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Wax Melts from Robson's Retreat
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Keto pancakes from The Fast 800 Keto book:
30g ground almond flour
60g cream cheese
2 medium eggs
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
15g butter (to cook the pancakes in)
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Morning everyone. It's Karen from the Georgie Grandma. I thought I would do a bit of a
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vlog today. I hope everybody had a good weekend. It's really, really windy outside today
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It kept us awake most of the night. Very, very loud. And there's somebody's gate banging outside
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I can hear it constantly. They obviously nodding, so they can't hear it. It's just after nine
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I've had my breakfast. If you've watched my video recently, you'll know that I'm trying to do low carb again
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I'm not doing a strict version of it. I'm just trying to stick to 130 grams of carbs or less a day
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I'm not really counting calories every day, but I'm trying to watch what I eat
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So I'm trying not snack in between meals because I have type 2 diabetes
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and the more time to eat, the more you raise your blood sugar. So I'm trying to keep it to like breakfast
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lunch, dinner and no snacks. I haven't been succeeding very well over the weekend. I had the grandkids
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so that's always a hectic weekend, so I haven't really stuck to it that well. This morning I had
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some low-carb pancakes with some frozen berries. I did remember to take them out of the freezer
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yesterday because sometimes I don't. They're not the same when you microwave them. They just
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taste weird and I prefer fresh berries I must say to frozen when you're type 2 diabetic and you're doing
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low carb it's easier with fruit just to stick to berries so strawberries raspberries
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blackberries anything with berry in the name because other fruits are quite high in carbs
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even though the fruit they do raise my blood sugar quite a lot so I had the frozen berries
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I didn't have any natural yogurt in the fridge I usually have um
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Greek style natural yogurt, full fat, because when you're doing low carb
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it's good to have full fat to help keep you full. So I had to use cream, double cream
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I only had a little bit of it. Cream is fine on low carb, but when you're trying to watch the calories as well
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it's a good idea not to have too much of it. And I had a little bit of the, I think it's the skinny food company maple syrup
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just drizzled on the top, and a cup of black coffee, because I don't take milk and sugar in coffee
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so I'll have as much black coffee as I want. I do have some work to do today
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I'm writing a blog post about products and things that women have used
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during perimenopause, menopause, postmenopause. So if anyone has anything that want to recommend
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please leave it in the comments below and I can include it in the blog I'm writing this week. If you don't
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want your name included in the blog post, just let us know also in the comments below
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but any recommendations would be very useful for us. I've got some content to plan, video content to plan for YouTube, for the rest of January
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I'm going away early February for a few days, so I want to get everything sorted before I go
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So I've got that to do today. So I'll check back a bit later
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It is nearly 20 to 11 now. I've answered some emails. I've answered the comments
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on my YouTube video, which I did yesterday, which went up yesterday
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And that took longer than I thought. So I'm going to have a cup of coffee
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And I just thought I'd show you what coffee I'm having. I'm having it in a cafeteria
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I've always wanted a cafeteria and I've never had one. But I got this, my sister-in-law gave us this coffee
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And it's from Marks and Spencers. And it's a Christmas ground coffee blend
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roasted for a wonderfully deep dark flavour with seasonal hints of chocolate and citrus
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so it was a Christmas coffee but it's actually really nice so you just put one tablespoon
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heat tablespoon of coffee in the cafeteria leave it for three to five minutes
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and then plunge it and I'm going to have it in my posh little coffee cup
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because it just makes you feel a little bit better isn it if you have it in posh things and I also going to take my tablets because I got to take them earlier and I have to have them in one of these because otherwise I forget
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I take two metformin a day. I take a vitamin B12. I take a multivitamin and my HRT tablet
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Which incidentally, I'm post-menopause now. I had a total hysterectomy when I was 48
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which is 12 years ago. And I didn't take HRT for the first five years
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The doctor just never offered it to us. And I was really bad with like night sweats and hot flushes
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even though I was classed as post menopause. Because obviously the periods had stopped and everything
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So I asked about the HRT and she gave us them. I can't remember what they're called now
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but I mean it just stopped the night sweats and it stopped the hot flushes
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and I don't have as many mood swings although I do have a few Warren would vouch for that
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so I'd still take an HRT but like every time I've gone for the checkup since
