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health experts or medical doctors. So

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we might have to encourage you to

2:14

seek support from a medical and or

2:16

mental health professional as needed. How's it

2:18

going, Elise? I feel like we won't have any

2:20

really tough questions in today's

2:23

episode in particular, though. No,

2:25

nothing where I was like, oh, this person

2:27

should really talk to a professional. Yes, nothing

2:29

where it's above our pay grade. I'm

2:31

really excited. But I do. I just I

2:33

like to just like put in that disclaimer, you

2:36

know, I had a health scare, though.

2:38

I forgot to tell you. I made it for

2:40

this. I'll save it for the casual chat because

2:43

you were like, how's it going? So I'll save it for casual chat

2:45

because it's kind of fun. OK, well,

2:47

this was a nice text that we got that

2:49

I just wanted to read. OK, just

2:51

wanted to say you guys are doing great. I'm

2:54

an OG listener and was so sad about Kate's

2:56

departure, but I'm very much enjoying the

2:58

new episodes with Elise. Thanks so

3:00

much for all your hard work. It brings

3:02

so many bright spots to my week. Well,

3:05

these texts bring so many bright spots to

3:07

my week, our week. So thank

3:10

you. Yeah, I love

3:12

getting these texts and the voicemails. It's

3:14

just it's all very nice. So thank

3:17

you everybody for sharing that.

3:19

And the casual chat that Elise just referred

3:21

to is something we do on the Patreon

3:23

every week where it's just casual

3:25

chatting. You just banter, talk

3:28

about what's on our minds, talk about health

3:30

scares, everything

3:33

else. I'm only laughing

3:35

because it's not serious. OK, good.

3:37

You can check that out at patreon.com/Forever 35.

3:39

We have a seven day free trial. So

3:41

if you want to listen before you commit,

3:45

I understand. All

3:48

right, Elise, I want

3:50

to kick things off with

3:53

a voicemail that we got. OK,

3:55

well, let's hear it. Hi, Dory,

3:57

and welcome, Elise. This

3:59

is Tristi. in Manhattan walking to

4:01

work and I had a stop call and

4:03

I listen to you every morning when I'm

4:05

doing my walk and

4:08

about parents and

4:11

the parent friends by circumstance

4:13

with your children. Oh. I

4:15

loved your question because I think about

4:18

it often about you know being thrown

4:20

into a circumstance where

4:22

you're with a bunch of parents that you may not

4:24

have the same interest with and

4:26

I also have would love to

4:28

hear more from other parents and

4:30

other listeners but the opposite question

4:32

I have is what about when

4:34

you love other parents and

4:37

your kids don't really like you so much because we

4:39

have a few of those and we really want to

4:41

hang in with the parents and we really have a

4:43

hard time carving out time to all hang

4:45

out without our kids. So

4:49

anybody that wants to comment on that I'd love

4:51

to hear it any suggestions and love the pod.

