Danielle Brown
Appearances
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
We had very traditional like meat, starch, vegetable, and a fresh salad. Yeah, like chicken, potatoes, broccoli, and a fresh salad like every night. And then maybe she'd switch it out for like tilapia or salmon. She didn't have the brisket that I cooked at home. Sometimes. On like a Shabbat or a Jewish holiday more so, but more chicken and fish. Yeah. And sometimes she'd make like a steak.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
That's right. Yeah. And that that was dinner every single night. And so I grew up with that consistency. And I loved like the togetherness about family dinner. And I always knew I would do that.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
Yeah, they do. So I love family dinner and I loved Food Network growing up. Oh, I say some kids were watching like Cartoon Network. I was on Food Network at six in the morning. I'd sprint downstairs and watch Food Network.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
I loved it. I would watch Rachael Ray for hours.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
She's great.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
Yeah, it's a baking show. True. Yeah. Yeah, like Giada De Laurentiis. I loved watching her show. Well, that was years ago.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
She might not bring you over for dinner.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
I'm coming over.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
Are you close? Oh, go ahead. Oh, no, I was just going to say, I remember watching you guys during COVID, and it was more so like you styling Kim. Right. Like that was like the original.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
Your salads. Yeah. So I just like loved watching and I learned how to cook through watching Food Network. Like people ask, how did you learn how to cook? I'm like, I was self-taught. I would make all my own creations in the kitchen. But I would watch what they would do on Food Network. I never went to culinary school. Oh, you didn't? Yeah, people often introduce me as a chef.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
I'm like, please don't say that. That's embarrassing. I'm not a chef. I'm just a girl who likes to cook and eat. That's relatable.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
Yeah, like I'm not a chef. All my recipes are like realistic for the busy person. Well, that's very good.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
I don't have time for that.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
So I went to nutrition school out of college and I became a certified holistic nutritionist. I started working one on one with clients and I was helping them with their nutrition. But at the same time, I decided to start posting on Instagram like TikTok wasn't even there. Even there. And I started posting my recipes, but simply for my clients who needed healthy meal ideas.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
I'm like, well, let me throw them up on a blog. Let me put them on my Instagram and then they can go find them there. And then I noticed I started getting thousands of people to my blog every month. I started to get Instagram followers and I started to have small brands reaching out. And I mean, I had maybe 5000 followers. It was nothing substantial, but
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
It planted the seed of, oh, I maybe could make a job out of this. I remember Bonza Pasta offered to send me free pasta. No payment, nothing, just like, are you kidding? I'm like, this is the best day of my life, free pasta. Are you kidding? But that just kind of opened my eyes to this being a career because, again, TikTok wasn't even there. And so I just started to post more.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
I love just like the no filter, super honest, and like, you're like, Grandma, do you like this? You're like, no, so ugly. Yeah.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
What I did is I joined every Facebook group that had to do with eating healthy, eating vegan, plant based, and I would post my recipes on there. Oh, that's smart. And then I noticed it would drive website traffic. And then I was getting thousands and thousands of people every month. And then I was able to monetize my website. So that was the first thing I was really able to monetize was my blog.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
And then from the blog, I had a pop up that said, follow me on Instagram. And then people would follow me on Instagram. it kind of became like this marketing funnel. But then TikTok came into the picture.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
Yeah, and that was really a shift in how people consumed recipe content. Because take Instagram, we're only posting static images. And you can only learn so much about how to cook something from a picture. where on TikTok, I saw this opportunity to show a 30 second tutorial of how someone can actually make something. And this changed the game.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
