Retirement Plan Secured
Retirement Plan Secured is the podcast where Allison and Jenn laugh, cry, learn, and strategize their way to early retirement—because why wait until 65 to live your dream life? Join them as they navigate their 40s with humor, honesty, and hard-earned wisdom, tackling hormones, fertility, career shifts, and everything in between. Whether you're plotting your own escape from the 9-to-5 or just love a good, real-talk conversation, this is your spot to dream big, plan smart, and retire early(ish).
Along the way, they’re manifesting the dream lives on their vision boards—Allison sipping iced coffees at a permanent resort, balancing water aerobics with running her own PI firm, while Jenn tends to her farm, complete with chickens, goats, a greenhouse, and a thriving wellness and life coaching business. Tune in and get inspired to create your own version of early retirement bliss!
Retirement Plan Secured
DIY Beauty Secrets, Gardens and Girl Dinners
Our catch-up encompasses everything from embracing Father's Day as single moms to DIY natural deodorant alternatives, with a dose of garden updates and parenting milestones along the way.
From personal care to home gardening, practical advice abounds. You'll learn why apple cider vinegar might replace your deodorant, how to keep basil thriving in your garden, and the secret to making homemade blueberry coffee syrup that will transform your morning routine. Our hosts share their experiences growing everything from cilantro to "pink lemonade" blueberries (yes, that's a real thing, and birds won't eat them!).
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Hi, I'm Allison.
Speaker 2:And I'm Jen.
Speaker 1:Welcome to our podcast.
Speaker 2:Retirement plan secured.
Speaker 1:I like when you say it instead of when I say it. So it's been a week. Actually, it's been a long, two weeks. So let's just like dive into it. We've had a lot going on. Today is actually Father's Day, so happy Father's Day to all the dads that probably don't listen to us.
Speaker 2:And happy Father's Day to us.
Speaker 1:And happy Father's Day to us, because there's times that we both pull double weight. So happy Father's Day to all the single moms who pull double weight all day, every day. I know that's like a controversial thing. People have said like how rude it is to say that, but I don't I go back at all.
Speaker 2:Yeah, listen, I mean I, I certainly co-parent, you co-parent in in the sense that like our kids see their dads and and whatnot, but like it's just hard.
Speaker 1:Listen, I feel like there's dads that pull double weight and they're the mom and the dad. Yeah, absolutely so. I mean, I'm not bashing dads at all.
Speaker 2:I'm just saying that we got to pull double. I think that's, I think that's the point here, right, like the effort, the appointments, this, the, the activities that typically a stay at home mom would do and also work full time, right. So I do at this point and I never said that before like, oh, happy father's day. But at this stage and phase, you know what, fuck it. We should absolutely recognize how much we put in yeah, I mean it's a lot.
Speaker 1:And you know what's also crazy? Today is my son's 14th birthday.
Speaker 2:I know I was just going to bring that up.
Speaker 1:Last year I had a teenager, but now I have a like. He's going to high school in September. I know I have a high school-aged child.
Speaker 2:I can't wait for the graduation party. I know, and can we also celebrate his birthday? Are we planning to do?
Speaker 1:that, yeah, we're gonna, we're gonna. I mean, let's just hope it doesn't rain, cause at the rate that we're going every single weekend, it is raining here in New York.
Speaker 2:It's insane, but it looks like next weekend's good, so hopefully that continues on to the following.
Speaker 1:I hope it's like getting it all out now, and then we can have like a full summer of just complete dry heat just fucking hot.
Speaker 2:I don't. I love the humidity too, like I, I don't love the humidity. I don't care anything, that's but I just, and if you need it, my, my, I thrive, my skin is good, my hair is curly, I just love it, I'm just your skin is good because it's dewy from the sweat, from the humidity.
Speaker 1:Yes, and I like it, I love it. I just can't stand it. Yesterday was so cold.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yesterday was miserable. I felt it in my bones. My neck has been acting up, I have a herniated disc and I am in lots of pain from that. But the weather makes it worse, I guess because because you know it's true when they say, as you get older, when it rains like your bones and your joints hurt, it's true, it's insane yesterday I was just straight cold all day yeah, just wearing a hoodie and then I went to get a pedicure yesterday.