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they've said oh you know you should start thinking about stopping the HRT
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well I don't have any history of breast cancer in my family
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and I just thought well just because I'm postmenopause why should I think about stop and taking them
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I'm not going to grow estrogen back, so I'm still going to have the symptoms
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If I stop taking them, I'm going to go back to having night sweats and hot flushes
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Does anybody else think the same? I just, so no, I'm not going to stop taking them
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So that's what I'm, I need to take me tablets. And I just thought I would show you
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I got some wax melts from a business called Robson Retreats, which is low, quite low
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to me and Jill who runs Robson retreats she actually contacted us on Instagram and said she'd seen one
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of my videos where I was talking about having a pamper night and she says I'd love to send you a package
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of some wax melts so I said that's very kind of you so she did and she said I've got it on a
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tree I've actually got it late she sent me this little wax melt burner which is really
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cute because I didn't have one. And I've got burning a black cherry one at the moment, which is
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absolutely gorgeous. It just fills the house with the smell of black cherry. It is really, really
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nice. And they all come in these little packets. So that was the black cherry one. And it's like a little
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bar. It's a little bar. It's got some glittery bits in. And there's five chunks on each bar. So like
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a bar of chocolate really but don't eat it um so she sent me the black cherry i've got a snow angel
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fresh breeze fresh linen i've got a pear and frisher which really smells nice as well um i mean
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they all do smell nice but these are the these the pear and frisher and the black cherry did
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smell the best when i was smelling them in the wrappers and that one's elusive and i'm really
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really looking forward to try and all of them because that black cherry is sometimes you get a wax
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melt or a candle and it smells nice in the in the you know in the bar but then when you melt it
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there's no like no good throw but these well that black cherry one definitely has a really really
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lovely throw so I highly recommend that I'll put the link to her a Instagram account and a shop
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in the I think it's a Etsy shop in the description box below because they are really really
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really lovely. Jill also set up a discount code if anybody wants to use it and it's a 25% discount
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code for our Etsy shop and our website which again I'll put the like I said I'll put the details in
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the description box below and the code is Georgie Gromore 25 so if you do fancy trying any of those
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wax melts I highly recommend the black cherry just use the code Georgie Grandmore 25 it Jill Etsy shop or website which is robson retreat Um and you can get a really good discount on those wax smells So thanks for that Jill I really appreciate it
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But with me coffee, it's an early time to pour from the cafeteria. With me coffee, I'm going to read, I'm going to continue reading a bit of my book
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It's called the Book of Beginnings by Sally Page. Um, I have started it. So I thought I would sit for about 15 minutes
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with a coffee and just read some book before I get back to work. And it's about a lady who I think she's early 40s, maybe late 30s
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And it starts where she's left a marriage. I think our husband has gone off with a younger woman
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So she's gone to look after her uncle's stationary shop in a different town
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And she meets a couple of people there who she finds really
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interesting. Ruth, who was a vicar who disappeared, came into a shop one day and she recognised
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her, Joe, the person who the story's about, recognised the vicar, and also Malcolm, who was a
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retired accountant. So I've just started it. I haven't got very far in, but it's quite a nice
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read so far, so I'm going to continue reading that, and I'll catch up with you later
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It's now 10 to 1. I have outlined a blog post that I'm writing this week, so I'm really happy
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about that. And I'm about to have me lunch. I'm having a salad. I know people say January isn't
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salad weather, but it's warm in the house. I've got the heating on. So I'm having a salad. I've got
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some, a couple of hard-boiled eggs. Now, does anybody else have to set an alarm when they put their eggs on
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to boil in case they forget they're on? I've done that so many times. And the pan boils dry
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really dangerous so I now set myself an alarm to make sure I remember to turn the eggs off so I've got
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hard-boiled eggs I've got some half an avocado I've got a little bit of cheese and some celery cucumber
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tomatoes and I've just made up a little dressing that consists of olive oil salt pepper
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garlic granules and some cayenne pepper and I'm just a little dressing I'm just a little bit of olive oil and I'm
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I'm just going to put a little bit of lime juice in there
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Just give that a little mix. And I'm just going to pour that over my salad
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Like I say, I'm doing low carb no more than 130 grams a day
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So I don't want to have too many calories. calories. I'm not actually counting the calories. I'm just trying to figure out what I think is