And I mean, before I knew it, had like a million followers on TikTok. And I was like, I'm posting like simple, easy recipes. But people, I guess, really needed them. They need them. Wanted them. And this was also the beginning of COVID where people were home doing nothing. And it was like a great time to learn how to cook and restaurants weren't open. So people had no choice but to cook as well.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
For sure. It was definitely a blessing and a curse. And so then I would take those TikToks and I would then, once reels came into play, would put them on reels as well. And then my Instagram grew and I stopped taking private clients. And I was like, I can help millions of people at a time now, not just one-on-one. Right. and just started transforming women's lives.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
People message me, hey, I've been struggling to get pregnant for years and now making your recipes, I feel healthy and I was able to get pregnant. That's wonderful. Yeah, they're like, my skin has been horrible, I have horrible acne, and now I make your recipes and eat plant-based and use all of your cookbook recipes and my skin's cleared up.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
And just all these stories every day from women whose lives are transformed from nourishing themselves and making plants the center of their plate.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
i think we absolutely men too we'll they do we'll listen we'll do these recipes and benefit like 95 of my followings women but they cook for their partners and their husbands and everything so then they end up yeah related they end up reaping the benefits of the cooking but do you know age wise like your audience demographic I'd say it's really a range.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
I have people come up to me in person who recognize me who are 20 and then 60. And you guys probably get the same thing. It's like you have this range because it applies to everyone.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
So I'll talk about my books because this is really where the books are helpful. So everything in my book is gluten-free optional. So if you know that you do best when you eat gluten-free, every recipe is adaptable to be gluten-free. So if there's a pasta, use gluten-free pasta. If there's a toast, use a gluten-free toast.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
If I say to you some kind of grain that's not gluten free, just sub it with like a quinoa or rice and I'll mention that in the book. So everything's adaptable to each person. And then every recipe indicates whether it's like soy free or nut free. And I think it's important to to kind of keep track of what makes you feel your best. Like if you're having any kind of
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
symptoms, stomach issues, whether it's bloating or maybe you're not going to the bathroom regularly. Maybe after eating, you feel like like you said, you know, maybe dairy upsets your stomach.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
I would say also anyone who feels like their stomach's always upset, seek out a functional medicine doctor. Not enough people go to functional medicine.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
I would say you can look it up like in your area or you can ask.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
So functional medicine doctors will take a more holistic approach to your wellness.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
Let's say you get your blood work back from your normal primary care doctor. They'll look at it. They'll be like, all right, well, your cholesterol is high. Here's a medication for that. And let's move on. I know my mom was really frustrated after she got blood work back from her doctor because they're like, OK, your cholesterol is high. Here's a medication.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
She's like, well, I don't want to take medication. I want to get rid of my high cholesterol. They're like, well, exercise more. That's all they said to her. And she's like, well, that's not.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
So she started to go to a functional medicine practitioner and she was able to look at my mom's hormones. She assessed her stress levels. She looked at her sleep. She looked at what her day to day was like. And, you know. she looked at her diet and was able to really create like a holistic approach to lowering her cholesterol.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
So some are MDs, some are not. So a lot. You can see one in addition to your primary care doctor. or in addition to your gynecologist.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
So we'll start with my mom. Right.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
decided to heal herself naturally she's like let her cholesterol wasn't too high where it was dangerous she was like let me try these healthier methods first give it a couple months and then reevaluate and see if i really need to take meds so she went fully plant-based no meat no eggs right no fish no and it can sound intimidating right like you love your tuna with mayonnaise and yeah
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
