64 - 5 EASY Meals to Make When You Don't Have an Appetite

Feeding yourself in the midst of loss, grief, or even just a hard season of life is so important! Your brain needs the fuel even if you don't have an appetite. In this episode, we share some easy recipes and quick dinner ideas to make ahead of time or throw together quickly when you just don't feel like cooking or eating. 

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Christina
So my Lotti dog, she got to go on her first walk. So much fun. Oh, my gosh. And so much fun because we've been cooped up in the house for so many weeks and she got sick and oh, it's been so much fun to be able to take her to the beach and she loves to carry a stick.

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Christina
Have you seen that video where it's like the dog? Like there's like, I got a stick. So cute, huh?

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Meghan
So have you seen the one with the tiny dog with the giant stick?

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Christina
Yes. I love that one. I'm trying to find. If you find that, let me know, because I want to show that to someone. Yeah. So she. She doesn't carry it sideways. She carries it like she's carrying a cigar. Oh, it's so cute. And she just went this morning and she has £16.5, which is it's just crazy to me that she's so big, but she's beautiful and I'm having so much fun with her, so.

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Christina
Hi, I'm Christina.

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Meghan
And I'm Megan. And this is the full Cup Club podcast.

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Christina
If you've been knocked down, we're here to cheer you on as you get back up.

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Meghan
So whether your cup has coffee, tea or vodka in it. Welcome to the full Cup club.

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Christina
Hey, friends. On today's episode we are chatting about fueling yourself when your ship is sinking and that can feel impossible. So we're going to share five simple recipes and tips for you to fuel your body in the midst of chaos. But before we begin, as always, Megan, I'm going to ask you what's in your cup? But before I do, I want to share that one of our listeners bought us coffee, and so that was Josh, and he says, Thanks for a great show.

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Christina
I love your positivity and good vibes. So, Megan, what coffee did Josh buy you today?

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Meghan
He bought me a brown sugar oatmilk shaken espresso from Starbucks. I've never had it before, but I always see it. I think it might be like a new regular thing on their menu. New ish, but like a regular thing. Like, not seasonal. Anyway. It's good. I super like it. Never had it before, so it just went off on like, I don't know, I'll try that one Sounds tasty.

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Meghan
I really like it. It is. It's tasty. It's not as sweet as I thought it was going to be, but it still has some sweetness and it's good. I'm going to be up all night now. So that's.

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Christina
Okay. All right.

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Meghan
What are you drinking?

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Christina
I got. Oh, you didn't tell us what's. What's filling your cup, though. Oh, tell us that first.

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Meghan
Yes. So we. I, I missed this show. I think my son was just young when it came out, But we have started watching Breaking Bad. I've never seen it. I think that I just it was a time when my son was little and I just, like, couldn't focus on TV. You know, there's that like season where you just need time for anything when your kids a little.

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Meghan
So. So yeah, we started watching Breaking Bad and I've never seen it before and I really like it. Like I totally get the hype. I get why people love the show so much, so that's really filling my cup is having a new series to watch.

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Christina
I never watched it either. Now I'm going to have to check.

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Meghan
It to have it.

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Christina
Okay.

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Meghan
Netflix.

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Christina
I haven't. Okay. Netflix. Good to know.

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Meghan
So what coffee did Josh buy you? And if you wanted to buy us a coffee, you can go to buy me a coffee icon slash full cup club. And that helps. It supports the show, it buys the coffee, it gives us something to talk about. So, yeah. What kind of coffee did Josh get you this week and what's filling your cup?

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Meghan
Metaphorically.

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Christina
So Josh got me an iced vanilla latte and I had them added Add a little salted caramel, so I'm going to try it using drumroll. It's freezing. I am freezing. I'm in a under a blanket and I'm going to have an iced coffee.

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Meghan
I don't think that there's ever a time when iced coffee is not appropriate.

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Christina
Whew. That is sweet. It's really good. Woo! I'm afraid to drink that whole thing because I'm going to be up until 3:00 in the morning. So what is filling my cup? I am going on a trip and I was super excited. I'm going on an adventure this next week and so that is what's filling my cup is looking forward to that.

