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Coffee Talk With The Cajun Mamas: Meal Prepping Cajun Style
Today, we discuss the challenges and benefits of meal prepping while navigating Louisiana's food-centric culture and staying healthy despite busy schedules.
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Welcome back to Coffee Talk with the Cajun Mamas, y'all.
Speaker 2:Welcome.
Speaker 1:It's the second week of March.
Speaker 2:Yes, how are you doing on your get healthy January? New Year's resolution.
Speaker 1:Let's have a New Year's resolutions check-in with everybody. Have we lost the weight? Have we gone to the gym? What have we done.
Speaker 2:I went to Mexico and everything went out the window.
Speaker 1:I've been eating king cake for the last six eight weeks but you know what?
Speaker 2:It's always.
Speaker 1:There's always time to get back on the horse, yeah it's never too late. Today we're talking about meal prepping. And this is not Before we lose you on this topic.
Speaker 2:Listen, it's not just going to be about healthy meal preps. It's going to be about you know your busy life and how you deal with your busy life when it comes to meals. All right, so let's discuss our grand sponsor before we get too far into this.
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Speaker 2:Yeah right um shout out sanctify shout out yeah, uh, all right, so let's get going meal prep I'm gonna be totally honest with y'all.
Speaker 1:Like, sarah had the idea to do this topic and I was like, because I do this? I meal prep, yeah we in my house we meal prep faithfully and when she was like we need to talk about meal prep and I'm like that is the most boring, like I don't want to talk about.
Speaker 1:I don't even want to do it when I have to do it much less talk about it and she's like no, you need to because you've been doing it for so long, it works. It works and people need to know how it works in your, in your life and I'm like, okay, I guess it's a part of your schedule.
Speaker 2:It's a part of your schedule, it's a part of your routine. And let's talk about, if you didn't do it this way, how would your week go? Probably like mine does, and that's not good.
Speaker 1:I can't fly by the seat of my pants when it comes to meals. I don't like that and you know I admire, I totally admire those that do cook, you know, two or three nights a week or for their family. I mean, some people cook every day and that's I don't know how. I don't know how y'all do it. Y'all work all day long, y'all get the kids home from school, y'all do homework, Y'all go to dance practice and baseball and all this and you still you come home and you cook a meal or whatever. You are a rock star, me a meal or whatever. You are a rock star me. I'm gonna cook on the weekend two or three meals all at one time and have a whole messy kitchen one time, and then I'm gonna put it in little containers and I'm gonna have that for the week and my kids they eat a mixture of what we cook and chicken, nuggets, eggs, you know, sandwiches, stuff like that.
Speaker 1:That's just how we roll yeah and that's what works for us and I love that, and you know when I meal prep, my life was so much easier it wasn't really it was so much a little validated that you said that, because sometimes I feel like it's so, it's not like complicated, but it takes time and sometimes you you be out having fun on a Saturday and I'm at home meal prepping and I'm like this ain't worth it.
Speaker 2:But it is. But it is Because during the week I don't have to worry about what I'm going to eat.
Speaker 1:It's just there.
Speaker 2:Because during the week you have time to go work out. See, that's the thing, somebody got to cook a meal. That's the trade-off. That's the trade-off, so you're able to do your workouts during the week because you planned on the weekend.
Speaker 1:And some people like you might be out there being like I can't eat the same thing every day.
Speaker 2:Some people will not eat leftovers.
Speaker 1:Then this probably ain't for you.
Speaker 2:Because all we eat is leftovers.
Speaker 1:But I do. I have heard of people that like they'll meal prep on the weekend, like on a Saturday or a Sunday, but then only like one or two meals, and then they'll meal prep again on Wednesday, like so they can switch up what they cook. So it's, you know, twice a week or something.
Speaker 1:Find something that works for you. But like it is a lot of work upfront, but during the week, when things are running smooth and I have food already made and I don't, I don't have to make those bad, those spur the moment choices of well, we're just gonna go get hamburgers because we're busy right now no. I know I have food at home, so I'm gonna go home and eat it, especially because it's so expensive right now to eat dude.
Speaker 2:So I can't with the like plus. I don't even want to eat nothing. Like you know, like there's is so like I want that, so bad that I want to go out and, like you know, like fast food, that just does not. Don't do it for you. No, that's only for convenience. That's only if there is absolutely nothing left in the house. Yeah, and I did.
