Nov. 18, 2023

Navigating the Holidays - Part 2/2

Ever wondered how some people manage to stay fit and still indulge in mouth-watering holiday feasts? As your hosts, we promise to guide you through the complexities of maintaining a fitness-focused vegan lifestyle, especially during the festive season. We unravel the mystery of protein sourcing for vegans and how we handle the often taxing conversations with those who don't quite understand our lifestyle choices. Our advice? Always lead by example and refrain from engaging in arguments.

Check out the blog post this episode is based on:
Navigating the Holidays as a Vegan - Mentality

Also check out the newest recipes, including the ones we mentioned:
Recipes

Chapters
0:00 Intro
0:25 Website Redesign
0:45 Mentality of the holidays
1:07 How do you get your protein?
2:00 What do vegans even eat?
2:53 Vitamin & Nutrient concerns?
4:25 Discussing with family
5:30 Stand up for yourself
6:20 No is a complete sentence
7:00 Bring your own food
7:15 Little decisions every day
7:50 Know your “why”
8:40 Long-term lifestyle
9:30 Recipe roundup
9:50 High Protein Mac & Cheese
10:15 Sweet Potato Pie
11:05 Sweet Potato Casserole
11:25 Loaded Twice Baked Potatoes
12:10 TVP Pumpkin Pecan Muffins
12:32 High Protein Mushroom Gravy
13:10 High Protein TVP Stuffing
13:34 Fudgy Vegan Sweet Potato Brownies
14:15 Chomp Chocolates
15:42 Coming up next week
16:40 Outro

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00:00 - Intro

00:25 - Website Redesign

00:45 - Mentality of the Holidays

01:07 - How do you get your protein?

02:00 - What do vegans even eat?

02:53 - Vitamin & Nutrition concerns?

04:25 - Discussing with family

05:30 - Stand up for yourself

06:20 - No is a complete sentence

07:00 - Bring your own food

07:15 - Little decisions every day

07:50 - Know your "why"

08:40 - Long-term lifestyle

09:30 - Recipe Roundup

09:50 - High Protein Mac & Cheese

10:15 - Sweet Potato Pie

11:05 - Sweet Potato Casserole

11:25 - Loaded Twice Baked Potatoes

12:10 - TVP Pumpkin Pecan Muffins

12:32 - High Protein Mushroom Gravy

13:10 - High Protein TVP Stuffing

13:34 - Fudgy Vegan Sweet Potato Brownies

14:15 - Chomp Chocolates

15:42 - Coming up next week

16:40 - Outro

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Welcome to episode three of the Deficient Vegans podcast.

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I'm the muscle deficient vegan and I'm here with the awesome protein deficient vegan, who's been very busy with, uh, holiday recipes this week.

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Do you wanna say hi?

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Hi.

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Hi.

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So, uh, first things first, sorry for the podcast being a day or two late.

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We've been really busy.

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Like I said.

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Uh, she's been working on a lot of recipes and we also had a website kind of redesign and migration thing going on.

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Hopefully everybody, uh, enjoys the new website.

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It looks less like we designed it in middle school and more like we designed it for normal adult humans to read, and we, we think it's a lot better.

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So.

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Uh, let us know.

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Go check it out.

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So we are doing this week, kind of a follow up to last week's episode about navigating the holidays as a vegan to somebody with a fitness mindset.

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So this week we're gonna talk a little bit about the mentality of that going into the holidays or any kind of situation where you're around your friends and family and food and you don't have a lot of control over the situation.

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Uh.

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You might get asked some of the kind of cliche and common questions that people like to ask vegans or the most popular one I think out there is how do you get your protein?

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Yeah.

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So a lot of the times the answer to that, especially if you like Google it online or whatever it's gonna be, uh, lentils, beans, quinoa, uh, things like that.

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Those are really good sources of protein, but they tend to come with a lot of carbs and you know, typically if we have fitness goals, we want to.

