Welcome back to my channel. So today has been a super busy day. I've been running around doing a lot of different things and one of the things I had to tackle today was getting some groceries and doing a meal plan. It's been a very long time since I've done a grocery haul style video or a video dedicated just to a grocery haul and a meal plan. But I thought I would go ahead and do that. I know you guys have been loving my meal prep videos, which by the way, I will leave the playlist for that below. I do a lot of meal prepping and things for the freezer, but for the most part, I do cook our meals. They don't come out of the freezer generally. So a lot of those other things are for like lunchtime and breakfast. So I thought I would go ahead and fill you in on like a week of dinners and what I would normally make every evening. I do a lot of my grocery shopping at Aldi. If you guys aren't familiar with that, they just have some really great prices on groceries and almost at a discount compared to most grocery stores. So I can stay in budget and still get quality items that work with the recipes that I wanna make. I tried to group things together here on the counter before I have to put everything in the refrigerator and where it all goes, but I tried to group everything into kind of like the meals. Some of the things I already have either in my pantry or in my refrigerator, which I will get to that in a second. And other than that, I'm gonna go through and just tell you each meal and then I will show you on my tablet what I have written out for the week. All right, so these things here are for doing tacos. We do tacos pretty much once a week and a pack of tacos like this will last us a good while. I just store them in the refrigerator so that they don't go bad in the pantry. They tend to last longer doing that. Sometimes they even get a bigger pack at Walmart. They make even bigger packs. And what we do is put a little bit of olive oil in the pan and then we kind of fry each side just to give them that little extra crunch and flavor. They're really delicious that way. Then I just fry up some ground beef. I add in a little salt, pepper, chili powder, and cumin and just very simple, nothing crazy. I prefer to kind of make my own seasoning on my beef instead of buying the taco meat packets just because they have a lot of additives that you don't really need to make the meat taste really good. So I obviously got some lettuce for that. We really love avocado in that. I have sour cream already and salsa already so I didn't need to pick that up this week. And then ranch is something else that both my husband and my daughters enjoy on their tacos. The next meal I have planned, which I'm going to use some of this beef for the tacos and for this is to do cheeseburgers. I'm also going to dice up some sweet potatoes and roast them in the oven along with Brussels sprouts. I just cut them in half and I toss them. I put them in a Ziploc bag, toss them in there with some olive oil and even maybe some onions. Same with the sweet potatoes. I just toss them all up and then I can put these on the same pan and roast them in the oven around 400 for, oh, I don't know, maybe 20 minutes just depending on how hot your oven actually gets. The next meal is going to be a roast and I actually have that in the freezer. We got a few roasts from my in-laws so that's been great being able to pull those out. Sometimes I do get roasts from Aldi. They do have great roasts. We like theirs a lot and I do chuck roasts generally.  I actually originally found the recipe for doing a roast with butter on Pinterest so I will link that recipe below. You guys can follow that if you want exact measurements. At this point I kind of just throw in whatever I think. And then with that I like to do mashed cauliflower and I actually just put in some salt, pepper, butter and then a little bit of sour cream, blend it all up and it makes it really like creamy mashed potatoes but with a lot less carbs. I'm also planning to do Alfredo. You guys know that we eat mostly gluten-free. My husband has a gluten sensitivity so I tend to try to do that. So I got some of these gluten-free noodles. Aldi has a lot of gluten-free options