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Ep 10 - This Is Yu - Kids Say What?
In this Ep 10 - This Is Yu - Kids Say What?
Why are Scott and Carole smacking their lips? What are they eating on mic this week?
We travel the US, and then the world to discover kids and their food habits.
We interview kids from Montana, to Chicago, to Los Angeles.
Maloi 2:41
Molly 11:53
Maggie 25:58
Lena 34:36
Avani 46:29
Charlotte 55:52
Maloi shows her creative coloring book “Don’t Call it Dirt” and introduces us to regenerative agriculture on her family farm in BigSky Montana where her family is the fourth generation at Barney Creek Livestock. (BarneyCreek.com ) They raise cows, pigs, and lambs that are served in James Beard Nominated Chef Dave’s restaurant in Chico Hot Springs.
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PLUS we have three extra new segments:
We talk about our new video that’s been seven years in the making!We introduce daughter Dara’s recipe, as seen on Masterchef Jr. for Sticky Lollipop Chicken Wings. The video shows the step by step technique for making impressive lollipop wings with a delicious spicy, multi-layered taste extravaganza. You can find the recipe and video on the ThisIsYu.com website in the recipe section.
Carole talks about the many types of VEGETARIANS and Scott talks about his two years as a VEGAN, and they discuss where to find essential nutrients in plant-based food sources.
Finally, we travel the world to see What Kids Eat For School Lunch.
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Thanks for listening guys!
Scott & Carole
Carole: 0:01
Yeah. You with your mouth closed, please Get it on the microphone. Sorry, guys. I just
Scott: 0:11
realized you got a podcast to do. This is Scott Stewart
Carole: 0:14
and Carol. You sorry, My mouth of full.
Scott: 0:17
And this is Episode 10 of This
spk_2: 0:19
is you today on Episode 10 of our this issue podcast.
spk_3: 0:29
We're
Carole: 0:29
going to talk to six kids about their food habits.
Scott: 0:32
We also have regenerative agriculture, which is right in line with our Episode seven. We had Pascal Bodor, who was a wild crafter and forger.
Carole: 0:41
We will also go around the world to find out what kids eat for lunch,
Scott: 0:46
and we have a brand new segment. What's up with vegetarianism and veganism?
Carole: 0:51
And I guess you guys, we're probably wondering what we've been eating. I spent a lot of time working on these sticky lollipop chicken wings. Would you think Scott?
Scott: 1:01
They were amazed, You
Carole: 1:03
know, they were really good.
Scott: 1:04
There was so much dimension to these wings. Guys, there was lemongrass, which I can't really tell what lemma grassy is normally like. I'll go somewhere and they'll have lemon grass in a soup and I don't really get the flavor, but it is Shawn threw in these wings. It was so good,
Carole: 1:19
right along with the stickiness from the honey and the acidity from the orange juice.
Scott: 1:23
Right. And what I like There was heat in these, but it was a slow build because I used to get those crappy bar wings and you bite into them and that would just blow your lips right off your face. But these air awesome.
Carole: 1:34
So these wings, what makes them really good is they are deep fried wings. And then they're finished off in the oven. They're crunchy and their savory.
Scott: 1:43
It's just like the perfect harmony, the perfect storm off the perfect wings.
Carole: 1:48
Exactly. Well, we've been talking about doing this Lollipop Wings recipe and video for about seven years.
Scott: 1:55
Now, if you guys are believing how much we love these wings and we re really do love them, you want to head over to www dot This is you dot com. We just finished doing a video about the recipe, and Carol is just putting together the recipe now, so we should have it up there very shortly. But please go and check it out. You will blow your friends away with how good these wings are.
Carole: 2:16
Try making them. You will definitely kick it up a notch and impress your friends.
Scott: 2:21
Okay, so I just wanted to get into this regenerative agriculture. I find it so fascinating that farmers are getting into soil. It's such an important component of the whole ICO agriculture system. Soil is alive and it's not dead. And it's living on Barney Creek livestock in Montana, on the Jordan Ranch. Welcome to the podcast, Malloy.
Carole: 2:43
What does that mean? It means venerable chieftain and Irish. The last name. That's the same as me. A venerable chieftain. So what's your What's your tribe? Sterling Kelby tribe. It's my dog.
Scott: 2:55
You have an Australian dog. It's doing Shepherd.
Carole: 2:58
Yeah. Yeah, it's an Australian Kelp E on.
Scott: 3:01
Right on schedule, then.
Carole: 3:02
Yeah. So do you have Ah. What kind of hobbies do you have? I like fishing. Allying. Okay. We just came back from our trip from Hawaii. We had a little vacation and I checked my fishing rod. Nice. And I caught something called a triggerfish. A triggerfish. Very cool. So you used a harpoon, right? You threw us? No, I'm joking. I miss a piece of squid. Oh, cool.
Scott: 3:26
You are in What part of the country?
Carole: 3:28
Um, I'm in Livingston, Montana.
Scott: 3:30
Wow. Big sky country.
Carole: 3:32
Yeah, pretty much.
Scott: 3:33
It's beautiful out there. I've been there once. I drove through it and it just goes forever. And it's so beautiful and the air is super fresh.
Carole: 3:41
Oh, yeah, it's super beautiful up here.
Scott: 3:43
So the idea of this is that we're on our 10th podcast and we started thinking 10 10 years old. And then I started thinking what it's like to be a 10 year old and how you are interested in food and just sort of the world around you. And we put it out to the world. And we're super excited to have you on here because you have a really interesting story about a coloring book.
Carole: 4:04
The original idea was my mom was asked by a farm to school to present to some little kids of what we do on a ranch with regenerate agriculture and how that helps us a plate. And she wanted, let them, like, know where their food comes from, cause a lot of people are disconnected from that. So they were about kindergarten through second grade, so their attention span. I don't think would have lasted for 45 minutes on it. So his girl squirrel,
spk_3: 4:29
I like to
spk_5: 4:30
draw a little bit. So she asked me to make my first version of my coloring
Carole: 4:35
book, which was about six pages long. Essentially. Just talked about what she was gonna talk about. How we ranch, like going through all the steps. Like our ranch showed a picture of barn soil because our mottoes healthy soil, healthy cows, healthy people. Excellent. Great motto. Page was pretty much dedicated thio like each one of the sections. Uh, that's great.
Scott: 4:56
Can you just hold it up to the camera? Just so we get a sense of what it looks like?
Carole: 4:59
Don't call it dirt. Yeah. This is the first page about essentially about our ranch.
Scott: 5:04
You drew all this?
Carole: 5:05
Yeah, I draw this. Totally amazing. It's really good.
Scott: 5:08
Do you have any formal training like you spent a couple years in France or anything like that?
Carole: 5:12
No, I bought it for my birthday. I got, like, a $50 like digital tablets, so I drawn and then shows up on the strength. Wow, That's my training. YouTube, right. Yeah. Um, so our ranch and There's the soil Page. Oh, that's so cool. Wow. You have really good eyes. You have x ray eyes. You can see under the soil. Yes. Oh, your cows. Very cute. Yeah, This one that's moving our cows. And what's down in the bottom there with the red. Is that? Ah, duck. That's the main character. His name is Barnum. A quack. He helps tell them the story about it. Okay, this is them eating healthy cows, healthy cows. And then this is the whole motto.
Scott: 5:50
Oh, yeah.
Carole: 5:50
Healthy soil. Healthy grass. That's very cool.
Scott: 5:53
I can't get over. How could the drawing is? Thanks. The listeners out there. If you want to pick this book up, where would you go to buy this book?
Carole: 6:00
You could get it on Barney Creek livestock dot com. Okay. And we also have our instagram on that shows about what we do to
Scott: 6:07
and just let you guys know. It's a really fantastic book
Carole: 6:10
with all the proceeds. I get lambs every year. This year I'm hoping to get a couple of years, and I move them around Our little passion that we have outside, I just move them around. Then I sell him the Chico Hot Springs, which is essentially like a bar grill. Cool place. Okay, down the way.
Scott: 6:27
So they're super healthy
Carole: 6:28
to five star restaurant. Wow. Very, very nice. So have you always live your life on a farm? Have you ever lived in the city? When I was from, like, 1 to 6, we lived in town and Livingston and my dad would just come out here and help my grand parents, and we leased the place. Now, so we put all our cows on here, and I've lived here ever since. Done about seven years. Tell us, what is it that you like the most about? Living on a farm? I'd say them most is like getting to know things, finding stuff new every day, helping cow calves or learning howto share she or learn how to train my pigs for fair or something. Just
spk_4: 7:04
anything like that.
Scott: 7:05
Wow. So you training the pigs to, like, answer the phone or drive a car? That kind of thing, like tricks and
Carole: 7:10
snow? Not quite more just like to go around the pen. So show off, pinkness. I
Scott: 7:16
used to do that. Sometimes when I eat a lot ice cream show off my pig nous.
