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It’s hard to imagine how we did things before Amazon, which brings us anything we need in a very short timeframe. But there’s more to the site than super speedy delivery. For several years now, I’ve been indulging in my champagne taste on a beer budget, all thanks to their hidden-in-plain-sight deals.

I’m talking about Amazon Warehouse and third party sellers. See, that price right next to the item you must have? That doesn’t have to be the price you pay. And while sometimes it may be just a few bucks you save, sometimes there are some screaming deals to be found.

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Jennifer Garner and Ina Garten have once again proved that they have the sweetest, most pure friendship on earth at the moment. These queens of the kitchen ditched their fancy digs and headed to a place we can all agree offers culinary wonders: In-N-Out Burger.

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Over my years of writing for The Kitchn, I’ve shared almost all of my favorite holiday cookies with you, from my mother’s famous Peppermint Cream-Filled Butter Cookies (followed by the much less finicky Peppermint Cream Squares the following year) to Rugelach and Gingerbread Men.

I’ve saved one of my most beloved cookies for last. These candy cane cookies are the best. As a kid, I loved them for pretty spiraled colors, their soft vanilla-mint sweetness, and the fact that they hooked so perfectly over the edge of a mug of cocoa. Simple pleasures. And isn’t that what the holidays are all about?

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Ree Drummond (aka The Pioneer Woman) is killing the appliance game lately. She’s had her own line of slow cookers for a while now, she recently launched her own Instant Pot, and, as of yesterday, she now has seven (seven!) new appliances — all of which are available only at Walmart. And get this: They’re totally cute!

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When you live in a big city and don’t have a car, grocery shopping becomes an entirely new challenge. How do you carry all of the food you need for the week in one trip and not totally tweak your back on the trip home? One of the easiest solutions is to get a shopping cart or trolley.

Before you write these off as something you’d expect to see your grandma pushing, let us assure you that shopping cart designs have come a long way. They have patterns and colors, and look like cute totes!

Here are 10 that you won’t be embarrassed to push down the street.

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When the creators of Funfetti cake mix suggested stirring sprinkles into the batter instead of reserving them as decor, they flipped celebration-style cakes on their head. Well, we’re here to flip it once more, by transforming that iconic box of cake mix into the easiest-ever cookies.

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When you’re standing in the middle of an aisle filled with five-gallon jars of mayo, it may seem hard to believe that Costco has stuff that’s small enough to fit into a Christmas stocking. But there are options aplenty! Some items are stocking-ready right from the start, while others are packaged in bulk and easy to break up. You just have to get creative!

Headed to the warehouse store to pick up cheese and veggie platters for your holiday party? Stock up on these little treats while you’re there.

Note: Because each store varies in terms of inventory and offerings, your local Costco might not have the exact same things as mine, and prices may vary.

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Podcasts are one of the few ways I can learn, connect, or just plain get entertainment while also tying shoes, packing lunches, or getting dinner on the table. (I also enjoy a good podcast when I walk the dog!)

Food podcasts, especially those that relate to parenting, are one of few ways that busy parents can find solutions for feeding their families or laugh at the ridiculous challenges of trying to feed picky eaters (or get your 4-year-old to sit still for one dang meal), all while parenting. These are five of my favorite foodie podcasts for parents.

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Research of the Week

In the healthy elderly, daily aspirin use failed to improve disability-free survival while increasing the risk of bleeding.

Prenatal exposure to PFCS, found in teflon cooking surfaces and plastics used in food packaging, may reduce penis size and fertility.

Adding powdered mustard seed to your cooked broccoli increases the amount of sulforaphane you absorb.

Whether healthy adults eat high- or low-protein diets has no effect on their kidney function.

Just 12% of American adults are metabolically healthy.

Every McDonald’s touchscreen researchers tested had feces on it.

New Primal Blueprint Podcasts

Episode 296: Maureen Vincenty: Host Elle Russ chats with health coach Maureen Vincenty.

