(jaunty music) (Mila laughs)

When I first wake up in the morning and I open my eyes

I get up because I have to get my kids ready for school.

But on a Monday through Friday, I now have to set an alarm.

My kids used to be the alarm where they would wake me

up and now they don't.

So what do I do?

I roll over, I press snooze once

and then I roll back to sleep for like five more minutes

and then alarm goes, Babe, beep beep.

And then I roll over and I wake

up and my bedroom goes through the bathroom.

And sometimes, or oftentimes I have to go tinkle.

So that's what I do.

I go tinkle.

Sometimes I brush my teeth before I enter the kitchen,

'cause once I enter the kitchen,

I gotta get their lunches ready.

I gotta get their breakfast ready.

So I like to brush my teeth,

tinkle, enter kitchen, start process.

The first thing I eat when I wake up is coffee.

But I do have a very specific way that I like my coffee.

Oh, but it's gonna make me sound like (bleep) whatever.

I like drip coffee, like old school drip coffee.

Nothing fancy.

But my creamer, I'm very specific about.

This is not an ad, it's not even organic, okay?

People, don't get mad at me.

It's Silk Oat Milk Creamer.

And they have two flavors.

They have Vanilla, or Oatmeal Cookie.

I like the Vanilla Silk Oat Milk Creamer.

Very specific.

And here's why.

'Cause I got my frother from Amazon

and I pour creamer in and I froth my creamer

and it becomes beautiful and delicious

and vanilla-y and sweet.

And then I pour my morning coffee

in there and it is wonderful.

So I don't eat first thing in the morning.

And I don't know when that shifted 'cause I used to.

And now I kind of wait

until two hours after I have my coffee.

So call that, let's say I have coffee at 6:30,

take the kiddos to school, whatever, do that whole thing.

I'm back at 8:30, I probably eat around 9, 9:30.

My typical breakfast sometimes is the leftovers

that my children didn't eat from the morning.

And I have this thing against wasting food.

And so I'll eat like their leftovers,

which isn't always satiating.

So I'll always finish it off

with like avocado toast that I make myself.

Wwhen I make my own avocado toast,

I like to make sure to grab bread that I have.

So whatever I have is what we're using.

And a lot of times it's something healthy because again,

I have children and so you try to do as much as you can.

So it's like a Dave's Killer Bread, right?

Like we have one of those.

And so it'll be like some whole grain bread

with like nuts and things and texture and crunch.

So I grab that.

More times than not, I'm running late

so I don't have time to toast it.

But let's go with the theory that I have magic time,

I toast it.

I then grab my avocado,

I'll cut it, scoop it, I'll smash it.

And then sometimes I like to put a little

Everything but the Bagel Seasoning on top of it.

And then if I'm feeling extra feisty,

I might put an egg on it or I like dips.

So I sometimes do like, this will make no sense,

but I'll do like two eggs over easy

and then I'll do like a piece

of toast and then I'll put like little dips on them.

And sometimes it's hummus, and sometimes I don't know,

I like to tzatziki, some, it's whatever, like little salads,

like whatever I have.

So normally I work, so I then go

and I plop myself down in front of a computer nowadays.

And then we Zoom.

Maybe if I'm lucky I go grab something to eat

like a fruit or a string cheese.

But more time than not, I don't have that time.

Somehow lunch surpasses me by.

Now my husband and I are working in at home.

And so if one of us doesn't have an afternoon something

or other, the other one grabs food for the other person.

So we'll mish-mash something together out of the fridge,

leftovers let it be or something small and quick.

Even like a protein smoothie, like I do have,

there's like a service that comes

and delivers smoothies to your house.

It's frozen.

You put in the freezer, it's really convenient.

I stick it out or my husband does it,

pours in like a non-dairy milk for me

and then a protein powder and then we smoothie it up

and then he drops it off on my table and I'm super grateful.

So I'll, it's probably not healthy if you're a dietician,

but sometimes I, I have a protein smoothie for lunch.

What do I cook?

Boy.

Sometimes I do something I call like bowl night

where it's like make your own bowl.

And I do like two bases and there'll be like a salad base

and a grain base, a quinoa and then I'll just chop

up a bunch of vegetables and cook a bunch of stuff.

And then you make your own veggie so to speak.

My kid is a pescatarian.

She does not eat meat.

So because she doesn't meat, neither does my husband.

And so I don't cook two separate meals,

'cause I'm not a restaurant.

It's oftentimes much easier for me just to do a fish

and a healthy meal throughout the week.