Carole: 7:21
So is that four h? Is that where you show your pigs? Yeah, I do for a China do veterinary science, which is also kind of funny, cause I took my coloring book to veterinary science and how I got it really kick in, like, published in everything and read and, like, read designed it and made it a little bit more flush was because I took it for veterinarian science because it was like this test to do with animal health, right? Yeah. I'll help on Animal Health. And I took it there and I had it on this giant billboard, all decked out little caption sex with the pages look really cool on a billboard. That's also I showed it to the judge and she said, That has nothing to do with it. None of it has nothing to do with it. Oh, no, you'll be talking about shots and all that fertilizers and stuff. And I was like, Oh, it's odd. I
spk_5: 8:09
talkto Nicole Master's hand, Gabe Brown and Joel Salatin and they all responded to me and they helped me
Carole: 8:16
finish making my second version. I took that to narrow It was a grant, and I tried to get a grant, and they help me print my 1st 50 coloring books. Wow. Wait. So you're like doing this all by yourself, writing grants and talking to adults about getting this published? Yeah, pretty much my mom, Homey. But that's awesome.
Scott: 8:34
Yeah. I mean, I'm just thinking, when I was at your age, I was doing a lot of TV watching. And here you are. I'm just so impressed by how much passion you have towards it. It's really, really amazing. Thanks. And also to the creativity that you have.
Carole: 8:47
Thank you. It's very awesome. So does it sound like maybe you want to be a vet when you get older? Yeah, that be an option? I wanna work on the ranch a lot. Yeah, just build
spk_4: 8:56
more of a
Carole: 8:56
ranch and two and stuff,
Scott: 8:58
just with your strong connections to nature and with the animals and the evolution of the animals growing up and things like that.
Carole: 9:04
Yeah, I would do that. I've never been on a ranch. So, like, what's your average day? I'm imagining that you're getting up at 4 a.m. In the morning to go feed the animals and take care of everything is
Scott: 9:17
you're shaking your head, shaking your head. No,
spk_5: 9:20
I wanted if we're cabin or
Carole: 9:21
something and there's a cow having early in the morning. But no, I get up for about an hour before school 30 minutes before school, and I feed our goats and make sure our ducks have food and water. Put the dogs in the kennel for the day and then I come back at 3 41 school ends, and then I move my sheep. When I have sheep, I move them. I move them every two days. So I guess it depends on the day. But I move them every two days. Make sure our goats air good, have their water, and then I let them out on the hill for the night. They have just a little pendant help art that they
spk_4: 9:52
eat grass off of.
Scott: 9:53
This is so much like the life I lived when I was growing up. Exactly. It's
Carole: 9:57
Toronto in the city in the middle of the city. Your life was like that.
Scott: 10:01
I played a lot of hockey.
Carole: 10:02
It was identical.
Scott: 10:04
The big thing that I'm into right now, our dwarf goats. So I love that you have goats were actually just looking on the internet last night and just wonder if we could have goats in our backyard, because our backyard that grass in the weeds are like this highly thinking instead of me moment, we could get some goats.
spk_4: 10:18
They say
Scott: 10:18
they are. They just go to town on everything, right. Maybe we could send you a ticket. And you could put when your goats on a plane and we could have him come in and do a little bit of back yard work. Yes. If you could just give another little shout out to where people can get your book and your website and your instagram account just so they can go on. Get your book.
Carole: 10:36
Barney Creek livestock dot com. There should be a tab that says my coloring book. Okay, Instagram, we do a lot of things up there. All right. The title of the book is called Don't call Dirt. You look up there, you should see a little tab that says that
Scott: 10:48
it was really great to meet you and once again, super amazing story that you have and keep up the great work
Carole: 10:54
well. D'oh! Thank you so much. Thanks. Bye. So Molloy's dad is Pete. Pete is 1/4 generation farmer toe work the land. So they leased the land from Pete's parents. And then they run livestock and their livestock is on Jordan Ranch. So they run livestock such as cattle, pigs and Malloy. Once she sells her coloring books, she buys sheep and runs the sheep operation.
Scott: 11:20
They work to give more back to the land than they take. They do this through focusing on soil and soil, health, grass and grazing management, livestock, health and low stress handling and providing a nutrient dense product. They're working with nature to regenerate a healthy, a grow ecosystem.
Carole: 11:39
They work with Chef Dave at Chico Hot Springs Resort, who was just nominated for a James Beard Award. He uses their beef. They're pigs, they're lambs. And he serves it in their dining room, making it a five star restaurant. Molly, welcome to our podcast. Somali. I heard that you like science.
spk_3: 12:01
I love science, especially. I'm scientist has
spk_4: 12:04
to do with cooking.
Scott: 12:05
Oh, nice. So
spk_3: 12:07
what does that mean?
Carole: 12:07
Tell me what that means.
spk_3: 12:09
Well, it's like culinary chemistry, so I actually had my own cooking show called Size and Style, where some of the recipes. Thank you. Yeah, we're actually stuff that you could eat. I made stuff like dried apples. Who? I stuff like, um, lactose free milk. Wow. How do you make
Carole: 12:29
lack toast? Three mil
Scott: 12:30
with lactose free cows, right?
spk_3: 12:36
Actually, we did something to the milk. Tough. Um, make like thio take out the lack toast because that's a milk sugar, actually. Know that if you put up. So sometimes babies like to step on their marbles at night and keep them in bacon brought their teeth out. Oh, why? Why are you interested
Carole: 12:59
in science so much?
spk_3: 13:01
Well, I have a long line of teachers and scientists, and a lot of them attended Harvard, so I kind of want to keep that tradition going. Also absolutely loves
Scott: 13:11
When you going to Harvard next year.
spk_3: 13:12
Uh oh. I'm gonna
spk_4: 13:15
skip a grade next year, so
spk_3: 13:16
Oh, great. And I
Scott: 13:19
remember when I was in fifth grade, I went back into third grade because it was so hard.
spk_3: 13:23
Really?
Scott: 13:24
No, no, He's talking his dopey.
spk_3: 13:27
So let me
Carole: 13:27
ask you, what's your favorite food? What do you like to eat.
spk_3: 13:30
Well, I love to eat grilled cheese sandwiches. I What
Carole: 13:35
kind of cheese do you use and do you make it yourself?
spk_3: 13:38
Yeah, I D'oh! I like cheese. Cheddar cheese is I just don't like cold hijacker like I mean, I love Kobe. Jack. Sorry. I'm like Pepper Jack Colby, Jack mozzarella and chatter and really cool monster luncheon. Next. So that's why I liked so much. I'm
Scott: 13:55
loving your cheese choices. Good choices.
spk_3: 13:58
I miss stinky cheese. No,
Scott: 14:01
I'm there with you. I don't either.
Carole: 14:02
A little birdie told me. Maybe
spk_3: 14:04
you're vegetarian. No, actually, I hot top sometimes. Chicken tenders.
Carole: 14:09
Ow! Okay,
Scott: 14:10
Wrong, little birdie. I think that little birdie flew away.
Carole: 14:12
Guess so.
spk_3: 14:13
Yeah, I'm a vegetarian, but I sometimes Yeah,
Carole: 14:16
I know. I love hot dogs, too. Sometimes I eat hot dogs. And when I was growing up your age, I used to eat bologna sandwiches. Do you know what bologna
spk_3: 14:23
is? Why dio? Kind of
Carole: 14:25
like a hot dog, but in a flat, like, squished out flat?
spk_3: 14:28
Yeah, I'm actually I'm lonely before. What
Scott: 14:32
about this awesome sandwich? When I was your age, I used to eat peanut butter and jam with peanut butter, butter and jam. That's what made me so big and strong that I am today.
spk_3: 14:40
I think J sandwiches.
Scott: 14:42
Yeah. Nice job
spk_3: 14:43
today. I am. We got a lot of these not to crackers, jelly and cream cheese on it and, well, it for sugar free. Jam it. Ah, Healthy and delicious snack. Nutritious and delicious.
Scott: 14:59
Wow. You even have a tag line for it. That's pretty cool.
spk_3: 15:02
Yeah. So this sounds like
Carole: 15:03
you do eat pretty healthy. Do you ever eat candy or cakes or chocolate or pies? Ice cream?
spk_3: 15:10
Unfortunately, Yes, it is, like So I'm gonna go a little down sugar for me for my birthday. I'm trying to be a little more house year. Good. Except for my birthday because yeah, right.
Scott: 15:31
It's your birthday. You gotta let your hair down and eat whatever you
spk_3: 15:33
want. I
Carole: 15:36
understand that when I have kids, when my kids were your age, I only let my older daughter she would only be allowed to eat one piece of candy at a week. So on a Saturday afternoon, she would get to choose one piece of candy.
spk_3: 15:48
Yeah, E o.
