Let's Eat!

weird concoctions of food. But today I am going to take you through all of my fun eating habits that I've developed, all of my fun eating things that I've phases that have gone through, how I use to eat as a kid, how I eat now, and let me tell you post Forces me is a different freaking breed of eater. I actually went through a really interesting phase after Special Forces. It took me about a month actually to get out of it. Damn, I'm just like I'm

jumping right into like the thing. This in the very beginning of this podcast. But that's fine, that's fine. We can start here and then we'll we'll go back, we'll go back in time. Anyways, right after Special Forces, I literally for about a month, maybe a month and a half, ate every single thing in my sight. I kid you not. It was not cute, it was not fun. It was bad. I went out to a dinner with my dad. This was maybe like three days after Special Forces had been over.

We went out for a space a steak dinner and we were in Seattle. It was really yummy steakhouse in the hotel and we go and I was like, cold, I please get the twenty eight ounce Porterhouse and my dad was like, Jojo, like get what you want, do your thing, do your big one, but like twenty eight ounce Porterhouse? Are you sure? And I was like no, I'm sure, and like for reference, like normally I get like a six ounce petite file at so I'm like

really really doing my extra big one here. And so I was like, could I get the turnad out they brought it. My dad was like Jojo, you're not whatever, We'll take it home for the dog or like it's fine. Ate every single bite of it. Then we got sides. Ate every single bit of side. I'm talking like licked the bone clean, Ate every bit of it. Ate the fatty bites, which like normally I don't like. My dad was like, what happened to you over there? I was like, oh no, bro, I'm just hungry, Like I just like

couldn't stop eating. Then we went on a cruise, and like the devious thing about a cruise is there was so much yummy food. And I fell in love with sushi on this cruise because it was in front of my face and I just would eat literally anything and

ate it all eight rolls. Eight. We went out to a sushi dinner once and I, oh my god, I had a chicken terioki bowl of beef teriaki bowl, two sushi rolls, three orders because my parents didn't eat there, so I ate theirs of like these like dynamite shrimp, like like spring rolls almost and then I had a mochi a chocol lava cake and then like genuinely asked

to go to the buffet. After not trying to be like, oh, I just stayed all this, we'd let me be like, haha, funny and like want to go to the buffet after it was genuinely like no, like I'm not fool yet. Anyways, somehow got out of that habit. But that was a very very interesting month and a half where I really was just enjoying everything in front of my face. And I think it was just because on Special Forces the

food options were very, very limited. But I will say I did fall actually in love with the food on Special Forces. Now stick with me here. This is where we are now entering the segment of this podcast. JoJo's Weird Concoctions is what I'm gonna call this, but I'm telling you, trust me, try some of them. It's like a pregnant woman when they like like pickles and peanut butter, but then you actually try to you know, like Ranela's actually kind of bomb dot com. That's kind of how

these are. On Special Forces. For breakfast every day, we had a platter of white toasts, scrambled eggs, oatmeal, and then a bowl of jelly and a bowl of like dried mixed fruits. Now, in the beginning of it, it was like I'm gonna have like two pieces of toast and some scrambled eggs, And then I was like, Okay, I'm gonna have oatmeal today. Like by the end of it,

I kid you not. I took my little tin and I scooped eggs, oatmeal, dried fruit, jelly, stirred it all together, popped it on toast, and stuck it in my mouth like we had to eat that fast and you just knew you needed the cards, the protein, the fight you needed it at all, so we just shoved it in. But I will say, as nasty as that moment was, I would not recommend mixing in the eggs. But something

about oatmeal and jelly mixed together is freaking magical. Now if you think about it, some people like normal would would mix oatmeal with like honey or maple syrup, and so it's it's kind of just a version of that. I'm telling you. Trust. I think it'd be kind of funky with a grape jelly, but this was like a This is like a raspberry jelly, and it was just trust.

Try it and if you're feeling like the Special Forces diet, add some scrambled eggs in there, add it on some toasts, stick in your mouth, and you're basically in New Zealand at selection. Another one of my weird concoctions is actually a breakfast thing. Now, this one even more stick with me here than the last one. Just to trust, do not not get till you try it. Take a banana, hear me out, Put it in a bowl, mash it up, Take two eggs, crack them, scramble them in with that banana.