On white bread with your deli sandwiches. But she went fully plant-based using all my recipes because I already had them for her. Because I think that was, it's a big shift when you're used to, even just making an omelet in the morning is so simple. Or having your protein for dinner as a fish or a chicken. And she replaced it with tofu, lentils, beans.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
I have five inch heels on.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
So instead of like chicken fried rice, you do tofu fried rice. And instead of steak tacos, it was bean tacos. And just those small shifts with the regular meals that you love, but just those tiny changes really made a difference. So her cholesterol went back to normal.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
Her triglycerides were through the roof, came back to normal. And she feels great.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
So I say anyone who wants to eat, even just eating healthy in general, whether you, whether you eat meat or you don't, you have to have a well-planned diet because you could not be plant-based, but also be eating McDonald's three times a day. So whatever you're doing, your diet needs to be well-planned, whether it includes animal products or not.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
If you do want to be vegan or plant based and you want to do that long term, you have to decide that you're going to do it in a well-planned way because you can be a junk food vegan. As I like to say, Oreos are vegan. McDonald's has some vegan options. I mean, Burger King has the impossible burger.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
So you and, you know, sugar and candy and pastas and whatever. All of these things that you can technically have as a vegan aren't necessarily healthy. So you need to make sure that you're doing it the right way, which is like where I try to help people because I know so many ex-vegans, people who quit saying, oh, I didn't feel good.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
I felt really weak or my hair started falling out and all these things. And I've come to realize they were only eating pasta for a meal. I'm like, well, where was your protein? You still have to eat protein. Right. You can't just eliminate protein because you're vegan. You have to replace it with something else.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
So where people fall short is when they don't plan it well. And so you have to have the same macronutrients, fat, protein, carbs that you're on non-vegan diet would have as well. Right.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
So protein, tofu. Carb, sweet potato. Yeah. Your fat, avocado. Right. Like you have to make sure that every meal... Different balance. Exactly.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
Your plate has to include the same macronutrients that your non-vegan diet had. And then also make sure that you're supplementing right. So everyone, not just vegans, should take a B12. We used to get it from our soil, but now our soils have become... Depleted and depleted of nutrients. Like people aren't growing vegetables in their backyard anymore. We're getting them. My daughter-in-law is.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
Oh, well, that's amazing for her.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
So she's probably getting some B12 from. And we didn't used to have to wash and scrub our vegetables and fruits like we used to. Or like that we do now.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
um and so people were able to you know kind of just eat a strawberry off the vine and get some b12 from the soil but now it's a little bit more depleted a little one do you do this for the little one he's plant-based and he's huge okay yeah taylor here can attest oh i'm so happy he is so happy so healthy and even when i was pregnant i was vegan while i was pregnant which is also like
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
Controversial.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
Yes. Because a lot of doctors, if you tell them, if you tell your OB, hey, I'm vegan, they'll be like, you need to eat red meat while you're pregnant. Exactly. Which is an outdated line of thinking. OK. Because their concern is that you're going to become anemic. One third of pregnant women become anemic. So you have to make sure that you're getting enough iron, whether that's in
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
spinach, lentils, tofu. So I just had to make sure I was eating a lot of plant based sources of iron. And also I had an iron supplement as well that I added into my diet. So but he was healthy. I had a wonderful pregnancy. He was always there like he's measuring two weeks ahead. He's going to be a big baby. So it is possible to be vegan when pregnant. It again just has to be well planned.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
what is considered a protein as a vegetable or a fat or all of that like besides i guess a google search every time you eat i think that you just learn and once you just start doing it because you know now okay you are living as a non-vegan so you know that chicken is your protein you know that rice is a carb like you just know that because of how you've been eating so you substitute so you know that
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