for really great prices so I appreciate that a lot. So I got that and we're just going to do this creamy Alfredo. I'm going to mix in some broccoli and fry up these chicken tenderloins probably like cut them into little strips to mix in. And then I will put it in a pan once I have all of that cooked up mixed together and then sprinkle it with this Parmesan and put it in the oven and just let it get a little bit brown on top. I just think that's so good and it's a great topping for Alfredo. This meal is something that's a little new to us at least in the last couple of months. I've tried it out and we really enjoy it. So like I said, since we do a lot of gluten-free eating salad wraps or lettuce wraps are definitely the way to go.  I might put some black pepper in it and then I dice up some avocado. I mix it all together to make a chicken salad and then we roll it up in the lettuce and it makes a great chicken salad wrap. So we'll do that and then another favorite of ours is to do some stuffed mushrooms. So this week I will just do Parmesan shredded with some cream cheese, put that into the mushrooms and bake it up until they're like pretty cooked through. Very simple side, but also very healthy. And then we'll do some peas with some butter along with these things for this meal. I'm going to actually show you my meal plan written out. I just wrote it out on a piece of paper, but before I do that, I'm gonna put all of these things away or at least the things that need to go in the refrigerator since they've been sitting out a little bit. I wanna make sure that they get in there. That I wrote down for this week. So a lot of times I plan about, just because generally we end up eating leftovers or we end up ordering out at least once a week. So five meals is kind of a good spot for maybe and even sometimes four meals works out good. Just for the things like the roast beef, we can take that shred it up and make sandwiches out of it for another meal. And then of course just leftovers in general. Another thing I'll do and you'll see this on my list. Sometimes I do this, sometimes I don't, but sometimes I don't actually label them as the day like Wednesday we're having this and Tuesday we're having this because it just helps me out to have a list of just numbers like five meals. Then in the morning, whenever I'm getting ready for the day, I can kind of figure out what I wanna make and if I need to pull anything out of the freezer, it doesn't have to be specific to that day. I can just kind of make whatever I feel like making out of the list. You know one is beef tacos. We like to do avocados, salsa, sour cream and lettuce. Sorry if you hear something in the background, my husband is using a salt in the garage. So you might be hearing that going on. And meal number two is cheeseburgers, diced, roasted, sweet potatoes and brussel sprouts. We'll probably also wrap these in lettuce instead of doing like a bread or something like that. Number three is going to be the roast with carrots and mashed cauliflower. Number four is chicken alfredo with broccoli. Number five is chicken salad, lettuce wraps, peas and stuffed mushrooms. And one other thing I will let you guys with is if you have a pressure cooker or an Instapot, making mashed cauliflower in there is the absolute best. I will leave a recipe from Pinterest below, but it's so easy and it also doesn't let a lot of water in the head of cauliflower. So it makes it so that the mashed cauliflower is a lot thicker. I hope this gave you guys some meal inspiration. I know that I get questions about what I like to make for dinner. And I thought it would be helpful to link as many of these recipes below as I can. Like I said, some of them I've kind of tweaked on my own or just kind of found my way of liking to make them. I know I enjoy these short quick videos for some nice meal inspiration, especially when I'm sitting down to quickly write out my grocery list. So maybe that's what you're doing right now and hopefully this helped you out. If you're new around here and this is your first video ever that you've watched of mine, I hope that you hit that subscribe button. Thanks so much for watching and I'll see you guys in my next video.