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Maybe limit the carbs, focus on the protein a little more because we probably got some kind of calorie goal to hit and some kind of protein goal to hit.

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So a lot of the, uh, sources that we like to focus on are tofu, Tempe, Satan, and TBP.

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Um, if you're not really familiar with how to use some of those or you haven't used them in the past.

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Uh, we have a lot of recipes on our site that use all those different things on our site.

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If you haven't been there, mostly focuses on high protein recipes that don't use protein powder.

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So you've actually got tags.

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Uh, you can kind of look around for all the TBP recipes or all the tofu recipes, uh, anything like that.

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The second kind of question you might hear a lot is, uh, well, what do vegans even eat anyway?

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So,

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and everyone thinks you just eat salads.

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Yeah.

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Which is probably the last thing you want to eat most days.

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I don't even know the last time I ate a salad, actually.

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Yeah.

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Months.

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It's been months.

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Me neither actually.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Uh, you know, uh, I don't know exactly what it is, but I think people think that vegan is some kind of.

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Uh, magical food that only vegans have access to, and they don't really think about the fact that just like a lot of the stuff they eat anyway is vegan or vegetarian, you know, potato chips, french fries, Oreos, potatoes, Oreos, Oreos are vegan.

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So good.

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Yeah.

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So, um, I mean, it's just, you know, you're not eating the animal products right.

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So,

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yep.

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There's a lot of stuff you can still eat and a lot of stuff they, they probably eat.

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Um, you know, one of the concerns that also comes up from people who are either actually concerned or want to feign concern to start a conversation is about, you know, your vitamins and nutrients and, uh, if you keep eating vegan, you're probably gonna drop dead next week.

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Yeah.

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As soon as you mention you're vegan, everyone's a freaking doctor.

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Yeah, I don't know what that's about.

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Mm. It's just a reason to be like, well, I can't be vegan because all of these other concerns.

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Yeah.

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So now I'm a medical professional and you're dying.

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Yeah.

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I think, I think it mostly stems from the fact that, you know, B12 you probably know is something that vegans do need to supplement.

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Um, you can't get that from anything that's, uh, not an animal product.

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And you really only get it from animal products because they inject it into the animals too.

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So nobody actually gets B12 real naturally anymore.

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They do inject B12 into VO life.

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Shredded cheese though.

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There you go.

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Yeah.

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You can either supplement B12 or you can eat a whole lot of V Life shredded cheese.

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I'd vote for V Life.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, there's a couple other things you, you can get, but uh, it's a little harder as a vegan, like vitamin D, zinc and selenium.

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Um, I think if you just take a multivitamin and a B12, you pretty much have those bases covered.

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Uh, the one I like to use, not sponsored or anything obviously, but I like to use holier.

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It's like specifically made for people on a plant-based diet, and it's only got like the five or six vitamins that are hard to get.

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So yeah, it's a pretty good option.

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I kind of struggle with iron, even if I eat high iron foods, but I don't really think that's necessarily a vegan issue.

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So, uh, aside from people just asking you general questions, you know, some of them might get a, a little more in depth with you and try to get into a whole discussion or maybe even an argument about, you know, your choices, whether that be for vegan or your fitness choices or what you're trying to eat.

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Uh, anything along those lines.

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So I think, you know, my, uh, opinion on that is just kind of a, a live or let live situation.

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You can talk to them about it and entertain a conversation, but, uh, I wouldn't get into it as a a you versus them kind of thing.

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Um, I think if you just do your thing and lead by example, maybe, um, they will eventually come around and start asking you questions in a more.

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A casually curious, friendly type way, or, uh, they won't, and that's okay too.

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Or they'll just be dicks forever.

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Yeah.

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And one day you'll finally snap.

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Not that that's ever happened to me before.

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What happens when you snap?

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You know, you just snap.

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Then they usually don't bring it up again, so,

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yeah.

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Yeah.

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So, uh, that actually brings us to the next topic.

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I think on the blog, post snapping, I guess could be seen as standing up for yourself, right?

