- Hi, I'm Ashley Graham
and this is everything I eat in a day.
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The first thing I do when I wake up is,
well I don't set an alarm because Isaac is my alarm
and it's this little baby monitor
and all of a sudden around six o'clock I hear, "Wah wah."
And I go and I get Isaac,
and then we come back to bed
and we have snuggles and I feed him in bed.
And then we usually turn on
Maverick City Christian Worship Music.
It's like rock music.
And he jams out for like a good 15 minutes.
And then that's when I go into the kitchen.
I am a high, high, high caffeine coffee drinker.
I can't believe I'm telling you this
but I have...
three to four cups a day.
Do not judge me, do not come for me in the comments,
it is my life.
I drink about a gallon of water a day to, you know,
counteract all the caffeine.
I'm not a tea girl.
I take my coffee hot and black.
Sometimes I go out for a special coffee
like a latte with oat milk.
My favorite coffee place down the street is called Butler.
I live in Dumbo, mm, so good.
In the morning I eat breakfast right away.
I am a big breakfast eater.
Also I'm breastfeeding, and like,
we have to take in so many calories
when we're breastfeeding,
so I feel like a bottomless pit at all times.
Usually I make scrambled eggs
and that's also what Isaac eats as well.
What I like to do
is I like to take out this little frying pan
and I spray a little bit of coconut oil on it,
just a little bit. (clicks)
And I take two eggs, put them in, put some oat milk in,
season it with a little Himalayan sea salt,
and then I scramble it in the pan while it's getting hot.
I kind of like 'em runny
and the oat milk brings this fluffiness to it.
Oh, it is so good.
And at the same time I'm putting in a gluten-free bread.
I am obsessed with bread,
but recently I cut gluten out,
game changer.
If you are tired and your joints hurt,
just cut out gluten for a couple of days,
I saw the difference immediately.
So I like to put a little bit of dairy free butter
on my toast.
I kind of go a little bit ham,
because in my head I'm like,
"It's not real butter, it's dairy free butter."
It's the same calories, whatever.
And then I put my eggs on top
and I eat it like an open face sandwich.
Oh!
And then at the same time, I don't really ever sit down
because I have a little baby
that's usually watching Moana in a high chair
and then I'll probably be making my second cup of coffee.
And depending on if I want to have a juice,
I love the brand Natalie's,
it's like this perfect, like, little bit of tartness.
That's my morning breakfast.
And then I can get my day started.
Which means I'm probably going straight to the computer
and I'm answering emails after emails.
'Cause I like to get my work done in the morning
so I feel much more accomplished at the end of the day.
And a lot of what I've been doing right now is my podcast,
"Pretty Big Deal".
Prepping for it, getting ready for my interviews,
researching who I actually want to be interviewing.
For days on set, what I'll do is
my favorite bone broth is from this place in New York
called Brodo.
It is sho yummy.
I keep 'em in my freezer,
so I'll pop one of those in my bag.
When I'm there
I'll maybe have someone order me a gluten-free cookie.
And that's kind of like what I'll have on set
to keep my energy up.
And I'll probably have another coffee.
Some other snacks that I like to have on set
nearby when I'm working are peanut M&M's,
specifically peanut M&M's, they warm my heart,
and avocado with sea salt and a little bit of olive oil.
Oh, the creaminess of the avocado!
Speaking of snacks,
I love anything uber wet, cold, and crunchy.
(crunching)
So where were we?
Lunch!
Usually what I eat for lunch,
I will have a Sweetgreen salad. (sighs)
When I was pregnant,
I thought that I was going to be craving like,
mac and cheese, fried chicken, like all of my indulgences,
but I just needed like a big ol' Sweetgreen salad,
sometimes two for lunch when I was pregnant.
But now that I'm not eating for two I just have one.
I usually like to have a romaine lettuce.
Parmesan chips with an avocado, chicken, carrots,
cucumber, a honey mustard or like a spicy chipotle dressing.
I'm like really thinking about this
because now my mouth is watering
and I might need a Sweetgreen salad.
So dinner.
Usually I'm having dinner around 6:00 PM.
That's also by the nature of the fact
that Isaac goes down around 8:00 PM.
My friends call it the early bird special
or granny's delight.