well hello hello and welcome to vlogmas day 10 um yeah so it's like three something and i haven't vlogged yet sorry uh took the dog out on a walk and it was a little bit warmer outside so i put a bunch of ice melt and stuff on my driveway and my little like walkway and it was getting a little slushy so i thought this is the right time to shovel all that junk off of my area and so i did that for a while got really really warm and then had to put my hair up because i'm like oh my god um just filmed my gif wrap video where i just realized after i stopped the video that i didn't really talk about the method to my madness with all of the gif wrapping i was just like going on and on because we were i don't know i was just like walking people through how i do it in real time so it takes about i mean if i guess if i wasn't chatting it probably only take me like 10 to 20 minutes to actually do it but it took a little bit longer with the video setup and stuff and i wanted to kind of like explain what was you know happening and whatnot but i figured i would explain it here so what i like to do is hold on let me show you my little gif wrap um basket right now that's how it looks don't mind him he's gonna go somewhere um so yeah what i like to do is i like to have things that all coordinate so all my ribbons coordinate all my papers coordinate all my gift tags coordinate when i do pull for something i can really mix and match anything i want to and that's really what it's all about for me is just mixing and matching i feel like it's really difficult for me to even buy anything super colorful anyways um but that being said if you have stuff that all coordinates then you don't have to really pick and choose to say like oh this paper only goes with this ribbon and vice versa like it all kind of goes together which is like one of my favorite things i do think about the person when i'm gift wrapping so like today i was working on a gift for gabin and he generally likes really solid colors so i decided to go with this really pretty like glittered metallic gold and then um a little white and black bow um from the chip and joanna gains for target line that's where the bow is from i don't know where the actual papers from i can't remember but you know i have no i have no idea um but yeah so uh the video will be up hopefully soon probably not when this video goes up it'll be after that so yeah that's kind of what's happening here oh wow my hair is like did you see that i like a little a little like flap going on i was so warm when i got back from um shoveling the driveway that i just kind of like threw it up because i just couldn't handle my hair being down anymore um so yeah that's what's happening here i think i'm done with the videos for today um i don't think i'm going to do a plan with me this week just because it's just too much plus i have another video i need to edit anyways so uh you guys are gonna be pretty heavy with the videos this week anyways just because of vlogmas and all that good stuff too but i need to like get my house in order because oh my god this is like driving me a little bit nuts so i'm gonna have a little bit of lunch slash dinner because i didn't really have a lunch today i don't know why i do that but i do that sometimes it's just it's not good sometimes you know um but anyway i need to eat a little bit of something and then i think i'm just gonna turn on my pandora my hip hop barbecue which is like my favorite station ever and just start cleaning like a mad person and if i think about it which hopefully i do future emily does think about it maybe i'll set up the camera and um you guys can watch me clean because people ask me about that all the time they're like can you do a cleaning video and i'm like okay i mean i don't that's not interesting like at all but it's kind of funny because i really like the channel clean my space with melissa maker by the way she's like fabulous i love her but i like to watch her cleaning videos but like my cleaning videos wouldn't necessarily be anything like her cleaning videos because she's like a she has like i think she has a cleaning company too in canada um i'm not i'm not really sure but anyway but she's amazing but i like watching her videos so i understand where the like fascination is but i also to me i'm like that's so boring but anyway i think it's boring because i'm doing it if i was watching it in a video i'd be like yeah this is some good content so anyways but i am gonna actually eat a little bit of something and then start cleaning and then putting some stuff away and then i think i'm gonna actually like wrap for a while i'm not gonna film anymore but i think i'm just gonna wrap for a while because i have got a ton more things to wrap like all of that stuff all of the other colorful things that are right over there i got a lot of crap to wrap um so let's do this oh by the way if you would like to see what the dog has been doing ever since i got done with the driveway here's what he's been up to yep what's up doil it's like a serious cinnamon roll thing happening right there is there a dog in that cinnamon roll or what is there a dog in that cinnamon roll no doidie and if you're really curious that's what his face looks like he's hiding it in all his fluff sometimes he like hides it like underneath like a piece