Speaker 1:I can't no more and when I, when the ground meat is so expensive and I like and I cook, I mean it's for me and my husband and if y'all knew how much food he eats. Like we do, we count macros. Okay, that's a whole nother thing I could talk about. But, like, basically all of our meals have a certain number of protein, fats and carbohydrates. So my husband eats five meals a day.
Speaker 2:Um yeah, that's a lot of food. It's a lot of food, a lot of groceries.
Speaker 1:It's a lot of groceries. It's a lot of ground meat, it's a lot of chicken, it's stuff but it's all good stuff.
Speaker 2:It's all good stuff, yeah don't get me wrong.
Speaker 1:But my point to say along around my point was it's so expensive to afford groceries right now. I'm not going to waste that food we eat till the last bit is gone. Nothing gets wasted, so I'm not going to pass on that what I already have at home. I'm not going to go get some junk. I'm going to be like no, I'm not letting that meal go to waste because I've already paid for it, yes, and you're not wasting money this way.
Speaker 2:I feel like when I was meal prepping, there was no waste Like we're not throwing away, it goes further. You know like it just was. It was just such a good way to live. I need to do this again, you can. It's just such a good way to live. I need to do this again, you can. You have totally convinced me. You absolutely can, and if you are a person that doesn't like to cook. There are people that make their entire living doing this.
Speaker 1:You need to Google around, you Find some people, because they have some great meal prep services out there and if you don't mind, I mean you might pay a few little dollars extra for the convenience. But dang, maybe it's worth it.
Speaker 2:I think it's worth it If my husband didn't eat so much it'd be worth it.
Speaker 1:If he only needed three meals a day.
Speaker 2:There's a little service that I got from not long ago and the food was delicious and I love that I didn't have to think. I didn't have to think, you know, I was postpartum coming out. I was just like I didn't have to think. You know, I was postpartum coming out like I was just like I didn't want to have to make meals, I wanted them to be kind of healthy. Yeah, I mean, like it was google it, find somebody around that will cook meals for you and you know I mean, and there's like hello fresh and there's all these other meal prep type of boxes you can get.
Speaker 1:I mean, you got to cook that yourself but you know, there's options. Okay, there's options you can get. I mean, you got to cook that yourself, but you know there's options.
Speaker 2:Okay, there's options, you can do it. Let's talk about sound prevention, okay. Okay, let's talk about taking care of our bodies in a different way.
Speaker 1:Another option for your health.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:Sound prevention screenings. We went to this place.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:And she travels, so if you're around us she has a team. They do ultrasound early detection screenings for like vascular, your arteries, okay, thyroid, breast, abdomen, pelvis area for the menses and all. You know, early detection is what this is all about. Okay, and we went and had this done by Ms Dion and she was wonderful. Everything was explained in detail of what was going on.
Speaker 2:I loved that.
Speaker 1:It was almost like spa-ish feeling, don't you find yeah?
Speaker 2:It was very like. Of course we went in together. We did, you know, because we don't do anything without each other and it's like I hope you don't mind. At first I was like I hope you know, we're just going to go in together, like we're not scared of each other and we don't care, you know. So we did this together and so, like she was just as interested in what my screening was, I was watching her scans and you were watching my scans.
Speaker 1:We was watching for each other yeah but yeah, um miss dion, she her story. She got yearly mammograms and it missed her cancer and she found her breast cancer through a ultrasound, so she found it early. You know, she's a survivor and so she has a mission to help people have early detection so that they can do something about it without drastic health medical intervention.
Speaker 1:So, anyway, you go ahead and go to sound-preventioncom. You can book an appointment there, you can see all the services she offers. Cost all that stuff. Or you can also email soundprevention at gmailcom. But take your health into your hands, your hands. Yeah, do it, go, do it, invest in yourself. Okay, all right. So, um, let's discuss okay. So why, why? Why do I meal prep? Well, it's mainly the convenience for me and plus, I know what I'm putting in my body too. Uh, you know if I'm gonna spend all this time in the gym? Yes, yes, I do like to eat. I don't eat clean all the time, but I work out so I can eat pretty much If I want to go have a king cake, if I want to go get a burger.
Speaker 2:I'm not going to feel guilty.
