- We're back with Max Greenfield and Beth Behrs.
Y'all give it up.
(audience applauding)
Our next guest is an author, a lifestyle guru,
a mama of three, and these days a fellow Texan.
(Kelly honking)
(Beth laughing)
Her new children's book is a New York Times best seller.
It's called "Just Try One Bite."
That is my life with my son.
Everybody, please welcome Camila Alves McConaughey!
(audience applauding)
(chilled music)
It is so good to see you
in person this time. - So good to see you
in person this time.
- Yeah. Last time we were in your kitchen I think.
- [Camila] In my kitchen,
which is not a bed place by the way.
- It isn't. It looked like an awesome place.
I love food. Do you know Beth?
Do you know Max? - No, but I love your sleeves.
- I know, we kind of- - We got the memo.
- [Kelly] I know. She came out looking fancy.
- Yeah.
- Congrats on having a best seller.
That's incredible. - Thank you.
Thank you so much. - Yes.
And also- - Thank you.
- I mean, one, why did you wanna write the book,
but also what a great title.
You guys are great at titles
and messaging for parents and children.
Because it is so hard to get my son, specifically,
he's very much a texture person, to eat anything.
So how'd you come up with the idea
and why'd you wanna do it?
- Yes. I think the main goal of the book
was really to create a conversation in the household
where it was not preachy,
but the conversation about how food can actually
be better for you. - Yeah.
- And like having kids understand,
okay, how does food work in my body?
Like what's good, what's not?
And we wanted to be really silly.
Me and Adam wanted to be really silly.
So the book gets really silly.
Kids laugh out loud
and it really creates the conversation
of having so many parents write me and telling me,
listen, not only now because it's reverse roles, right?
I don't know if you saw that,
but is the kids getting after their parents
for eating crappy stuff. - That's cute.
- Right? - I know.
- So they're going after their parents.
So now the parents are writing me going,
"Hey, this book is great 'cause we have so much fun.
But now they're coming after me."
You know, they're trying new vegetables
and going, "Why are you not eating?" Right?
Because we all know
that a lot of times we do cook the broccoli
and we don't eat the broccoli ourselves.
(Beth laughing)
- I have- - Right?
- No idea what you're referring to.
(people laughing)
I eat so many vegetables.
(people chuckling)
I mean we're all parents here. Do you have picky eaters?
- I once offered my daughter a thousand dollars
to eat a piece of broccoli.
- A thousand? You're rich!
(Kelly laughing)
- Well I knew that money was staying right in my pocket.
(everyone laughing)
- Oh my gosh. That's incredible.
So, wait, you've partnered with our friends at HEB
for a reading campaign.
So can you tell us why you partnered
with them? - I did, yeah.
It's three reasons why.
First reason is they have a program,
it's called Read Three,
which they've been doing since 2011.
And basically they encourage parents and caregivers
to read for kids at least three times a week.
Then second reason is,
guys, I'm terrified of reading out loud.
- Oh you are? - Oh, terrified.
- It is like a spotlight that I was born for.
(group laughing)
It's like, on top of singing, I love reading aloud.
- Okay, maybe we need to hang out a little more
and you can teach me. - I was the nerd in the class
that was like, "Pick me!"
- Oh my gosh, I am- - Love.
- You have no idea how many times I actually like,
dodge the bullet to read for my kids class
and I'll send Matthew instead of me.
I'm like, I can't do it. - I'm about to do it.
My daughter's gonna be so embarrassed. Yeah.
- So every time I'm just gonna call you, okay?
- Yeah.
- So the idea of reading, read out loud
in front of over a hundred thousand kids,
to me, I was like, wow, okay.
You know, we did, you know,
we had it in person, over 2000 kids
and then we had over 400 schools
throughout Texas reading at the same time with us.
And then we had thousands of kids joining
on YouTube- - That's intimidating.
- On YouTube, online, like, live
as I'm reading on the stage.
But really what got me was,
I was like, you know what?
I don't have to be perfect.
