- We've been together for a little bit over ten years.
- Yeah, it's been a minute.
We've never made lunch for each other.
I don't even like, really eat a real lunch.
- For me it's usually, like, any sort of mix
of like, grilled chicken and quinoa.
It's not really hard to make.
I also like Wendy's a lot.
I think the hardest thing is gonna be
choosing what to make for her
because she's a lot more finicky of an eater than I am.
- My mom never gave me notes in my lunch.
So, I would probably try and do something like that.
I just got it's my job to sustain you,
here you are, enjoy this sandwich.
I think what's cool about packing a lunch
for someone who you don't see like, all day, necessarily,
is you get to like, really think to yourself,
that wow, this person took a minute
to really like, put themselves in my shoes
and try and figure out what it is I like.
Let's go get some groceries, pack up our lunch.
- Let's fill these bad boys up.
(high five)
'Bout to pick up some groceries for the rest of the week.
(upbeat music)
(bang)
- So we have a sandwich, and it looks great.
It looks like Tenn tried to panini press this.
Which is awesome.
- Got our sandwich with 15 grams of mayo,
three slices of turkey, one slice of tomato,
two slices of colby jack cheese.
It's got these like, y'know, toasted marks.
- Mmm, mm hmmm, that's protein, fat, carbs.
Fiber, that's love.
We have five Reese's mini cups, ooo, ooo.
- This is probably her all time favorite candy.
Boom, toss that in there, yo, don't come over here.
- Okay.
- Where you at right now?
- I'm just, I'm still in the bathroom.
- All right, so just stay in there.
Boom, day one, in the bag.
- This is like, everything I want in a lunch.
- Okay so, since Swasti's mentioned
never receiving any notes in her lunch as a child,
I'm copping these multi-colored index cards,
'cause that's how my moms used to do it.
- This is the cutest note.
I just finished my entire lunch
and I still can't get over how cute this note is.
- Is this like a double deck,
oh man, this is like a double decker PB and J.
Perfect ratio.
- So, Tenn is going out to shoot something today
so I feel like I need to make something that
you don't need to heat up to taste good.
So, I thought the best thing for that
is peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
Okay, so, I've got two sandwiches for Tenn here.
I also have a secret dessert surprise
that I know he's gonna like.
So I know Tenn often talks about
wanting something chocolatey after his meal,
so I got him some sugar free pudding.
- Oh, I notice that there is a note here, just like I left.
Olo handsome fiance, that's me.
I hope you enjoy this lunch, it's simple,
but I figured it's easy to eat during your shoot.
- So I never got notes in my lunchbox as a kid
but I know Tenn did.
So what I'm gonna do is write him a note
but also provide him with the macros
of his entire lunch so he can log it
super easily into My Fitness Pal.
And just like that, lunchbox complete.
- This really does warm my heart.
And uh, can't wait the next little note.
I'm gonna keep that note.
I'm gonna bring it in the car with me
and paste it up on the dashboard.
- Okay, it's day two of Tenn making me lunch.
It looks like I have another note.
It's another cute one.
Ah, Masala burgers, holy (bleep), I love Masala burgers.
Y'all, Tenn made me a double decker Masala burger.
I don't know if you guys ever had
Masala burgers from Trader Joe's, incredible.
He also added my favorite cheese.
- Today we're gonna be grillin' up some Masala burgers
from Trader Joe's, and I happen to know that
they are one of Swasti's favorite things.
- (inhaling) This is like, the best lunch of my life.
So, I feel like, I wanna continue this
because I just wanna keep getting surprise lunches.
- All right, so, I just finished up a meeting.
Uh, taking a quick break before the next one.
And it is lunchtime, so let's see what we got today.
Ooo, it looks like mac and cheese.
- So I stole Tenn's setup for lunch today.
I'm gonna be making him macaroni and cheese
with broccoli and chicken.
And here's the finished product.
Popping it right in here.
I also got him another special snack, Scooby snacks.
And that is our finished lunch for day two, ready to go.
- This is fire.
This is a way better way to eat broccoli.
Mixed in with the mac and cheese,
it's like you don't even know it's there.
- So it's another day, another lunch by Tenn.
I'm excited to see what we have.
I'm gonna start with my favorite part, the note.
It's another good one.
Oh, and he made me a quesadilla.
- Today we're gonna make some real simple,
simple but one of Swasti's favorite's still, a quesadilla.
Lunch, day three, in the bag.
- I'm excited for this quesadilla.
I love cheesy quesadillas, love cheese.