Go until it's like pretty just like one mix of things. You're gonna have some banana chunks, but but not a lot. I'm telling stick with me here. Heat up pan, Grease that pan so it doesn't stick. Pour a little bit of in as of it's pancake batter. Cook it for a little bit on one side, Flip them over, cook them for a little bit on the other side. Add in some cinnamon, a little bit of cinnamon, a little such cinnamon, and you have the most delicious pancake you

will ever have in your life. My parents themselves love the taste of it. They were both very into it when I had them try it, and then they were like, what are we eating right now? And I was like, you are eating a banana and egg. And they immediately were like, I am never trying this ever again, or letting you cook ever again. But I'm telling you, the

taste is amazing. So for some people it is a little strange that you're eating a banana and an egg together, scribble up fried as a pancake, But it is amazing. Trust trust the process. Oh, don't forget the cinnamon. The cinnamon is the best part. You gotta have the cinnamon in there. Now. Another breakfast food that I make that is a little bit less weird of a mix of food. So there's just like there's one spicy food in there is a world famous avocado toast. It's not world famous.

I'm literally the only person that's made it, but I will say I made it for my dad one day and he loved it and asked for me to make it for him again. So here's the game plan. You need avocado, you need egg, You need some bread. I specifically like to use Dave's Killer Bread, and I either use the everything bagel, everything Bagel bagel from Everything seasoned bagel. It's that how you say that from Dave's Killer Bread, or there's like a like spin sliced sprouted bread and

that one is very very yummy. And then you need some everything Bagel seasoning, and you need some pomegranate seeds. Trust stick with me here, So cook up the eggs. I used to scramble. Now I'm into a sunny side up moment, So I just popped the egg in the pan. Let it cook all the way through. You gotta cook it on low because it's not all the way through. But do his thing. Toast up that bread, toast up

that bage. Hole. That's happening. You mash up that avocado, scoop those pomegranate seeds and they're stirred in, adding some everything bagels, he'soningk stirred in. I like a lot of pomegranate seeds. Honestly, I probably put too much in, but it's vine. We're all gonna live anyways. Put it all on the bread. So you go the bread, you go the avocado, and you go egg on top, and the avocado has a pomegranate seeds mixed in. That is the best breakfast ever. It is nutritious, it is filling. It

is so good. Heads up, if you do the sunny side up egg, the yolk gets very messy. With the avocados, with the mashed up with the pomegranates, you will have a concoction of green, pink and yellow hands Yellow from the yolk, pink from the pomegranate seeds, and green from the avocado. But it is mad worth it. I promise made a list of some other fun concoctions that I make. I have a very special version of a peanut butter and jelly that I like to make. If you couldn't tell,

I'm a very healthy eater. All this stuff that I've been talking about is very very healthy foods and peanut butter jelly, for me, is a food that I really really enjoy, but it could never figure out how to make a healthy version of it because you know, you see the stuff that's in peanut butter and jelly, you see lots of sugar, you see lots of car which is totally fine, but for me specifically, I was like, how can I make a version of this that gets the job done but is a bit healthier and boy

avoided I find it. So I found a sugar a sugar free peanut butter, and I look in all my labels. I look for food that is no added sugar. I don't care at all about natural sugars, get as many of them and as I can, but added sugar I truly try to stay very far away from. And I've done this since oh my god, since January last year. No, I think I've been added sugar free for a year now. That's crazy. I have my moments, Don't get me wrong.

We're gonna talk about my moments. We're gonna talk about my donut habit in just a second, which is very, very very foul, but we'll get there anyways. But I look for added sugar free things. It started off as just like a challenge. It was last year January because I I don't want to put myself on a diet necessarily, but I just wanted to like try to see like if I could develop a really good eating habit. And I was like, well, what's something that I could do

or eliminate? And I looked into all the options and I discovered that added sugars would be something that would be very good for me to eliminate. And so I did, and now we're here and we're thriving. I will say, there is like a crash that happens without sugar. Like I definitely feel like energy levels. I've had to figure out like different ways that I can I can find

energy without the sugar. But it's been so amazing and compared to how I used to eat, Oh my god, when I tell you I lived off of Lucky Charms cupcake and Domino's pizza, I literally lived off of Lucky Charms, Domino's pizza, and cupcakes. We will oh and funvetty frosting. We will get into that. Back to peanut butter and jelly. I discovered there is a jelly that is made out of chia seeds. It's called chia smash. There's no added sugars in it, and it is delicious and chia seeds

are very good for you. So again we go back to Dave's Killer Bread. We take the cinnamon raisin killer bread stick with me here. That's the weird part about the peanut butter and jelly. But I promise it's amazing. You got the cinnamon raisin bread. Pop that peanut butter on their sugar free. I'm a crunchy girl. I do like crunchy peanut butter. Some people like smooth, some people like crunchy. I'm crunchy. Just let it happen. I know I used to be a smooth girl, so I also