Speaker 1:Listen to this. So I go get a pedicure yesterday and I was like, oh, maybe I shouldn't do it. It's so cold that I'm gonna have to be in flip-flops for like 24 hours. Yeah, so I go get a. I go get a pedicure and I'm like watching the girl paint it and I could see she's painting it on thick. So I'm like increasingly getting annoyed while I'm sitting there, but of course I don't say anything because you just you just shut up right. I come home and I put like the those drying drops on it. We go to dinner last night and of course I had to wear like flip-flops because it's you know, whatever it's freezing. So this morning I go to the gym and the whole time, the entire time I'm on spin on the bike, I'm thinking I hope I don't mess up this pedicure. I like literally raced home to take my socks off and, lo and behold, my two big toes have like a little smush on it.
Speaker 2:That's so annoying.
Speaker 1:So now I have to go later.
Speaker 2:You have to go home after you get a thick pedicure Like if.
Speaker 1:then if they laid it on thick or like three coats and go it wasn't even three coats, she was just doing it so thick and I just wanted to be like stop.
Speaker 2:That's annoying, but you have to go and put your feet in cold water really yeah, and it helps. You know, make you even more cold, but it does, it does help. I put the quick dry, but that doesn't help because it does smudge it, so you just have to go in cold water I was so mad.
Speaker 1:Now I'm like great, now I have to go later and fix it, because I can't just leave a smudge on and it'll drive me crazy. I.
Speaker 2:I actually have been going, so I have not been painting my nails for like the last three months, completely no nail polish on my nails, nothing and have been growing my nails out because I had I guess I think it was powder, gel, whatever acrylic for a while and it ruined my real nails and my nails grow very long and they're like really thick and strong naturally. I don't know why I was doing it ruined like, caused ridges in my nails, and so I finally grew them all out after like three months and so I've just been going kind of clean, no nail polish at all.
Speaker 1:I keep saying I'm going to go back to that and I don't Just for a little bit, I know, I think maybe I'll do it in the winter.
Speaker 2:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1:Oh, and then look at this. So last time I went I cut them, so I was like my nails were too long. Look at this bad, my one nail is so much longer than the other. Well, that's, the technician did that. Yeah, well, my left hand grows faster. Number one, number two I didn't even realize until I got home because it was such a bright color, and I don't pay attention. When I'm in the now place, I'm like swiping on my phone, daydreaming.
Speaker 2:I pay attention to everything they do and I tell them if they're messing up that's not.
Speaker 1:She's usually really good at it, but whatever, it's fine. But now I just keep looking at my left hands and I'm like, oh, you have grown so much, you look so good. And then I look at my right hand. I'm like, oh, stubby little nails. What's happening?
Speaker 2:oh weird sometimes, when things are closer to your heart, I heard like, yes, your eyebrows grow fat, like one eyebrow grows faster like anything close to your heart. Your heart is technically like closer to the center.
Speaker 1:Anyway, I think right, but I don't know, maybe it has something to do with it um, I also think it's like the vitamins that I take, I take like prenatals, so like that really like gets my nails going faster.
Speaker 2:I've been taking prenatal. Now you obviously are working towards your fertility journey, so it makes sense that you're taking prenatals. But I have friends that take prenatal just because they want their hair to grow lustrous and long and like their nails to be like amazing, and I think they're onto something I mean there's no, there's nothing bad about taking it.
Speaker 1:I think it's. So I always get this wrong. Is it folate? Right?
Speaker 2:the folate is good so natural folate is good, it's. The folic acid is the bad. It is bad. But if you, specifically if you have that mthfr genetic mutation, which I know I have most yeah, not a lot of the prenatals anymore have folic acid. They have fully you shouldn't take anything with folic acid. I have always used ritual. Um, it's a vitamin that I've ordered and come to the house like 30 bucks a month or whatever. Um, but they have a prenatal version.