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Christina
And yeah, so very exciting.

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Meghan
Fun. Where are you going?

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Christina
I am going to a I didn't even know these existed. Ed but a pickleball shootout in Southern California this week. So to see some pro pickleball players.

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Meghan
Like a tournament kind of.

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Christina
Yeah. So it's a tour that goes around so yeah. So they're going to be on the West Coast this next week and so I'm going with my pickleball partner and we're going to go check it out.

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Meghan
Well, that's fun.

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Christina
Okay, friend. So we are going to chat about some really simple recipes that you can do if maybe your life is in chaos right now. That could be the loss of someone or it could just be like Megan was talking about earlier. You have young children and you're just like, Oh, what do I do now? So we'll get started.

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Christina
And Megan, do you want to share one of your recipes first that you came up with? That was simple.

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Meghan
Well, yes, I invented this recipe. It's called spaghetti. You know, one of my go to meals to make is spaghetti. And the reason I do it so much one, my son likes it like he'll eat it and all it is is pasta and sauce. You can add meat to the sauce if you want. You don't have to. You can add meatballs.

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Meghan
You don't have to. You can make it healthier by doing spaghetti squash instead of noodles. Or if you're like gluten free or something, you know, you can make those variations as needed for whatever you need, but you're still getting the same dish. It is a go to easy meal that we make. And I know that that's not like some revolutionary idea, but sometimes something has to kind of hit you in the face and be like, Oh, right.

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Meghan
I could just like, do spaghetti and that's fine, you know, because what matters is you're getting fed. Like if you are in a hard season, say, you know, your partner or somebody has died or you have young children or you're just like going through it or whatever it is, something hard. Spaghetti is so easy to make and, you know, Yeah, and it has nutritional value.

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Meghan
You know what? I really like Ringo's sauce. It is bougie and expensive. And Christina turned me on to it. But it's like one way that I feel better about just serving spaghetti with just sauce. But this is so good. Honestly, it's all natural, but it's like, no sugar added into it, I think. And it's got.

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Christina
A lot of vegetables. Accounts is like if you're looking at counting like how many vegetables you've had, it definitely has some some good. Yeah. Counts in there. Yeah.

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Meghan
So spaghetti right. Is always a hit in my house. That is one of the that I just pasta and sauce done easy and it's cheap and like I said it can be you can change you can add meat or not or you can make it gluten free or healthier with squash or not. And I think one of your recipes is a similar vibe, right?

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Christina
Yes. And and going off of what you said, it's the nice thing is those are dry like those are nonperishable. So you can just have those as like and just.

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Meghan
Have it on your.

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Christina
Pantry. So don't think about it. It's just there.

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Meghan
You just have it. And it's like when you're tired or craving it, even like it's just there, you don't have to really plan ahead. It's one of those that can just be thrown together.

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Christina
My recipe is very like jumping off of like, the Reyes marinara sauce is amazing. You can find it at Costco if you're a member there. There's a double pack there a lot of times, and they'll have it on sale. It is excellent and so many different things. But a zucchini bake is what I love to use it in.

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Christina
And so I do zucchini and I just cube that zucchini up and you can take the seeds out if you want, but I just keep it up. I like very simple recipes. So we're going to keep up the zucchini. We're going to throw it into a nine by 11. You're going to pour the Rayo marinara sauce over that, do some grated cheese, and then mix in a protein that you like.

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Christina
You know, do you like ground chicken? Ground turkey or whatever protein? And then you're going to bake that on 400 for 35 minutes? Oh, my gosh. My son, who is 25, loves this. My nephews, who are teenagers, love this. Their little sister loves this. This is a hit. And it's very, very simple. And you've got your protein in there and you've got vegetables.

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Christina
And everyone is happy with this recipe. So check that out. That's an easy one.

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Meghan
Yeah. And that's what I'm all about. I don't want to spend a lot of time cooking. I don't enjoy doing it, and I specifically don't enjoy doing it when I'm already having a hard time in life. I don't want to be standing around the kitchen. So a recipe that number one gets me and my family fed. That's the first and foremost.