Scott: 15:56
When I was growing up, we didn't have any candy. We had rocks. Our parents would just give us a rock and we could suck on that. That's all we got. Yeah, it's pretty tough. Pretty tough being a kid. Yeah. Do you think in the future you'll be involved in food like in food? Science is Do you think he will grow up to be a like a food scientist or something like that? A chef for
spk_3: 16:16
musical year. So
Scott: 16:17
you're gonna be a singing
spk_3: 16:18
chef in a music video called Book of Revelations by Dax, the rapper.
Scott: 16:23
Oh, you are
Carole: 16:24
in. Really? Wow. Very cool.
spk_3: 16:27
I'm in a marshmallow video every Thanksgiving. I've been, um, a TV show on Nickelodeon for background. Um, yeah.
Scott: 16:34
So you really like doing the acting and singing?
spk_3: 16:36
I've been something TV. Yeah, I've been in a ah lot of things, but yeah,
Scott: 16:40
you have a really broad interest.
spk_3: 16:42
Yeah, I'm a musical theater and signs and cooking goes on my made things.
Carole: 16:46
So have you ever thought about going on TV or trying to audition for any of those shows like Master Chef Jr. Or, um,
spk_3: 16:54
I kind of Do you want to go on Master Chef Jr? I just saw I heard about that time with your daughter, right? Yeah,
Scott: 17:01
that's Dora.
spk_3: 17:02
Oh, yeah. Yeah. I actually watched masters. And, you know, sometimes when I was younger, I watched it, but I don't think so. Now I asked what she's baking show called Nancy. And I
spk_4: 17:12
really, really want to be on a baking Chefs in that
Carole: 17:14
nailed it.
Scott: 17:15
Baking is really fun.
spk_3: 17:16
Oh, yeah, it's fine. I actually just going to make my own paint flakes. And that's when they never Well, yes, technically, when they learned to never leave me in the kitchen alone
spk_4: 17:27
with chocolate chips and marshmallows
Scott: 17:29
that you're dangerous in there.
Carole: 17:31
That's your candy kind off, right? Your chocolate in your marshmallows?
spk_3: 17:35
Well, yeah, sometimes I have the pancakes. It's the thing is my Kareema, Let's me. My mom doesn't let me,
Scott: 17:41
right, right?
spk_3: 17:42
Actually does make your own pancake Ganga's top tips. Yeah. So let me
Carole: 17:46
ask you, does your family have any food traditions like, is there something that you make that your mom made that your grandma made?
spk_3: 17:53
Yeah, actually, that fishing we go on Thanksgiving. Well, Thanksgiving tradition, but one of the main food that we always make together as a family sex. Well, like every year we go toe are my aunt's house and we make my How do you make
Carole: 18:08
tamales? I've never made a tamale. Can you explain to me how you make
spk_3: 18:11
one? I don't like eyes that I like, made it up the night before and you could be just almost like stuff. Anything you won't send it to my wife.
spk_4: 18:20
What We're talking about anything. You wanted it.
spk_3: 18:22
You can put like cheese in it and chicken in it. Yeah, the best mother, like probably the cheese and chicken ones, right? I personally actually, I've tracked me tamale before. I've never really tried to cheat. And chicken one. Byron, I feel really good.
Scott: 18:36
Chilean cheese. You like a little spicy.
Carole: 18:38
So let me ask you, would you ever eat bugs? No,
spk_3: 18:42
because once I went to this place, the owner knows my mom not looking. The owner whose name is Mary gives me candy. I've said too much. I'm like, What's that? And she's like, Oh, it's a long way up in my you know what's in the middle of you think? Oh, that's a buck Like like a warmer squirt. She's like, Do you want what? And I'm like, No, thank you.
Scott: 19:07
The crunchy lollipop
spk_3: 19:09
You actually today I would do a Girl Scout meeting who was supposed to try much of new things. Crackers would like special lentils and like, this special sauce on it. Yeah. So I am open to try anything sometimes. Yeah,
Scott: 19:21
that's awesome.
spk_4: 19:22
I realize that it's better to trying to think so. Something
spk_3: 19:24
as I have. And I really like them.
Scott: 19:26
That's good advice for everyone in general, I think.
Carole: 19:29
What's the most unusual thing that you've eaten?
spk_3: 19:31
So me and my grandma also you make your own pizza. Today I have his pizza with a bunch of bored fish and 50 sticks.
Scott: 19:38
Not real gold Fish crackers.
spk_3: 19:41
Yeah. No, the
Scott: 19:43
scales get caught in your teeth.
spk_3: 19:49
Pick apples are cereal. Yeah. Most unusual things. I never eat
Carole: 19:54
all on a pizza. Oh,
Scott: 19:55
we just wanted to say thank you so much for joining us today. You were really fun and exciting, and it was really great speaking with you.
Carole: 20:02
Thank you so much, Molly,
spk_3: 20:05
You
Scott: 20:05
We wish you best of luck when you're jumping one grade into Great five and then straight to Harvard after
Carole: 20:11
that. Here's our new segment. What's up with vegetarianism and veganism? Hey, what's up with that? I looked it up because I've never been a vegetarian. Purely. I looked up. What are the different types of vegetarians? I thought there were only vegetarians or vegans. When I did a little research, I found out there are many types of vegetarians. So what kind of vegetarian are you? You are what you eat. So
spk_3: 20:38
if you are
Carole: 20:39
a raw food vegan, you'll eat fruit and veggies. If you're a regular vegan, you will cook some of those foods. Maybe so. You'll also have a salad that won't be cooked, so that will be raw. There is something called a lacto vegetarian. That means that they will eat dairy. Ovo vegetarians don't eat dairy, but they will eat eggs for that protein. Lacto ovo vegetarians will eat fruit, veggies, dairy and eggs.
Scott: 21:08
And I hope you guys were paying attention because there is a quiz on this at the end.
Carole: 21:12
What's the next one? Scott
Scott: 21:14
Pesca Terrian. They eat fruit, Vegetables, cheese case. Oh, eggs and fish.
spk_3: 21:21
Do you think they
Carole: 21:21
would eat lobsters and shrimp? Oh, yeah, for sure. Really? Oh, yeah. And then finally, we have the flexitarian that someone that goes to the gym and like, flexes their muscles all the time. I
Scott: 21:33
would pump you up. Ah,
Carole: 21:35
flexitarian will eat fruit, veggies, dairy, eggs and, occasionally some types of animal proteins such as fish, beef, chicken, anything else?
Scott: 21:45
No caribou and no bear. But that flexitarian, I think, is basically everybody.
spk_3: 21:51
Yeah, I guess that's
Scott: 21:52
true. It's just a label.
Carole: 21:53
I've seen that on a shirt at some ah, guy at Trader Joe's. He's a flexitarian. I've known Scott for about 12 years,
Scott: 22:00
but it just seems like 30 years we've been together. That's true day. In
spk_3: 22:10
most of the
Carole: 22:11
time that we've been together, we've been flexitarian together, carnivores, salad eaters. But for a couple years, Scott was a vegan. What motivated you to become a vegan?
Scott: 22:22
Well, Carol, I was dropped on my head a lot. As a baby, it eventually made its way into my life just a couple years back. So my path to veganism started with, I think, with my sister because she didn't have the best of eating habits and I started looking at the lifestyle that she had and the foods that she ate, and I really started to turn the looking glass back on me to understand what I was eating and how it was eating and how was emotionally connecting with the food. And I thought, What the heck, you know what? I'm gonna try being a vegan, and I went really hard core on it, like I just went almost by the book. The problem was for me, and I'm not saying that for everybody, but I'm just saying for me is after about two years. Carol's brother in law, Mike, who's a doctor, actually spoke to me at one point and said around the two year mark, people have trouble with it because of the lack of protein in their diet. And I did notice right around the two year mark where I started having issues sort of remembering things that got a little bit weird, like at that point had been going to my acting class every week for multiple years, and when I was trying to learn my lines got a little wonky, I noticed that I was actually forgetting some of my lines, so I decided, Okay, I'm going to start adding a bit of protein back in protein through tuna, mainly. That was my main thing. I ate a little bit of chicken, and I still stay pretty clean nowadays. But I am not a vegan any longer.
Carole: 23:44
When you were vegan, how did you find your nutrients? What kind of plant based food sources did you use to find your nutrients? I
Scott: 23:52
ate a lot of soy milk. I eat a little bit of rice milk, some orange juice. I never like tofu. I remember when I was a teenager. My friend Gordon. I had no idea what tofu was. So we went to the store late at night. One night, we bought some tofu, came home, put it in a frying pan, put a little oil in there and cooked it and tasted it. It was horrible. We never touched it from that day forward. But during my vegan process, I explored tofu and I realized that you had to add tofu into things. And from that I got my calcium. I also ate a lot of broccoli, ate some beans, lot of leafy greens, almonds, almonds, almonds and more almonds. Ah, little sesame seeds here. And they're sprinkled into my salads and I loved me. The soybeans with regards to iron, I ate soy nuts. Once again, the tofu kale kale made its way into a lot of my salads. And I don't know what the deal is with Kale. They must have the best marketing team in the world because I don't really like Kale, but I ended up eating a lot of kale.