your carb is it can still be rice it can be pasta i like doing like um a protein pasta just to add an extra protein barilla has a protein pasta that tastes just like white pasta you would never know i'm like a little bit of a purist too like i i love those like regular pasta
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
So you're saying instead of a processed item, like a gluten-free pasta versus a quinoa. Yeah. Of course, no matter what diet you're doing, you're always better off with a non-processed option. But totally fine. Imagine you have some beautiful broccoli that you make, and then gluten-free pasta, and some grilled tofu.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
I eat pasta four days a week. Oh, do you really? Yes. I love pasta. That's a lot of pasta.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
What brand do you like? So the Barilla one that I was mentioning, they have an amazing protein pasta that's made with chickpeas and lentils. Oh, that sounds good. And it literally tastes like white pasta.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
I see all the pastas there. There are thousands of them. It's in a yellow box. It's delicious. I also love this brand. It might be pronounced goodles. Goodles or goodles. Okay. And it's a hot pink cute box, but it's protein pasta. So it has a ton of protein and they add all these vitamins and there's like mushrooms in it and broccoli. No, you'd have no idea. That's what my son eats.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
So instead of like a white pasta that kids normally like, I just sub it with the protein pasta. He has no idea. Right.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
It can seem daunting to hear five servings of vegetables. And then you go back and recount your day and you're like, do I even have two servings of vegetables? I mean, five seems like a lot. But it can be as simple as, again, like we were talking about adding spinach to a smoothie. There, that's one.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
Your lunch, maybe you have a salad as your base with protein on top and do like bell pepper, tomato, cucumber. And then your dinner, maybe you add a broccoli. Right. Like there. I think breaking it up over the course of the day instead of getting to dinner and being like, I didn't have my five servings of vegetables and trying to squeeze them in.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
You know how many jeans I have in my closet that need to be hemmed? Where like I bought them and I'm like, you know what? They're amazing in the waist and the butt, but I need to get them hemmed and I'll do it. I have like six pairs just waiting to be hemmed.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
I know for me, once I became plant-based and once I started including more vegetables, I felt so much more clear. I used to have really bad heartburn. I used to be super fatigued. This is when I was like 17, 18 years old. And I was having symptoms as if I was older. And I felt so tired, I had to nap three hours a day. Yeah. So freshman year of college. I relate. Yeah. I would go to class.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
I would sleep then for three hours because I was so fatigued. The food I was eating wasn't healthy for me. I was barely eating any fruits and vegetables. And I went to Michigan State University, and they're known for their dining halls. Picture a mall food court on steroids.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
Ice cream on every corner. Make your own pasta bar. Make your own pizza bar. Make your own omelet stations. They had everything. And it was so fun. I didn't have my parents there. I was unsupervised. I could have whatever I wanted. But I was eating a lot of dairy, very little vegetables.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
It didn't agree with me. And I was eating super unhealthy. In the morning, I had a bagel and cream cheese, which sounds normal, but there's no nutrients. We're eating white bread and dairy. That isn't giving me anything in the morning. Lunch, I'd maybe grab a Caesar salad, which again, romaine lettuce isn't giving me much.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
But I really was feeling so sick from not having enough plants and too much dairy. Like dinner, I'd have a big plate of Alfredo pasta after dinner.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
I used to like this dinner. but it's no good it destroyed your stock they had soft serve machines on every corner in this dining hall so twice a day lunch dinner i'd get a cone and then i'd i'd be so sick at the end of the day and i was like i really need to make a change because i don't like this path i'm going down so i decided to go plant-based in my dorm with no money and no car, no kitchen.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
I had a mini fridge and a microwave.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
But I decided to go for it. And I was like microwaving sweet potatoes in my dorm room. I would get those microwave quinoa and brown rice packets and I would microwave that the dining hall. I like finally noticed the salad bar and I would make they had unlimited salad.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
And it was like four months of eating plant-based when I really noticed a change. I think some people will eat healthy for three days and be like, well, I didn't lose any weight and I don't feel any different.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