So that's kind of what we do.

So I do baked salmon, fishes.

There's a service that I use guys.

You can pick like two meals, two dinners a night

or whatever and they send you all the groceries

for said meal with like a recipe.

So I do that twice a night

or twice a week and it's been lovely.

Okay, so I'm also super fortunate.

I have a mom that lives like 15 minutes away from me.

I mean with my dad.

But my mom and my mom is an incredible cook

and has cooked her whole life.

I never went out to eat.

I always had home cooked meals and she loves,

she still thinks that she's cooking

for four people when really it's just her and my dad.

And so when I kinda had kids,

she started like cooking for all of us.

So once a week she drops

off food at our house and it's always like, you know,

unbelievable food that my mom makes.

Russian meals is like a lot of food, just at all times.

The obvious.

You can start with (speaking Russian),

you can start with (speaking Russian),

then you can do borscht,

which is like a very Russian soup, also made of beets.

But if you don't like beets, don't eat it.

The Russians like smoked fish or fish in general.

Pickled fish.

Smoked fish.

Russians, or Ukrainians.

I know we're living in a time where I don't even

know what to call myself anymore.

They like to pickle things, mostly 'cause we had winters.

And so that's how you survived is by pickling food.

So we, we pickle everything.

My mom's a master pickler.

If you've never tried pickled watermelon, it's delicious.

Smoked herring. Delicious.

You eat it with some warm potatoes,

a little olive oil, little dill, little salt.

Mm. Yummy, yummy.

But my mom man, she can make a chicken soup.

There is something about her chicken soup

or I have to be more specific.

Her chicken broth.

The broth of her chicken soup is

unlike anything that I've ever been able to recreate.

By the way she cooks like, "Meh, just a little bit of this,

a little bit of that.

And then there's that and you kind of like meh, taste it."

So it's not

like you're ever gonna get an actual measurement out of her.

But however she makes her, her brats are just extraordinary.

She makes amazing beef stroganoff.

She's the more meat cooker

and everything that she cooks has dill in it.

Everything is dill.

It's like the magical herb of her culture, dill.

I get my fresh veggies and my fresh food

from Imperfect Food for instance is one of them,

or Misfits Market is another one.

And they have amazing groceries that don't always

look so pretty,

but they're wonderful and organic and delicious.

So I order groceries from there.

I supplement sometimes from a grocery store.

I am fortunate enough where my father-in-law gifted me

like salmon and cod that's freshly caught

from Alaska and they deliver it

in a flash frozen refrigerator thing.

It's not like crazy expensive either by all means.

And I stick it in the freezer.

And then we have like this amazing fish

for a year or half a year.

Oh wait, on Fridays I like to say it's leftover day.

And so my husband has to, it's just,

it's everything but the kitchen sink meal.

And that's what he gets.

He gets all the leftovers to clear out the whole fridge.

We eat dinner all as a family.

Oh we order out from everywhere.

I love to order food that I don't make.

For instance, I don't make sushi.

I will order out sushi.

I don't do Thai.

I will order out Thai.

I don't do Indian.

I will order out Indian.

Pizza? We just did just get a pizza oven.

So we made our own pizzas for the first time.

My daughter puts pineapple

and olives, cheese and tomato sauce.

My son likes tomato sauce and a very light amount of cheese.

My husband does mushrooms, jalapenos,

and olives on his cheese, tomato sauce.

Ooh, my beverage of choice.

It's water 'cause it's healthy for you.

My honest beverage of choice is a glass

of wine and water 'cause you gotta stay hydrated.

And then I also now have become obsessed with,

I blame the kids but the whole family now loves Poppi.

Okay, Poppi Beverages.

Anybody here?

Poppi, Olipop.

I feel like it's 'cause it says prebiotic,

I'm like well clearly this is healthy.

I don't know if it is or isn't,

but boy do I like a nice little Poppi. (chuckles)

After dinner the children are always, they're always allowed

like to have a bite of something sweet, you know, always.

Then they go to bed and then my husband and I

open the freezer and have ice cream every night.

So we lie, I'm really sorry.

When you go to bed, Daddy opens the freezer

and takes out a cart of ice cream

and we have a couple bites of the ice cream every night.

Because we're adults and we can, you cannot and that's okay.

Ooh girl. What kind of ice cream?

We have so much ice cream.

People know I love ice cream and so for my birthday

they send me like ice cream of the month clubs

or like some sort of variety.

We have so much, we always have ice cream.

I love ice cream.

My kids love ice cream.