Hi, awesomes! Back at the beginning of summer 2022, I had an idea to do an extra awesome summer

series here on the podcast. Well, as is so often the case, life was a little more complicated than

I thought it would be this past summer, and I didn't get the series going. But I did record

this interview with superstar awesome Kate Nixon Aninia about how to incorporate less meat and

more vegetarian-inspired meals in our lives. This is something our community talks about often

and Kate's insights and information are too good not to share. So even though this is coming to

you a little bit later than I had hoped, I know you're going to love hearing what Kate has to say.

Hi, awesomes! Welcome back to our sort of awesome summer series. I'm your host Meg Teats, and I am

so happy to be joined today by my friend and superstar awesome Kate Nixon Aninia. You guys know Kate,

when she was here last, we were talking about all of the good stuff that we were loving at Trader

Joe's. And if you are in the sort of awesome hangout on Facebook, you know you have read and you know

you have loved Kate's Trader Joe's reviews. Kate, welcome back to sort of awesome. Thank you Meg.

I'm so glad to have you back, and I'm so excited that we are once again when you have found ourselves

talking about food. What are my favorite topics? Honestly, mine too. Okay, you had this idea to come

and talk to the awesomes. You had, talk to me about this before, you know, we've done food and

cooking shows here on sort of awesome, but we've never done them from a vegetarian angle. So you

had this idea like there's plenty of awesomes out there that are either completely meat-free,

or they're just trying to do less meat, especially as grocery prices are soaring and people are

making adjustments in their budgets because they're paying so much at the pump. But you naturally

have kind of started doing more vegetarian eating. Tell us a little bit about how you got to that

place. Yeah, so I have always eaten a very vegetarian heavy diet. I'm not actually a vegetarian. I was

laughing as I pitched you this idea. I was cooking soup with chicken in it, and I was like,

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