Speaker 1:A burger A burger, nice big burger. I'm not going to feel bad about it because that like 80-20-ish rule. You know, 80% of the time I'm eating my meal preps clean and then I'm going to enjoy myself. It's not all Now. If you have specific goals you need to meet, like you know cutting fat or building muscle you might need it. Okay, but if you in general want to lose some pounds or just maintain a healthy lifestyle, you know, I feel like that 80-20.
Speaker 2:80-20, that's fair.
Speaker 1:It's fair and doable, you know don't be crazy and be like I'm cutting out all carbs or all sugar.
Speaker 2:I mean, maybe you could cut out all sugar, but when I first started, you know, I was like, okay, we have one cheat day. Okay, one cheat day a week, One cheat day.
Speaker 1:See, that's where we get carried away.
Speaker 2:But that's where I started. Okay, just start now. I just started out one cheat day and the whole day I cheated, not you know, like I wouldn't like overindulge, but like all my meals was not healthy. Then they were like it should really be one cheap meal and I'm like oh, oh man, okay. And then I changed that and then the rest of that story was written. But it was just like it's okay to start somewhere. It's okay, you know, it's okay to start somewhere, because when you fall off, get back on that's the most important part.
Speaker 2:Yes Now for me and my family.
Speaker 1:I'll just share a little bit what that looks like yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 2:Um, so recently, you know we I like to shop in bulk, but I'm kind of a fly by the seat of my pants person.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and meal prep, and I feel like you got to buy that. You got to go to sam's. If you want the best price, you go to sam's at costco or someplace like that to get some big packs of ground meat, oh yeah.
Speaker 2:Because it's going to take that much. You know, yeah, but I don't know what's wrong with me. Like I need to get back into it. But I've been ordering from Thrive and getting my food brought in Because like I do not like to bring all them children to the store with me and they are always with me. So I'm like, okay, the healthier options. I buy healthier snacks and you know, like they might not be the best stuff, but it's not a bunch of chips and junk.
Speaker 2:It's not that. So we make a little bit of better choices. But it comes right to my house, like I don't have to get out Sam's if you. You know, like if you're on the Sam's membership, they'll bring it right to your house. I'm so far away from sam's that they won't deliver. You know, like the meat and stuff like that, but you can pick it up. So we do that from time to time. But um, the we've been getting our thrive boxes and I'll just cook. I kind of think in my head okay, I'm gonna cook taco meat or I'm gonna do this, something. That, something that you know takes me far and that's how I've been meal prepping lately or how I've been eating a little bit healthier, which is kind of sad because I haven't done any cooking videos recently.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's the trade-off. And I always say like people message me for good recipes all the time and I'm like baby, I can't help you. I know I cook so boring you wouldn't even think I was from.
Speaker 2:Louisiana with the way I eat. Most of the time I just send them to house page. Your food's seasoned, though it's seasoned now, don't get me wrong, it's good and it's seasoned.
Speaker 1:But, um, the traditional, you know rice and gravies all the time, or etouffee, or gum, even you know gumbo in the when it's cold outside, but uh, not, no, you're gonna see me with a like a lot of taco meat, chili. Um, we do, uh, chicken thigh meat 10 types of ways. I mean grilled, and I season them differently to kind of change things up or whatever. Um, lately lazy me though lately it's just been throwing a bunch of boneless chicken thighs into the instapot and kind of like it shreds and you can have tacos with that, you can have salads with that over rice, black beans, like just whatever type of way you want my instapot broke oh no, I had to throw it in the garbage.
Speaker 1:My air fryer broke recently oh man so I don't like I need another one, but I just don't want to put it out the money for that, because I'm like man, I need one too, and I want a big one, but all the big ones, like I don't have space for, I don't want it on my countertop and I need to put it in my cabinet and I'm like I'm gonna be put this big old thing up every time. God, the struggle is so real the struggle.
Speaker 2:What is wrong? First world problems.
Speaker 1:Beautiful. I can't find a good air fryer.
Speaker 2:No, I have to buy another Instapot. Okay.
Speaker 1:Let's talk about parish rice for a second.
Speaker 2:Yeah because this is a great episode for talking about parish rice.
Speaker 1:This is the episode for us to mention parish rice, because that is all I eat at my house um, they are a higher protein content.