used to make fun of crunchy people. But now I'm a crunchy person. Just let it. It's fine. We don't need to go into detail about it, Bob. Some of that she has mashed chili on it. Pop another slice of bread on and ah, so good. I normally like to have her with some fruit on the side. He some raspberries, may have some blueberries. Keep it very I feel like I like really try to coordinate my foods a lot of the times, Like if I'm having, you know, a sandwich, I feel like I want to have some

like barbecue quest chips. Quest ships aren't my freaking life. I'm gonna talk to you about some of my favorite like on the ghost snacks. But like, if I'm having like a sandwich, I'll go for some quest ships. If I let's say I am having Mexican food, I'll go for like the like chili lime quest ships. If I'm having like honestly like I will have eggs and I will have like the sweet chili quest ships. I'm a

little bit crazy, but you get the idea. I try to stick to the plan of the same things, and so whenever I have a PP and J, I kind of like keep it in the berry family. Another food that I like, Oh, this is a boarding mission actually on food for a second. This is switching gears to drinks for a second. I love this very special coffee order. Are you ready for it? You take a cold brew and you take the most delicious protein shake that has

ever existed. It's called fair Life fair Life Core Power Protein. I like the like absolete one that has more protein in it tastes the same as the other one. There's like a little less strong protein one. So whatever whatever you prefer, they do taste the same. But they make a chocolate one. And truthfully, protein drinks are hard to find one that tastes yummy, and those fair Life ones taste so good. Uh and uh I like to put a little bit of that in my cold brew as

the flavoring. It is so good. Trust I promise you can also on Amazon look up sugar free coffee syrups and there's every flavor you could ever want of a syrup, but specifically banana banana coffee syrup sugar free mixed with the fair Life Core powered chocolate protein shake mixed with cold brew is next level deliciousness. It is one of those acquired tastes, I will admit, but uh, it is very very very good. Now. I know. I mentioned something when I was talking about my food over the years,

how it used to change. And one of my favorite stories that I like to tell is my rider. Actually, so you have a rider on set, which is basically your what you want in your dressing room, what you need in your green room. And this is where like some people how they have like the only green m and ms that's on their rider. Now, I've heard some insane things that people have on the rider. Some people

have like just like food and drinks and stuff. Other people have like need is probably something that I'll do in a few years, but like a treadmill, I need a bed setup, I need a couch. I've heard somebody that was like, I need a puppy. Like every day, every tour venue they had a new puppy, Like it

is a thing like you. It's crazy. Anyways, my rider's always just been food and beverages, and it used to up until the time I was eight, nineteen nineteen, I feel like after Dance with the Stars, so maybe even like yeah, so nineteen. Up until I was nineteen, my rider was when I tell you literally, there was always

a fruit blotter and always a veggy platter. But then it was a dozen cupcakes, lucky charms, funfetti, frosting, jetfuffed marshmallows, peanut butter, jelly, white bread, did not matter, the brands of anything, did not care. Some sort of fruit snack, fruit roll ups? What else was always on my rider? In the drinks we always had, we always had red blo We always had water, milk, gatorade, orange juice, apple juice.

There was more snacks that we always had. We always had Eminem's and Skittles, popcorn, just like the most junk that you could ever want your life. Oh, and then there was some things for my mom on the rider. There was diet Coke for my mom. There was Cheetohs for my mom, Dorito's for my mom. That was pretty much what she liked. And then we shared obviously everything else,

but those were like her specifics. And then when I got into my first relationship, I added some foods that she liked also onto my rider, so that way, anytime she was on set with me, she had her favorite se remember I had and Cinnamonto's crunch, those are her favorites. I was like, ah, pop those on the rider. Anyways, now my rider is everyone that comes to set with me is like your rider is so boring. Now you

see the best ever. We used to love hanging out your dressing room and now it's like silver fruit blud is still the veggie platter, but it is like no sugar added, granola bars, mixed nuts, dried fruits, protein bars, protein shakes, protein powders like BCAAs different supplements, vitamins, gum. It's like the healthiest things you can possibly find. Ever, I do say like some sort of like bakery item

but like as healthy as possible. That is like the number one thing on my rider, like fruit snack, but any like healthy vibe. Everything now is like strictly health taking care of our body, and it's it's honestly, it's really fun. It's really nice. I've enjoyed getting to learn about foods and learn about like what my body needs versus what my body wants, but then also finding that balance of giving it what it wants as well as