I didn't, but I lost 20 pounds. Oh my gosh. Yeah. And I wasn't trying to lose weight. Keep that in mind. And I was eating in abundance. Like I was full. I was eating whatever I wanted in the plant-based world. So maybe I'd go up to the salad bar three times and fill up my plate with all different kinds of beans and fruit and greens and seeds.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
And then I'd go to the pasta bar and I had requested from my dining hall that they start to buy whole wheat pasta. And so they started carrying it because of me. Good for you. Yeah. And they were sauteing everything at the pasta bar in like a mystery oil. I had no clue what they were using. So I said, steam my vegetables, do marinara sauce instead of Alfredo, do the whole wheat pasta.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
And so I just made these changes and added so many vegetables and fruit into my diet. And I just felt amazing. I lost 20 pounds. My heartburn went away. I never had to take my three hour nap again.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
when it comes to the cooking um methods what would you tell people to cook with now like olive oil or avocado oil yeah or you can look on an olive oil bottle and it'll a lot of the times tells you tell you whether it's meant for um cooking or not cooking like have you seen like the dressed or virgin olive oil versus or like because sometimes you can't put certain olive oils in a hot pan
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
Like drizzle versus sizzle.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
So there are some that are meant to not be heated, and then some that can tolerate being heated up, because they can become toxic at too high of a heat. Oh, wow. OK. But don't overthink it. Just like an organic extra virgin olive oil, make sure it comes in a glass.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
dark container right so you don't use butter no that's dairy i don't just all you don't use and you don't use substitutes naturally because even i can't if i need to in like a baking let's say i'm making like cookies for people and i get like a vegan butter sure but at home like olive oil and avocado oil do the trick yeah okay good to know um so let's play this game should we bring it back
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
What about deviled eggs? I feel like they're a classic, although not vegan. I feel like if you are not a vegan, they're like great to bring to a party. I have a recipe actually for deviled potatoes where you have like little Yukon gold potatoes. You scoop out the middle, you whip it with everything you would for a deviled egg, like the mustard and the paprika and everything.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
And you swirl it back into the potato and it's delicious.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
Yeah. So I'll bring them. I'll bring those back.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
It was never my thing.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
Never had.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
Very close with my family. My parents are in Michigan. And my brother's in Michigan.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
Danielle, any thoughts? I do. I feel like there's so much you can do. To me, 70 is young.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
I luckily escaped the cold. Yeah.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
I do. I think there's so much more life left to live at 70. I think now we have the opportunity with so much information that we have of how to feel better, live longer. Like I would make sure to be eating a lot of anti-inflammatory foods. So like sweet potatoes, amazing. Lentil, like you could do a great lentil soup for lunch.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
Like that's incredible for your bones and for different vitamins and plant protein. Even taking anti-inflammatory supplements like a turmeric supplement would be amazing for energy and just making sure you're fueling yourself. I think when you get older and especially with women's hormones after menopause, you start to have a decrease in appetite. Correct.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
um and that can also lead to like a malnutrition so to make sure that even if you're forcing yourself to have an extra snack during the day um and i think a great way to do that is like a smoothie you can make a smoothie add like a protein powder um you could do like a sweet potato even for a snack i love doing that that's a good one um even just like a healthy cracker with hummus great extra snack yeah so a little extra snack a turmeric supplement fresh air
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
It's a good story. So I've known my husband since I was about eight years old. He is first cousins with my best friends growing up. Oh, no way. Yes. So his family would always come to Michigan visiting from New York for the Jewish holidays. They'd come in for Passover. And I'd always be hanging at my best friend's house. And then he was there. I didn't notice him in that way.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
How do you know that?