4:54

That's a great question. That is a

4:56

great question. I have a follow-up which

4:58

is how old are your kids? Yes. Because

5:01

now that I have older

5:03

kids or my kids are older they're the

5:06

oldest is a rising middle schooler I certainly

5:09

don't have to bring her to hang out with

5:11

parent friends right who

5:13

have kids that she might not be friends with you know like

5:16

she can stay home or she can she goes

5:18

off and hangs out with her own friends she kind of has

5:20

her own social world in her own social life. The

5:22

trickier thing is when they're younger so

5:24

in those cases have you encountered this story

5:26

and what have you done? You

5:29

know when I got this voicemail I

5:31

was really trying to think of

5:34

like the friends that I made in

5:36

Henry's preschool class and

5:39

like the parent friends that I made and

5:42

his his

5:45

preschool class was very was pretty tight

5:48

so there was no one that you

5:51

know that like he absolutely wasn't friends with and

5:53

he was with the same kids basically for like

5:55

three years. But

5:58

I do feel like this year. especially things

6:01

started separating by sex. Like a

6:03

lot of, like, he

6:05

wanted to play more with boys. Yeah, and like

6:07

the girls wanted to play more with girls. He

6:09

had some play dates with girls, but like I

6:13

did find that it generally was with

6:15

boys. So

6:18

that ended up being something

6:20

where it was like, oh, I'm not

6:22

gonna see these parents. One

6:25

of the parents in his class, one

6:28

of the moms set up a

6:30

little book club with me

6:33

and her and three other moms, who

6:35

I really like and had, and they

6:38

all were parents of girls. I was the

6:40

only parent of a boy. And

6:44

I realized I hadn't really

6:46

hung out with definitely

6:48

a couple of them. It's one thing to

6:50

hang out with parents of like a

6:52

kid that your kid is sort of like indifferent to, but

6:55

like, what if it's the parent of a kid

6:57

that your kid like actively dislikes? Or

7:00

the other kid actively dislikes your kid? Like

7:02

then what? If the

7:04

other kid actively dislikes my kid, I usually

7:06

don't know about it. If

7:09

I'm hanging out with the parent, you know? There

7:11

are cases, I think with the third grade class

7:13

last year in which there was a mom group

7:15

and we would go out for each other's birthdays

7:17

or we would go out drinking and trying to

7:19

organize that every couple of months. And there were

7:22

like six to eight of us in there. So

7:26

undoubtedly our kids, like

7:28

among those kids, there

7:30

were some kids who just didn't like each other

7:32

or didn't hang out at all, but the mom

7:34

still did. And we were sort of indifferent to

7:36

it. I have found it helpful when

7:38

my daughters get into beefs with other

7:40

girls to actually have a relationship, a

7:43

pre-existing friendship with the parents, you know?

7:45

Because then we can kind of talk

7:47

about it. Like

7:49

we can't be there to witness or intervene,

7:51

whatever is going on, but at least as

7:53

adults, we can kind of talk

7:56

about it and then try and support our own children

7:58

getting through whatever conflict they're getting through. So

8:00

I think it's helpful most of the

8:02

time for adults to

8:04

maintain our friendships with one

8:06

another irrespective of whether the kids are beefing

8:09

or not, because sometimes they're like best friends one week

8:11

and then they're beefing the next week. And what are

8:13

we going to do? Like ride the waves of our

8:15

kids? Right. Right.

8:18

Right. I mean, I guess what

8:20

I'm hearing from both of us actually

8:23

is that if you like other

8:25

parents that your kids are not friends with,

8:27

like take the initiative to just hang out

8:29

with them without your kids. Yeah. And

8:32

that's what ends up happening anyway. My closest

8:35

LA friends, we met in

8:37

the pickup line while my middle schooler

8:39

was in kindergarten or first grade. And

8:42

we continued to hang out throughout the

8:45

COVID pandemic, like outdoors. And

8:47

our kids still hung out together then. But

8:49

one is a girl and one is a boy. And

8:52

now they like barely talk to each other even though they're

8:54

in the same grade. But

8:56

as parents, we continue to maintain our friendship. I

8:59

love that. All right. Let's do another

9:01

voicemail. Okay. Okay.

9:04

This is in reference to a conversation we

9:07

were having last week or the week before.

9:09

I forget. Hi there. Calling

9:12

in for the person who asked

9:14

about summer self-care. What are the

9:16

things that I think we don't

9:18

talk about in the past? Because you see

9:21

a lot of the media, like, oh, some of you got to

9:23

go to the pool and go to the beach and do

9:25

all the outside things. And this is the time to really

9:28

enjoy the outdoors. And I live in

9:30

Southeast Texas. It is disgusting out here.