of blanket or something but not right now he'll change that later when he gets too hot he'll move from here over to that section of the blanket yep won't you bud won't you buddy yeah oh yeah such a silly boy such a silly boy okay i'm gonna go do my things doil is gonna readjust himself and i will see you guys in just a moment it's time to clean up every time now but i wanted to show you this um this came in the mail on saturday but i hadn't opened it yet this is how my friend christin addresses everything to me it says his royal highness king of sheba's and lord of his domain doil the sheba yep that is how i get mail from my friend and she sent me a really nice uh christmas card of her and her family i don't want to like show it on the internet because i don't know how she feels about it i'm sure she wouldn't mind but whatever but anyway do you see behind me it's like clean kind of ish um so yeah i was actually gonna set up like my christmas tablescape but i don't have like i have a tray that's coming from west elm and it's not here yet i think it's gonna be here this upcoming week so anyways um i wanted to show you guys this i actually bought these yesterday at target i know i didn't do a target haul but i bought these these are two hold on hard to see because they're like little snowflake things these are like in the dollar section so this is the bigger one and then same with the like little trees right i know like i'm really into green lately you guys like i don't know what's going on but this is not a cry for help i i don't know i just i don't know so yeah i'm also getting holiday gifts together i thought i could reuse one of my erin kondren boxes but apparently i can't because it's not wide enough so yeah here's a gift for somebody that already knows that all of this is for her anyways because she wanted this and sent me a text message and said hey i want all this stuff for christmas and i said hey okay so anyway and they have a little gift card pouch for her too so yeah i also have some other things as well for her but that is in another box that i have not shown on the youtube so and i won't until i don't know maybe i'll show it when uh she opens it maybe maybe maybe maybe um so yeah but i think i am gonna close out the vlog here because i just need to wrap some gifts and um those two packages right here i need to mail out so i need to get my like mailing forms from upstairs and get those addressed so i can drop them off at the post office tomorrow at some point and um i think i'll end up having to take a lunch because the local post office that is at like right next to my work actually closes at like 230 i know random right but it's like a super small town so they close at 230 but i want to get those out for to peoples plus did i tell you guys about the erin kondren thing what happened okay so they ended up sending me two replacements which ended up being a total of four because they sent me two boxes of two does that make sense so i've got one over here that i don't have a shipping label for and then i have one like i've literally stacked like all this stuff i need to bring with me tomorrow um i have like a box down here full of bubble wrap i've got that box i've got soda i've got soup i've got my purse i've got a planner i got a bunch of stuff i gotta bring with me tomorrow but i only have one packing label that they emailed to me so i'm gonna print that out when i get to work tomorrow and slap that on there because that's a usps so i'm just gonna drop that off but i don't have another shipping label so i'm gonna i've already emailed them and asked them for another shipping label so i can ship back their bad ones um or not bad ones those are actually good ones those are two hourlies i'm just waiting at their mercy at this point so hopefully um they send me a shipping label if they want their planners back so anyways um but yeah i'm just gonna let that just kind of hang out over there the blue box back there um i'll let that hang out for a little while but i'm gonna take care of this mess today too um because again i need to do some more wrapping and i'm probably gonna stay up for at least another hour or two and get some of this stuff done and yeah that's basically it and i just need to like clear off some of these things and then get rid of some things over there too but um yeah it's looking better than it was looking better than it was and speaking of looking better look at this pupper oh my goodness this hi doro i know it's so exciting he has been on the couch all day basically all day well he was upstairs for part of the day and then by the time we went on our walk which was like i don't know about noon one somewhere in there um he's been on the couch ever since so i don't know maybe he was like feeling extra cozy and wanted to just get up on these blankets by the way i've had some questions in the comments of what these blankets are um they're from erin kondren they're the icat pattern and the colors i chose was um light taupe and white are the colors that i have so anyways but i am gonna get going thank you guys so much for watching and i will see you guys in the next video feel free to subscribe if you'd like to feel free to like the video if you like it and um we'll see you we'll see you for more fun stuff later bye guys