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
Baking soda and coffee.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
You'll have to try. On your next podcast, you have to try that.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
And also, you know, like you need to trust your gut about who's a good friend. You know who's not a good friend to you. Do they care about you? Do they ask you about yourself when they see you? Do they just talk about themselves the whole time? Are they like, how's your family? Like, what's going on with you? Oh, you told me about that new job you started. Like, how's it going? Totally.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
So do they care about you? Do they show up for you? Are you sick and are they bring you soup? It's like the little things. Do they do they check in on you if you
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
lose someone in your family do they come to the funeral like it's over time how they treat you and how they show up for you and you know too like if you overhear that they're gossiping about you and no judging yeah and that they are honest with you and also someone who always includes you No matter what. Like, I feel like there are so many times girls, like, I was excluded from this hangout.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
Like, you don't want to be friends with that girl. Like, be with someone who always wants to include you in everything.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
Good advice.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
He's older, so I didn't really notice him in a loving way like that or a romantic way. But he always thought I was cute. So when he was in ninth grade and I was in seventh grade. Oh, so two years. Oh, you're two years apart. It's only two years. I mean, I thought it was going to be I know, but I didn't think that he would care about me. If I was 10 and he was 12, I'm like, this guy doesn't care.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
I feel like this girl needs some tangible tips. I feel like if you're still following him on social, no, block him. You don't want to see his stuff. Delete his number. Don't watch his Instagram story. You know how many girls watch their ex's Instagram stories and they're watching him with another girl or seeing what he's doing.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
that's not healthy like you don't want to see them with someone else you need to not look at them on stories on snapchat like you don't want to see their day-to-day so that you really they need to be out of sight out of mind so that you can move on for sure and you need to put yourself out there like it sounds like she hasn't even really exactly been yeah we don't have enough background but i totally agree in that like definitely be open to connections with other people and like be going on dates because otherwise you're always going to
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
And you have to know you broke up for a reason.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
And he hasn't reached back out. It's been five years. So you deserve better. Yes, exactly.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
OK, well, my question to you is like, give me your top three favorite foods and we'll talk about how we can make them healthier. I think that'll be OK.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
So I would say for you, I wanna meet you where you're at. I can't expect you to be vegan. I don't think you'll ever be vegan because you are set in your ways and you like what you like and you have your meals that are your go-tos. So I would say if you're having meat, make sure to crowd your plate with vegetables and things that are super healthy for you.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
So if you're having like a lamb, have some things that are great in nutrients like a quinoa or have you had black rice?
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
Black rice is really good.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
Okay. So no quinoa.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
So whatever. Purple sweet potato. Okay. Have you tried Japanese sweet potato? Like there's so many things to try.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
That I can do easily. Expand your horizons a little bit, but like introduce some nutrients.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
But even ordering, saying, hey, can you use olive oil instead of butter? That's a small change that goes such a long way. OK. That's interesting. OK. So that was if you're having meat. My pastas. Crowded out. Have a ton of vegetables. Have something like a sweet potato. Ask for olive oil instead of butter. And you can also add your meat, too.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
But he always thought I was cute. And so when I was in seventh grade, he would text me and tell me he thought I was cute and that he was excited to come in for Passover and hang out with me.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
You can ask them to cook that in oil instead of butter, too.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
You like it plain. So pasta, I mean, that's super easy.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
Yeah, that's an easy one. But again, like try the Barilla Protein Noodles. Okay. And update me because it has so much added protein and that'll help also to keep your blood sugar steady.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
That's a good one.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
Because it's so important, too, as you're aging to keep your bones strong. We want to avoid any kind of osteoporosis or anything. So making sure that your protein's staying up and sneaking it in where you can. Like you said, you're not that hungry. So you're eating smaller amounts. So if you can sneak in more protein in your pasta, it's a good place to do it. And then you said you like ribs.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
Well, I like ribs.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
Yeah. And I'm not saying you're going to do this, but maybe someone else who loves like that barbecue flavor, you can make like a great barbecue tofu. Okay. Yeah.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