Speaker 1:Look into that so I take the parallel ones, because they don't have biotin in it yeah, I know you have a reaction and I can't. Yeah, my skin gets really bad when I have biotin. My body produces so much biotin on its own. I think it's from the almonds. I eat a lot of almonds.
Speaker 2:Do you eat raw almonds?
Speaker 1:Yeah, and that is filled of biotin or keratin, however you want to call it.
Speaker 2:Well, similar to spinach and kale, almond skin has oxalate, so you have to be careful. Oh, really you have to look into that I don't know, that's my new thing.
Speaker 1:I'm telling everyone spinach is bad for you. I'm like spinach. You shouldn't be eating that.
Speaker 2:It has here's the deal. Like it's not good because of the oxalate, but it's also not terrible for you. Like I have actually been growing an herb garden and I also am growing lettuce, we'll meet, and I have spinach in there. I do Do you. Yeah, I'm growing spinach.
Speaker 1:What has oculates in it? Am I saying it right? Is it oculates?
Speaker 2:It's ox with an X oxalates. Oxalates, yeah, and you know oxalates are not good for your joints, like there's some. It does some damage, so you have to be careful. It's just like certain side effects. You know, I mean a number of foods that have oxalates in them, but they all have different levels of it, so I think it's just, you know, there's also benefits to those foods too. So everything in moderation, like last night I had a delicious goat cheese and beet salad, and beets also have oxalates, so you have to be careful, but it was very good and it had arugula, which I know you love. Yeah, um, so, speaking of foods and holistic methods, I you were telling me a story about how you don't use deodorant.
Speaker 1:Yeah. So I was at the gym, I guess last week or whatever it was, and one of the girls in the class was talking about how she's trying to use a natural deodorant and it's not working, and you know how long does it take to kick in. I was saying that I don't use deodorant at all. I'm like because I was on like a natural deodorant journey, all the ones that I used would make my armpits break out like really bad. I would get like red bumps on them or like burning sensation. So I completely stopped using it and I did like research and this was like years ago and I started putting apple cider vinegar under my armpits after I took a shower. Um, once in a blue, I actually did use that like amazon clay what is that? Called the?
Speaker 1:the blue and white one, the coat with the k um no, it like came in a it was like in a jar of powder and then you mix it with a liquid baby I don't remember the name of it because I haven't done it in a long time I actually like threw it out. I should, I have to get a new one, but I was doing it like the clay benzenite, but maybe it was benzenite. Play, yeah, play with the apple cider vinegar and get like a paste and it would like draw all the toxins out of your pits.
Speaker 2:Wait, I think it's betonite.
Speaker 1:Betonite clay.
Speaker 2:Maybe A night, yeah.
Speaker 1:I think that's what it is. It's like in a little jar. So I would do that. And then I would just do straight apple cider vinegar, like once a week week. So I'm telling the girls at the gym and I'm like, just try it. I'm like it really sucks because apple cider vinegar reeks. Like I hate the smell of it. But yeah, it's terrible. Like take a shower, put it on your pits, like when you're sitting home or when you're working from home or whatever. Let it like sit a little bit. I usually do like a half hour an hour and then I take a shower, rinse it off and I noticed that like yes, I'll still sweat, like everyone sweats, even if you put deodorant on. Like you're still going to sweat, it's just not going to smell.
Speaker 2:But the thing is you lasered your hair and I know that's a big difference. See, I also. I don't use um antiperspirant at all it's terrible for you but I do use like native and like deodorants, um, but I noticed like if I go a couple of days and I don't fully shave like it makes like I have to or deodor children, but if you've lasered, I think you're like one leg up right like you.