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Meghan
Number two, if it can provide some kind of nutrition, awesome. Like vegetables and a protein like. Yeah, fantastic. Yes. And it's easy. Also like sign. Yeah, for sure.

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Christina
Yeah. So another one that I did because after my husband died, my son was in college not long after that. And learning how to feed yourself when it's just you versus, you know, you had a child in the home and a spouse in the home. It can be very challenging. And one thing that I found helpful was to pre cook my protein.

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Christina
So if it was ground chicken or ground turkey, you can put that in the freezer and pull that out as needed. But one thing I did is that I would use sweet potatoes. I would cook sweet potatoes, and I would do two or three sweet potatoes at a time. And then for dinner I would do or lunch, I do a sweet potato and a protein.

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Christina
I found that very helpful. And I love Alton Brown's recipe for doing potatoes is just that you, you know, wash them, you know, poke some holes in them, coat it with olive oil, do some salt, and then you bake it on the rack at 350 for an hour and a half. And like friends are perfect. So that was one thing that I found helpful for me as somebody who didn't have little kids around to feed, was learning that you can take your protein and you can put it in the freezer, portion it out and put it in the freezer and just as you need it, pull it out.

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Christina
So I hope that's helpful.

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Meghan
Yeah, Yeah, that is helpful. Just knowing you can cook it and then freeze it in like individual portions. So then you're just pulling out what you're going to eat. Also, it's already cooked and you just have to eat it up. Yeah, I think so. Well, you talked about the opposite going from cooking for a family to only cooking for yourself.

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Meghan
I have to find recipes that my son's going to like too, and he's not, you know, a crazy picky eater or anything. But I do still make an effort to find things and have him try new things. And, you know, we're not always eating the same stuff. And anyway, so we have this dish that we like and we call it Monster MASH.

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Meghan
And the only reason we call it that is because we ate it on Halloween once. And it's kind of like a mash of a bunch of stuff. So we call it Monster MASH, but this is a recipe I pulled off of some cooking blog I don't remember and then kind of made it my own, but in a crockpot, you add like a couple pounds of chicken and then you mix together a can of cream of chicken soup and the small container of sour cream.

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Meghan
Mix that up and then you mix a box of stuffing, mix with like a cup of chicken broth, and you put the cream of chicken soup mixture on top of the chicken, and then you put the stuffing on top of that. And then I always add a vegetable, add some peas or some like frozen green beans or like something like that, and just let it cook, let I cook the standard times, you know, 4 hours, a low six, 8 hours on high, or I set that backwards 4 hours and high six, 8 hours.

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Meghan
I know. And it's just like once once you take it out, like you mash it all kind of together, when once it's done cooking and it's this like goopy, delicious, like mash, and we call it Monster mash. My son loves it. It is so easy and it's something you could totally make ahead of time. And put it in like a giant Ziploc bag and just mix it all together, put it in the freezer, and then just bring it out and just dump it in the crock pot.

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Christina
Sounds yummy.

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Meghan
That's a really easy one. And it's like kind of comfort food. It's like almost homestyle. It's not particularly healthy, which is why I try to add, know, frozen vegetables in. But that's something that he requests this actually like weekly. And when you can prepare a meal in a Ziploc bag and just pull it out and put it in the crock pot lifesaver, especially when you're just don't feel like cooking, you know, it doesn't even have to be that you're going through something hard.

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Meghan
You just don't want to. It makes it so much easier. Another thing that we do a lot is breakfast for dinner. Are you a fan of breakfast for dinner?

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Christina
Christina I am a huge fan of Brenner. Have you ever heard of that?

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Meghan
Brenner No.

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Christina
Brenner I'm a huge fan of it.

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Meghan
I love.

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Christina
It. Yes.