I know. No.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
For me, I love a barbecue flavor. So I'll make like a crispy tofu and then I'll put like roast in barbecue sauce. It's a really good alternative. But again, with something like ribs, like you can pair it with... A salad or a vegetable. Yeah, like there is a way to balance it out.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
I know, but I can still answer. I think if I was like really feeling it, I'm like, sorry to my husband right now. Yeah, I feel like you can't. I don't think I would be a girl who would have hard rules like I think. Maybe in general, I wouldn't like necessarily like I'm very careful about safety. So I wouldn't necessarily want to go to someone's house the first time I met them. Yeah.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
So like those technicalities would get in the way. But if I really like fell in love, I don't really like into someone.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
I wouldn't rule it out.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
Oh, I think a setup.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
So I've known him for a really long time. And one day, I was supposed to go to a BBYO event, which for those of you who don't know, is like a Jewish youth organization. And the BBYO event was canceled. And so I was bored in my room. And I was like, who should I text? And I decided to text. I'm like, I'm going to text Ari Brown, who's now my husband. And I texted him.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
I did move in before we got engaged.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
Okay, so I think that the guy should pay, especially when you first start dating. If you go on a first date and there's all this business with guys like Venmo requesting girls, can you imagine? There's this influencer, do you follow Tink's? Yeah. You know, she says like once women are paid equal to men, then we'll pay for the date.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
But it's like we do so much, too, with like getting our hair done, our nails, our outfit, everything that we put into it. It's like I I think there is something to a man paying for you. But I think also you have to have a conversation, too, about what works for you. And there isn't always the typical man-woman relationship. So that doesn't always apply.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
But for me, if I was dating and if I was giving advice to my friend, I think that the guy should pay. And obviously, once you've been dating two years, maybe you'll grab a Starbucks. Maybe you'll get ice cream one night. But overall, I like to feel taken care of.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
If I was dating now, I think I would wait till I was really serious with them. I'm not like an impulsive person. Even like I didn't announce my pregnancy till I was like 17 weeks pregnant. Like I'm like, let's just make sure this is a thing before we like blast him on social media. Yeah.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
new cookbook is Life Changing Salads, which is my series that went viral. And so I had to turn it into a book. It's every kind of salad, pasta, salads, fruit, salads, chopped salads, grain salads, you name it. And this is available for preorder now.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
And Rachael Ray.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
And we've talked every day since. And that was when I was 15. Oh, wow.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
That's a good story. We've been together since I was 17. So my only boyfriend ever. Yeah, wow. Your father was sort of similar to that.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
So I knew from like two months after dating him,
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
i knew i was going to marry him i told all of my high school teachers i'm like you're going to be invited to my wedding just see because i wanted to follow him to college he went to university of maryland i'm like i'm going to follow him to school they're like never follow a boy to a school yeah but this isn't just a boy he's my this is my future husband right but every girl thinks that you happen to have been right but exactly but i was like i knew everyone was wrong i was going to prove them wrong and now we're married did you go to the university with him afterwards
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
No, I didn't. I wanted to, but it was out of state and my parents were like, we would like to pay in-state tuition. I didn't. I was miserable in college, though. I think it was really hard for me to be in a long term relationship in college without him. Because if I went to a party, yeah, like all the boys would come up, try to dance with me or talk to me.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
And I'm like, I'd have to be like, I can't. And then all my girlfriends would go off and, you know, go home with a guy and I'd be left alone.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
That was a really, it was a tough four years to be without him. And we were long distance for five years. Oh my gosh. So we made it through five years not living in the same place.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
Oh my God. I feel like you always have to know the next time you're going to see each other. Always have a plan. You never want to be in different places and not know when you're going to see each other because it just feels a little hopeless and sad. You have to have something on the calendar. That saved us.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
So I told him, well, we had never lived in the same place. So I said.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
He wanted to propose to me right after I graduated college. Right. Even when I was in college, I said, I don't want to be engaged while I'm in college. Let me finish school. Right. I want to live together for a year. Okay. Because we've never lived in the same place. We were very, very young. Yeah. We had never lived in the same place and we hadn't lived together. Yeah.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
So I said, let's live together. Let's just like enjoy for one time. Like, being in the same location. And then I'm like, I know we're going to get married, but let's just like pump the brakes and enjoy spending time together. Yeah. So we got married