Speaker 1:Well, no, because not to be gross, like if I don't do this every once in a while, like I'll smell like my I smell I sweat, like I sweat like a beast at the gym. Yeah, so I feel like this really does work, like it just detoxes whatever's in your pores, because what smells is what's coming out of your pores oh, it's bacteria Right. So if you're cleaning and killing whatever's in your pores, yes, smell, it's bacteria, that smells Right. So if you just keep cleaning it, I also use dial. Well, this is like a recent thing that I started doing more. I used to use dial soap on my face all the time, like because I would break out a lot, and that like kept it at bay. But it has to be like the specific one, like the orange dial in the pump, like the one that, like you see, yes, on your face.
Speaker 2:yes, is it antibacterial?
Speaker 1:Yep that is so weird. Yeah, so I have the bar one also. I have a bar one. I like that. I use the bar on my armpits in the shower.
Speaker 2:That's so interesting, you put that on your face.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't do it as much anymore, but like once a week I'll do it. Like if I go to the gym like two or three days in a row, like just to get like a good wash on my face, I'll do it. But I always have it in the house and I make my son use it too, like after football when he comes home and he's like all sweaty and gross, like I'm like you have to use this on your face.
Speaker 1:He gets like little blackheads on his nose. I got to get him like those little strips. It happens, yeah. So, anyway, a couple of the girls in the gym are like they're gonna try it. Um, one of the girls came up to me last week or the other day, whatever it was, I have zero concept of time at all and she's like I get what you're saying like she's like I tried it. Like it's so hard to like sit with it on, like it smells, she's like. But I can definitely notice like a little bit of a difference and I'm like just keep up with it, even if you do it every single day for a week. One, it's not going to hurt at all.
Speaker 1:Two, you might just smell like vinegar yeah, but three, like if you're really getting everything out, like that's so good for your body, like just get all that bacteria out, because there's so many ways to detox your body too, um, lymphatic drainage is really important as well.
Speaker 2:So, like, do that, do some drainage. You can even open up your lymph system by jumping on a trampoline, which we both have. One, yes, um, which I can't do right now because my neck hurts, but I definitely want to go get a lymphatic massage.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:I hate cilantro. I think it tastes disgusting.
Speaker 1:Oh, it's my favorite.
Speaker 2:Also wonderful herb for detoxing heavy metals and other things in your body.
Speaker 1:It's funny because I read a thing that said if you don't like the taste of cilantro and you think it tastes like soap, that means you have heavy metals and you need cilantro more than ever.
Speaker 2:But it also I also read that it's like a genetic disposition to not liking cilantro because, like I don't really I don't eat sushi, like I don't eat a lot of like I'll have salmon here and there, but I don't think that I ingest a ton of heavy metals which you can typically get mercury from, like fish or whatever like fish here and there, but I don't think that I ingest a ton of heavy metals which you can typically get mercury from, like fish or whatever like fish here and there. But I just think it tastes like soap and I really love it like I do eat it.
Speaker 2:I can't believe that you love it.
Speaker 1:It's so I love it so when I do tacos on Tuesdays, we make taco chuzos here, big taco Tuesday people.
Speaker 2:I'm a big parsley person and I love parsley. Yeah.
Speaker 1:I'm growing that, but not cilantro so let me tell you this I have a little garden outside also, yeah, and I bought like the plants like you know, they're like already started, yeah, so I bought the parsley ones. I couldn't find cilantro anywhere, so I got like the bags of the seeds, planted them, and do you believe that I have? I only planted them on Mother's Day, so what is that? A month ago they're already all sprouted, all the cilantro I was so happy, so proud of our garden.
Speaker 1:This year it's incredible, I know, and I have a lot of parsley out there too and mint might get so bad. He hates it. He rips all the mint out because it grows like weeds.
Speaker 2:Mm-hmm, I have chives, sage, basil, which is growing like crazy.
Speaker 1:My basil is not growing like crazy yet.
Speaker 2:It's growing.
Speaker 1:But it's not like my parsley is just like thriving.
Speaker 2:Just pinch the top and then it'll grow um that's a good idea. You have to. You have to pinch the top and then it like, expands further. We have peppers growing. We finally got a little zucchini showing up, so cute. I love zucchini yeah, um, the the tomatoes haven't produced any fruit yet, but I have's I have like one little mini tomato.
