- [Crystal] I know Nick really likes incorporating
fruit into his food.
He always likes when I make
fruity relishes or fruity salsa.
- I dare you to try to find food this good in a restaurant.
(pleased humming)
(upbeat music)
Hey I'm Crystal and this is my friend Sam.
- I'm a celebrity personal chef and this week
I am going to be cooking all of Crystal's meals.
- I'm really excited. (laughing)
- I'm really excited
I think you're gonna love the food.
Let's do it.
- So we are behind the scenes in the Tasty kitchen
watching what they're making.
- If you've ever taken the time to make
an amazing recipe and you followed it step by step,
you got the highest quality ingredients,
you cleaned,
this takes like six hours.
So people aren't eating this elaborately
because of the time commitment.
- [Crystal] Who are some of your biggest clients?
- [Sam] 2Chainz, Nick Jonas
I got to work with Boogie Cousins
when he was injured last year.
My first job in the food industry was being
Ludacris's personal chef.
It's glamorous but it's also a lot of work.
- [Crystal] So you mentioned the menu that
you prepared for me, can you tell me about it?
- The menu is super bright and vibrant and nourishing.
There's no specific dietary restrictions.
However, it tends to be
very low on dairy and gluten,
and tends to be really high on vegetables
lots of herbs.
A lot of my clients don't have super strict restrictions.
It's more just give me healthy, wholesome meals
that are lower in carbs and higher in lean proteins.
- [Crystal] When you're cooking for your clients,
do you ever worry about calories at all?
- [Sam] Some of them, like for the NBA players,
it's definitely a lot of focus on macros.
So I'll actually weigh everything out and measure
how much carbs, how much protein.
- [Crystal] The more I watch them cook, the more I drool
and get really excited for the week to come.
I keep getting excited over the dishes that
they're making and thinking this is the one
I'm most excited for and then the next plate comes out and
I'm like no, no this is the one that I'm most excited for
and then the next plate comes out
and that's the one that I'm most excited for.
It's been a lot of that.
(upbeat music)
So the favorite dish today from everyone seems to be
this gorgeous vegan burrito that I actually,
it was beautifully plated and then I knocked it over.
- Don't film over here I'm eating.
(laughing)
(upbeat music)
- It is day one, meal one and I'm super excited
because I'm actually on set today
taking a little lunch break.
This is like super convenient because Sam actually even
wrote on here the days to eat everything
so that it would be at it's best and also like
that I should eat this cold versus heating it up.
Oh yeah, look at that.
Here we go,
first bite.
Mmm, that's really really good.
It's very like fresh, I could get used to this.
And actually I have like really rosy cheeks
if you can't tell
and I'm kinda wondering if eating really really clean
for the next week is gonna help that at all.
I'm not really sure but if it does
I might have to hire her full time.
So it's night one, I just got home, it's about 8:20 pm.
I'm pretty tired but I actually have to
leave in a few minutes so I'm finding it really
convenient that I have this super amazing looking dish
already ready to go for me.
Tonight is Persian tahdig with salmon
and a bunch of beautiful veggies.
This isn't something I'd normally probably would've had
in my fridge but I'm really excited to try this.
There it is, she's beautiful.
(groaning)
Now I can just finish this and go to my appointment.
(upbeat music)
So I have about 20 minutes before I have to go
to my next meeting.
Not a whole lotta time to eat lunch but
it's making it really convenient that I already
have this really healthy lunch prepared.
Today is this really gorgeous vegan burrito
with a bunch of really gorgeous vegetables in it
so I can just pop this in the microwave for a few minutes
then I'm on my way.
It's Wednesday, we're half way through the week
and one thing that I've already really noticed
is how much more energy I have than usual.
These past couple of weeks have been really busy
both personally and professionally
but the food that I've eaten for the past few days
feels like it's actually helping me keep up with everything.
Every dish is so well balanced and so nutritious
that it actually feels like fuel for my body.
I never feel weighted down afterwards, I never feel sluggish
and overall I just have so much more energy
it's making me realize I probably
have not been eating healthy enough for awhile.
(fast energetic music)
So we are here one more time in the Tasty kitchen
to finish our meal prep for the week.
Normally Sam actually cooks for her clients every single day
but I didn't want to take up all of her time
because she's a very, very busy woman.
So we're splitting it up into two days
and let's see what she's cooking today.
- A lot of people have this perception that
all my clients are requesting what they want
and they're thinking about their meals but
most of my clients don't request much.
They don't really think about their food,
that's part of the benefit of having a private chef
is that you don't have to worry about your food.
I'm going to take care of that.
- So I have one last meal that I'm eating which
I'm eating here in the kitchen as Sam prepares
the rest of my meals for the week.
And it is this vegan pad thai with mung bean noodles.
It's so colorful, looks really really delicious
and she just informed me that tonight
2Chainz is eating the same dinner.
I feel like I'm eating dinner with 2Chainz.
- Just so you know you're gonna turn into a gangsta.
(laughing)
- I don't get nervous to work with any celebrities.
Now that I know them I feel more proud of them.
I feel like invested in their success.
I know that they're just people and I've worked
with enough celebrities by now to know that they're
normal human beings.
Priyanka does have a salad everyday for lunch or
a grain bowl every single day so sometimes when
I'm like running out of ideas
I'm like okay, a different type of lettuce
or she usually has a chicken salad.
- I'm getting so spoiled right now.
This looks so good.
(upbeat music)
- What are you having for lunch?
- I am having a frozen meal. (laughing)
It doesn't even compare to your lunch.
I have a frozen lunch and you have
a farmer's market, celebrity chef created lunch.
(upbeat music)
(laughing)
(soft piano music)
If I have learned anything this week it's that
when you have someone preparing all of your meals for you,
you get so much more done. (laughing)
Like, much needed haircuts.
But seriously, I think the biggest thing I learned
is that I was totally wrong.
I had this idea that
celebrities hire personal chefs because they can.
I really just sorta thought that it was mostly
about the convenience but after this week
I actually see it as more of an investment.
That hiring a chef like Sam is more about
making an investment into your own well being
because you have someone there who's supporting
your goals and literally fueling you to be able to go out
and be the best version of yourself that you can be.
And I am totally aware that hiring a personal chef
is not realistic for the average person.
It's certainly not realistic for me but it has
inspired me to find little ways to make those investments
in myself and I think it's really inspired me to
just be more aware of what I'm choosing to put into my body
and while I've been at home
eating meal prepped versions of these dishes
I know that Nick and Priyanka are on a yacht in Miami
with Sam there making everything fresh for them.
Hopefully one day I can afford
that kind of investment in myself. (laughing)
(upbeat music)