> 00:41:19.559 these gorgeous trips, maybe you're going to keep cod who knows, but you're 556 00:41:19.599 --> 00:41:22.159 on your way to go to a desert island and it's you and you, 557 00:41:22.559 --> 00:41:28.119 and you've got room for one suitcase and that one record album or one piece 558 00:41:28.199 --> 00:41:30.719 of music in that suitcase before you go. What are you taking with you? 559 00:41:32.960 --> 00:41:37.400 Wow, that's hard. I think. I think I'm going back to 560 00:41:37.400 --> 00:41:42.440 Bruno Mars an uptown funk, because that one gets me all the time. 561 00:41:42.679 --> 00:41:46.440 When I'm going to start cooking, I'll put on Bruno Mars and dance around 562 00:41:46.440 --> 00:41:53.599 the living room in the kitchen and just enjoy myself to cook. All right, 563 00:41:53.639 --> 00:41:57.320 you heard it here uptown funk. Now we're all gonna put on some 564 00:41:57.440 --> 00:42:00.800 uptown funk and make ourselves some beautiful, healthy food. Thank you so much 565 00:42:00.800 --> 00:42:06.239 for sharing your time with us today and your wisdom and what an incredible journey. 566 00:42:06.320 --> 00:42:13.039 And I think people listening never really saw the multifacets of cooking and food 567 00:42:13.239 --> 00:42:17.920 and important and self care and nutrition and ideas right, and it doesn't need 568 00:42:17.960 --> 00:42:21.000 to be grand, right, it doesn't need to be grand. You talked 569 00:42:21.039 --> 00:42:23.639 about throwing a mango and your salad to spice it up a little bit, 570 00:42:23.760 --> 00:42:28.159 and just the power of hashtag slow food. I love that. It's going 571 00:42:28.199 --> 00:42:30.320 to be my little phrase for a little bit here. Mary. You're gonna 572 00:42:30.320 --> 00:42:32.800 get sicky hearing about it. 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