9:34

And I know what is

9:36

disgusting. There are other

9:38

places that are gross. So one thing that

9:40

I give myself in summer self-care is just

9:43

the permission to stay inside. Like

9:45

there are the world that stay inside for the

9:47

whole winter and that's their inside season. And

9:50

if you want to say summer,

9:52

I'm going to stay inside the majority of the

9:54

time, then like go off. I don't think there's

9:56

anything wrong with that. So

9:58

huge part of summer self-care too much. myself. It's just,

10:01

hey, girl, it's okay to stay inside. Also,

10:03

obviously, gets a lot of water. And

10:05

I buy myself a cute new water bottle as

10:08

a gift. All right, love

10:10

you guys. Super excited to see that

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Minnie apps are back. Okay, bye. I

10:15

just love this. Such

10:19

a great tip. And she's absolutely right

10:22

that Southeast Texas is disgusting in the

10:24

summer. I am a Texan.

10:26

I am from Dallas, but also lived

10:28

in Houston and Waco and Houston is

10:31

Southeast ish. So I second

10:35

that staying inside, especially if you're a

10:37

Texan. Or in other

10:40

humid and disgusting places that

10:42

like really muggy and where

10:44

your, where your glasses fog

10:46

up. Yeah, yeah. You

10:48

don't need, you don't need, you

10:51

don't need to be outside running

10:53

through a sprinkler. No, I just

10:55

love this. Like normalize staying

10:58

inside as summer self-care. Yeah,

11:02

it's a privilege. Totally. It's

11:04

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11:06

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11:08

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11:10

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11:12

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11:14

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11:18

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11:27

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11:33

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11:36

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All right,

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we are back. And we recently

17:09

were discussing weeknight dinners,

17:13

which are like a little bit the bane

17:15

of my existence. But

17:17

also, like, I

17:19

don't know. I don't mind them.

17:22

Also because I do like I like eating

17:24

at home. Right. And

17:26

I like the dinner hour. It's

17:29

not an hour. It's more like 15 minutes. But like,

17:31

um. You like the

17:33

ritual of dinner together. Yes. I like the ritual of

17:35

us all eating dinner together. And we do all eat

17:37

dinner together. Like we used to eat after Henry went

17:39

to bed. And then I was like, this is ridiculous.

17:42

Let's just all eat at 5.30. So I eat

17:44

at 5.30. And

17:48

you and I both talked about some

17:50

of our weeknight dinner kind of staples.

17:52

And we heard from a lot of

17:54

listeners about this. We're going to

17:56

read some of them. But we

17:58

also got so many. that were

18:00

so good, but we

18:03

didn't have time for them all on the

18:06

show. So those are all on the Patreon.

18:08

So head over to the Patreon. All of

18:11

our additional listener

18:13

weeknight dinner recommendations are on

18:15

the Patreon. So check

18:18

those out, patreon.com. Okay, Elise, do

18:20

you want to read this first

18:22

text that we got? Okay,

18:24

yes, it begins. Okay, so RE weeknight

18:27

dinners, we have a set rotation for

18:29

the kids, which is exactly what Dory

18:31

said, chicken nuggets, fish sticks, breakfast for

18:34

dinner, ravioli, etc. That sounds a lot

18:36

like your house, Dory. It does, yes.

18:40

Let me just go back to the text. As

18:42

adults, we eat meal delivery service, $11 per meal

18:45

subscription, bag salad, salmon with broccoli, all

18:47

the super easy go tos that you

18:50

mentioned. I just let go of the

18:52

thought that I need to cook and

18:54

need to make anything remotely interesting for my

18:57

children. I serve a fruit and

18:59

vegetable with every meal and if they eat it,

19:01

great. If not, I truly do not

19:03

have time to care. God bless

19:07

you. I love this listeners energy

19:10

also. I

19:12

mean, like, I was so Henry

19:14

Henry loves the butternut squash ravioli

19:19

from Trader Joe's and he has

19:22

historically been very vocal about not

19:24

liking any other ravioli. Even though

19:26

ravioli is delicious, what is your

19:28

problem? It sure is. Last

19:31

night I made another variety of

19:33

Trader Joe's ravioli, I think it was like ricotta and

19:35

lemon or something like that. They were really good. He

19:38

was like, I don't want these. Then he ate a

19:40

whole plate of them. I was like, what? God.

