Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma While We Get Healthy in the Kitchen With Danielle Brown
Thu, 27 Feb 2025
In this episode of Excuse My Grandma, Kim and Grandma Gail learn about healthy living and long-distance dating from Danielle Brown, aka @healthygirlkitchen. Like Kim, you’ve definitely saved her recipes on Instagram! Salad queen, cookbook author (who just published “Life-Changing Salads”), and social media star Danielle Brown joins Excuse My Grandma to share her thoughts on making healthy choices, from plant-based eating to relationships. Danielle tells Kim and Grandma Gail about how she met her husband in middle school, why she ditched the ice cream machine in her college dining hall, and how she keeps her family healthy. In Ask Grandma Anything, the women answer your questions on how to stay energized in your 70s, qualities to look for in a BFF, and how to get over an ex 5 years later. Want a dose of tough love? DM us on Instagram or email [email protected] for advice! Kim, Grandma, and Danielle then play a game of Should We Bring It Back?, questioning if vintage recipes like deviled eggs or chocolate soda should be in modern kitchens. To finish the episode, Danielle asks Grandma what her favorite foods are (hint, hint: it’s the opposite of plant-based). In the Old Fashioned Dating quiz, Danielle is split 50/50. Follow us onInstagram @excusemygrandma TikTok @excusemygrandma Watch on YouTubeSpotifyMusic By: Guy Kelly(00:00) Intro(00:23) Interview with Danielle Brown(42:01) Should We Bring It Back?(44:12) Ask Grandma Anything(55:50) Grandma Gail's Old Fashioned Dating Quiz
Chapter 1: Who is Danielle Brown and what does she do?
Welcome back to another episode of Excuse My Grandma. It's Kim and my co-host, Grandma Gail. And this week we're excited to welcome Danielle Brown from Healthy Girl Kitchen on social media. We have been loving following her. I always save all your recipes. I have to still make them because I'm the worst with cooking, but I care so much about like nourishing myself and about food.
Grandma's working on it.
Not doing a good job, Kim. I'm still eating the, the, uh, processed foods, which you hate when I bring them home.
Right. And then Danielle has written two cookbooks. One is already out. Grandma's getting it to hold up. I'm going to put it on.
There it goes.
That one is Healthy Girl Kitchen, 100-plus plant-based recipes to live your healthiest life. And her next book, Life-Changing Salads, is available for pre-order. That will be out in April of this year.
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
We hear that a lot and thank you very much because it's very important. It's sort of what we're intending to do. in many cases, because we have that feedback that so many people don't have the privilege of having grandparents around. And so I'm everybody's grandma now.
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.
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Chapter 2: What are the benefits of plant-based eating?
We have a baby. Yeah, he is almost two.
Oh, terrible twos. I know.
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.
That's cute. So how do you kind of hide in vegetables and stuff for a kid who obviously everything's new to them and kids can be picky?
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.
I love smoothies.
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.
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.
It's easier in many cases. Sometimes. That's the issue, which is unfortunate because it's easier to go into a drive-thru and get...
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Chapter 3: How did Danielle meet her husband?
No, it's not my thing anymore either.
Okay. What about chocolate soda?
Never had.
Two Cent Plain was the old Jewish drink. And it's nothing bad. It's an egg cream. It's a little milk, salsa, and chocolate sauce. So that's certainly vegan. No, it's not. Oh, milk? You can't have milk. Well, you could put almond milk in it or something like that. I don't think you should throw that away. Somebody will make a good drink out of that. and make it healthy.
Okay, so maybe we'll bring up back a variation.
Yeah, with a variation.
Okay, let's do a lightning round of Ask Grandma Anything. Our listeners wrote in some questions. So first one is... Are these food related? Some are, some aren't. How do you have so much energy? I'm a 70-year-old Nana. I'm losing energy. Any advice?
I have no advice. Everybody's body is very, very different. And nobody's going to follow my diet anymore, so it doesn't matter.
I just think... Yours doesn't come from diet maybe, but you're getting it from... Where is your energy coming from?
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