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So, uh, you want to kind of stand up for yourself, you know, you don't wanna be in a situation where you're doing things out of obligation, you know, I think a common example is somebody invites you out to dinner or something.

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You know, there's not gonna be any food for you there.

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So you go and you just sit and you don't eat and you socialize and everybody thinks it's awkward'cause you're not eating, you know?

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And you feel awkward.

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And you're hungry.

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Yeah.

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And you have a miserable time.

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I mean, uh, you know, you want to treat yourself a little better than that.

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You don't deserve to be in a situation like that.

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So, uh, if there's just, if it's something you're not comfortable with, um, you know, you can just say no, no is a complete sentence.

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Mm-hmm.

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That's okay.

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Um, and you know, if there's some accommodation that can be made, if people are willing to switch it up and go to a restaurant that has a real vegan option that's not salad, that's cool.

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Or in the case of like, uh, this holiday gathering Thanksgiving kind of thing you have coming up.

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Uh, maybe you can convince a family member that you know, uh, you know, is a good cook to do some vegan swaps for some different ingredients in the food.

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Switch out, you know, butter for just oil or what, what are the options along those lines.

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Yeah.

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That means you have to trust people though, which I don't like doing 'cause people are liars.

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Oh, hopefully your, uh, your family won't lie to you about those things, but I guess you never know.

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They might lie to you about those things.

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Well, if you're worried about 'em lying, uh, like I said, we do have a bunch of recipes on our website.

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Bring your own food,

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bring your own food, make your own dish.

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And the benefit of that is you get to bring vegan food and show people Yes.

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What it's like and what good vegan food can be like.

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So

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conversion.

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Is definitely always an option.

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So, uh, kind of along the same lines, you know, with both trying to reach your fitness goals and having, uh, you know, some, a belief system like being a vegan or a plant-based, something along those lines, you're, you're always gonna have.

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Every day to make some tough decisions or push back on something or decide that, uh, you can't do something that day or, uh, some other thing that you have to do.

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I mean, you have to make basically a bunch of little decisions every day over a long period of time to reach a long-term goal.

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So you just try to make as many of the, the right decisions as you can, and you know, if you can get most of 'em right and you get a few wrong, uh, that's gonna be just fine.

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But one thing that can help you kind of stick to that long-term goal is to really keep your why in mind.

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Like, why, why do you have that goal?

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What is it that you want to achieve long-term?

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Or, or what is it, um, that you want to say?

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I, I believe in this and I want to behave as if I believe in this long term.

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So if you can just really, you know, kind of maybe even say it out loud, write it down.

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I don't know what, what your why is, why you feel that way or why you want to behave that way.

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It can really help you mentally deal with peer pressure or any other kind of outside pressure so you understand.

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Within yourself, why it is that you're pushing back and you'll feel better about it and more confident.

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So just keep in mind that you'll have to make, you know, these decisions every day.

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And this, you know, whether, uh, we're talking about veganism or uh, fitness, these are both kind of lifestyle long-term choices.

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So, uh, just make sure that the things you restrict yourself to and the choices you make are things that you can deal with long term.

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Yeah.

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And the sooner you know why you're doing something and you.

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Have a strong firm belief in it.

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It's more about what you want and what you think.

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And less about like trying to explain yourself to others.

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Yeah.

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And once you feel more strongly about what you are doing, the less you'll feel like you have to explain yourself to others, I think.

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Yeah.

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And then usually they just leave you alone.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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They'll leave you alone and then sometimes they come back a couple years later and ask like, Hey, how do I do that thing?

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Cool.

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Yeah.

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Well, if you wanna, uh, read a little more about some of these topics, like I said, we do have the, the blog post up on the site.

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I'll put that in the show notes.

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Uh, I want to move on now to talk about.

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This crazy list of recipes that you've been working on all week.

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We've got a lot of, uh, really good food.

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Lucky for me, I get to try it all.

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So first up, we've got a, uh, high protein, mac and cheese, 30% protein

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and the cheese sauce.