Speaker 1:White rice doesn't taste any different than regular rice. It's delicious, you can't tell the difference. Um, it's low on the glycemic index, so if you are diabetic, pre-diabetic, you can't have that type of thing. You may want to check into parish rice, because it will not spike your blood sugar the way other rice does. It's a great source of energy low sodium, gmo free. You can trace this back. It's traceable. They said what?
Speaker 1:yeah, yeah, louisiana grown with complete traceability no okay, it's perfect for anyone trying to eat healthier while still enjoying, you know, that good Louisiana lifestyle we have.
Speaker 2:So, even though I like my rice and gravy and my gumbo, at least I'm trying to do better with parish rice.
Speaker 1:Swap number one should be your rice, and just go to parishricecom, check out a list of all the grocery stores around here where you can get it, and if you're not from around here, you can order it and they'll ship to your door.
Speaker 2:Mm-hmm, show a wheel. Do it Right there in Eunice, louisiana, from Eunice. Yes, parishricecom, all right. Well, you know, food, I'm hungry now.
Speaker 1:Yeah, me too, and you know a meal prepping one of the hardest things for me is like you get invited somewhere and like you know you're supposed to, not you, you're on track. Like. I'll be on track all week and I'm doing so good, and then it's like, hey, come eat out with us Friday night or something, and you're like I shouldn't, but then what do you do, do you?
Speaker 2:Well, you know and I'm speaking from when I was a healthier version of myself there was a time I would go. Okay, but but then you know, but most of the time it was a Mexican restaurant. It's pretty, it's pretty easy to eat, healthy, so you can make, you know.
Speaker 1:So let's, let's say that I like that. You said that because I'm thinking you know, if you really bout it, I know you like talking about Mexican food. We going from a perspective of, hey, how's your New Year resolution going? Okay, if you really still bout it and you on a mission to be healthier and, to you know, drop weight or whatever it may be, do you pass up and not go? Or, the other option, you go and you try to find something on the menu to make a healthier choice.
Speaker 2:Every place has a healthy choice.
Speaker 1:It has to. I mean, maybe not.
Speaker 2:McDonald's. Whether you know the macros or not, you know there are healthier choices you can make. So here's what I would do Go to the Mexican restaurants, skip the chips. Oh, that's so hard.
Speaker 1:I would drink a beer instead of the margarita bless it true you know, yeah, the margarita's gonna show all too.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know, but listen I still like to enjoy a beer. Yeah, so I enjoy a beer and I get uh, you know, mostly. You know fajitas are a good option Hungry huh, I'm so hungry right now. Skip the rice and beans, but you know there are some good options. Now, as far as fast food goes, there's always some good choices you can make too, and this is a whole different episode that I'm talking right now.
Speaker 2:But I would go to Chick-fil-A and I would get the grilled uh, love them little things and then, like, maybe there's like some kind of salad or something that you can get on the side. I don't know, but just the.
Speaker 1:Just the chicken nuggets were good, you know it's like this whole thing is really about changing your mindset around food. You know I feel like yeah, because you can still enjoy around food. You know I feel like.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because you can still enjoy all those things. You know, even Taco Bell has a Power Bowl and it's delicious. No kidding, yes, well, I'll be. I'm sorry you didn't know about that? I didn't, I have enjoyed a Power Bowl or two. So if you find yourself at the Taco Bell, they've got an option you know, for you I like this.
Speaker 1:This is something probably people didn't know about.
Speaker 2:Okay, yeah.
Speaker 1:Just make that choice Now let me also say, while I'm thinking about it If you're watching on YouTube, please put in the comments if you do your meal prep, share with us some meals you like to. I'm always looking for new meal ideas because I feel like we rotate four or five.
Speaker 1:So meal prep ideas would be great. We'd appreciate that. And then let us know, you know, have you tried meal prepping? Did you fall off the wagon? Why do you do it? Why don't you do it? Just weigh in? Yeah, we enjoy going to read those comments.
Speaker 2:Yes, all right, let's talk about sound prevention Again, sound prevention screenings with Ms Dionne Benoit. Let me just say she was so delightful and so knowledgeable about what you you know she would tell us it's a screening. I'm sorry, let me go back. It's a. She does ultrasound screenings and she does like vascular thyroid, breast, abdomen, pelvis. Uh, funniest thing, when uh she looked, obviously she was looking, you know, she was looking in my ovaries and stuff at first and uh, when she got there, uh, cole was like please tell me, there's nothing in there I was glued to that screen.