You can always find a reservation
at 6:00 PM in New York City.
But also I just feel better when I eat early.
And then that way later, if I'm gonna have
a little snack, I can have something light,
but I don't feel like I'm heavy when I go to bed.
I don't cook, so I'm kind of at the mercy
of whoever's around me to cook for me,
or delivery. (laughs)
But my husband, oh, God bless Justin.
'Cause he can cook!
Woo woo!
For the first two weeks after I had had Isaac
we ate the same thing every day, creatures of habit.
We had lamb stew every night and it is unbelievable.
It takes two hours to make, he cooks it all on the stove
and it's like lamb, purple potatoes, whole garlic,
and then he puts it in the oven for an hour and a half.
And when it comes out, it kind of is like,
you have to stir it 'cause it looks kind of gross
and then all of a sudden it's like
Ah. (angelic choir singing)
But it's super delicious, super filling,
and especially after you have a baby
they say to eat lots of like really hot nutritional food.
And the meat that we get is from my favorite butcher
in Park Slope called Fleisher's.
They've got a farm upstate,
we know where the animals came from,
and I just I really love their butchery.
So on nights that aren't, you know,
we don't have two hours to make a lamb stew,
and when I say we, I mean Justin,
he'll make this thing called general chicken,
and it's not General's chicken like Chinese food,
it's just called general chicken
because it's literally just general chicken
on the stove top with garlic, salt, and pepper.
I think like he adds chicken stock
and it just makes the chicken so moist on the inside
and we'll call it a night,
we'll try to super healthy in the evenings
because I probably ate way too many peanut M&M's
throughout the day.
On Thursday nights Justin and I do date night,
because you know, to have a happy marriage,
you do date nights!
I will treat myself to two tequilas, two margaritas,
oh, I love a margarita.
I love the salt around the rim.
I love the tartness with the sweetness.
Sometimes I'll do a mezcal if I feel a little shmoky,
but usually I just like to stick to like a regular tequila.
I don't have a favorite brand yet, but you know,
maybe I'll be like many of the other men and make my own.
Okay, just putting that out there.
Then we go to Al Mar usually,
which is my favorite local restaurant in Dumbo.
And I always get the Bronzino filleted
with a side of broccoli and I start with the endive salad.
Oh, oh the crunch. (angelic choir singing)
It's like a cucumber,
fricking love cucumbers. (crunching)
It's just so good.
I'm not going to lie,
I do order it out like probably three times a week.
It's amazing.
My favorite food city has to be Calabria, Italy.
(sighing)
Justin's family lives in the South of Italy
and they live in this little town called Calabria.
Oh my, I mean, just like literally,
like anything you can think of that has to do with Italy,
they make it homemade
right there in their little beach house.
So my absolutely favorite thing to eat is the cannolis.
Get this.
It's a hot summer day.
So we're sitting on their porch,
we're looking at the beach, it's gorgeous.
And a guy rolls up in a Vespa,
and he knocks on the door
and just hands Justin's cousin a bag.
And it's the cream that goes inside of the canolli,
and he puts it in the freezer and he's like,
"That's what we'll have tonight."
So after we have our big-ass dinner
and my stomach is like out to here full,
we then just engorge on these cannolis
and you make 'em yourself.
And you know, that I go in.
So the next morning we have it with breakfast,
and now I invented my own way
of eating the cannoli for breakfast
and I was putting it on watermelon.
Call me crazy,
but it was like a miracle of explosions in my mouth.
And I can't wait to go back to Italy next year.
For late night snacking, I'll give Isaac a bath,
I'll put him down, and then
♪ I have some me time ♪
So that's usually when I'll
either pull out my frozen dark chocolate out of my freezer
because I think that dark chocolate frozen is the best.
And I'll just do a little, just break it off, suck on it.
Oh, I love it.
And one of my favorite things to eat is sliced apples.
Pink ladies.
Exactly pink ladies drizzled with peanut butter on top.
(claps) I mean, it is so good.
And that is everything I eat in a day.
Make sure you go and check out my podcast.
Season three, "Pretty Big Deal".
You can watch and listen to it
wherever you listen to podcasts and on YouTube.
Thanks for watching! (kisses)
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