Welcome to the Eat This Not That Podcast, brought to you by Bob Redmill.

I'm John Hammond, and this is Megan Murphy.

Hi, everyone.

And in this episode, we're going to help you navigate one of the best and sometimes the most challenging parts of the holiday season.

Puzzle, the holiday party circuit, right?

I mean, I don't know about you, but do you hit a lot of parties this time of year? Yeah, I mean, this time of years just always bananas. You're like, of course, yeah, so many, so many parties. Well, with all the holidays too, and then also for some reason, every single person my family has a birthday in the next like a few weeks. I have to give a shout out to my grandma. She just turned a hundred. We had her party on Saturday. She's amazing. So I had to just say hello to her. But yeah, so many birthdays, holiday parties, you know, but I love it. It's just I sometimes have to say no to things or else I lose my mind. Yeah. What about you? I've gotten a lot better at saying no. You know, I'm older, obviously.

So that helps.

We have kids and that kind of changes the dynamic.

But I appreciate like how hectic and exciting this time of year can be.

You know, before we had kids when Natalie and I were both like working and you have like this company party and that company party

and this client party and this client party and these friends are having a party and it's just like

it literally felt like something every day of the week for three straight weeks and it gets hard

because you know you're picking at foods you're drinking a little more than you normally would

especially because it's an open bar or something like that so you're definitely definitely going to double down. And, you know, it's just like that constant haze for three weeks. And ultimately, at the end of the day, this is what leads to like a stressful New Year's resolution, right? Because all of a sudden, you're like, after three weeks, you're like, oh my God, I need to cleanse. Yeah, I need to like, I can't step on the sale. I feel so bloated.

Like I need a salad.

I eat some greens.

Um, so. we should like, oh my God, I need to cleanse. Yeah, I need to like, I can't step on the sale. I feel so bloated.

Like I need a salad. I eat some greens. Um, so, so that's why we wanted to tackle it here because, look, whether you have a lot of parties like, like, like Megan, or whether you don't have as many parties, like a total party girl.

Like anti-social.

John here.

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