Speaker 1:You hear me, I was looking for something.
Speaker 2:I've never seen an ultrasound of my, of that part where it was empty and uh she was like god. She was like there's nothing in there and I hadn't even thought about that, you know. No, no babies, but it was just interesting, like, and she was, she was so, but that was just a funny funny thing that happened, yeah uh, but she laughed with us too. But did you know that you could take your health into your own hands by going to get these screenings?
Speaker 1:you don't need a doctor's referral to do this?
Speaker 2:no, but if you have one, go. And she she brought up that mammograms, sometimes ultrasound, will catch what mammograms don't, and sometimes mammograms will catch with ultrasound yeah, she does not advocate on not getting it's not a replacement.
Speaker 1:No, it should be done in addition, um, especially if you've been told that you're, you have dense breast tissue, because it can be very hard to pick up on a mammogram, so ultrasounds can come in handy for that situation especially. And I mean, did you know, one in eight women like that's the statistic nowadays one in eight women.
Speaker 1:I don't like that no at all so you should be proactive about this and if you catch it early enough, you know there's minimal, minimally invasive, you know medical treatment and they always say at 40 you need your first mammogram.
Speaker 2:But let me just just tell you newsflash people under 40 can get breast cancer too.
Speaker 1:I think that's such a horrible thing that insurance won't pay for it most even mine won't anyway, until you're 40. Because what's the point? Like we want to be proactive, so this is another option too. This is another option.
Speaker 2:Y'all go ahead and sound-preventioncom. We'll give you some more information. She's on Facebook, soundprevention at gmailcom, or you can give her a call at 985-228-5858. That's Ms Dionne Benoit with Sound Prevention.
Speaker 1:Yes, we highly recommend it.
Speaker 2:Screenings All right.
Speaker 1:So I want to just read a couple of these little points just real fast, okay, because I thought it was kind of funny. You know the Louisiana food struggle, everything around here. We celebrate with food. We do. It's our love language.
Speaker 2:If you coming over, we have to have food.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like what are you bringing or what you want me to fix type of situation. So it's like that's, it's hard it can be hard. I don't want to belittle that like this can be really hard, no matter where you're at or from.
Speaker 2:But we have done this and you know, like, um, we go to, you know we go to my mother-in-law's a lot to eat and uh, but at first I would bring my food with me that's dedication that was very hard yeah, to pass on the scoops and the dip and the just rice and gravy and I don't pass on that no more, but like I probably should do a better job of that but yeah, we bring our own food.
Speaker 1:That is dedication. The willpower though and you know you can, you know there is something to say about that feeling of willpower. Know, like I don't know about you, but you know if I make a smart choice when I know I could have, not, I'm like you get a little more confident in yourself and a little stronger, you know, and you just, you feel proud of yourself you do, and that's a good thing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know, maybe that could be a sacrifice. You know, that is a very big sacrifice, yeah, being around here you know, um, everything tastes better fried.
Speaker 1:We'll fry everything that.
Speaker 2:Don't run away fast like if we can catch it, we're gonna fry it up that's a big decision for me if I pick grilled chicken salad over fried chicken salad just know that's a sacrifice, that's a big sacrifice.
Speaker 1:How about, like another culture thing, like you're gonna go to the guilt of saying no, you can't refuse a plate at your mama's house no.
Speaker 2:If she says go get that, look I just made some you're gonna tell her no?
Speaker 1:you know that's a sin, you know.
Speaker 2:So that just enough these are like or sometimes t. You know he cooks and he's like I made this big cake you know, and he'll just, or he'll, surprise you.
Speaker 1:I guess that's when you have to be like look, I'm trying to do better right now. I'm going to take a bite, though. I'm going to try it. You take your little bite, but you know you could freeze stuff.
Speaker 2:And then hey, can I?
Speaker 1:take this to go. And then, hey, can I take this to go. I'm going to freeze it for whenever my cheat meal is no, but sometimes he brings it to my house.
Speaker 2:You've been there before where he brings me stuff, yes, and he's like look at all this bread pudding and you're like, oh man, I just started my diet today and so you could freeze it and be like you know what We'll enjoy? Tony's bread pudding.