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Meghan
We'll do bacon and eggs. And I always make my bacon in the oven. That's my life. Hack with bacon, because then it's not splashing on you on the stove. And it's easy. You do 400 for like, 20 minutes and then flip it over and see. It depends on if you have a thick cut or a thin cut bacon, the amount of time it has to cook, but it's like 400 degrees and then 10 minutes on each side, or it might be 20 minutes on each side if you have to cut bacon, but it makes it a lot easier.

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Meghan
Oh, and line your sheet pan with foil so that it's easier to clean up. Mm. Yeah, we'll do that a lot because it's so easy and it's a lot of protein. So to keep you full.

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Christina
I have one that I use a lot and it's funny, my son woke up this morning and I had made cookies for something and he woke up and he walked out and I was like, there's cookies in the kitchen for you. And he was so disappointed. He's like, Oh, he's like, I thought you were making biscuits and gravy.

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Christina
And so he thought he was making it to biscuits and gravy. So I want to share this really quick recipe that I got from my sister, and it's on the Internet. I think this is a pretty common recipe, but I had never heard of it before. So this is my go to it is four cups of Bisquick, one cup of 7UP and one cup of sour cream.

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Christina
Now I use Greek yogurt, plain Greek yogurt in it, and I think it's so much better, but it's just literally those ingredients and you mix them together. You don't want to over mix them, mix those three ingredients together in an a baking dish, you're going to melt some butter like makeover butter and Malta and put it in the bottom of the baking dish and then scoop the mixture out.

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Christina
Oh, my goodness. Friends, for an hour and 25 degrees for 20 minutes. These are the most perfect biscuits. I pretty much keep like a case of 7UP in my home and this quick just for this purpose. So then all I have to do is grab the Greek yogurt or sour cream, whatever you prefer. And that's it. And so on a Saturday morning I can do those.

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Christina
And then that was something nice after Michael died that I would probably once a month do that. And then I use a gravy packet. I'm not fancy, not no shame in my packet game. So yeah.

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Meghan
See that to me is like so out of my wheelhouse. Like you make biscuits and gravy and then you're over here saying like, oh, I just use a gravy packet. That's awesome.

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Christina
Simple. Don't overthink it.

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Meghan
I would for sure buy the, like, canned biscuits before I go to the trouble of making biscuits. I'm not going to lie to you. I would never.

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Christina
Okay, so here, honest, honest. Hand to the heavens. Okay. I bought canned biscuits for years until I tried this recipe and I was like my sister. We made them for Thanksgiving one year and I was like, Oh my gosh, this is so simple. It is so simple and it is so much better than a canned biscuit that it's just like, Yeah, you just try it.

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Meghan
It's worth putting in the extra effort because like to me it's like my time is valuable.

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Christina
It doesn't even feel like it's extra effort. It feels it's literally three ingredients that you dump together, three ingredients and yeah, that's it. So I highly recommend it. All right, stick of butter. So just before things like I think three of the things you can pretty much keep on hand most of the time, like if you are really loved this recipe.

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Christina
So I just hide the seven so that nobody drinks it.

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Meghan
I have a family member who is super allergic to eggs, so I would make her birthday cake sometimes. And if you just take a box of cake mix like Duncan Hines or Pillsbury, whatever, and he pour a can of soda into it, any kind of soda you can, it'll make the cake you don't have to add the oil and the eggs and everything so you can get fun with the different flavor options.

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Meghan
Like Dr. Pepper is good with like a chocolate cake. So it's a fun little fact. So I'm not surprised that the 7UP works with those biscuits.

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Christina
Mm hmm.

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Meghan
Yeah, well, that's fun. I've never made biscuits and gravy that it's something that feels like so difficult. But now you're like, Oh, no. Just by the great simple.

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Christina
Yeah. Get the packet.

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Meghan
Speaking of easy recipes, we were talking about like meals that you can do or just like, put into a Ziploc and save for later. I follow this woman on Tik Tok. Her username is at lazy crafty cook. She this is like all she posts is easy meals and she starts everybody off. If you have like a chronic illness or a mental illness or you just plain don't want to spend all your time in the kitchen, this is this is for you.