19:45

Try something new. Try something new. But like, I mean,

19:47

that's kind of the level of try something new we're

19:49

at is like a different variety of ravioli. I

19:53

love that text though. Thanks

19:55

for letting me read it. I truly do not have time

19:57

to care. And you know what that is like. That's

20:00

how I feel a lot of

20:02

the times too, especially after reading,

20:04

did you read Fat Talk Virginia

20:06

Solsmith's book? Love, yes. And

20:08

love Virginia Solsmith. Love her. And

20:11

you know, her whole thing is like, at this,

20:13

like, it's better to have your kids just eat

20:15

and have a healthy relationship with food than to

20:17

give them a fucking complex. And

20:20

so that's kind of where I've landed. Yes,

20:24

it does not need to be so emotionally fraught.

20:26

No, it does not. Okay,

20:30

so thank you, listener. I

20:32

do need to get, you're right though, I do need to get

20:34

fish sticks back into the rotation. Those were

20:36

such a staple of my brother's childhood. Like

20:40

he, because he was like a very- Mine, I loved

20:42

fish sticks. I didn't like fish sticks, but like, I

20:44

remember my brother being a very picky eater as a

20:46

kid and eating, do you

20:49

remember like Elio's pizza? Yeah,

20:51

yeah. So he would eat

20:53

like a rotation of like Elio's

20:55

pizza, fish sticks, and like maybe

20:58

like one other thing, but it

21:01

was like a lot of fish sticks. Anyway.

21:04

My brother was a real devotee of Hot

21:06

Pockets. Oh, okay. He

21:09

turned out fine. I know, my brother too.

21:12

And now he eats everything. Okay,

21:15

anyway, here is another, here's an email on

21:17

this topic. Hi, Dorian, Lisa, I'm so glad

21:20

the mini episodes are back. We are too,

21:22

thank you. I

21:24

think I started listening right around the time

21:26

you introduced them. I've always been my fave.

21:29

Right, dinner, very important. I'm someone

21:31

who would have no trouble eating pasta every night of

21:33

the week. I don't, but I could. My

21:35

evening kitchen MVPs are a box of

21:38

farro pasta and a block of good

21:40

parmesan. With

21:42

that, I feel like I'm 70% of the

21:44

way to being well-fed. My newest go-to

21:47

is Homemade Pesto. Wow. I

21:49

was the last to learn that it's

21:51

stupidly easy to make. I've

21:54

made a lot of recipes on recipes abound,

21:56

but the one I've adopted combines basil or

21:58

whatever leafy herb you have around. it with

22:00

a mix of parsley and tarragon after

22:02

I accidentally bought tarragon and it came out

22:05

delicious with walnuts, olive oil, garlic and salt.

22:07

I make it with an electric immersion blender which

22:10

sounds fancy but is not fancy. It takes all

22:12

of 15 minutes starting from when I

22:14

walk into the kitchen and keeps in the fridge for a

22:16

few days. Serve with great your

22:18

own parmesan and any roasted veg or

22:20

bag salad. Yum. So

22:23

yummy. That sounds really

22:25

good. It really is

22:27

easy to make and I don't think to do it.

22:30

Yeah. I have a food processor, I should

22:32

do that. Yeah. I have an electric immersion

22:35

blender. I agree. It's not that fancy. There's

22:39

also savory breakfast for dinner, cheesy

22:41

scrambled eggs and garlic sauteed kale

22:43

over rice cooker brown rice. Mmm.

22:46

I do love a cheesy scrambled egg. Agree.