Carole: 24:51
Do you like kale chips?
Scott: 24:52
Kale chips or cool? Because they don't taste like kale. I mean, spinach, salads all the time, A lot of beans. And I love me the peanut butter. My dad made peanut butter toast, so I have fond memories of peanut butter. Then, with regards to the proteins, I eat some lentils once again beans keen wa Or, as we like to call it in the street, Genoa. Oh, meal. I love the oatmeal. I have been eating that since I was a kid. That wasn't really much of a change for me. I'd go for handfuls of nuts, and actually we had a squirrel in the back here that was nursing its young, so I would come out and I would feed it. Every morning I put out almonds in a Cup, and it would come over and just chow down on these nuts. So me and the squirrel were vegan at that point.
spk_3: 25:27
Well, it sounds like
Carole: 25:28
most of the time when you were eating, you really had a pretty broad spectrum of the things you were eating. You were able to get your calcium, your iron, your protein. I think the thing is that chicken and beef turkey have a very high concentration of protein. And I think you have to eat a lot of lentils and beans and nuts in order to get the same amount of protein.
Scott: 25:51
Yeah, I think at the midway point of me being a vegan, I would eat about £100 bag of lentils each and every day. Welcome, Maggie, to our podcast. We're so excited. You're on the podcast today.
spk_3: 26:02
I'm so excited.
Carole: 26:04
Do you listen to podcasts
spk_3: 26:05
at all? Oh, no, not really.
spk_4: 26:07
Because most of my time is either doing dance or doing everything else. I can't. I don't have time to just sit and listen to a podcast. I'm either
spk_3: 26:18
packing my dance bag, going to Dan running this busy,
Scott: 26:22
busy, busy,
spk_4: 26:23
Yes. And basically what
Scott: 26:25
part of the country. Are you in?
spk_3: 26:26
We are in Chicago.
Carole: 26:28
Wow. Very cool.
Scott: 26:29
And how is the winter this year?
spk_4: 26:31
Uh, bad it way got, like, no snow, but it was, like, really cold.
spk_3: 26:37
And that today it was actually,
spk_4: 26:40
like in the sixties. It was, like, really nice. Wow. Yeah.
Scott: 26:43
Sunbird.
spk_3: 26:43
Where you guys from?
Scott: 26:44
I'm from Toronto and we're talking to you. We're in Los Angeles.
Carole: 26:47
I'm actually from New Zealand. I grew up in South Bend, Indiana, about 80 miles from Chicago. So we used to always go to Chicago to the Chinatown because my mother taught Chinese cooking. Have you been to the Chinatown? In Chicago?
spk_4: 27:00
Yeah, we've been there. They have. Um, we got Boba tea there once, and it was really
Carole: 27:06
yummy.
Scott: 27:07
We're actually just down the road. We can walk to it where they filmed the Wizard of Oz. Eso in our neighborhood. Now, there's still a few flying monkeys that go overhead every once in a while. You have to be careful because they'll come down and get you take you off to Monkey Ville.
Carole: 27:21
One of the
Scott: 27:22
ideas that we had for this podcast was this is our podcast number 10 and We started thinking about having kids that are around the age of 10 on. And then we started thinking back when we were kids. I was eating peanut butter and jam sandwiches
Carole: 27:34
and I was eating fried rice.
Scott: 27:35
And then we just wanted to have different kids on to find out what they eat and what they love and didn't like to cook those kind of things. So if you could expand on any of that stuff, that'd be great,
spk_4: 27:44
eh? So basically, my dad cooks really good food. She likes trying new stuff, and I like stuff. So it's
spk_3: 27:51
just like ever since I
spk_4: 27:52
was little, I would literally eat anything that my mom would put in front of me. Like, I think I was like, 25 months and eating sushi. Well, I used to eat sushi. I still eat sushi. I literally, like, would eat anything that my mom would put in front of me. And, like, I still do that till this day. And like, um, I like one of my favorite things that, like I've ever had, which is still written them. But one time I was sick and I couldn't put anything like in my stomach that like, I wouldn't like, grow up. And I made me, um, buttered noodles and every single time I'm like I'm sick. I'm like
spk_3: 28:23
he make me butter noodle like this. It's that's like
spk_4: 28:26
my favorite thing to eat, like before. Dance after dance is just like my ferret thing because, like it, just like it's so good of how my mom makes it. Because it's just like,
Scott: 28:34
let me ask you a question. Was it dangerous? You said whatever your mom put in front of you like, would that say she just accidentally put a book in front of you? Like did you? Did you end up eating that or car keys or shoe or something?
spk_4: 28:45
Probably like liking it or sucking on it like a baby, don't
Scott: 28:48
you? How
Carole: 28:50
about bugs? Do you think you would eat bugs like crickets or mealy worms?
Scott: 28:55
Anything protein wise like that,
spk_4: 28:56
Noah that
Scott: 28:59
we're just telling from your reaction, you're wincing, enrolling your shoulders that bugs and not on the horizon for your time soon.
spk_4: 29:06
Don't feed me. How
Carole: 29:07
about cooking? Do you actually do any cooking yourself? Maggie,
spk_4: 29:10
Our love cooking cooking is my favorite, like sometimes when like my dad's ever cooking. I was asked him to like I was asked to help, but he always just, like, let me chop up stuff and like,
spk_3: 29:22
That's boring. I'm like
spk_4: 29:23
a pride that I want it, like use a flame delight, Do that, like saute thing that, like, goes of garlic. I want, uh,
Scott: 29:29
you want to turn the fire alarm on?
spk_4: 29:31
Yeah, very much.
Carole: 29:33
So, what kind of things have you made? Do you also like baking too?
spk_4: 29:37
I love digging. I like I love making brownies. What time? I had to make, like, seven back in 90 for my sister's party. It was small, but I loved it and like everybody loved, um, I'm like, I love making cupcakes. Brownies, My sister making cookies because I don't I can't make CODIS or to take too long. You have to, like, scoop it then, like, with them in the oven and let take them out
spk_3: 29:57
like this. Cupcakes is just
spk_4: 29:59
so easy. And, like I love doing all that like other stuff. I love pipa. Hi. So good. Mm.
Scott: 30:05
And where
spk_2: 30:05
do you
Scott: 30:05
learn? How do you do all this?
spk_4: 30:07
Well, I learned from my dad. My mom, my
spk_3: 30:10
mom told
spk_4: 30:10
the baker she's more of like that in the soup person. I like my dad's more of a like meat person and stuff, and my grandmother was like the baking. So I've learned baking and stuff from my grandma. So how would like I always go down to her house and stuff? We always make, like, fun stuff together, But the thing that, like you look forward to when you like bake is like, obviously looking like the utensils and like,
spk_3: 30:36
she always scrapes it off. So, like, there's nothing on there. So, like, gives us like this much on
spk_4: 30:40
there like
Carole: 30:41
you. Like the cookie dough, right? You want to eat the cookie dough?
spk_4: 30:44
Yeah. My sister, like, gets mad at me when I ate the cookie dough, but
spk_3: 30:47
she too. So
Scott: 30:49
do you ever use YouTube or Well, is it just mostly through a parent like t get ideas for?
spk_4: 30:55
Well, I bought a first of a cooking book from my youtuber. Her name was Rosina Pants, you know, and I was obsessed with her And what
Scott: 31:01
we know. Yeah,
Carole: 31:02
yeah, we've met her before.
spk_4: 31:03
I bought one of her cookbooks and I remember just looking at all the good stuff. But I never made anything out of the book, though, but I wouldn't want to make stuff out of a book. But, um, there was all, like, really like, advanced stuff, like it was like making a brand cake or making like, all
Scott: 31:20
of this
spk_4: 31:20
crazy stuff, and I really couldn't do that. So, like we had a deal, I take it back a little bit and, like, make easy stuff. So, like boxes of cake, brownies, a cake like it was, it was no mind of how to make them and like, how to learn. And I still baked in this day, and I love to cook and to bay, and it's just so fun to do it
Scott: 31:36
with your friends. Do you guys, like, ever get together in bake or cook yourselves? Is that something you consider or talk about?
spk_3: 31:41
Well, me and my
spk_4: 31:42
friend, her name's Ruby, and me and her, like Thio discuss like baking because she loves baking and like she loves
Scott: 31:49
to
spk_4: 31:49
do it. And she's like, really good at it. So me and her like to talk about baking, and it could
spk_3: 31:52
be fun,
spk_4: 31:53
a power like we get to, like, talk about what we made in the past and like what we're making in the future, Like what we're gonna go on to, like, all of our cooking And, like, Colin er stuff and like going toe like fancy places too like host and like cooking. And I just love to cook Well, I love to cook but I also love to see you like the joy on people's faces when they seen what I've made Because one time I think, like we had, like no food in the house And I started to, like, take bread and, like, roll it and, like, cut a circle out of it, Put chocolate chips in it and then, like, put in a wash to fry it And like it was
Carole: 32:31
because that sounds so good.
spk_4: 32:33
Everybody loved it. And it was like one of my favorite things to make was like just seeing them. Like, how do you make this with just bread And like no one to like? See how they, like, react to it?