The fact that I'm on a stage, looking like I look,
reading all out, with an accent, making little mistakes,
you know?
- [Kelly] Yeah.
- Texas is such a melting pot
that I was like, you know what?
These kids might watch me doing this and go,
"You know what if she could do it, like she's doing it,
I can do it too." - Yeah!
- And also I thought that maybe they'll go back home
and, you know, a lot of these kids,
their parents have accent,
their grandparents have accents, right?
And trying to figure this out too.
So they might go back home
and have a little bit more of appreciation
for that as well, you know?
- I think you also,
you encourage kids and you give them confidence.
'Cause one of my kids is dyslexic
and I've been reading to them since they were a baby
but they just don't see it.
They don't see it like that, right?
So it's really hard.
So anytime I struggle I don't get angry at myself
in front of her.
I allow her to see, anytime,
you know, if you mess up a word or you whatever,
you're tired and you read it wrong.
It's okay for them to see that
'cause I think that if you do that in front of kids
it enables them to be like,
I don't have to be perfect when I'm reading.
- Exactly. - We all make mistakes.
- So I think that's important. - A hundred percent.
A hundred percent. - Yeah.
- And then the third reason is the Mayor of Austin declare
that September 30th, it's official Reading Day in in Texas.
- Oh, I love that! - Yeah.
- I love that!
(audience applauding)
- So it's really cool
because you know this thing that we started,
now generations after generations,
we have this one day that many activations will happen
throughout the state
and now throughout the country, as we did,
to really remember people the importance of reading.
- Well, Camilla invited us down
to witness this awesome HEB event,
so check it out.
(chilled music)
- Today we're here in Austin, Texas
and we're doing the biggest read along event
in the host state of Texas.
We're gonna be reading for over a hundred thousand kids.
(chilled music)
Reading is so important for a child's development.
It opens up their minds to possibilities
that they might have never thought about
or experienced before.
Guys, I wanna say that I am so happy
to be with you here this morning.
Who loves to read here?
- [Crowd] Me!
- So should we just get the reading started?
- [Crowd] Yeah!
- Let's do it. Let's do it.
(chilled music)
Hi mama. Hi Papa.
It's time we had a chat about oatmeal and carrots
in pasta and cake.
You know, I didn't grow up having a lot of reading around me
and when my kids came along, I made an effort to,
you know, start reading for them when their babies
and I see how much they have developed
by just that practice.
- Your body needs vegetables, green ones and red ones.
You got to eat lots of them to be well fed ones.
Today was the greatest day
because I thought I was gonna be super shy
and I didn't wanna read it,
but after practicing, I was like a lot better.
- So how about this? I'll make you a deal.
Can you just try one bite and see how you feel?
I felt like this is the best experience I ever
had in my life.
I thought I've never be on stage before.
So this is kind of like my dream came true right now.
- Next page, everybody together!
One, two, three, go!
- [Everybody] Donut holes!
- My heart right now is so happy.
They all actually were so engaged.
Reading is so important.
Continue to read.
Read with your parents, read to your siblings,
to everybody in your family.
And I hope you continue doing more and more.
Did everybody had fun?
- [Crowd] Yeah!
- All right!
Sending so much love everybody.
(lips smacking)
Thank you!
(speaking in foreign language)
It really was a magical day.
- HEB and Camilla want to share their love
of reading with all of you,
so you're all going home with a copy of "Just Try One Bite."
(audience cheering)
Camila's as passionate about cooking
as she is about reading,
so up next, we're pulling out our aprons
and making a family favorite.
Stay right here.
All right, we are back!
Hanging out with Max Greenfield, Beth Behrs
and Camila Alves McConaughey.
So you're showing us how
to make a McConaughey family favorite, right?
- Yes. And a Women of Today community favorite too.
I know what you thinking, looking at my sleeves
of like what is she doing?
But I couldn't say no to the pink and the fluff, guys.
- All I'm thinking is like,
man, we all don't come out like that.
