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Hi, I'm Mila Kunis, and this is everything I eat in a day.
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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.
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But on a Monday through Friday, I now have to set an alarm.
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My kids used to be the alarm where they would wake me up, and now they don't.
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So what do I do?
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I roll over, I press snooze once, and then I roll back to sleep for like five more minutes.
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And then the bedroom goes, beep, beep, beep, beep.
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And then I roll over and I wake up, and my bedroom goes through the bathroom.
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And sometimes, or oftentimes, I have to go tinkle.
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So that's what I do, I go tinkle.
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Sometimes I brush my teeth before I enter the kitchen, because once I enter the kitchen, I gotta get their lunches ready, I gotta get their breakfast ready.
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So I like to brush my teeth, tinkle, enter kitchen, start process.
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The first thing I eat when I wake up is coffee.
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But I do have a very specific way that I like my coffee.
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Ugh, but it's gonna make me sound like a , whatever.
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I like drip coffee, like old school drip coffee, nothing fancy, but my creamer, I'm very specific about.
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This is not an ad, it's not even organic, okay?
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People, don't get mad at me.
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It's silk oat milk creamer, and they have two flavors.
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They have vanilla or oatmeal cookie.
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I like the vanilla silk oat milk creamer, very specific, and here's why, because I got my frother from Amazon, and I pour my creamer in,
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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.
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So I don't eat first thing in the morning, and I don't know when that's shifted, because I used to, and now I kind of wait until two hours after I have my coffee, so call that, let's say,
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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.
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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 their leftovers,
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which isn't always satiating, so I'll always finish it off with avocado toast that I make myself.
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When I make my own avocado toast, I like to make sure to grab bread that I have.
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So whatever I have is what we're using, and a lot of times it's something healthy because,
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again, I have children, and so you try to do as much as you can.
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So it's like a Dave's Killer Bread, right?
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Like we have one of those.
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And so it'll be like some whole grain bread with like nuts and things and texture and crunch.
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So I grab that.
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More times than not I'm running late so I don't have time to toast it.
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But let's go with the theory that I have magic time.
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I toast it.
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I then grab my avocado.
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I cut it, scoop it, I'll smash it.
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And then sometimes I like to put a little everything but the bagel seasoning on top of it.
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And then if I'm feeling extra feisty, I might put an egg on it or I like dips
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so I sometimes do like this will make no sense
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but I'll do like two eggs over easy
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and then I'll do like a piece of toast
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and then I'll put like little dips on them
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and sometimes it's hummus
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and sometimes I don't know I like tzatziki it's whatever like little salads like whatever I have
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so normally I work so I then go and I plop myself down in front of a computer nowadays, and then we Zoom.
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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.
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Somehow, lunch surpasses me by.
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Now my husband and I are working 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 mishmash something together out of the fridge.
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Leftovers, let it be, or something small and quick.
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Even like a protein smoothie.
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Like, I do have, there's like a service that comes and delivers smoothies to your house.
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It's frozen.
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You put it in the freezer.
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It's really convenient.
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I stick it out, or my husband does it, pours in like a non -dairy milk for me, and then a protein powder.
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And then we smoothie it up, and then he drops it off at my table, and I'm super grateful.
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So it's probably not healthy if you're a dietician, but sometimes I have a protein smoothie for lunch.
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What do I cook?
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Um, boy, sometimes I do something I call bowl night, where it's like, make your own bowl.
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And I do two bases, and there'll be a salad base and a grain base, like quinoa, and then I'll just chop up a bunch of vegetables and cook a bunch of stuff,
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and then you make your own veggie bowl, so to speak.
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My kid is a pescatarian, she does not eat meat, so because she doesn't eat meat, neither does my husband.
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And so, I don't cook two separate meals, because I'm not a restaurant it's oftentimes much easier for me just to do a fish
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and a healthy meal throughout the week.
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So that's kind of what we do.
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So I do salmon, fishes.
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There's a service that I use, guys.
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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.
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So I do that twice a night, or twice a week, and it's been lovely.
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Okay, so I'm also super fortunate.
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I have a mom that lives like 15 minutes away from me.
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I mean, with my dad, but my mom.
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And my mom is an incredible cook.
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and has cooked her whole life.
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I never went out to eat.
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I always had home -cooked meals.
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And she loves, she still thinks that she's cooking for four people when really it's just her and my dad.