22:51

Both of these also involve minimal

22:53

pots and pans which is key

22:55

because washing dishes is loathsome. Also

22:58

agree. Also agree. These

23:01

meals sound delicious. This is exactly the

23:04

kind of content that my TikTok algorithm

23:06

shows me. Oh.

23:08

And this is why I get

23:11

sucked into TikTok because I'm constantly

23:13

getting delicious, easy to make

23:15

meals. But do you make them? No,

23:18

I usually just watch it. Okay.

23:21

It's like people who watch those get ready with

23:23

me. Yes. Do you do the makeup? Yes.

23:26

I texted this to you but your

23:30

TikTok came up for me on my for

23:32

you page last night. And

23:34

I was like, oh baby. Do you think the

23:36

phone has been listening? Here we go. Probably. It

23:39

was weird. Usually I feel like my

23:41

for you shows me like viral videos

23:44

or videos with like hundreds of thousands

23:46

of views. And then last

23:48

night they were showing me

23:50

a lot of like friends of

23:53

friends videos. And

23:55

videos that had like 30 likes. And

23:58

I was like, this is interesting. your contacts.

24:00

It's my contacts a lot more and like

24:02

showing me a lot of stuff that friends

24:04

had reposted. Yeah,

24:08

so the I was like, Oh, this is

24:10

this is interesting that the algorithm is like,

24:13

sent in. But

24:17

Elise has a great tiktok, which you should check

24:20

out if you're on tiktok. I

24:22

mainly lurk to look at one pot

24:24

meals, but occasionally I'll put up content. So yeah, check it

24:26

out. It's just Elise Hugh,

24:28

right? It is backwards. No,

24:30

it's who at least like who? Oh, yes,

24:32

I see. Because I

24:35

couldn't take up my Instagram handle because it

24:37

was it had already been taken. So I

24:39

had to flip annoyed inverted. Okay.

24:41

All right, we have another great email. Are

24:44

you ready? I'm ready. Hi,

24:47

Dorian Elise. Depending on the season, I

24:49

love to throw together a big pot

24:51

of tortilla soup using sauteed

24:53

onions, chipotle and cumin as a

24:55

base and then adding in canned

24:57

corn, black beans, whole or diced

25:00

tomatoes and vegetable broth serve

25:02

with fresh lime, fresh cilantro, crumbled

25:04

tortilla chips and grated cheese can

25:07

for sure be customized to include say shredded

25:09

chicken or whatever. In the

25:12

summer, a hearty salad. Niswa is super easy

25:14

to throw together fast and very hardy and

25:16

satisfying a bed of greens and boiled potatoes

25:18

and hard boiled eggs. Whatever veg

25:21

you want to throw in green beans are

25:23

traditional, but you can really go in any

25:25

direction here and some good quality oil packed

25:27

tuna and olives dressed with a Dijon vinaigrette.

25:29

That sounds so good. I forgot about oil

25:31

packed tuna. Why don't I

25:33

buy oil packed tuna? And then one more

25:35

paragraph here. I cannot sing Ali slaysh's praises

25:37

enough. She published a cookbook a few years

25:40

back called I dream of dinner and every

25:42

single recipe in there is a banger. They

25:45

are so genius largely requires six

25:47

ingredients or fewer and are very

25:49

vegetarian friendly with a few exceptions.

25:51

She is a frequent contributor to

25:53

the New York Times cooking section

25:56

and a total superstar. She also

25:58

co-wrote Caroline Chambers forthcoming cookbook. what

26:00

to cook when you don't feel

26:02

like cooking, which is itself a

26:05

very excellent sub-stack that specializes in

26:07

easy family-friendly recipes that are easy

26:09

to follow and endlessly customizable. Hetty

26:12

McKinnon's sub-stack is also fantastic and

26:14

entirely veg. Just some thoughts, bon

26:16

appetit, Goat Lauren. You might

26:18

be wondering why she signed that Goat Lauren.