Episode 297: Brad’s Keto Tips, Health Mindset, and Reaching Your Goals: Host Brad Kearns talks about his most recent keto happenings and personal developments.

Each week, select Mark’s Daily Apple blog posts are prepared as Primal Blueprint Podcasts. Need to catch up on reading, but don’t have the time? Prefer to listen to articles while on the go? Check out the new blog post podcasts below, and subscribe to the Primal Blueprint Podcast here so you never miss an episode.

Media, Schmedia

The Chinese scientist who edited human embryos appears to be missing.

Harvard plans to start gene-editing sperm.

Sorry, PETA. On behalf of the gluten-intolerant community, the only acceptable replacement for “bringing home the bacon” is “bringing home the bagels made with a blend of millet, rice flour, and xanthan gum.”

Reader Question

Mark, thoughts on the new study “Hunter-gatherers as models in public health.”

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/obr.12785#.XAfqBQCuJzc.twitter

Very interesting. I’ll discuss it briefly today, and maybe later on go into it more in depth.

It hits most of the points I’ve been discussing for years.

Daily activity level is high (over 100 minutes per day of moderate to vigorous activity), energy expenditure is no higher than modern people. So they’re moving around a lot at a slow/moderate pace, but they aren’t chasing “calorie burn.” It’s the daily, frequent movement you do that matters most, not the number of calories you burn in order to “earn” that trove of mongongo nuts or slab of honeycomb.

Calorie density low, micronutrient density high. This is the opposite of the modern Western diet, which is high in calories and low in micronutrients.

Carbohydrate content varies, but is always accompanied by high fiber intake. These guys are eating over 100 grams of fiber, much of it prebiotic substrate for their gut bacteria, a day on the regular.

Normal lifespan (60-70+ years), assuming they survive childhood and young adulthood. They’re not “dropping dead at 30” en masse. Most deaths caused by infection or trauma—two things modern medicine is great at treating.

There’s much more, but that’s a good overview for now.

Interesting Blog Posts

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Everything Else

Blood-delivering drone service expands across Africa.

Modeling the harms, risks, and benefits of various statins for different populations.

About food, from food.

One season of football changes the brain scans of young players.

British doctors will soon be prescribing singing, dance, music, and art lessons.

Things I’m Up to and Interested In

Podcast I enjoyed doing: The Primal Example Podcast, where I chatted with Joe about the Kraft acquisition.

Study I found interesting: How hunger (for food) and curiosity (for knowledge) occur in the same brain region.

Question to ponder: Does DNA make us who we are?

Not a bad idea: Restaurant where kids eat free if parents don’t use their phones.

I’m impressed: Type 1 diabetic completes 1008 km non-stop bike race.

Question I’m Asking

Does DNA indeed make us who we are? Where does free will fit into it all?

Recipe Corner

• This is a big day: paleo potstickers.
• Always great to make a big pan of food for the week ahead. This time, try sheet pan Spanish chicken and potatoes.

Time Capsule

One year ago (Dec 1– Dec 7)

• The Modern Hijacking of Dopamine: Supernormal vs Ancestral Stimuli – What are you getting off to?
• Ancestral Sleep Breathing– How to breathe easy at night.

Comment of the Week

“It has a well-deserved nickname of ‘MetFartin’.”

– MetFartin‘ is what my buddies and I would do back in high school on weekend trips down to NYC. Hit the museums, find a particularly stuffy group of art enthusiasts, and, well….

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Is there someone on your list who longs to quit their job to open a specialty food store in the Hamptons, get cast in a wildly popular Food Network cooking show, earn the trust of millions in the kitchen, marry the love of their life, and make roast chicken every Friday? Or someone who just immensely loves Ina Garten, who did all those things already? If so, then boy do we have the gift guide for you.

The following gifts are for the Ina Garten-obsessed, bonafide Barefoot Contessa fans, who just want to be a little bit more like the queen herself.

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