That's what I'm saying. That's all I'm thinking in my head.
Like this-
- But I'm gonna show you a trick really quick at home.
Look, I always have a rubber band on my sleeve-
- Oh, Glo does that. My makeup artist.
- Really? There we go.
If you need to keep your sleeve up
you put it over there, you hide it and it stays-
- So clever. - I doesn't go anywhere.
- I like that. - Boom.
- So what is this? What are we making?
- All right. We're gonna do butternut squash, pear soup.
Okay? - Okay. I love butternut.
- Some people are intimidated by butternut squash.
A simple tip for you guys,
if you wanna make it easier to peel,
you just get the fork, make some holes in it,
put in the microwave for a couple minutes
and then it peels of super easy.
- Okay. Okay. - Yes! Just like that.
- [Kelly] Do y'all like butter squash soup?
I love it. - I love it!
- [Kelly] I love butternut squash.
(audience applauding)
- I gotta tell you, I'm not a big fan of butternut squash,
until I tried this soup.
We made this soup and I was like, I love this.
- I love it. My sister
is an amazing cook. - He's making a mess already.
(Beth laughing)
- This is not great.
- Not professional. - It's gonna be fine.
It's gonna be fine. - Not professional.
- You're not doing great over there?
- So you're gonna cook in the oven,
it's one sheet guys.
Just the butternut squash, onions, and pears.
Once it's cooked, it's gonna look like this.
Okay? - Okay. Oh.
- You're going to transfer this to your-
- I'm stopping. - Blender.
- Oh, okay. Just dump this in.
I was working real hard over there.
Okay, wait.
I was like, I forgot about TV magic.
- We're not gonna do all the chopping.
- I don't have to do all this? - TV magic!
- We're doing TV magic right now.
- Matt's made a mess.
- I don't have to do all this?
- Surprise, surprise. Oh no!
- You can, you can. You just continue chopping,
- Okay. - Okay?
Look at your next one. - Oh, then we pour it.
(group chattering)
- The broth. - Yes.
- [Camila] You can do vegetable broth or chicken broth.
- [Kelly] Okay.
- I like the flavor of chicken broth better-
- That's a lot, y'all. - But of you're vegetarian.
Then you going to just mix it up.
Do you know what we do at Women of Today?
When the blender goes, you got to dance.
(blender whirring)
You got to dance! - Okay, okay.
- Come on. Come on. - Oh, they like dancing.
- Come on. Come on. - They like dancing.
They like dancing.
♪ I said hey ♪
(blender whirring)
Okay, so what do we do now?
- Once it's all blended- - Okay.
- Super easy. You're going to transfer-
- Okay. - To a pot.
- [Kelly] Oh my god, it's so full.
I'm so scared about it. Wait.
So, then you put a lid on it and what do you do?
- Oh, before- - Oh, before...
- About 30 minutes you add a stick of cinnamon.
- Oh. I love. - All right?
And this is really important guys
because a lot of times we use just the,
you know, the ground cinnamon, right?
- The ground. Yeah, yeah. - Spice cinnamon.
But the reason why we're using a stick
is because the simmers together for 30 minutes
and the flavors release slowly
and it really give that extra kick
that you will not get just with the powder.
- All right.
- [Camila] And you're going to cook that for 30 minutes.
Boom. - Okay.
And then, it's TV magic. - You ready?
Yes. - Ooh!
- So underneath, I love my life.
I get to eat at my show.
So this, we have finished bowls of the soup right here
with some sourdough on the side,
which, yes.
So dig in.
Do you like it?
That's the question.
- Oh my god, that is so good.
- Ooh, it's the perfect amount of cinnamon as well.
- And the pear. The pear's such a cool touch.
I've never made butternut squash soup like that.
- Because usually they do it with apples.
- Right!
- But the pear adds a completely
different taste, right? - Yeah, totally. Right.
That's how I make mine- - Oh my god, that's delicious.
- With apples.
If you wanna try this at home,
check out the recipe on our show's Facebook page.