26:21

I am wondering. So- Is

26:24

she the goat? She is, but she is

26:26

a long-time listener of the pod. Her name

26:28

is Lauren Gitlin and she has a farm

26:31

called Villa

26:34

Cula Farm in Vermont where she

26:37

raises goats. And

26:40

she is very cool and she's written into

26:42

the pod before and I'm a big fan.

26:44

So thank you, Lauren. I'm going to sign

26:46

up for the what to cook when you

26:48

don't feel like cooking sub-stack. That sounds perfect.

26:52

And like I said, we have more weeknight

26:54

dinner recommendations on the Patreon. So check those

26:56

out. And we're going to take another quick

26:59

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Okay, so someone wrote in a

28:13

couple weeks ago and suggested maybe

28:15

half ingest that we have a

28:19

Trader Joe's segment. Oh, right. Right.

28:22

And then we went on and riffed on Trader

28:25

Joe's for like 20 minutes. Yes. We've

28:27

been doing best Trader Joe's for a long while

28:29

and our listeners have

28:32

some thoughts about Trader Joe's as well. So

28:34

I thought we could play

28:37

them. The first one is actually

28:39

a Costco Trader Joe mashup, if

28:41

you will. I feel like

28:43

speaks to your interests. So it sure

28:45

does. Hi, Forever 35.

28:47

This is me calling it from

28:50

Denver. I was literally

28:52

just listening to the episode about

28:54

Dorie's favorite Trader Joe's recommendations and

28:56

also Elise and Dorie talking about

28:59

Costco and Trader Joe's. I've

29:02

been meaning to call in for a while to tell

29:04

you this, but he

29:06

and I live 10 minutes for

29:08

my Costco, whereas my Trader Joe's are

29:10

all like 20 to 30 minutes. So

29:13

I ended up with Costco a lot more than I

29:15

would think. One

29:18

thing that I will say is my

29:20

secret to an amazing Costco run. And

29:22

I say this as someone who does not have kids, so this

29:24

is maybe easier for me to do without

29:27

kids. But I love to

29:29

go on a weeknight and specifically like the

29:31

hour before they close, parking lot is dead,

29:33

there are no lines. It's so easy to

29:35

get in and out. But

29:37

even like, like I went yesterday at 4pm

29:40

on a Tuesday night and

29:42

I was like there in and out

29:44

in 25 minutes, which is great. The

29:47

other thing I just wanted to recommend because

29:49

I know Dorie loves the Trader Joe's Kimbop

29:51

is Costco has a Kimbop. And

29:53

I would have never picked it up except that

29:55

I've been hearing Dorie talk about Kimbop for the

29:57

last couple weeks on the pod. And so I

30:00

kept it. And it's actually become one of me

30:02

and my husband's favorite just like easy

30:04

meals. On Tuesday night, I take

30:06

a ceramics class. And it

30:08

starts at 6 o'clock. And we like struggle to figure out

30:10

what to eat before we have to go to this three

30:12

hour ceramics class. So just being able

30:15

to microwave Kimbop and getting some like tofu

30:17

and veg. So it's

30:19

definitely become a like must have

30:21

in our freezer. Purchase it every

30:23

time. So yeah, I

30:25

just wanted to call in with that quick

30:27

brecco. Love Trader Joe's, love

30:29

Costco, and love the

30:32

pod. The book just arrived

30:34

in the mail from me yesterday. And also, at least

30:36

I just love hearing your voice in

30:39

the first couple weeks of you coming on

30:41

board. So anyways, long time listener and fan

30:43

in Denver. Thanks so much. Bye. That's

30:46

such a hot tip. Such a hot tip. I

30:48

knew you would love that. There's Kimbop at Costco.

30:50

Kimbop at Costco and also the showing

30:53

up right before closing tip. I

30:56

like that. I guess just

30:58

before Christmas. And the caller

31:00

is absolutely right. It's dead, or it's

31:03

dead compared to other times. And

31:06

what I remember about this was there was

31:08

a giant black suburban parked in the parking

31:10

lot with a license plate, Brad

31:13

Pitt. Stop. What?