Scott: 32:44
You like the superhero?
spk_3: 32:44
Yeah. I'm like us. You were here, Baker.
Carole: 32:46
You're very creative. I can tell you you're dancing you're cooking. Your haircut is very, very cool. If you knew you were going to go to a desert island, what food would you bring?
spk_4: 32:59
Wow, I would
spk_3: 33:00
probably bring. That's a good question. I would probably
spk_4: 33:03
brings like some type of meat. Probably noodles for the nutrients and then problem. She's afraid to get the like sonny on Deanna. And like, all the vitamins and stuff
Carole: 33:15
Oh, that sounds really good. So what kind of meat? What kind of vegetable? What kind of fruit?
spk_4: 33:20
Uh, basically the meat that I would do with probably chicken, cause I loved here again. And chickens My favorite food
Scott: 33:27
I love I love the
spk_4: 33:28
child like fried chicken. So good. Ah, do fried chicken or cooked chicken, Whatever I can get on that island. Um, Holly, probably broccoli,
spk_3: 33:37
cause, like broccoli is one of
spk_4: 33:38
the vegetables that, like it's just so good.
spk_3: 33:40
Some kids
spk_4: 33:41
don't like him like I personally love it. Then for fruit, probably strawberries or watermelon. Is
Scott: 33:48
there anything is there anywhere like you want to give a shout out to anybody or website? Or
spk_3: 33:54
I will have
spk_4: 33:55
to get a shot at to my mom because number one my Mom's always like showing me how to do stuff and like, she's amazing. She's literally got supermom because she taught me so much weird stuff. And, um, he's literally like a running machine. Almost like my more helps people give birth. She's a doula. And one time, like she literally had four births in one week and, like, I could never know. Like, she literally got, like, 48 hours sleep. That weak like No. Yeah,
Scott: 34:26
that's amazing. That's a That's a wonderful job,
Carole: 34:28
So Well, thank you so much, Maggie. Really happy to have
spk_3: 34:32
you with me,
Carole: 34:33
eh? Bye. Lena. We're so excited to speak with you. I love your shirt. Is that a sweatshirt? Yes. I could play chess on your shirt
Scott: 34:44
When I was your age, I used to eat peanut butter and jam sandwiches. Super plane. Super boring. And I'm just trying to wonder how kids are eating nowadays.
spk_4: 34:53
I don't like peanut butter, so I'm even more boring. I just like jelly.
Scott: 34:57
Just like the jelly part of
Carole: 34:59
it. You just have a jelly jelly on a piece of bread and that's it. You. Oh, to Visa Bread. Okay, you've got a jelly sandwich.
Scott: 35:06
So pretty soon. It'll just be the jelly straight from the jar. Get rid of the bread. Slowing you down
Carole: 35:10
on a spoon.
Scott: 35:10
Do you have different kinds of dishes that you like? Like Do you like chicken or fish or anything like that
spk_4: 35:16
And vegetarian.
Carole: 35:17
Oh, okay.
Scott: 35:18
What would be, ah, exciting dish for you? What would you like to eat now? I'm originally from Toronto. Canada. We say Pastor.
spk_4: 35:25
Yeah, I know.
Scott: 35:26
And then Carol always says pasta. And then how do you say it
Carole: 35:29
passed? It passed. Same. See, we win.
Scott: 35:32
So maybe there's
Carole: 35:32
two against one. Or sometimes I
spk_4: 35:34
say it neither one and I'll say passion
Scott: 35:37
like that.
Carole: 35:38
That's kind of very fancy Fancy.
Scott: 35:41
Next time I go to a restaurant, I'm gonna order the pasha. Did you see that? Right.
Carole: 35:45
So do you have a favorite restaurant? Do you guys like to go out to eat much?
spk_3: 35:48
Um, well, glad
spk_4: 35:50
a lot, a lot, but when we do go out, we go to places with possible. Yeah, but like right now were ordering takeout from pasta sisters.
Carole: 35:58
00 that's really good.
Scott: 36:00
Do you have a favorite pasta? Do you like ordering the noodles or the things that you can pick with a four spaghetti, huh? And you cut it up Or do you just, like, slurp it up? And then it goes all over your face.
spk_4: 36:11
We're a let. And then I, like, take a huge bite of the part on the fork and the like, cut off the bark, the other parts with my teeth, Like
Scott: 36:21
she's showing us how she does it a little bit like a shark. Almost right.
Carole: 36:25
Yeah. You go
Scott: 36:26
and do, like, a bow tie past a or pen A or any of that kind of pasta.
spk_3: 36:31
I like longer pasta.
spk_4: 36:33
Easier for me to eat. Like, um, bow
spk_3: 36:35
ties is that they're fun. T I
spk_4: 36:38
just go like that out in?
Scott: 36:40
Yeah. Did you ever see that movie? The Lady and the Tramp when they're eating the and they come together
spk_4: 36:45
happened in multiple?
Scott: 36:47
Yeah, that's true. That's where I remember.
Carole: 36:49
I know your mom watches a lot of movies with you guys, and she shows you a lot of like vintage movies from when she was young, right? Yeah. What's one of your favorite movies that maybe might have some kind of food in it? Can you think of one, right? Right.
spk_3: 37:02
This isn't one of my favorite movies,
spk_4: 37:04
but it's a movie that I like frozen. And whenever I think of frozen, I think of frozen yogurt. Or, like a vice just has ice in it. And
Carole: 37:12
I also like
spk_4: 37:13
eating ice just straight ice. I'll get, like, a cup of ice, and we'll just, like,
Scott: 37:19
just read out of the freezer. You just grab a Cuban away ago, went to get once again she's shown us the shark attack of the ice. Yeah, that's a great weight shark there.
Carole: 37:27
Are you into Shark Week? Do you like to watch that on TV?
spk_3: 37:30
I like marine biology.
Carole: 37:31
You D'oh! Why?
spk_4: 37:33
Because we only know 5% the ocean.
Scott: 37:36
I just started eating Spirulina. You know what that stuff is? No. It's like a powder I put in my smoothie and they make it out of blue green ocean algae. Supposed to be really high in a lot of nutrients.
spk_4: 37:46
I don't Yeah,
Scott: 37:47
I don't really eat it that much either. I mean, we headed in our aquariums when we were growing up as kids, so I never eat that stuff. Maybe I should have
spk_4: 37:54
like, it breaks the glass open like lead. The whole a query. Why don't you bring the shark tank while you're at it?
Scott: 38:01
Yeah, exactly. Do you, um, hang out with your friends much and talk about baking or do any baking of cup cakes or cookies or anything like that?
spk_4: 38:10
We have after school programs. And one of my friends, this was a showed me that his magazine and said, OK, which two of these? What I consider doing? Um and she chose cooking and, um something. Whatever else yodeling. That's not an option.
Carole: 38:29
It's not know they used to teach yodeling at my school when I was nine or 10 years old.
spk_4: 38:34
It was baking and animals.
Carole: 38:37
Oh, cool. So do you take some classes after school? Know? What do you do after school? You come home and what do you do?
spk_4: 38:44
I come home sometimes. I had, like, after school classes that are related to school.
Carole: 38:50
Like what kind of things?
spk_4: 38:51
Like dancing like Ariel.
Carole: 38:53
Ariel. Oh, okay. Where do you do that Ariel Warehouse. Oh, I know, I know. Wendy. Well,
Scott: 39:00
so you do spend some time with your friends and you make cupcakes sometimes.
spk_4: 39:04
Well, everything you need, um, banana bread muffins with mom. Oh, you're like, Should we make a loafer? Should we make cupcakes? And I was like, I went left of cupcakes. But we know What
Scott: 39:17
do you make those little mini cupcakes of the big giant ones?
spk_4: 39:20
We made a little bit of, like, these big ones like this big. And if people know that, they're like, it's pink,
Scott: 39:27
and then you just bring those to school with you sometimes.
spk_4: 39:29
I just ate them all. No.