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And then we use TVP for the breadcrumbs.

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Yeah,

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that's how we get to 30% protein.

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It's pretty magical.

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Yeah.

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TBP is awesome.

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We're, we're using it in all kinds of stuff lately.

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Uh, typically I think it's seen as a savory thing.

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In this case, we use it as a savory dish, but we've also got some muffins and cookies and stuff out there that use it in sweet dishes, so it's like super versatile.

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Did you like the mac and cheese?

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Yeah, I really like the mac and cheese.

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It's really good.

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It's

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like so creamy, right?

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Yeah, it is super creamy.

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Uh, next up we've got a, uh, sweet potato pie with 27% protein.

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This one's like my favorite thing we've made.

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Yeah.

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Lately I. It's definitely my favorite dessert.

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It's so good.

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We ate it for breakfast.

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Yeah, you can.

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'cause it's 27% protein.

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You can eat it whenever you want.

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You kind of feel like a piece of shit, but then you're like, oh wait, it's 27% protein.

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I can do whatever I want.

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Yeah.

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The other day I was sitting there with.

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For breakfast with like a pie and a what?

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One of the protein cookies or something.

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And my brain was like, what are you doing?

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This isn't, we don't eat pies and cookies for breakfast.

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And I was like, I mean, I'm gonna hit my protein goal today.

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So, and it's not protein powder, so I, I really don't see the problem.

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And it technically has vegetables too in it.

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That's true.

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True.

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Which is all very weird.

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Yeah.

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But it tastes great.

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I, I'm convinced that you're like a dark wizard.

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I am a dark wizard.

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Uh, next up we have a sweet potato casserole.

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This one's not high protein, but it, it's vegan and it's delicious.

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Yes, and we do use.

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Extra firm silk and tofu in it to make it like more creamy than normal.

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Yeah.

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So it's got some protein.

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Yeah, some not.

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I wouldn't like

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brag about it.

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Uh, next we have, uh, twice baked potatoes, which are, uh, super amazing, incredible awesome.

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Um, you know, I've had loaded bake potatoes a lot my whole life, and I think these are the best ones I've ever had.

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It's, what is the creaminess?

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It's like the silk and tofu.

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Yeah.

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It has silicon tofu in the.

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Potato, you know, filling.

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And then we, uh, made faking bits out of TVP.

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Oh yeah.

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The faking bits are really good.

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Yeah.

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The faking bits.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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It was really good.

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When we had this, he was like, this is my birthday meal.

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You will make this for me on all of my birthdays to come.

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I don't know if I was quite that demanding.

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It

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was so demanding

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request.

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He threatened me.

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I'm definitely cutting that.

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All right, next up we've got, uh, TVP Pumpkin pecan muffins, 20% protein.

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Yeah, those are

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freaking good too.

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Yeah, those are good.

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We got a lot of TVP muffins going on lately, but uh, you know, it's hard to argue with.

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So

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yeah, they're good little breakfast, they're good Little like pre-workout snack o. I really like them.

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Me too.

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I also got a high protein mushroom gravy.

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This 52% protein that goes with another recipe.

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The garlicy mashed potatoes.

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Yeah, the garlic mashed potatoes are not high protein at all, but if you put high protein gravy on 'em, it's kind of cancels it out.

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Yeah, it's really good.

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Yeah, there's like really good together.

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Yeah, for sure.

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I don't know what else you can do with the gravy.

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Probably like you can probably put it on a whole bunch of other shit.

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I think biscuits.

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Biscuits.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Would

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definitely be good on biscuit.

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Maybe like, uh, what?

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What's that?

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Canadian Fry thing?

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Oh, poutine.

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Maybe you could use that.

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I don't know.

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Yeah.

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I've never, I've never actually had poutine.

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Yeah, you could use it for that for sure.

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Hmm.

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Uh, we also have a high protein TBP stuffing.

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This is 49% protein, which doesn't make sense for a stuffing, but if you cook TVP and season it just the right way, it comes out a similar texture to like Stove top stuffing.