what it needs. I do this thing and I said, I was gonna talk about donuts, so I can this kind of a nice transition into that. I will sometimes overdo it session. And by sometimes overdo it, I mean like once every three months, I just have a day where I am like it's donut day. And normally it's it's connected to something that you know is not going too well in my life. Normally, if there's like a problem, it's a very very mental thing. And I definitely eat

my problems away. And so one is what happens is is I will be like, all right, the only thing that will make this day better is donuts. And we have donut Day, and so we get the milk out. We dip our donuts and milk, of course, and I will order to the house about three dozen sometimes four dozen pending. When I tell you, I the last donut day, we counted because we were like, this is actually crazy how many donuts I can put away. But we were like,

let's actually count this time. Last donut Day, I had eleven in one sitting. I I don't know what comes over me. I don't know where the space comes from. I don't know where the desire comes from. Because truthfully, like I set up a pastry bar at my studio every day for the kids, and normally today what's on the pastry bar there's mini muffins that are actually sugar free muffins. They don't know about it, and their moms

don't know about it. But I'm gonna see if they like them, and they'll be like, guess what things are. They're healthy, they're good for you. Anyways, there's the muffins, and then there's croissants, and then there's krispy Kreme Donuts, there's bisc off cookie flavored ones, and then there's mini clazed ones, and I was setting them out and I don't even have like a desire to reach for it anymore.

I used to. Of course, I used to eat literally anything at any time, never thought about it, never cared nothing. But then you know, I went through the phase where I was like, no, don't do that. And now I'm just in a phase where I'm just like, man, if I want it, I'll have it. But if I don't want it that bad, I won't have it. And so now I'm able to just like be around it and

not not ever want it. I will say one of the best and the best things that my parents ever did for me and for my brother is make everything accessible to us, from from sweet treats to to literally I mean any any food. They made very accessible to us. So there was never a restriction, never a restriction on candy, none of that. We have mean had Halloween. You can

have whatever we want. And the thing is is as a kid, and then especially as a teenager, and you want what you can't have, even as an adult, you want what you can't have. It just I feel like it changes from like food to like people. But I feel like as a kid, you know, if you're saying, if you're like you can't have oreos, then like all the kids gonna want is the oreo, you know what I mean? And so my parents were always very good about just being like, yeah, if you want an areo,

have an oreo. Like I don't. Who am I to stop you? You know what I mean? I want to talk about my favorite snacks. I made a list. I'm a very on the go person. I gotta eat quick and then be on my way, and so I made a list of some of my favorite favorite things. Number one and number two, absolutely without a doubt is Quest chips and Quest bars. Finding a good protein bar give me very very hard. And I will say Quest bars taste a little bit more like protein than Barbels bars.

Those are my other favorites. Those ones taste literally like candy bars. They're amazing, no sugar added, tons of protein, good and cowls like. Everything's good about them. But Quest bars there's more flavors. My personal favorites of the chocolate chip cook you know it tastes just like cook. You know, it's amazing. There's also the cookies and cream ones that's good, muffin ones good. Those are all very very good. But now Quest Chips, when I tell you I live off

of these things, it is actually insane. I I yesterday had four bags of chest cuips. We call them chest clips because one day I was so delusional I had like it was a challenge. We were seeing how many I could eat, and so I had not bags of chess clips and I was like, oh yeah, I having more chess qubes, guys, and it just like came out like that, and we were like, oh, that's the name

that's sticking for forever. But they're so good. And one of my life hacks is if you like chest clips, oh my god, I'm gonna call them their right name for those sake of this podcast, Quest Chips. If you can find a flavor that you like, specifically the chili lime and the cheddar and the ranch, go good with these things. And the load of taco. Oh sorry, I forgot about loado taco. She's the best of these things. Dipping them in queso, guacamole or salsa will change your life.