Carole: 39:31
Yeah. Don't don't
Scott: 39:32
given into your friends like that's just straight for you.
spk_4: 39:34
I'm not bringing no muffins. Disc. Ally, I eat. Um,
Carole: 39:38
what do you eat at school? Do you? How do you bring your lunch, or do you eat a school lunch? Hot lunch at school?
spk_3: 39:43
I don't really
spk_4: 39:45
like the inches. It's working. It's always like beef.
Carole: 39:48
Oh, right, cause you're vegetarian. Yeah, Sandwich.
Scott: 39:52
What about the quality of it? Do you find it appealing? Like when it's not beef? Like if they make you pasha at school,
spk_4: 39:58
I in Costa just
Scott: 39:59
just sort of Is there nothing fancy? You don't get excited about it, okay? And what about one of your best friends. What kind of food do they eat
spk_4: 40:07
yet? Like burritos and fruit
Scott: 40:11
burritos with fruit. Mmm, That sounds
spk_4: 40:13
good. And they get, like, subway and in and out like that.
Carole: 40:17
Let me ask you. So, um why are you vegetarian?
spk_3: 40:21
Well, one of the
spk_4: 40:22
reasons is it's like I I think this is so weird. Cannibalism is your save species, but I think of it as cannibalism. But a different species. We're both living. We both have lives now. Why? Why would I just randomly take yours? That's like being like, OK, I'm hungry. Stab. You don't. It's weird. It's also also it creeps me out. I don't know, eating dead things. That's why I don't eat my hair. Stand sells,
Scott: 40:52
let it grow. Let us ask you. Is there one thing that you'd like to let the world know about being a vegetarian? You just You just spoke a little bit about it. But if if there's ah, we're opening the floor to you and a platform just let everyone know what's going on with it.
spk_3: 41:05
Never call a vegetarian vegan. It's so again. We told me vegan I can have ice cream.
Scott: 41:14
You gotta have your ice cream, right?
spk_4: 41:15
And then they like I'm a friend. Who's Egan? Who people are like Is she vegetarian? Then they called me again.
Scott: 41:22
They get two guys mixed up.
Carole: 41:24
Scott was vegan for two years.
spk_3: 41:27
It's mixed up. They just
spk_4: 41:28
don't know. You might look and like it all. She's much taller. No, no, they don't know. They know that. I've neither of us eat meat on the grill again. I can
Scott: 41:41
just sort of lump you into the same category.
spk_4: 41:43
Yeah. Okay, seriously, it seems Is this daily just
Scott: 41:48
right? Right. And you are your friends vegan or vegetarian?
spk_3: 41:52
Uh, no. No. I only
spk_4: 41:54
have one begin friend.
Scott: 41:55
Just is what they are.
spk_4: 41:56
I'm no boys.
Scott: 41:57
Well, that's wonderful. I just wanted to say thank you so much for being on the podcast. Today was really wonderful to speak with you and get some insight into your world at this age. Exactly what age are you at right now? I'm gonna say 25 26.
spk_3: 42:09
I'm going to be 10
spk_4: 42:10
and four days.
Carole: 42:11
Wow. Oh, my gosh. Okay. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you Happy birthday to Lena. Happy birthday to
spk_3: 42:20
you.
Scott: 42:21
We hope you have a wonderful birthday. And once again, thank you so much for being on the podcast.
Carole: 42:25
Thank you. In our next segment, we're going to speak about what kids eat for school. Lunch around the world, in the United States, I absolutely loved going to the cafeteria and we would eat burgers and tots. I never had Tater Tots at home, so that was the first place I was introduced to Tater Tots when my older daughter was seven. We actually lived in Italy, and she would have a full four course meal at school, and they would always have salad. A meat entree, full pasta dish and desert
Scott: 43:01
must have been really easy to lose weight over there.
Carole: 43:03
I gained £60 during the time I was in Italy. Hard to believe. Well, that was because I was also pregnant. Okay, Germany.
Scott: 43:12
What's up with Germany? They love themselves. The potato salad and some kind of sausage, fresh fruit and veggies. Other meals. Fried fish with potatoes, stuffed potato pockets, potato pancakes and pastor all that low carb stuff that you guys love here in California.
Carole: 43:30
The next one is France.
Scott: 43:32
Oui, oui, oui.
Carole: 43:33
They love cucumber, tomato salad, veal marinated with mushrooms, broccoli, cheese and an apple tart. Now that does not sound like something Children would eat. I would love to eat that, but they learn how to take a long, leisurely lunch. They learn that from an early age, and I think they introduced them to wine very early. Probably not at school, though,
Scott: 43:56
the kids all fall asleep after a bottle of wine in the afternoon. Let's visit Finland. They take their health seriously. Veggies are half of school lunch plates. Fish were other meat on the other half of the plate, with some grains, usually potatoes or pasta, and they usually Berries for dessert.
Carole: 44:14
Yum! That sounds good.
Scott: 44:16
Villains got it going on.
Carole: 44:17
The next one we have as we travel around the world is Vietnam. They have something called buffalo horn cakes. They aren't really made out of buffalo horns. They're actually made out of rice, so their rice cakes, fried eels and vegetable soup is a typical lunch for them at school.
Scott: 44:35
Well, that's kind of a little bit of a lunch bag. Let down heels. Next stop South Korea for a balanced lunch with a soup element who noodles, meat, kimchi and maybe an egg dish. Such a scallion pancakes?
Carole: 44:49
Well, it's about off to Spain. They have a really balance and delightful meal. Scrambled eggs, vegetable soup and banana yogurt. They always do this before their siesta.
spk_3: 45:01
Uh,
Scott: 45:03
Mongolia Bread, butter and T with sugar.
spk_3: 45:08
That one kind of
Carole: 45:09
doesn't feel very balanced to me. No bread and butter and tea
Scott: 45:13
very limited. By Thursday, you're going bread, butter and tea with sugar again.
Carole: 45:18
Doesn't that sound like a prison meal
Scott: 45:20
thing? Is their prison mail, I believe. International food of the country.
Carole: 45:25
Thailand. I love Thai food, pork, chicken soup, cucumber and black jelly. I don't know what black jelly is. I'll have to
Scott: 45:33
look that up black jelly. We actually call that in America. We call that
Carole: 45:36
mold. Last we stop in Sri Lanka, they eat all beats and rice. I like the rice and the doll, but I don't know about
Scott: 45:45
the beets. Yeah, I'm not a big fan of the Beats, but there's one more. I'm just adding to the list and that's Canada.
Carole: 45:50
Oh, Canada. What do they eat at lunch in Canada?
Scott: 45:53
Carol, I'm gonna tell you because I am from Canada and I did eat lunch for lunch every day. I ate peanut butter and jam sandwiches with butter on plain plain white bread. Day in, day out. And you know what I loved it?
Carole: 46:08
Is that a typical Canadian child's lunch? Peanut butter and jam with butter?
Scott: 46:13
Cheryl, it almost sounds like you're asking me if I was typical. No,
Carole: 46:17
you're not typical.
Scott: 46:18
So it's not a typical lunch. Okay? I was special. I used to call myself gifted or special. I think the other kids called me special. Kind of in a derogatory way. Welcome a Bonnie to our podcast.
Carole: 46:32
So we wanted to talk to you about your food and cooking and what you like to eat. So tell us a little bit about food for you.
spk_5: 46:40
Um well, I like cooking, and I like eating food. Especially like desserts and stuff.
Scott: 46:47
Yeah, desserts.
spk_5: 46:49
But I also like pasta. What
Scott: 46:52
kind of pasta do you like?
spk_5: 46:53
Spaghetti.
Scott: 46:54
So you like eating pasta? That's get back into the world of desserts. Because I love me some desserts too. So tell me, what kind of deserts you like?
spk_5: 47:01
I like brownies and cookies.
Scott: 47:04
Yeah. What's your favorite kind of cookie
spk_5: 47:06
on, like talkative
Carole: 47:07
Yeah. Uh, do you have a special recipe for that you use when you make chocolate chip cookies?
spk_5: 47:12
I'm not Really. Do
Carole: 47:13
you make it up now or do follow recipes? Yeah. Yeah. So how often do you actually bake or cook,
spk_5: 47:20
like, twice a month?
Carole: 47:21
Oh, that's good. So you must be busy doing other things. What other kind of things are you doing?
spk_5: 47:25
Um, I play sports, and I do Girl Scouts.
Carole: 47:29
Okay. Oh, So you're in the middle of selling Girl Scout cookies right now, right? Yeah. Yeah. Does your true do? Really well, like, what kind of cookies do what's your favorite kind of girl? Scout cookie.
spk_5: 47:38
I like some of us. Yeah, Yeah, me too.
Scott: 47:41
Those are my favorite to Definitely. I must say, it's pretty difficult walking by after I go to the gym, and then I go walking by a whole bunch of girl scouts, and they're all, like, staring at me like, Hey, Mr Bison Cookies. So I got a cave in and buy, like, end up walking around with about 20 boxes of cookies.
spk_3: 47:57
What? You didn't
Carole: 47:57
give me any?