з greetings my esteemed subscribing tones thank you all kindly for your well wishes on the birth of our second daughter I just thought to give an update and give some advice to fathers to be First and foremost I want to give a shout out to the midwives of BAB Stockholm in case you see this very good and professional I have said that the Swedish health care system isn't the best but the midwives they are an exception so very good stuff indeed I also want to give a shout out to my lovely wife of course she planned everything perfectly and executed the plan perfectly as well can always analyze the entire thing as an athletic competition of sorts where you plan beforehand and then you go in execute the plan really nice to see and of course it's yeah it was quite an emotional experience the birth itself so great stuff everything went well and yeah I am very happy in that regard so all is well now anyway there are of course many guys who are more qualified to give advice on fatherhood and everything like but I promised a few supporters that I would make this video so here we are now basically you can't really get ready so if you ask how do you get ready for fatherhood you can't really get ready and you just have to wait with crossing that bridge when you when you reach it so to speak so it's not something you can theorise all too much about you just have to view it as a learning experience you learn something every day and then of course if it's your second child or third child or so on it comes easier but the first time don't worry too much about knowing everything beforehand because ultimately you just have to learn by experience it's not something you can be ready for beforehand you get ready as you go so keep that in mind so don't be stressed that you don't know this you don't know that how do you do this I'm view it as starting a new job or something might sound a bit unromantic but it's basically what it is it's a new very lovely very rewarding job you take on now also leading up to the birth itself perhaps you are a bit nervous again because you don't know everything that's completely fine I would say that the good thing to reduce nervousness is to be you know stay active with whatever else you're doing so for me I've been very occupied with writing my second book and of course taking care of my wife so I haven't really had the time to be nervous in that regard which also leads me in to my second main point and that is taking care of your wife when she is pregnant and postpartum now usually you should of course put your own mission first and focus on that and the mission usually includes you know taking care of your wife in the long term so to provide and protect but when it comes to the late stages of pregnancy and the early stages of postpartum you you sort of have to if possible turn down the pace a bit on your own mission to care more for her so this has been quite easy for me because my lovely wife is always so supportive of me making sure that I can focus on my stuff or the greater goal at hand so now it's been easy for me to simply return the favor to try to be as supportive of her as possible then of course motherhood birth everything like this it's a it's a female mystery so there is only so much a man can do you can only play a supporting role and the yeah the main the main player of this drama is of course the woman so there is only so much you can do then of course when it comes to fatherhood itself and this is a video for another time might make one you know your child is a reflection of yourself so if you want a calm child you need to be a calm parent you can't lose your temper it's okay if you do I think every father has at some stage lost his temper but when you recognize that as a weakness in yourself then you can sort of hammer away at that weakness to bring out the alchemical gold inside yourself to become a better person so you can view fatherhood also as a as a challenge to become the best that you can be to you know be calm and patient and everything like that so an agitated parent is an agitated child a calm parent a calm child so view it as a continuous learning experience and all will be well so all that said for all fathers to be best of luck and don't worry beforehand don't worry about knowing everything things will pieces will fall into place in the puzzle of knowledge of fatherly knowledge and yeah just the view it as a learning experience one day at the time and try to be a supportive of your wife as possible because you really needs it during the later stages of pregnancy and especially postpartum because he needs to recover so anyway I will check in with you without channel update in a week or so and when I'm done with my book I promise that I will give more attention and love to the video making I have actually missed it quite a bit focusing on the videos so I have some plans in that regard stay tuned and thank you again for all of your well wishes XOXO boom