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And so when I kinda had kids, she started like cooking for all of us.
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So once a week she drops off food at our house and it's always like, you know, unbelievable food that my mom makes.
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Russian meals is like a lot of food, just at all times.
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The obvious, you can start with primeni, you can start with vareniki.
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Then you can do borscht, which is like a very Russian -y soup, also made of beets.
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But if you don't like beets, don't eat it.
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The Russians like smoked fish, or fish in general, pickled fish, smoked fish.
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Russians or Ukrainians, I know, we're living in a time where I don't even know what to call myself anymore.
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They like to pickle things, mostly because we had winters, and so that's how you survive, is by pickling food.
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So we pickle everything.
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My mom's a master pickler.
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If you've never tried pickled watermelon, it's delicious.
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Smoked herring, delicious.
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You eat it with some warm potatoes, a little olive oil, a little dill, a little salt, yummy, yummy.
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But my mom, man, she can make a chicken soup.
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There is something about her chicken soup, or to be more specific,
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her chicken broth, the broth of her chicken soup is unlike anything that I've ever been able to recreate.
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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.
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So it's not like you're ever gonna get an actual measurement out of her, but however she makes her broths, they're just extraordinary.
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She makes amazing beef stroganoff.
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She's the more meat cooker, and everything that she cooks has dill in it.
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Everything is dill.
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It's like the magical herb of her culture, dill.
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I get my fresh veggies and my fresh food from Imperfect Food, for instance, is one of them, or Misfit Market is another one,
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And they have amazing groceries that don't always look so pretty, but they're wonderful and organic and delicious.
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So I order groceries from there.
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I supplement sometimes from the grocery store.
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I am fortunate enough where my father -in -law gifted me, like, salmon and cod that's freshly cut from Alaska.
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And they deliver it in a flash -frozen refrigerator thing.
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It's not, like, crazy expensive either, by all means
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and I stick it in the freezer
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and then we have like this amazing fish for a year
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or half a year oh and on Fridays I like to say it's leftover day
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and so my husband has to it's just it's a everything
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but the kitchen sink meal
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and that's what he gets he gets all the leftovers to
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clear out the whole fridge we eat dinner all as a
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family oh we order out from everywhere I love to order food
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that I don't make for instance I don't make sushi I
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will order out sushi I don't do Thai I I will order out Thai, I don't do Indian, I will order out Indian.
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Pizza, we just did just get a pizza oven, so we made our own pizzas for the first time.
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My daughter puts pineapple and olives, cheese and tomato sauce.
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My son likes tomato sauce and a very light amount of cheese.
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My husband does mushrooms, jalapenos, and olives on his cheese, tomato sauce.
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Ooh, my beverage of choice.
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It's water, because it's healthy for you.
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My honest beverage of choice is a glass of wine.
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And water, because you gotta stay hydrated.
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And then I also now have become obsessed with,
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I blame the kids, but the whole family now loves poppy.
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Okay, poppy beverages?
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Anybody here?
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Poppy?
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Olipop?
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I feel like it's because it says prebiotic.
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I'm like, well, clearly this is healthy.
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I don't know if it is or isn't, but boy, do I like a nice little poppy.
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After dinner, the children are always, they're always allowed to have a bite of something sweet.
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You know, always then they go to bed and then my husband
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and I open the freezer and have ice cream every night
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so we lie I'm really sorry when you go to bed daddy opens the freezer
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and takes out a carton of ice cream
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and we have a couple bites of the ice cream every night
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because we're adults and we can you cannot
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and that's okay oh girl what kind of ice cream we have
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so much ice cream people know I love ice cream and
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so for my birthday they send me like ice cream of the month clubs
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or like some sort of variety we have so much we always have ice cream I I love ice cream.
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My kids love ice cream.
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My husband loves ice cream.
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It's my favorite food group.
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Everything, I mean, honestly, I don't even know how to answer what kind of ice cream.
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I can tell you like my favorite ice cream as far as like my childhood memory of my favorite ice cream, which is Thrifty brand ice cream.
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It's become Rite Aid, but it's the Thrifty brand ice cream.
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And it's Chocolate Moulted Crunch and or the Thrifty brand Rocky Road.
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Those are like the go -to's that I think are amazing.
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I'm also not gonna poo -poo McDonald's soft serve.
