Oh, that was amazing. Thank you very much.
Oh, no, I hope you want some candy.
I love the day in the life, the meals.
I think that's, like, women are always asking me for, like, what recipes or what...
It's not about a recipe. It's about a bag of salad, a can of sardines, and you put one on the other.
You know, you'll need something, like, you know, that has...
Like, chia seeds are great, you know what I'm saying?
But, like, even if you didn't have chia seeds in your water, drink your water.
Exactly. Just hide that yourself.
Yeah, once in a while, some people, it's like, my lunch is like most of, like, during my week,
like, at least twice a week, my lunch is on the go.
And I just take an avocado and a tin of sardines, and I say, I'll just deal with that later.
Exactly. So whatever I go, like, a coworking space or whatever, I just open the avocado
and I just pour the sardines, and those sardines are binding with extra virgin olive oil.
So I just put a little bit of that there, a little bit of salt in that slant.
My breakfast this morning was cottage cheese, sauerkraut, and smoked salmon.
I'm like, you know, some people are thinking, oh, you know, it's going to take so long, you know,
if I put in toast, it's quick. I'm like, well, how long does it take just to open a packet?
Yes, like you said, open the Greek yogurt tub.
That's it.
I got breakfast.
Exactly.
I mean, yes.
It's like people really complicated.
I have people, like, when you see these tiktok videos with all these recipes,
they're like, all right, and do this and that, it's like, who has time to do that for breakfast?
Yeah, like I love a protein pancake. Who's making it for me?
I don't know what that's really.
Beautiful smoothie bowl.
Exactly.
Who does beautiful smoothie.
And we just talked about that.
I love it.
I love that.
We each have, I should say, a protein tortilla, and we split one for the kids.
And that is literally our breakfast every day, so we just have this thing of meat and egg,
and we all scoop the required amounts, wrap it up, and eat it.
But yeah, one of our sponsors is the Meat Club, and they've asked us to ask me to make
a reel of that.
And I was like, it's so unglamorous.
It was like this massive brown, right, because it's just meat and egg, and then, like I said,
I'm pumping at the table, my kids are half dressed.
I was like, this is not as fancy as you perceive it to be, but when you look at it by the numbers,
numbers, great deal protein, perfect.
You know, again, we get a little bit of.
You see all these beautiful reels on Instagram, TikTok is like,
how do they manage to do that?
Like I was doing this, I mean, you will see it when it comes up on,
you know, I guess there are recipes coming on my Instagram,
but it was this protein bar, the protein bar.
Yes.
My husband ate, sorry.
I knew it was too long.
I was like, there's no way she's gonna have enough.
It's not crazy.
Anyway, so when you see it, when you see it on Instagram,
it's like, you see them like, yeah.
It's so beautiful.
Me, I was like with a piece of paper like,
yeah, she got it.
They're not recording all of this.
It's like, no, I'm just gonna pay claims.
Like you will notice.
If you pay attention, you'll see how it's like,
because it's really hard and it's not glamorous at all.
No, it is hard.
So this light here is mine and this is what I use for my recipe reels.
And since I've moved house, I have not found my setup
and I moved like in August last year.
And I still haven't got around to doing proper recipes.
And like the meat club have been asking me,
can you put something together?
And I feel like my engagement is dropping,
but I'm just like, I just can't get into the rhythm of it
and I need to do it.
And that's all of our jobs, by the way.
That's all of our jobs.
So for your average mom, your average person,
they sure as hell don't have time to do that.
And if they think they have to,
then they will definitely fail.
Like if they think the only way to do this
is to chop up 10 vegetables and make a whole,
no one's going to be doing it.
Which is what I've been trying to do.
They like failures.
Yeah, got cheese stuff.
I'm like, just open some cottage cheese.
Oh, cottage cheese man.
If you want to find a chicken for me.
Hell yeah.
That's my new favorite thing,
especially the one with the chives and onion.
Yep, chives and onion.
So good.
With, I will cut up an entire cucumber
and just keep scooping it up.
Oh, you know the one that I really enjoy doing
is like simple lunch, like just, you know,
when you scramble eggs with some spinach or whatever
and then put the tortilla on top of the pan.
Easy, easy, easy.
And they just, yeah.
That's it.
Like you have, it's three ingredients.
It's egg, spinach, tortilla and whatever spices.
That's my quick lunch when I'm like,
oh, I don't feel like I can see a salad.
I don't feel like, yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's super quick.
Easy, done.
Yeah, for me, like, because I am doing the recipes,
I do tend to put lots of different spices in,
but what people don't realize is
I just put it all into the blender.
I'm not standing there with the pestle and mortar.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's literally chopped into my ninja.
Like, you can't get peppercorns from the tree.
Yeah.
Come on.
You'll see me with my basket.
That's what people think nutritionists are doing behind the scenes.
We are not.
No, no, no.
Least of all us, I feel.
You know, like I said, you're, when you're making a recipe real,
yours are beautiful, but like it's like, come on.
That's not every meal of every day.
It is not.
Absolutely not.
It is not.
Yeah, that's why I would say,
you can't wait for the recipes, just think about combinations.