So, Ostrich Air, they're visiting Florida to show us their X-Class drones. So they build these crazy big machines. They are friends with this studio that makes all these different vehicles for Hollywood. So we're going to the studio. Ah! Secret hangar place. Yeah, so it's like this big warehouse and we're going to see like the Ghostbusters vehicle and like the Tron bike and all that stuff. What is the Tron car again? The Tron bike? This guy? This guy doesn't know a Tron. I don't know what it is. I'm sorry that I'm trying to know this before I was born. It's like this, it's like the coolest motorcycle I've ever made. There's no wheel in the center. There is no wheel in the center of any motorcycle dirt. No, I mean, when you drive it, a wall of light appears behind you and your enemies crash into it. I've probably seen that before. You're culturally devoid. More than I do. That's the light that thinks there's supposed to be a wheel in the middle of a motorcycle.  Alex, do you know what show the Mystery Machine is from? Features an animal. Wait, really? Is this Scooby-Doo? Oh! God, it's alright. Alright, alright. I've recognized it. Alex, do you know who Optimus Prime is? With Megan Fox. What about this? This is a very unique vehicle. Like a one-person thing. I have no idea. No, you don't! You don't! Does he seriously not know what this is from? No, not. Does this hit you at all? Time machine. Do you know that guy? Doc Brown? No. Oh, gosh. Why? I don't know it. Back to the future. Oh, back to the future. My name is Jordan Tampkin, also known as Jet DRL, two-time world champion. I'm one of Ostergear's pilots, so they contacted me one time and they were like, hey, we need dudes to fly our drones. We build big drones, and we need pilots. It's like the drunken master. Did they get it? No, wait, that's before your time to do it. You can't reference anything with this kid. I'm Mark Parker, Parker Brothers Concepts. It's me and my brother Shannon. We dream up and build the strange and unusual. Well, usually they come up to us and they go, oh, can you build this? Can you build that?  Let's come up with something better. And we do. We'll come up with a better concept and show it to them, then they like it, and we build it. I'm Jonathan, co-founder of Ostergear. Basically, we're an engineering team. You know, we design aerospace vehicles or drones. I actually came over to meet Mark, because I admired what he does, because that's kind of what I want to do in the flying side. We collaborate on different projects together. I'm not actually flown to Cinnaboo. I'm not going to fly it like a five-inch, just let me fly it a little. It will get unstable if you fly forward. OK. So don't fly forward. Cruise. You slowly move forward. So you have to just kind of just... Don't eat it. Just slowly. Yeah, I don't know what that word means, but just tilt it. What is this machine? So it is an actual racing drone. This is a racing drone, but it looks like something very different. What's this model after?  Yeah, I think this is very inspired by the Inspire. It definitely has that look, but it is still distinct, and then it's a hexacopter. So this actually opens up, push the buttons here, and that's where all your batteries go. I mean, the whole body is just batteries.  Right. So what's this front? So that's actually... Because it doesn't seem very strong. It's carbon fiber. So it's a carbon fiber tube, so it flexes a bit. Yeah, it's not a tube. It's actually a solid rod, solid carbon fiber rod. If I take those off, you'll feel flexed on the lens. Really? Yeah. So that provides... Like it completely stabilizes that... Oh. ...and it costs no weight. This is the Ostrich Air Juan. What are these copper things for? It's a secret. Is it for cooling? I don't know. That is definitely... Okay, you got the heat sinks linked up, and it provides... This is for extra cooling, isn't it? We just came back from flying in Korea, and the temperature over there was insane. So before we went out there, we already knew that the rear ESC's would get really hot. So you thoroughly coupled them with the front ESC's, so not only do you get cooling from the copper piece itself, but it also cools through. Exactly. Wow, that's really smart. It's not just enough to keep it under... And it made a difference. It made a huge difference. Really? It was way ahead of every other drone that had the exact same specs out there. Oh, wow, that's so smart. This is so sick, dude. You ready? Look at some boogie on it. Oh, boy. Oh, God.  I got it. What just happened? We were sending that thing. I was full throttle just trying to keep up with them. I think that prop came off. These have a ton of torque, and honestly, the prop is just style, yeah. So it just spun itself off. Basically, and that's the issue that we run into, and this is not a super uncommon thing. It's for a prop to come off because of that issue. At least it wasn't heading towards us when that happened. No, I never was ever going to have a true deputy towards us. Yeah, no. That's a very important consideration when flying a giant drone. I'm a professional. All right, let's get the other one up in the air. So this is actually the first real maiden. This is a maiden? This is a real maiden, yeah, because it's been basically just mildly flown. No pressure, no pressure. Is it the same arm direction? Yeah. Okay. Yes. I won? Oh, God. Ah, I don't like big stuff. Dude, it looks sweet in the air. It looks amazing through the HTC. 44.2 volts. Yeah, you're black. Will the power? I'll cut that for you. I need the servo. I wasn't up the whole time. That was awesome, dude. I'm just jiggling, dude. Oh, I forgot to put a prop nut on. I flew that far actually, dang. It's just one of those days, man.