Scott: 47:59
I know. I give them to our dog mow and myself. we just sit meet them before Carol comes home. So you guys are doing a good job with the cookies. They're really yummy. So we're just trying to get a sense of what kind of foods that you like. The food you don't like or foods that you eat with your friends Any of those kind of things.
spk_5: 48:14
Um, well, I like Thio snack on tips, a snack.
Scott: 48:20
So you're not gonna have chips for a full meal like you're not going to sit down in there plate of
Carole: 48:24
whole bag of chips with
spk_5: 48:25
a bag
Scott: 48:25
of chips with fork. Okay. Good. Gotcha.
spk_5: 48:28
For, like, full meals we normally have, like, cost. Oh, it's something
Scott: 48:32
that
spk_5: 48:32
I will have. Like, we'll just have different things, Like pizza. Uh, Indian food.
Carole: 48:38
Tell me a little
Scott: 48:38
bit about the Indian food. Like, what's involved with that? Does it have specific spices that you like?
spk_5: 48:43
Oh, I don't know. Spices go into it, but we have, like, doll, which is like lentil soup. Sort of.
Scott: 48:51
I would like that. I love lentils.
spk_5: 48:53
Yeah, we have, like, paneer, which is like toes. Okay,
Scott: 48:58
Let's get to the important stuff. Let's get straight to the Indian desserts that you like. Let's hear about those.
spk_5: 49:02
I like the love gentleman
Scott: 49:04
who I like the name of that.
Carole: 49:05
What is is that
spk_5: 49:06
I like the part where it's, like dipped into a sweet sauce, which tastes really good. You
Scott: 49:13
know what? I think it's made out of magic. That's what it sounds like to me.
Carole: 49:16
Rainbows and unicorns
Scott: 49:18
and magic Memin sounds good. Sounds really good. And then do you ever do you ever cook things yourself?
spk_3: 49:25
Just like
spk_5: 49:25
simple food? Like if we're going on a Girl Scout camping trip will make like a sloppy Joes. But, like, I like making stuff out of eggs.
Scott: 49:36
Right? Right. What kind of stuff would you make out of eggs? Desserts. Yeah, I knew it.
Carole: 49:41
It's like, what kind of things?
spk_5: 49:43
Like, uh, brownies. Cookies.
Scott: 49:46
What about? Do you ever get into pancakes or waffles with those eggs
spk_5: 49:50
on? Now,
Scott: 49:51
let me ask you this. Do you spend much time with your friends like cookie, Nor or in the kitchen? Do you guys, like, make different things? Like when you're making your brownies? Do you make those with your friends?
spk_5: 50:00
I normally make them with my grandma.
Carole: 50:02
Ha. Uh,
Scott: 50:03
does she have a special family recipe that you can make it with her?
spk_3: 50:06
I think it's
spk_5: 50:07
from the back of the bag.
Scott: 50:09
So it's Grandma's secret recipe for bag, but don't tell anybody s so she tells you like it's a recipe that's been passed down for hundreds of generations. Like No Grandma. It's on the back of the bag. So Grandma tries to pass off these recipes on you,
Carole: 50:23
huh? Yeah. Do you ever cook Indian food with your mom or your or your grandma?
spk_5: 50:28
I've done it a few times, but now I don't do it often. So
Carole: 50:32
what's the difference between making Indian food versus making like a pasta dish or in American food like Mac and cheese? Is there any difference?
spk_3: 50:40
Well, there's more like
spk_5: 50:41
spices involved with the Indian food. Then there would be in Mac and cheese and stuff. There's more parts to it than because Mac and cheese is just a few things that go into it. But with the Indian food, we have a lot more things to it. So it's what, like, harder to make,
Carole: 51:00
right? So do you actually see your mom and your grandma making all those spices? and adding things and yeah, I think Indian Foods so good. I love it. Do you think that you have a palate like Do you know what a pallet is? Sorta. Yeah. So, like what? Your taste iss. So do you think that you have a palette that you like? Spicy food? I like
spk_5: 51:19
spicy food, but like, not super
spk_3: 51:22
spicy.
spk_5: 51:23
But I like it because it gives more taste to the food.
Scott: 51:26
When I was growing up, spicy food for us was a little bit extra pepper. So I've just been recently getting into some Indian spices and flavors because it just adds, like you're seeing so much diversity and depth to whatever you're eating it. So, so interesting. Do you ever watch, like, cooking shows or baking shows on TV?
spk_5: 51:43
Yeah.
Scott: 51:44
Are there particular shows that you like watching?
spk_5: 51:46
I watched, like, the chopped shows and the like. Guys Girl Sweet gains.
Carole: 51:52
Yeah,
Scott: 51:52
that's fun, huh?
spk_5: 51:53
Yeah. Those were the mainland. Did
Scott: 51:55
you get to learn things from that?
spk_5: 51:56
Well, I feel like the different things that the bakers make and
Scott: 52:00
right. And then you get some ideas.
spk_3: 52:01
Yeah.
Scott: 52:02
Ah, very good.
Carole: 52:02
If you were going to go to a deserted island. What kind of food would you take there with you?
Scott: 52:08
When you take a dessert to a deserted island,
spk_3: 52:11
I take like I take, like
spk_5: 52:14
a combination of, like snacking items like meal meal, things that you did it out of me.
Scott: 52:21
And do you find you eat the same sort of every day at the same time. When I was a kid, it seemed like my parents would make food at, like, you know, breakfast, lunch and dinner. But then I was like you. I would snack in between and at different times and stuff like that. Is that how you do it now?
spk_5: 52:35
It depends on, like, kind of the day cause it. If we have an activity where well, get home later, then we'll usually have dinner later and we'll have a snack in between, like chips and nuts or that kind of thing.
Scott: 52:50
And what about do like fruits or vegetables? Anything like that.
spk_5: 52:53
We have it pretty much every meal
Scott: 52:55
of fruits and vegetables, and you have a favorite kind of fruit.
spk_5: 52:58
I like like peaches.
Scott: 53:01
Peaches, Yeah, peach pie, which is sort of like a fruit and a dessert. So It's kind of the best of both worlds. It's sort of like having a salad with maple syrup on it, trying to push that idea to catch on because kids would like it cause of the syrup. And then you could say to your parents, Well, at least it's a salad. What do you think about that idea?
spk_5: 53:19
Yeah, that would be cool.
Scott: 53:20
It would be good, Right? Okay. Great.
Carole: 53:22
Have you ever seen the movie elf? And he has the Eddie he puts he put syrup on his spaghetti. Yeah, actually,
Scott: 53:29
I was just reading an article the other day about how maple syrup is actually really good for you because of the all the antioxidants in it. So anyway, that's what I'm telling myself. Do you ever watch YouTube for videos on how to learn how to make things or, like make food or anything like that? Just trying to get a sense of where you get your information about food.
spk_3: 53:46
I may just
spk_5: 53:47
get it like when I if I'm about to cook either, like whoever's cooking with me will tell me what to do or if it's more like of, ah, like brownie or cookie thing. we'll get it off the back of the bag.
Scott: 54:00
Okay. So you're from Grandma, right? Right. So what you're saying just so I can be clear on this is that you didn't go to chef school in France for four years. You're actually getting it off the back of the brownie box. Got good. So that's a little kind of a pro tip for all you people out there looking to make brownies. Don't spend your money going to France and inexpensive chef school. Just get it off the back of the box. Probably taste just about the same, right?
spk_3: 54:25
Yeah. So let me
Carole: 54:26
ask you one question. Do you think there's any food that you would not eat?
spk_5: 54:30
If, um, someone's made something like new? Always, like, try it. But then if I try and just like don't like it, then I'll just say whatever I feel about that food, and then normally they'll just like either not make it again, or they'll try it again. But, like, make change it up a little bit,
Scott: 54:49
right? Like more syrup or extra sugar, that kind of thing. Right? I hear where you're going with that. Very good.
Carole: 54:55
There is a new trend that people are getting protein from crickets. Do you think that you would ever try eating crickets? No. No.
spk_5: 55:04
But I'm also like a vegetarian.
Carole: 55:06
Are you okay?
Scott: 55:08
Good. Can we ask you a little bit about being a vegetarian? How that came about.
spk_4: 55:11
Did
Scott: 55:12
you like it
spk_5: 55:12
when we were born? We up. My parents wanted to try it out. And then ever since then, we've just been vegetarian.
Carole: 55:20
So how do you get your protein? What do you eat too? To stay strong and build your muscles
spk_5: 55:25
when we have, like, Indian food that has lots of protein. And we also have, like, for snacks. There's these certain protein bars that we like. So we get some from there.
Scott: 55:36
So it's just not all chips 24 hours a day, right? Good. Well, listen, we're so happy you were able to come on the podcast today and we're so grateful for your time and was really wonderful talking with you.