Speaker 1:It's so tiny and it's like poking through.
Speaker 2:We have this lemonade blueberry tree or bush, and so the good thing about it is that when it's ripe, when the blueberries are ripe, they don't turn blue See, like a pink lemonade color.
Speaker 1:Really.
Speaker 2:Just like a blue blueberry, but the birds don't eat them.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's interesting. I have a blueberry tree. It hasn't produced anything yet.
Speaker 2:I've got two right next to each other, like a regular blueberry one, and then this pink lemonade one, pink lemonade one they're both producing, but the the pink lemonade one will not be susceptible to birds eating all the fruit, which is good.
Speaker 1:Well, I'm hoping that my boobers start to thrive this year. My blackberry tree, I thought was dead because of the lantern flies. Last year it killed half of the plant, but I see the greenery coming back, so I guess like the whole thing.
Speaker 2:Fertilize. Get like the organic fertilizer. You can find it in Home Depot. I'll send you a picture of what I use, but it's it's very helpful.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I have to put something on it, because, yeah, yeah, my cherry tree didn't produce any cherries this year, though, which was weird. I think that the weather was too, you mean last year no, this year.
Speaker 2:Oh, it already does it.
Speaker 1:It's usually in the spring yeah, usually, um, you know, it has like the flowers on it and then, once the flowers all fall off, it starts to produce cherries. It hasn't done it yet this year. I see like some things forming, but they look like they're dead. That makes sense.
Speaker 2:I don't know what's a strange season, it's been like yeah, we've had a really weird year I feel like, even though it's june, it feels like may. At this point, it feels like freaking october?
Speaker 1:I don't know.
Speaker 2:So, like just thinking about, like April showers bring me flowers, like yeah, things are blooming, but it's also so rainy. I just I think it's going to be a really rainy season, unfortunately.
Speaker 1:I mean, it's only like 61 degrees out right now and it's June. It's disgusting.
Speaker 2:So cold, um, so cold. Yeah, I received um the highlight video of lily's sweet 16 and it's so cute. I saw it, I loved it. Cry at the end because at one I'm very emotional lately, I don't know why same.
Speaker 1:What is wrong with me I?
Speaker 2:have no idea, um, what's happening, but, like any little thing, I watch a video of, like someone from the armed services coming back to go see their family. I'm fucking. All those kill me. It's horrible like I ruin my day. I step, my nose gets stuffed up. I'm crying like a maniac. I watched the end of the video where she's singing um, mr bright side, and I just started bawling.
Speaker 1:I was like, oh my God, I watched it yesterday and I was like, oh my God, I can't believe, I still can't believe that our kids are as old as they are. You know, like I just remember so much of us being pregnant and like you did it two years before me, I literally came to the hospital the day you gave birth with like a freaking hero and a snap of iced tea for you like a salami and american cheese sandwich, and it was the most delicious thing I've ever had in my fucking life and I remember it was.
Speaker 1:I remember it was pouring rain out and I, like, drove to the, to the store you are you, this hero, drove to the hospital because some people don't know this.
Speaker 2:But, like after you give birth, like those cravings do not go away for like a period of time.
Speaker 1:I was starving I raided the nurse's refrigerator because I gave birth to lily.
Speaker 2:It was like 1 30 in the morning or something like that. I was so hungry. I got up literally after giving birth and I went into the nurse's station and I grabbed three turkey sandwiches from their fucking refrigerator and ate it because I was so hungry.
Speaker 1:All I wanted was coffee and a bagel so funny.
Speaker 2:It's so funny.
Speaker 1:But I think it's just so crazy that our kids have grown so much.
Speaker 2:I'm like it's hard, it's a hard. Did this you? We did. We should be proud, but I also am very worried I'm so emotional like I want to cry yeah, like we're gonna be empty nesters soon.