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
how old were you i was 25 25 okay same age as your mom was supposed to be 24 but it got canceled because of covid right okay got delayed another year we were ready to go got canceled yeah you couldn't be together with all the people and celebrate so that was yeah that was a four year period of no weddings yeah exactly no i was just gonna say also for long distance i feel like
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
making time for each other as if you're in the same place, like have FaceTime dates, make the same recipe, find an amazing recipe, get the same ingredients cooked together.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
Exactly. And then watch the same movie or show over. You already do that.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
In LA. He's in LA. Oh, that's far.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
Ooh, I feel like you need something easy. Easy, easy. Yeah.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
Yeah. I feel like a pasta and a salad is like a classic like date night. So like my first cookbook, Healthy Girl Kitchen, there's a penne a la vodka recipe. Oh, I love that. Yeah, but it's plant based, but it's amazing. So it's like coconut milk instead of dairy. So you're not going to be left with like the stomachache.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
Yes. So like a penne a la vodka with maybe like a Caesar salad. Great. Healthy, like a kale Caesar salad. Love it. It's in the book.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
OK, I'm doing it.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
We decided to move to Florida, one, because my husband works with his dad. They have a company together. And so they were going to be here working together. But I needed to leave the cold weather. I hated pumping gas. My hand was frozen by the time. Just the little things.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
I don't want to scrape my windshield when I wake up in the morning or worry about my driveway blocking me in and I can't get any. It was like those little things where I was like, this lifestyle isn't for me in Michigan. But yes, this Florida lifestyle is just like a vacation all day.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
We have a baby. Yeah, he is almost two.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
This is a tricky time. It's a tricky time. He has a lot of feelings, a lot of emotions, but he is super smart, super cuddly, loves to, is now getting into like cooking and baking with me. Like we made little healthy, kid-friendly muffins.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
That's a good question. I know. I feel like smoothies have been a real go-to because I can sneak some... That's your favorite.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
um she currently lives in boca with her husband and son so we're gonna hear all about it danielle thanks for joining us yay thank you guys so much for having me i've been the biggest fan of you guys thank you major fan girl i feel like i'm friends with you just also like just a fellow jewish girl yeah who feels like this connection to you guys and i didn't grow up with grandparents like they had passed when i was born so i feel like when i listen to you speak and everything i feel like you're like a surrogate grandma that's what
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
Forever. Even like anyone who doesn't love eating vegetables or like a ton of greens. Right. Sneaking in spinach to a smoothie, even like frozen cauliflower, you don't taste it. Right. You can do... Even seeds are so good for kids and they're developing brains like hemp seeds, chia seeds, and then those get blended up and are so good for them.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
Parents assume that their kids won't like healthy food. I think oftentimes parents make the decision for their children that they're going to prefer the chicken nuggets, the pizza, but we've made that up. It's just easier.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
And I think introducing healthy foods at a young age to children is really important. So even just, I'll put out a platter of like cut up fruit, cut up veggies, and not even like, I'm not even like, hey, you have to eat this. I leave it out. And then he comes over and he's like pointing at things.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
Or I make it for me.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
Like I'll make something for myself and then he comes over and he's like, what's that?
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
But I feel like you can, just like you said, a cream cheese and jelly sandwich. I grew up eating that. That was one of my favorite lunches that my mom packed me and snacks. But I do that for him. I'll get like a good sourdough bread.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
He loves the, it's like the Kite Hill brand. If you've seen it, it's like an almond cream cheese. So they make it out of almonds and it's creamy, delicious.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
And then I get a no sugar jam. He loves, it's delicious.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
That's an easy switch. That's an easy switch. It is. There's so many healthy peanut butters.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
I always loved and was so interested in healthy eating. I remember I saw like a second grade report that I did and we had to say what we wanted to be when we grew up. And I said, I either want to be. Well, I said I wanted Hilary Duff to be the president and I wanted to be. Same. Same. And I wanted to be a registered dietitian. So I was always really.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
No. My mom works in marketing.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
She did.
Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
She made dinner every single night. Right. Like six o'clock dinner. I did too. Yes, dinner was on the table. My favorite time of the day. My brother, she'd have to like call seven times. I was like, when's dinner, when's dinner? She's like, calm down, I'm making it. But every night we had family dinner and it was very traditional. We were not vegan by any means like I am now.