Carole: 55:47
I'm glad I was so glad that we were able to connect. Thank you. Hey, Charlotte. Welcome to this is you.
Scott: 55:54
So what part of the country are you coming to us from?
spk_2: 55:57
I'm from orange County. Okay.
Scott: 55:59
I'm originally from Toronto, Canada, and Carol's originally
Carole: 56:02
from originally from New Zealand. I was born in New Zealand. What were you going to say?
Scott: 56:05
I was gonna say Carol's originally from outer space, but that's why we get along so well. Because I love aliens. So we just wanted to get a little bit of insight into your world of food. How you connect with it. Do you watch it on TV? Do you make peanut butter and jam sandwiches? Maybe that's the only thing you eat
spk_2: 56:21
now. It's not on you to watch the minute we're child, but not anymore. Really knocks the TV. Yeah, I don't really even mean J. Yeah, I kind of like vegetable sandwiches.
Carole: 56:36
Really? What kind of vegetables? What do you use?
spk_2: 56:39
Lettuce, Spinach? No peppers, pickles and tomato.
Carole: 56:44
Wow. Healthy. Do you put any mayonnaise and mustard
spk_2: 56:49
sauce? Sadly,
Scott: 56:50
you don't like sauce. Now you just like straight dry. Just enjoying the vegetables. And then do you do any baking yourself cooking or baking?
spk_2: 57:00
I mean, I bathe with me, mom,
Scott: 57:02
And what do you bake with your mom
spk_2: 57:03
cakes? Cookies? K.
Scott: 57:05
So let me ask you a question. Do you just sit on the chair and boss your mom around or do you actually do it together together? Does she boss you around? More like on the cleanup side of things, Right? Way Just saw Mom's finger come into the screen there.
Carole: 57:22
Your mom can make some really amazing cakes because about seven years ago, she made this amazing cake in this amazing little doll figurine of my daughter. Does she make really amazing cakes for you? For your birthday's? Yeah. What's the best one she's ever made?
spk_2: 57:39
Where she usually orders that and then decorates them chocolate cake. And then Austin already ready?
Scott: 57:46
Yeah, she's super creative, huh? Did you get some of that creative gene?
spk_2: 57:49
I think
Scott: 57:50
it must be fun. Seen her make all these interesting things all the time. It makes you want to do it too. Yeah. Yeah. And then do you ever spend time with your friends? Do you guys ever get together and bake or watch cooking shows together or go out for food? Anything like that?
spk_2: 58:04
I mean, there was this one time that we've run the king show. She came over and we had a sleepover. And in the morning we did the pancake art challenge. Which is that? So basically, you pick a random picture from a hat and you have to make that with pancake.
Carole: 58:19
Like what kind of things?
spk_2: 58:21
Like me and her Got I got okay. I got the Fuji. She got the laughing crying. And you So we both made it. Yeah, we had to put it in bottles. And, um, you take the bottles, huh? Okay. You fill it with water and you like you put food, diet, whatever calling you need. And then
Carole: 58:36
and then you just squirt it out in the shape of whatever emoji or whatever. That's that's
spk_3: 58:41
a really
Carole: 58:41
good idea. We should try that. I think maybe this weekend I'll do a picture of you.
spk_3: 58:46
Just a big
Scott: 58:47
blob, like a carrot nose or something like that. Is that something we can see on YouTube? I mean, is that challenge kind of going around YouTube? Is that where you first heard about it? Yeah. Do you guys ever get to throw food at school or anything like that? No, I just remember, because when I went to high school, that was back in the time of
Carole: 59:03
the dinosaurs.
spk_3: 59:03
Three
Scott: 59:04
dinosaurs yet they were roaming the earth. And that's when I lived up at La Brea Tar Pits right beside the dinosaurs we usedto have in the cafeteria. There would be food fight. Someone would just stand up and randomly yell food, fight. And then the next thing people are just throwing Oh, yeah, like it really have
Carole: 59:19
to get suspended from school.
Scott: 59:21
Yeah, but no one really found out who did it. But you'd just be sitting there. I'll send you get hit in the back of the head with a banana or some yogurt or chocolate pudding. It was crazy. Like it was right out of the movies just back and forth fighting. Ah, the good old days. And then you'd be sitting all day with, like, chocolate pudding running down the back your neck. Not so fun. Not so fun. Okay, let's get into the area of food that you don't like to eat is their foods that you don't like. Are you, like a picky eater or
spk_2: 59:47
a picky eater?
Carole: 59:48
What does that mean to you?
spk_2: 59:49
I'm a press secretary in kind of guess.
Carole: 59:51
Yeah. Really? So why is that?
spk_2: 59:53
I actually don't know.
Scott: 59:55
So do you like certain types of fish? Yes. What kind of fish do you like?
spk_2: 59:59
Mostly salmon occupy.
Scott: 1:0:02
Wow. Wow. Very impressive
spk_3: 1:0:05
lobster. You have
Carole: 1:0:06
expensive tastes.
Scott: 1:0:08
I'm so impressed with all the food you because I just hearken back to, like, meeting the peanut butter and jam sandwiches when I was a kid here. And you talk about eating octopus. That's pretty amazing.
Carole: 1:0:17
Do you also eat sushi? Do you like sushi yet? Really? Wow. What's your favorite kind?
spk_2: 1:0:22
Probably the California roll.
Carole: 1:0:24
Yeah, I like that, too. Yeah,
Scott: 1:0:25
I'm not a sushi guy. What is out having it. Obviously, California is a big component of the California roll
spk_2: 1:0:33
cucumber, and then sometimes avocado and a little bit of Manny's.
Scott: 1:0:38
That sounds good. Is there something that you make it home that you learn to make from, like, you went to a restaurant? You go. Oh, wow. That's really good. I want to try that at home.
spk_2: 1:0:45
No, actually,
Scott: 1:0:46
just a big, straight, hard.
Carole: 1:0:49
No, but she put it nicely. I said, actually, yeah,
Scott: 1:0:52
actually, that's kind of a question and no is the answer. Do you want to be a chef when you grow
spk_2: 1:1:01
up? Really? Yeah,
Scott: 1:1:03
I know I'm just trying to get these questions. I kind of know the answer before I'm even asking them. So what do you want to do when you grow up?
spk_2: 1:1:10
I'm even thinking of bringing player like me, Mom or an interior designer. Those
spk_3: 1:1:14
are kind
Carole: 1:1:15
of similar because your mom kind of plans out interiors, right for parties and all that. That's very cool.
Scott: 1:1:21
It's just that it changes its for a period of time. And then a new thing comes on once again. The creativity is really what's probably exciting about that, right?
spk_2: 1:1:28
Yeah. So
spk_3: 1:1:29
let me
Carole: 1:1:29
ask you one question. If you had to go to a deserted island, what kind of food would you take with you? What would you bring with you?
spk_2: 1:1:37
I would bring probably a bunch of vegetables, some water. I would drink seaweed. Actually, I bring not food. I don't want something to like official.
Scott: 1:1:48
Oh, that's how
Carole: 1:1:49
good for you. So, actually, how do you guys cook your salmon in your fish?
spk_2: 1:1:54
We just put it on a pan and cook it for about 20 minutes. And is
Scott: 1:2:00
that kind of a moment's department, or do you handle some of that too?
spk_2: 1:2:03
It's Dad's Day. You
Scott: 1:2:05
can just sort of nod. Nod, wink, wink. Whose food do you like? Better moms or dads? So, obviously, Kristi, obviously, your mom's your mom's cooking. By the way, you're reacting, right? We'll just put it down. His mom's cooking
spk_2: 1:2:19
like equally.
Scott: 1:2:21
Oh, okay. Good answer, actually. Excellent save. Yes, Mom. Is my job giving her again? Like patting her head. Excellent answer. That was our toughest question. Too big safe. Oh, yeah. This is an important question that we always ask our guest between Carol and I. Who do you like better
spk_2: 1:2:42
so far. And she
Scott: 1:2:44
answered me. Great answer. Great answer. Now, while you're really good with the
Carole: 1:2:48
answers, she's going to say she likes both of us equally, because that's what she said with her mom and dad.
spk_2: 1:2:54
Yeah, actually, true. Ah,
Scott: 1:2:58
we're just coming to the end of the questions here, and we're just really happy that we had a chance to meet you. And thank you so much for being on our podcast.
Carole: 1:3:04
Thank you, Charlotte. Thank you so much.
Scott: 1:3:06
You were awesome. Well, guys, that's about it. For us on this awesome episode 10 of this is you
Carole: 1:3:14
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Scott: 1:3:21
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Carole: 1:3:49
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Scott: 1:4:07
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Carole: 1:4:07
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Scott: 1:4:12
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Carole: 1:4:32
Um, yeah.
Scott: 1:4:33
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Carole: 1:4:35
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