31:17

What? And so it turns out there's

31:19

this guy. There's this

31:21

guy who kind of resembles Brad Pitt.

31:23

Oh my god. Who drives around going

31:25

to Costco and the Gelsons in Marina

31:27

del Rey and other places that people

31:30

have spotted him with a

31:32

dark, like a black suburban with the

31:35

license plate Brad Pitt, just so that

31:37

he can be confused as

31:39

Brad Pitt. Wow.

31:42

That is, I mean, that is like true commitment to the

31:44

bit. It sure is. But

31:46

it especially works when you're just driving along

31:49

on the 405 or something and somebody sees

31:51

you and it's like, oh my gosh, it's

31:53

actually him. It's actually him. He obviously has

31:55

a license plate with his name on it.

31:57

That's definitely something he would do. I

32:03

also like it was funny to me

32:05

too because my Trader Joe's

32:08

versus Costco radius is the

32:11

inverse of this listeners like my Trader Joe's is like

32:13

five minutes from my house and my Costco is like

32:16

25 to 30 so okay yeah

32:18

I also love that she and her husband

32:21

take ceramics together like so sweet yeah

32:26

all right well thank you listener that is this is this is

32:28

a great tip I'm gonna look for the Kim I feel like

32:30

I looked for it once and I couldn't find it but I'm

32:32

gonna look for it again okay

32:35

on to some other Trader Joe's Rex okay

32:39

I was just listening to

32:41

your Trader Joe's Rex as

32:44

I was on route to

32:46

Trader Joe's that was extremely helpful and

32:49

they had Kim boss I'm really good

32:51

and try that my

32:53

Trader Joe's recommendation this is

32:56

controversial but the

32:58

snacky clusters in the

33:01

candy section they're super

33:03

super sweet but they have chunks

33:05

of corn chips

33:10

oh maybe peanuts I'm not really

33:12

sure but it is perfect salty

33:16

sweet crunchy

33:18

delicious combo so

33:20

I highly recommend oh

33:22

I love the salty sweet this is the

33:24

first time I'm calling post Kate

33:27

era and while I miss

33:29

Kate I am loving Elise and everything

33:31

she's bringing to the podcast so thanks

33:33

guys bye oh this is like so

33:36

sweet Dory didn't prepare me with what was

33:38

gonna be in these voicemails so I have

33:40

to say I feel so touched and moved

33:42

and welcomed you should feel that you should

33:44

feel all those things I

33:47

love a controversial Trader Joe's right but

33:50

salty sweet is the best combo I know

33:52

I've been my favorite snack in the world

33:54

is to dip french fries into a frosty

33:56

Oh or french

33:58

fries into a McFlurry that is

34:00

my favorite. And so this sounds like

34:02

this is the exact right kind of

34:05

flavor profile for me. Yeah, yeah I

34:07

love a chocolate covered pretzel Yeah,

34:10

exactly. I mean that's what I'll free bowl for

34:14

Bringing it back I've

34:18

never tried that my friends is called a callback And

34:22

I've done it. Have you tried these I

34:24

haven't I need to go I need

34:27

to go do it right after we get done recording

34:29

Yeah And then we

34:31

got one more wreck for traitor Joe's penne

34:33

a rabiata so good and easy I buy

34:35

in bulk and end up eating it all

34:37

in a week I'm

34:39

a yes on any starches and any

34:42

cheeses. So I'm there so okay. All

34:44

right Well

34:48

that brings us to the end

34:50

of this episode Elise What

34:53

a bunch of delightful? suggestions,

34:55

right I know Such

34:59

great suggestions keep your suggestions coming also if

35:01

you have questions for us, please let us

35:03

know 7815910390. Yeah, we take those

35:05

two we take those two and Yeah,

35:09

we will talk to you soon. Thanks everyone.

35:11

Bye