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Yes, I know the machines are often broken, but it is some damn good soft serve, y 'all.
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Ashton and I are massive foodies.
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We love similar foods, we love exploring food, we love eating food.
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We have eaten at, I would say, every ice cream place in Los Angeles.
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It's what we like to do is drive around and try new ice cream shops.
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Sunny's, little known spot.
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It's just like this dude that owns it.
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He's older, he's owned it forever.
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It's in a strip mall, it's not fancy, and it's damn good ice cream.
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And that's everything I eat in a day.
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Make sure to check out Luckiest Girl Alive on Netflix.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This B1 speaking lesson is built on the video “Everything Mila Kunis Eats In A Day”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: cream, ice, eat. This video has 167 sentences and 2095 words to shadow. The speech runs for 10:22. The speaker talks fast, about 202 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. Only 78% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding.
Key vocabulary in this video
The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| creamer noun | /ˈkɹiː.mɚ/ | A jug for holding cream. |
| leftover adjective | Remaining; left behind; extra; odd; in reserve. | |
| pickle noun | /ˈpɪkəl/ | A cucumber preserved in a solution, usually a brine or a vinegar syrup. |
| toast noun | /toʊst/ | Bread that has been toasted (cooked lightly by browning). |
| beep noun | /biːp/ | The sound produced by the horn of a car, or any similar sound. |
| dill noun | /dɪl/ | Anethum graveolens (the type species of the genus Anethum), a herb, the seeds of which are moderately warming, pungent, and aromatic, formerly used as a… |
| smoothie noun | /ˈsmuːði/ | A smooth-talking person. |
| poppy noun | /ˈpɑpi/ | Any plant of the genus Papaver or the family Papaveraceae, with crumpled, often red, petals and a milky juice having narcotic properties; especially a common… |
| freezer noun | /ˈfɹizɚ/ | An appliance or room used to store food or other perishable items at temperatures below 0° Celsius (32° Fahrenheit). |
| soup noun | /sup/ | Any of various dishes commonly made by combining liquids, such as water or stock, with other ingredients, such as meat and vegetables, that contribute the food… |
| avocado noun | /ˌɑvəˈkɑdoʊ/ | The large, usually yellowish-green or black, savory fruit of the avocado tree. |
| broth noun | /bɹɔθ/ | Water in which food (meat, vegetable, etc.) has been boiled. |
| tinkle verb | /ˈtɪŋkəl/ | To make light metallic sounds, rather like a very small bell. |
| groceries noun | /ˈɡɹoʊ.s(ə.)ɹiz/ | Retail foodstuffs and other household supplies; the commodities sold by a grocer or in a grocery store. |
| beverage noun | /ˈbɛv(ə)ɹɪd͡ʒ/ | A liquid to consume; a drink, such as tea, coffee, liquor, beer, milk, juice, or a soft drink, often excluding water. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| order out verb | To call a place of service and order food, or other goods, delivered to one's own location. | |
| roll over verb | To make a rolling motion or turn. | |
| wake up verb | /ˌweɪk ˈʌp/ | To stop sleeping; to awake. |
| check out verb | To record the departure or withdrawal of someone or something (such as guests, employees, books, etc.). | |
| clear out verb | To completely empty. | |
| drop off verb | To fall asleep. | |
| get up verb | To move in an upward direction; to ascend or climb. | |
| go through verb | To travel from one end of something to the other. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- People, don't get mad at me.
- I cut it, scoop it, I'll smash it.
- What do I cook?
- There's a service that I use, guys.
- My mom's a master pickler.
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | it's been · has cooked · you've never tried |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | borscht, which is · cream, which is |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 62 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, I'm, I'll. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: smoothie /ˈsmuːði/, broth /bɹɔθ/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: sushi /ˈsuːʃi/, brush /bɹʌʃ/, borscht /bɔːʃt/, dietitian /daɪəˈtɪʃən/, mishmash /ˈmɪʃˌmæʃ/
- Long words — get the stress right: avocado /ˌɑvəˈkɑdoʊ/, pescetarian /ˌpɛskɪˈtɛɹi.ən/, prebiotic /pɹiːbaɪˈɒtɪk/, varenyky /vəˈɹɛniːkiː/, refrigerator /ɹɪˈfɹɪd͡ʒ.əˌɹeɪ.tɚ/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like creamer, leftover, pickle.
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.