Um, so, I'm sure he knows that.
In fact, I can tell because I can see the cheese oil
soaked through this paper towel.
Mmm, amazing.
- All right, so I've been in the studio all day
recording and mixing tracks.
Um, and I'm just taking a quick break
to eat this lunch here.
It's actually super helpful
that Swasti made this today,
otherwise I probably wouldn't have had time to do it.
I'd have to like, go out and get something or whatever.
So, let's see what she made.
Ah, she says, really looking forward
to hearing the new track, 'cause she knows what I'm doing.
All right, so I just stepped outside
real quick to eat this.
This chicken fried rice is fire.
- So today Tenn is gonna go record a track
with his sound engineer and get the song mixed
so I'm gonna make something that's
really easy for him to eat while he's on the job.
So I'm gonna be making him some chicken fried rice.
Here you can see I've got the egg
kinda cooking up in the center of the pan.
I already have my fried rice
and the vegetables are cooked through.
And I'm also microwaving some chicken
to toss back into here.
I finished up Tenn's fried rice lunch.
Sliding it on in.
I've already thrown the utensils in this lunch box.
And for dessert, I'm gonna give him
some of his favorite pudding.
And, while this was cooking, I wrote up my note.
Bang, we're done.
- I just wanna elaborate at how much this meant to me today.
Um, you know, the fact that she wrote the note
saying that hey, I can't wait to hear the new track.
It just like, I mean it really just motivated
the hell out of me to just like, do my best in there.
Put me in a real good mood.
The fact that it's like, written out on a note,
I can just like, put it up on the wall or whatever.
It's pretty meaningful, I would say.
- Another week, another lunch, another note.
This one is special because it's got
a drawing of our dog who passed away eight months ago.
And look at how cute that is.
So, really feeling this note.
I also got some ravioli that looks amazing.
It's covered in vodka sauce.
- I had the idea today to make some
four cheese ravioli, I know for a fact
that Swasti loves ravioli, my note,
and we're ready to go, day four.
- And there's cheese in this (bleep) ravioli.
He knows me well.
Cooked through, amazing.
- All right, so day four, it is a
rainy day here in L.A.
I just fined up an audition and I am starving.
Oh, there we go, McMuffin, that's like,
my favorite (bleep) in the world.
- One thing I can tell you about Tenn,
is that Tenn loves McDonald's.
Loves McDonald's, loves Egg McMuffins.
I figured today, I would make a
slightly more macro friendly
Egg McMuffin using turkey bacon.
All right, here's the finished McMuffin, ready to go.
- This is a beautiful thing.
Swasti just makes the best (bleep).
- So, it's the final day of our lunch challenge.
The note that I have is hilarious.
Um, it looks like Tenn made me some hot dogs.
- All right, so welcome back to Tenn's kitchen day five.
So today, I'm gonna switch it up a little bit.
So I was thinking today, like, what would be
like a random thing to make
and I arrived at the idea of hot dogs.
All right, so these are grilling right now,
they smell great.
While they were grilling, I took the opportunity
to make my note for today.
All right, so as you can see here,
we got two complete hot dogs ready to go.
Day five, in the bag.
- So I have my hot dog.
He's a little mushed, but he looks good.
Quality hot dog, nailin' it, like always.
Amazing last lunch, thank you Tenn.
- All right so, day five, taking a quick lunch break
and uh, let's see what we got going on today.
I know you love that spicy grilled cheese from Ralph's.
I do love the spicy grilled cheese from Ralph's.
- Today is the last day of lunch.
And I'm going to be making Tenn a grilled cheese sandwich
using my personal favorite, chipotle mayo.
Here's my finished grilled cheese.
Here's Tenn's sandwich.
And that's it for day five.
- (chewing) it doesn't get better than this.
Okay, so we just finished our week
of making lunch for each other.
- Mmm-hmm, I thought it was a lot of fun.
I had a good time, like, getting these surprise lunches
and not necessarily knowing what they were.
- Same, same, I thought it was mad fun, actually.
I had a lotta fun making the lunches and receiving them.
- I personally loved all the notes.
Those were my favorite part of the entire thing.
- Yes, the notes are great.
I have to say the notes always brightened up my day.
Um, especially the fact that the macros
were written out, fire, good job.
- Thank you, I liked the Sum Sum stickers on mine.
Would do it again.
- Definitely would do it again,
definitely would do it again.
I would actually like another grilled cheese.
- Great, make one right now.
- Yeah, let's do it.
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