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is good. So I haven't put a lot of cheese on there. And I've got some good fats with the olive
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oil and the avocado. So hopefully that'll be very nice. And I'm also going to have, because I do
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have a sweet tooth, I am going to have a 10 calorie blackcurrant jelly. So my gusto box just
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arrived. This is the second week I've ordered it. I've got my washing machine on in the background
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sorry and if I'm not going to be in I put a message on the DPG courier site saying leave it in the shed which is in our back garden
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I was in the house today and I only noticed it had been delivered because I checked my emails to see what the tracking was like
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they left it on my front door step which is on like a main street they didn't even knock on the door
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and they didn't ring the bell anybody could have walked away with it so
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Not very happy with that. I thought I'd just show you when I ordered this week
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It comes like that. If you never had a gusto box before
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In this section, they've got the chilled bit, which has usually got like an ice bag in
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So keep it cold. Probably doesn't need that at the moment. And see that and find the recipe card
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So this This week I ordered some lentil enchiladas with roasted pepper and cashew crema
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It's got all of the nutritional info on the bottom, like the carbs and the calories and all that, so that's good
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I got an all-on-one mushroom ragu spaghetti with caprice salad. I've got a baked cod with chili pepper potatoes and spring greens
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which actually sounds really nice. I might have that tonight. I mean, they all sound nice
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I ordered them, but that one sounds particularly nice. And I've got a cashew and veg stir fry with rice
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So I'll show you later which one we'll have a tea. It's now 20 to 6
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I feel like I had quite a productive day. Although I think my morning was more productive than me afternoon
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You know when you feel like you're being busy? But then when you think back, you think I'm not quite sure what I did
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I did plan out my content for the next four weeks and I did some bullet points on each one to see what I was
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going to talk about. I've done a couple of pins on Pinterest for blog post and YouTube video
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I do like Pinterest but you can go down a rabbit hole on there
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bit like TikTok which is why I don't go on TikTok very often
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I did have a kind bar this afternoon. Warren comes in from work about half form
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We usually have a cup of coffee I just fancied something with a cup of coffee
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So I had a kind bar I was a little bit hungry
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We're going to be having my tea soon I think we're having the cashew nut
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Stir fry So I'll show you what that looks like once it's made
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And I'll let you know what it tastes like I think tonight
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Because we had the grandkids at the weekend Which was quite hectic
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I am just going to sit and watch tea day tonight. I know I said in my video a couple of weeks ago, no more couch potato, but there are
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some nights where I just want to sit and watch the telly. And I think we're going to watch maybe a couple
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of episodes of The Tourist. That's the series on BBC with Jamie Dornan. We watched the first series
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last year. It was really good. It's about a guy who's lost his memory, but it turns out that
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he's been quite a bad person in the past. In the second series
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Well, the first series was set in Australia and the second series is in Ireland
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We watched the first episode and it was quite comical. I don't know whether they meant it to be, but I don't recall whether the first series was funny
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But the first episode of the second series was definitely funny. So that would be interesting, looking forward to watching that
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We watched a film yesterday called The Founder. It's about the guys who started McDonald's
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It was quite an eye-opener, really, because I didn't know much about it. The two McDonald brothers didn't want to have a global franchise
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but this guy who came along, I can't remember his name now, he wanted to turn it into a franchise thing
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and be world-dominating and things like that. And he wasn't a very nice person, actually
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It ended up that the two McDonald guys had to give up their restaurant
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and they couldn't even use the McDonald's name anymore. So that film was quite interesting
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if you're looking for something to watch on Netflix. This is tea tonight
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It is cashew and veg stir fry with rice. That's what it looks like on the menu card
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That's what it looks like on the plate. I think there's 73 grams of carbs in that
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in about 450 calories. It doesn't look like a lot. In fact, Warren says that's not a lot
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So he's done a big potato with his. I'll put on the screen whether it's tasty or not
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I'm just going to finish the video there. I hope you enjoyed spending the day with us
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even though I wasn't doing very much. I'll be back on Thursday with a favourites and fail video
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So thank you so much for watching. I'll see you again soon. Bye for now
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