I'm Elizabeth Reese.

I'm Marjorie Punit.

And this is The Nest, our minisode that is all about the delightful and delicious things that make our homes just where we want to be.

But Marjorie, sometimes you just give up, right?

Yes. Many times. We were talking this week about parenting hacks, and this all stemmed from a

conversation about me having to give my children cereal for dinner, because frankly, I didn't have it in me to do anything else

and I have a porch kitchen situation that was making it challenging to do anything else. So we were

discussing kind of those things. My kids loved it. And then I started thinking about like what are

kind of the cozy things or like the go-to just maybe even a guilty pleasure thing? Right.

You just whip up for yourself

when you've sort of given up and you just need something to put in your body. Marjorie, what are you doing?

Okay, two things. When the kids were little and I just had to give up, it was always smoothies.

You're going to have a smoothie for dinner. And that was basically, I would throw an orange juice

or milk, depending on which way we were going.

But if it was orange juice, there would also be spinach.

I did try broccoli once.

That didn't work so well.

Bad idea.

Yeah, truth.

Carrots, raspberries, blueberries, all frozen, just everything that I could find that had any nutritional value.

And I would throw in some vitamins and that could be dinner.

And that was sort of a go-to move when the kids were little.

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