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Meghan
And it's all dump meals. It's all meals you can prep like in one bag ahead of time and it's like a one pot situation. And she has tons of recipes, so I encourage you to check her out. Lazy, crafty cook. I love.

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Christina
It. I'm going to have to go find her and follow her because I do not. I seen a few of those and I love me a dump meal. Oh, my gosh, can I dump it in the crock pot and walk away? Yeah, yeah, that's the best. So now we want to talk about tips for fueling, because a lot of times if you are in the midst of, you know, a loss or you're just really struggling, maybe their mental health is you've got a struggle going on there and you need to fuel your body.

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Christina
It's important. I remember right after Michael died and I think you've mentioned this before, too, like you don't want to eat your body. Just you just can't eat. You cannot eat. And I have gone about three days, I want to say, without eating. And there was a moment that my body just I just looked at my mom and my my daughter and it was like, something's wrong.

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Christina
Something's very, very wrong. And it was just like at that point, my body was just like, You have gone so many days without eating. But yeah, so I really want to encourage you if you can, when you're ready, and maybe you don't have an appetite, but if you can keep these things on hand and then plus, if you are somebody listening and you are supporting someone who's grieving, these might be a few things for you to consider for them.

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Christina
But a little bit different. How I wanted to start out is just sometimes you need to use clicklist.

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Meghan
Mm hmm. I love.

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Christina
This.

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Meghan
App. Any like, grocery store ordering app.

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Christina
Yeah. DoorDash. No shame. If you need to order DoorDash and you need to order McDonald's because you're trying to get through and a really hard time. I mean, especially like when I lost Michael, there was a time where I hurt myself a year ago and ah, two years ago and I, my son was gone away to college and I would have given anything for DoorDash because I couldn't make myself dinner.

00;20;09;13 - 00;20;32;02
Christina
I couldn't do no shame in your DoorDash game. No shame in your you know, I love ClickList, which is like Megan seeing an online grocery app. Another thing is easy protein feeling. So I want to talk about this protein shakes. Having protein shakes in the fridge, nuts, string cheese, yogurt or cottage cheese, apples, bananas, maybe some boiled eggs.

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Christina
Just keep it simple. But if you can just a little bit of stuff in your system because your you are processing a lot of hard things and give your brain it needs fuel. And so if you can help it out, if you can help your body out in supporting you during the season, it's going to help you a lot.

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Meghan
Yeah, I think that those like you said, if you're supporting somebody who is grieving, showing up with some of those snacks for them to keep in their fridge or pantry would be a really cool thing to do.

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Christina
So for this month, for about Cup Club, we are reading a book by Casey Davis, and her book is How to Keep Housebound Drowning. And in her book, Casey says, if feeding yourself is very hard, turn your attention to kids food. I love this you guys so much. Toddler food is designed to shotgun the maximum amount of nutrition into someone with a limited palate and even more limited attention span.

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Christina
So I loved this. Her idea, she suggested, was yogurt uncrustables microwaved mac and cheese and she said to throw in a multi vitamin. So I loved that. Just that idea of like grab some Lunchables, anything like that that you can eat if you have no appetite. We're not here to worry about calories. We're not here to worry about sodium unless there's an issue.

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Christina
Find something like I was mentioning, like help your body help you, even if it's just a few bites. If you can do that for.

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Meghan
Yourself, I'm pretty sure I survived on Lunchables for like months because they're so convenient. They're easy.

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Christina
I didn't have to cook.

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Meghan
And you get a little treat that comes up like a cookie or a candy or. I didn't think about that.

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Christina
Yeah. Another thing I mentioned earlier, food prep. And so that was one thing that my friend Candy shared with me. I did not know that you could freeze if you made chicken or something like that, that you could freeze those other things. So if you're used to making larger portions for a family, you can throw those into your freezer and then just pull individuals out later because that is part of something that you have to grieve, is that you're used to cooking for several people.

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Christina
You know, you're used to maybe in my case, where my son had gone to college after my husband passed and then my husband was gone, I'm like, I don't know how to cook for one person. And so just know you can freeze that stuff. You can individually portion it and then it's there for later. And I didn't that was something that I had to learn just a tip for.