It is healthy. They are protein packed and it is good for you. It is the freaking best. I am not gonna lie. I've lied once in my career, and you're probably gonna laugh at me because I don't like to lie. Never I never lie, but I did debt one line. My whole career. Everything was always genuine, everything was always true. The only thing that was ever a lie is that I liked candy. I never have. It's never been my thing. I've always had like a like every here and then like yeah, sure I'll take some

nerds or like yeah, man, i'ms in popcorner Skittles. It's not like a like I mean, now I'll eat anything. I used to hate sushi, so it was never like sushi where I was like, you know, that's disgusting. But it just was like I never reached for it, never wanted it. And what's interesting about that is so much

of my life was candy, was candy driven. Was in Kidney candy store, we were in Sweetland, there was a lot of candy driven things, but that was the only thing for me, And I think it was just because I was around it so much that I was just like, I don't really want that much. Hey, I guess that's like probably a pretty good habit. Time I'm not I was. Probably it's probably a pretty good thing. I can't complain that much now, aside from recipes and snacks and things

that I love. Actual like where I eat, when I eat is always different. Sometimes it's on the go. Sometimes we have this magical thing here over Eats and door Dash where you can order pretty much any restaurant to wherever you are, and that's a really convenient thing for me. But I will say I really really enjoy cooking. Am I a good cook? Absolutely not. I mix banana and eggs together and call it pancakes with the cinnamon. It's good,

trust me, try it. But I can make meals that I like, and it's hard for me to find ways in my life that I can feel very normal. If I go out to a restaurant and I can go to a family dinner, that's very nice and it's very fun, but it doesn't feel normal because when I'm out, you know, there's people staring, and there's people taking pictures and talking and like that's all. It's all amazing, but it just doesn't feel normal, you know what I mean? And what

is normal? Of course, no such thing as normal. But for me, I've really found that if I can wake up, cook my own breakfast, do the dishes and put them away, that is something that can get my day started off so good, make me feel so normal, make me feel so at home, like it just oh my god. I thought it was something that I should tell you about. Oh but I told Okay, no, literally, I was telling this to my friend yesterday and only three people know about this, and now the whole world's going to know

about this because I'm talking about it. But I have this desire because I don't love cooking, but I love cooking, you know what I mean. But I have this weird desire that one day I cannot wait to have Obviously, I can't wait to have children. We all know Freddie, Eddie and Teddy, my future babies. Cannot wait to have them one day. But I can't wait to be in the kitchen and like cutting up berries for them. It's

a very specific dream that I have. But I can't wait for one day my wife to come in the kitchen and be like, oh what are you doing, and be like, I'm cutting up berries for the kids. I don't know what it is, but that, to me, that's my version of cooking. Am I ever gonna make a lasagna or turkey dinner. Heck, now we're going over to Grandma Justice for that vibe. But if you want some cut up berries, kids, I will that you're fulfilling my

dream by letting me cut up berries for you. Okay, to wrap up this podcast, I'm gonna leave you on a little bit of being like Jojo what I have ate some very strange foods. Now, these are all thanks to Nickelodeon taste tests that we would do back in the day. I have tried python, I have tried cow tongue. I have tried rattlesnake, I have tried crickets, cockroaches, grasshoppers, scorpions. Who knows what we all laid on special Forces. I

don't even want to get into that. The only thing that I know what it was was boiled sausages, and that was nasty. I ate a caramelized onion ones not like yummy caramelized that's delicious, Like an onion raw onion dipped in caramel, disguised as a caramel apple. And I did that because we were doing this Nickelodeon taste test, and there was a caramel apple and a caramel onion, and it was like, which one are you going to pick?

And everyone I picked the apple, apple, apple, Apple, and I looked at the producer and I was I was young. I was probably fourteen or fifteen at this point in time. I was probably fourteen, and I said said, away, I'm gonna pause you for a second. Clearly I know which one the yuck is. Obviously, it's pretty obvious. And I was like, did everybody take the apple so far? And he was like, yeah, everyone's taking the apple. And I was like, okay, you need you need someone to take

the onion. And they were like no, like you don't have to do that, and I was like, no, I will. I will take one for the team because they want someone to have the bad, right of course, like that's makes the video funny. And so I bit right into that raw onion covered in caramel and that was disgusting, but you know, that's fine. We all have our days, we all have our things that we do, we all have our random foods that will try. That's somehow for me ended up being a caramel dipped an onion dipped

in caramel. There, there you go, caramel dipped onion. Either way, that is a great place for me to end this. Go watch that taste test somewhere out there that's on the internet. You can see me eat that. I hope you all enjoyed this jojous even now, I have been enjoying doing this podcast so much. It is so fun to just ramble on, get all my thoughts out, talk to myself for a whole thirty minutes. Oddly enough, it

is very fun. I feel like, even though I'm just like talking to the universe, I feel like there's stories and things that I wouldn't normally get to tell if I was doing you know, like a press interview or whatever. I feel like this is like truly I get to like deep dive into these random topics that just are fun and that people like to know about. And so if you're enjoying it, let me know and come back next time for another jojo' sevia now deuces everybody. Thank

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