Speaker 1:Yeah. Another day pudding. Yeah, another day, another day. Tony, thank you for thinking of me. Yes, you can't say no, um, let's see small changes over time lead to real results. You don't have to give up all the good stuff, just eat it in a way that won't make your doctor call you or maybe you're gonna eat all this stuff.
Speaker 2:Just just make you a little plate, a little plate. Be sensible about your plate. Now.
Speaker 2:This or I don't know, as far as meal prepping goes, it's minimal in my house at this point, but used to be a big part of our life. I really you are doing a great job at that, thank you, and I look up to you for that. Oh, I think you're doing a great job, my friend. Um, just planning, planning in general, uh, your meals can be um, it can be a lot, but I think it could be helpful as far as what your week's gonna look like, the week you know it really, really does.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and you know my husband too, he takes them to work, you know. I mean, if you don't have that option, then you may have to look into other options to stay on your target or whatever you're going for. But yeah, he does it too. He takes his meals to work and heats that up and eats that over there and look, he's had to turn down a lot more than me.
Speaker 1:Like I'm, at home or I'm out and about, but they bring you know in an office. They bring a lot of stuff. They like the food Ooh.
Speaker 2:They like to, they like the food. Oh, they like to treat each other because, you want to know, everything is so miserable in an office I can't speak for everyone, but I have worked in an office before or in an all you know. In that type of situation and if somebody comes in the break room with something, we are all headed to that break. That's the highlight of the day nothing gets better than that. That's another.
Speaker 1:It's a joy it's a cultural thing, it's, it's a joy I don't think it's a cultural thing.
Speaker 2:I think that's a thing in all offices if it's somebody's birthday, everybody's heading for the break room to get some cake cake, I mean.
Speaker 1:So you know anyway lord jesus, help us with our relationship with food yeah, amen, but anyway thank y'all for listening today and on this topic, yeah, we want to hear about what you do too, what you think all right, we're going to talk about the whole catholic ministries one more time before we let y'all go.
Speaker 2:the whole catholic ministries mission is to help women foster a relationship with our Blessed Mother Mary so that we can know that we are beloved daughters of Christ. They do a lot of different things, but they have this big Mother's Day retreat that they do on Mother's Day weekend Every year. Yeah, that is probably already filled by this point. Yeah. But, they just have a really great mission. They promote praying together to seek the will of God. They're a sister ship.
Speaker 1:How about that crying statue? Oh, do you know about that?
Speaker 2:I don't know a whole lot about it, but I did talk to her on the phone about it.
Speaker 1:So basically they had a. I'm going to say on the phone about it. So basically they had a. I'm not gonna say that wrong. How do you say pieta, pieta, okay, they had um a statue at their conference, their mother's day retreat, and the statue of Mary cried all weekend that they were there she said and you could go and touch it, and it was wet, you know.
Speaker 2:And she said, and it continued to do that the whole entire retreat until the end just a miracle. I mean, that's a miracle, that's a miracle, and can you imagine what it must have been like to be there in the presence of the lord there. Yeah, yeah I just feel like sometimes God puts things like that and he's like, okay, this is me you know this is. This is me, this is. You might not be able to see me, but here's your glimpse here's a physical yes sign that you can see sometimes he's gotta whack us over the head with it, huh.
Speaker 2:But but, miss Melissa, I tell you what she she was. She was she was adamant in pursuing the Cajun Mamas, Okay. And I, just when I talked to her on the phone I've never met her, Okay, and just speaking with her she was like I felt, you know, when you feel the need to tell everybody, to tell somebody your story, immediately I started telling her and she was like I am gonna cover you in prayer and she texted me from time to time.
Speaker 1:It's like hey I'm praying for you so god puts people in your life that you need when you need it right so?
Speaker 2:it's no, it's no coincidence that at this moment, behold, catholic Ministries is our grand sponsor for this month. So y'all go ahead and look into it. Search. Behold Catholic Ministries on Facebook, Instagram, and they have an email address. Behold Catholic Ministries at gmailcom. Thank you, Behold, and thank you, Miss Melissa.
Speaker 1:Miss Melissa Vincent Vincent. Yes, spelled Vincent, but it's a.
Speaker 2:Vincent yes, vanson yes.
Speaker 1:Spelled Vincent, but it's a Vanson.
Speaker 2:Yes, all right.
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