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Christina
When you're further along and you can do better, like if you can, when you get the stuff home from the grocery store, if you can prepare it before it goes in the fridge, that's like a superpower.

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Meghan
But or in my case, I just buy stuff prepped. Oh yeah. So like I buy the onions Big Ready, chopped. Okay.

00;23;25;01 - 00;23;29;29
Christina
It's because you live in the big city, right? I live out the middle of nowhere, you know.

00;23;30;18 - 00;23;41;07
Meghan
Well, no, you can buy, like, frozen vegetables that are cut up. So, like, if your recipe calls for chopped vegetables, like they sell, like peppers and onions and even garlic and stuff that's frozen.

00;23;41;14 - 00;24;00;25
Christina
And if you are supporting someone who has lost someone, you know, go over and do their food prep for them could be a very nice gift for them. Instead of bringing over stuff, make sure that it's in individual containers, like if you're bringing over, you know, apples or something, maybe you go in and you cut them up or you do things like that.

00;24;00;25 - 00;24;09;05
Christina
That would just be so helpful When you can't eat and you open your refrigerator and you're like, I know I need to eat, but nothing looks good. If they can just grab it. Mm hmm.

00;24;09;05 - 00;24;29;14
Meghan
This is kind of not related to that, but I wanted to talk about this app that I found my friend Abby introduced me to. It's called Copy Me That. And it's an app where you can copy recipes off of recipe blogs and stuff and then has them all in one app so you can make changes and edits to it also.

00;24;29;14 - 00;24;47;11
Meghan
So it's like that monster mash recipe that I talked about before. I have it in my copy me that app because I found it on the internet and then I changed it to make it work better for us. And now I have it saved there so I don't have to remember what blog it's from. I didn't have to print it out and put it in a recipe book or anything.

00;24;47;11 - 00;25;18;28
Meghan
It's just in this app. So it's called Copy Me That and it's free and it's just a helpful way to remember some of those recipes that you find. What's important during a hard season is feeding yourself, fueling your body, making sure that you are eating. So this is not the time. Like Christina said before, to be counting calories, to be worried about your body, to be worried about anything outside of the fact that you have to eat to survive.

00;25;18;28 - 00;25;29;21
Meghan
Food is fuel, and that's all food, not just the stuff that's quote unquote, healthy. It's eating anything. So that's what's important during this time.

00;25;30;04 - 00;25;52;23
Christina
I agree. Yes. And just remember, your brain needs that to function. So it needs that glucose. And so if it's being starved from that, your brain is not going to be able to process things properly. So if you can just remember that, that it's like if you have to force feed yourself a banana or string cheese or something like that, you would do that for a friend, You would want that for a friend.

00;25;52;23 - 00;26;13;14
Christina
And so care for yourself like you would dearly love a friend or a small child in this situation. And take care of yourself friends, because we know the season can be really hard when you're going through stuff and we have been there. We know what that's like to have no appetite and have things be, you know, out of your control.

00;26;14;07 - 00;26;36;04
Christina
So we really want to encourage you focus on protein. If you are like, I can't eat anything, maybe grab some nuts or string cheese or something like that and and keep your meal simple. During this time, they say that we only eat the same nine meals, but figure out like five things that you can eat repeatedly through the season so that you.

00;26;36;16 - 00;26;42;00
Meghan
Can eat things over and over, like you can have the same meal more than once in a row.

00;26;43;08 - 00;26;58;07
Christina
Yeah, keeping hand snacks on hand that are just simple and, you know, like I've seen this string cheese the not the, you know, individual, maybe yogurt or cottage cheese or something like that. Do yourself a favor and keep it simple.

00;26;58;11 - 00;27;11;16
Meghan
Yep. Okay, friends, whether your cup is empty, half full or overflowing, raise it up. Here's to the craziness of fueling your body in chaos.

00;27;12;01 - 00;27;15;03
Christina
Cheers. Cheers.

00;27;15;03 - 00;27;32;04
Meghan
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