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And I would say the taste is pretty much there.

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Yeah, it seemed pretty similar to me.

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I haven't had Stove Top in a long time, but

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yeah,

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it seemed like what I remembered.

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And then the last up here we have, uh, fudgy vegan, sweet potato Brownies.

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These are, uh, so squishy and fudgy.

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It's kind of insane.

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Yeah, they're super caloric, so like, you probably shouldn't make these every week.

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Yeah,

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we, we need to stop making them actually, they're addictive.

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But you know, it just goes to show that you don't, you don't have to never eat fun things again.

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Yeah.

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You just have to make sure it fits into your macros and goals.

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Yeah.

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And lie to yourself and say, there's sweet potatoes in these brownies.

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I can totally eat these.

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It's the vegetables.

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This, this is the surfing of vegetables for the day.

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Even though it's like.

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Three quarters of a cup of sweet potatoes across 20 brownies.

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It's totally a serving of vegetables on each one.

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Yeah.

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Um, another thing we kinda like to do is talk about any new vegan things.

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We find out there are products or, uh, anything like that.

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We tried a new thing this week called what?

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Chomp chocolates.

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Chomp

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chocolates.

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We actually tried 'em at Halloween too.

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They had like a Halloween variety pack and then.

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This time they had like a holiday variety pack or something.

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But they're really good.

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Yeah, they're really good.

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They're,

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they're a little more expensive than normal chocolate, but if you read their website, I guess they, uh, do ethical sourcing of chocolate, so that's why they're more expensive.

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But they're, they're really good.

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Yeah.

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The chocolates, they have like

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little frosted flakes or something sitting on top.

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Oh

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yeah.

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They had like a

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many weeks.

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A Muddy Buddy one.

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Yeah.

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Puppy chow, like whatever people call it across the states.

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I don't know.

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I have no idea what you're talking about.

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Puppy chow.

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Yeah.

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What?

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No.

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Yeah.

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It's like checks and then you put like the peanut butter, chocolate, and like powdered sugar.

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I'll take your word for it.

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That's, that's what's on there.

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Okay.

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Well, I'm sure other people know what that is.

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Puppy chow, muddy buddies.

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Cool.

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Anyway, it's really good.

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And there was also a chocolate orange one, which is like, I, I really like that combination.

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I heard that's,

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I heard that's big in, uh, like the uk, but I don't think I've ever had that combination.

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Hmm.

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And then there's a chocolate peppermint, which he hates chocolate and mint, so I definitely shoved a whole one in his mouth.

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Yeah, that's not fun.

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She thinks I'm gonna like mint every time she gets something that's mint and it's never gonna happen.

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Okay.

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But.

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As someone that likes it, it's freaking amazing and you should probably go try it.

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All right.

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Well, uh, I think that's pretty much it for this week.

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Uh, next week we plan on talking a little bit about how to, uh, travel and stay within your fitness goals and, uh, more importantly, how to do vegan food on the road, which is extra hard mode.

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Uh, normally.

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No, just eating high protein on the road is pretty tricky, but vegan, high protein on the road is, uh, expert plus.

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Plus expert.

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Plus plus.

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Uh, so we're gonna talk a little bit how to, how to eat, um, you know, or make your own food at an Airbnb or a hotel or something like that.

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Uh, and then maybe some tips for picking things off of the menus at the local restaurants.

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Or gas stations

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or gas stations are a really good source.

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Uh, usually better than the restaurants actually.

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Yeah.

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Sometimes for some reason.

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So they have nuts.

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At least.

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At

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least they're, uh, reliable.

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You kind of know what your options are in a gas station.

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We'll talk about gas station options.

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Yeah, gas station options.

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Cool.

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Alright, classy.

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We keep it classy here.

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Yeah,

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we're definitely not eating out of a gas station most of the time.

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All right everybody, I hope you, uh, enjoy it and thanks for listening and we'll see you again next time.

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Say bye.