Speaker 2:Hopefully you know they're saying that. No, it's true, it's so true like I literally like lily's going into her junior year of high school and then she's gonna go to college and I'm like what the hell? What do I do with my life? Yeah, what are we gonna do? I don't know. I think we'll figure it out pretty quickly definitely never have to make dinner again.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, listen, I noticed. So this was a really strange week because I had to stay in a hotel one of the nights for works we had, like the senior leadership meetings, and Rhett had to stay overnight for his work as well, and the night that he stayed away I didn't cook dinner because Lily was with her dad. Like it was so strange and I realized I do not need to eat dinner. I can eat fucking blueberries and some Tostitos like, or the girl dinner with chips, and be completely happy and sleep through the night and I'm like, oh my God, I think I eat too much.
Speaker 1:Honestly, I do think you eat too much. I don't eat as much as you do in one week that you do in two days. I know, I know, but it is amazing when no one's home and I know that like I don't have to cook for anyone it's very random that it does happen. But there was one day, like I don't don't know, a couple of months ago, mike was away for work. John Anthony had something. Where was he? He had something that he wasn't eating dinner. My dad wasn't home and I'm like cutting up cubes of cheese and like eating it with like a chip and I'm like this is fantastic, like this is adulting. On another level, Could you?
Speaker 1:imagine being a kid and telling your mom like I want cheese and chips for dinner, and she'd be like here. You know, my mother would have been like, um, absolutely not. You are not. I mean, I wouldn't even let my own kid right now eat cheese and chips for dinner, but for me I was like this is adulting at another level.
Speaker 2:I legitimately could just have like a thing of yogurt right before bed and be satisfied, because, one, you don't wake up because you had protein and, two, I feel like you're building muscle while you're sleeping. I just can't let anyone else go to bed hungry because it's that Italian in us, right.
Speaker 1:I know, I know. So we went last year. We went to my house upstate with a bunch of our friends and I literally cooked up a storm, for we stayed one, two nights. I made big ziti, I made chicken cutlets, I made meatballs, I made vodka sauce. I made all of this food. They were like what the hell are you doing? I'm like you guys are you doing?
Speaker 1:I'm like you guys are coming to my house, yeah, like I have to feed you you can't sit there and be like this girl invited us here and there's no food I know I'm the same, oh and then I'm and I made mac and cheese. Oh my god, like for the kids, I'm like, all right, the kids can eat like baked mac and cheese. Like I made everything from scratch. It was like six trays of food for two nights. Yeah, nobody's gonna go hungry.
Speaker 2:I'm under my watch red is so sweet. He's not here because it's father's day and he's going to visit his dad and normally I would go with him. But my sister and I are going to spend the day together and go to the cemetery to go visit my dad and um. So he yesterday bought 80 worth of fucking ribs, $80 worth of shrimp. He like prepped the food and he's like so cute because he's bringing all of that to his parents house so that they can celebrate father's day. He also made like pasta salad with like tuna in it and I was like who are you Like? What an amazing. I I was like that is the best gift. Um, I think I thought it was so sweet and I told him I was like they are gonna be so happy that you did this. I was like really happy that he did it. I was like you're so sweet. He's such a chef in his spare time really is. He loves it and I'm like loving it too he also loves to like accommodate people.
Speaker 1:He's just a sweetheart like. I will not forget when we went out for your birthday and we went back to your house last year or the year before. He's like making everyone tea. I know he's so sweet like that I'm like can I have lemon in mine, please? Do you have honey? Can I have honey?
Speaker 2:he can have. Like you know, just making sure we have food, that's like a big thing here too, even if we're doing like we'll have burgers, hot dogs, sausage, chicken, like it's just kind of over the top thank god you found someone that likes to eat as much as you do. Oh my god, I know but it's also bad because you know we're like we eat well, you both have great metabolisms no, I am getting older.
Speaker 2:Like I need to chill the fuck out. I I have to like chill. I do not need to eat as much as I eat. So he likes, you know, and he has a sweet tooth I, thankfully, do not have a sweet tooth? I do, I do not. I like salty, no.