Absolutely, yeah.
It's not the recipe.
It's not what kind of, exactly like, I do a lot of like,
one pot, like in the spring we eat a lot of stews.
Yeah, right.
Like, there are bean stews.
Yeah.
So for dinner, I make a lot of like, just chickpeas stew with lots of vegetables,
you know, like, like, like, and just put everything in there.
Chacarole.
Yeah.
A lentil soup or chickpea soup, because that's what in Spain until very recently,
like when I would grow up, lunches in Spain, and that's what the Mediterranean diet really
was.
Yeah.
It's like, you will go home and there would be like, you know, like,
like a pot in the kitchen that has been cooking for hours.
That is just either chickpeas with whatever, with meat or with fish or with vegetables.
And it was either cannellini one day, chickpeas another, lentils another,
fava another.
Every single day it was, I stew for lunch.
Amazing.
Every time.
And you're describing Turkish food, you're describing Persian food.
Yeah.
Like you're describing,
Yeah.
Very similar to Indian as well.
Yeah.
You know, there'd just be a pot in our house.
That was lunch.
And whatever meat and beans and veg were in there, and that's what we ate.
Yeah.
And it's like, that's so common.
That was lunch every day.
Why don't we complicate it?
Yeah.
And we, I remember working, walking back from school with my friends like, oh, you're having
lentils.
Oh, you're having chickpeas.
Yeah.
You're like, who do I want to go to today?
Everybody was having the same meals.
Yeah.
They are simple meals.
Yeah.
But.
To be fair, traditional Chinese cooking is actually a lot like that as well.
Yeah, right.
You know, it's like some variation of meat, veg, egg.
Yeah.
But the thing is like, I love Indian food now, but growing up, I didn't like it.
So if my mom was making something in Indian, I'd be like, oh, I want, I know, I just want
their turkey twizzlers or whatever it was.
I don't know if you know what they are, but they were highly prized.
Yeah.
It was.
Turkey twizzlers.
I wanted to start with microchips or whatever it was, which again, were like fries you put
in the microwave.
Oh, God.
And now I just think back.
This is amazing.
I love the UK with all your names.
Oh, I'm just like, fucking hell, my mom used to make amazing stuff and I would like tear
my nose after I didn't want to eat it.
I appreciate it.
The same.
Oh, no, no, no.
No, I love stew.
I love stew.
Yeah.
You know, what was our comfort food when we came back from like going, when we were on,
like going now, like partying with, when we were teenagers back home, you know, what was
our comfort food was boiled potatoes with color greens.
Wow.
Can you believe that?
I mean, that's a looking class food.
You know, that's like.
Yeah.
My mom will just cook that in the, in the pressure cooker.
Oh, yeah.
And she will leave it on the stove for us and we'll just open it and we'll just get the
potato.
Oh, yeah.
Mash it with the color greens.
Wow.
And then we'll put like a can of tuna.
Okay.
And it's like, it was like the most delicious food, but it was super healthy.
Yeah.
And there's a better way to have food.
We would be having kebabs.
Yeah.
In America, yeah, we would have a pizza hut or whatever drive through.
Yeah, that's what we had.
Yeah.
Like, can you imagine?
That really, like, I'm like, I'm going to make a potato with some greens.
Yeah.
It sounds so freaking good.
You know, sometimes what I make is just for dinner.
It's just the jacket potato.
And I just cook a lot of like, um, saute tons and tons of, um, greens, like either
spinach or kale or color greens, whatever.
And I just put it on top and then a poached egg or girl or tuna.
You are speaking a language.
I haven't had a jacket potato in so long.
So good.
Try it.
Actually, I did say to my husband, this is a, it was actually a few months ago and I
haven't done it, but I did say I'm craving a jacket potato.
But in the UK, the way we see it, I don't know.
Oh, I know.
With black, with beans.
Beans and cheese.
No, but just try it.
Don't give potato.
Oh, yeah.
And when you say beans, you mean baked beans.
Yeah, baked beans.
Cheese.
Oh, yeah.
Baked beans and tons of grated cheese.
I know.
And butter.
But try it.
But why British people got that love?
I know we do, but again, because of the Indian influence, I don't like open the tin, you
know, of baked beans.
Yeah, honey beans, whatever, right?
We use honey beans.
Oh, yeah.
And we use some.
No, it's still fine.
It's still fine.
Although now I make my own, so I will actually buy beans separately and make my own.
But I have to have onion, garlic, chilies.
I have to put all the spices in there.
That's my Indian.
Try it.
Try with the, with lots of greens.
Yes.
They just so terrorist.
And the egg.
And the egg or the tuna or both.
Really.
You will see how amazing.
You just, just put it right on top and just break and eat it all together.
Amazing.
That's going to be after lunch for me though, because what's that saying Paul, Singaporean,
Chinese, or maybe Chinese in general about like eat potato?
Like, there you go.
It's like you're a white person.
Like you're, it's like, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Like Asians are not sitting down to jack a potato.
And I say that with love.
But yeah, that's a white person meal.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's delicious.
Delicious.
Thank you so much for coming and having us.
Yeah, meeting you in person finally.