Speaker 1:I like sweet. So Mike doesn't have a sweet tooth whatsoever and he does majority of the food shopping and at night I like to have like a snack, like nothing crazy I'll do. This is going to sound crazy, nothing crazy, but it sounds crazy. I take an ice cream cone and I smash it up and I put it in a bowl and I put either blueberries or strawberries or raspberries, like whatever I have. And then I get dark chocolate chips, but the mini, mini ones, and I put them in there and I just mix it up. I'm like, whatever, I don't put a lot, I put a couple of tablespoons, so that's like my treat. But like I ran out of chocolate chips and I'm like, hey, um, maybe you can get me some chocolate chips, like when you go to the store. And he's like I don't, I don't go down that aisle. I'm like, okay, well, I just asked for one thing. Yeah, I need my sweet treat. I don't eat ice cream and this and that I'm like I want chocolate chips oh, that's how mike and I are similar.
Speaker 2:I'm sure he goes around the perimeter of the store because that's where all the food is that he has to buy, like the top meat, like all the meat and like the produce well, yeah, and then he also hits the chip aisle. Yeah, I'm sure it's like you where he goes down every fucking aisle. Oh yeah, I do. I can't do that.
Speaker 1:No no.
Speaker 2:This is my mind, Like I lose my mind.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but the thing is I can go up and down every single aisle and still be out of that store faster than he can, if he just does the perimeter.
Speaker 2:Well, I just, I can't. I hate food shopping.
Speaker 1:I have like tunnel vision, like I know exactly what I'm going for. I could tell you what aisle it's in, what row in the shelf it is, and I, just like I'm in, I'm out If I forget something. Oh wow, we're done.
Speaker 2:I could go back the next day. I have a policy when I make my list and it's like all whole foods. I do not buy anything that has to be microwaved Like. I do not use my microwave at all. I hate a microwave. It's disgusting.
Speaker 1:I don't even like I never had one until Mike moved in. He has his, but it's in the closet.
Speaker 2:I won't allow it on the counter. I really hate a microwave and like I refuse to use one. When I hear Lily heating up her food in the microwave, I lose my mind and I her to just put it on the stove, because it completely depletes the nutrients in your food.
Speaker 1:The only thing that I use the microwave for is popcorn once in a while. You can also do that on the stove, I know, and we have like a popcorn maker, but it just tastes so much better from the bag. That's just one thing I can't give up. That's just one thing I can't give up. So, anyway, we are going to get back on track. We missed like two episodes. Well, we missed like two weeks, but it's been a lot and we're gonna keep up with this like we're not stopping yeah, well, we have to.
Speaker 2:We'll see each other. I'm coming early to John Anthony's party so that we could hang out by the pool with no people, and also we'll record an episode while we're in the pool.
Speaker 1:We'll be floating around on a float with microphones and a coffee nearby. Also, you know what I made that I have to let you try because I know you love blueberries. I made blueberry syrup. Have to let you try because I know you love blueberries. Um, I make blueberry syrup for my coffee and it's so good I actually just ran out of it, so I'm gonna make more. I might also make it into like ice cubes, so I always have it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so how do you do it? It's just frozen blueberries, a little bit of water and honey, and I like cook it on the stove and like it. Just once it gets like bubbly, I like smash it into like a little strainer. It gets all the juice out and then I put that in the fridge and then the the pulp I guess you would call it that's left, like the chunk of blueberries that's left. I put that in the fridge and I put it into like my overnight oats, or I'll just take a scoop of it and throw it in my coffee and um, or I put it in a smoothie. That's cool. But then I also started taking some of the juice because, like, if it gets like too much in the jar, I put it in like a mason jar. I put it in like these little ice cube trays that I have and I just pop one little ice cube into my iced coffee, so good that's awesome you'll never want coffee any other way.
Speaker 1:You'll want blueberry every time. Oh my god, that's so weird. Though, so good, so good. So like us, follow us, leave us some reviews, give us some five stars and I guess we'll talk next week. Yeah, thanks for listening. Bye.