All of Meghan Markle’s bizarre lifestyle tips in With Love as Netflix viewers left ‘baffled’ by show

Meghan Markle offers a range of bizarre tips and tricks for ordinary families – including creating rainbow fruit platters for children’s breakfast with flower petals and dunking towels in lavender oil – in her brand new Netflix series.

The Duchess of Sussex’s lifestyle TV series, ‘With Love, Meghan’, launched today, with all eight episodes released simultaneously.

The show, which sees Meghan ‘sharing personal tips and tricks, embracing playfulness over perfection’, was due to air in January but it was delayed by the duchess after the devastating wildfires in California.

The episodes feature guests including chef Roy Choi, actresses Mindy Kaling and Abigail Spencer, restaurateur Alice Waters and a very prompt cameo from Prince Harry.

Throughout the series, Meghan shares some of her unusual cooking methods with working parents while filming inside an $8million (£5million) mansion just two miles from the Sussexes’ home in the super-wealthy Californian enclave of Montecito.

Among the royal’s most bizarre tips for ordinary people is adding sparkling water to scrambled eggs to make them more ‘fluffy’ and lathering towels in lavender oil to ‘treat yourself after a long day at work’.

Seemingly out of touch from the busy lives of everyday parents, she also recommends dehydrating citrus fruits which can make ‘really great gifts’ and reveals why you should never use tap water when making floral ice cubes.

The duchess, who lives in an $14million (£11million) home with Prince Harry and their children, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet, insists that even people in ‘little flats’ in London can enjoy a ‘small piece’ of her luxury Californian lifestyle. 

Right from the start, in episode one, she preps a guest cottage for her make-up artist Daniel Martin with gifts including peanut butter pretzels which she transfers from its original plastic bag into another – seemingly to make it more aesthetic. 

EPISODE 1: Meghan transfers peanut butter pretzels from one plastic bag to another – seemingly to make it more aesthetic

EPISODE 2: Meghan Markle (pictured) offers a range of tips to working parents including making a rainbow-themed fruit salad with a sprinkle of flower petals

EPISODE 3: Meghan’s guest is Roy Choi. During the episode, she talks about adding sparkling water to scrambled eggs to make them ‘fluffy’

EPISODE 4: The duchess talks about making ‘sun tea’ with her children, where she leaves bags outside for two to three hours

EPISODE 5: Meghan offers tips on how to make floral ice cubes. She warns against using tap water as they turn out cloudy and you can’t see the petals

EPISODE 6: Meghan is filmed making dehydrated citrus fruits and says they can make a ‘really good gift’

Among the gift package is also truffle popcorn she has made from actual corn on the cob and a homemade pink Himalayan sea salt bath soak. 

Filming inside the kitchen which includes a £15,000 cooker, £600 pans and £60 chopping boards, Meghan later suggests making rainbow fruit platters for children’s breakfast with a sprinkle of petals as a ‘sweet’ way to start the weekend. 

She puts a dollop of yoghurt on the side to represent clouds for some extra ‘luxury’. 

While assembling the plate of fruit, she says: ‘You don’t have to do a big platter of this… you could do this with one small row for your kids for breakfast’. 

‘It makes the morning a lot more fun’, the mother-of-two says, before adding: ‘It’s a real delight in being able to be a present parent. And it’s a luxury sometimes because we all have to work. We all have a lot of stuff to do.’

When one of the film crew adds ‘Saturday morning’, Meghan nods and says: ‘Finding the fun in those moments makes for a really sweet start to the weekend.

‘It doesn’t need to be big for a party. It’s how you can incorporate these practices every day.’ 

In another episode, while making skillet spaghetti using a luxury Le Creuset pan, the duchess says: ‘When I make this I make it for my family, not that my children are eating heaps of noodles but I’ll make enough that I can put leftovers in their lunchbox.’ 

During her episode with chef Roy Choi, the pair share several jokes about the duchess’s obsession with crudites. 

Meghan suggests that it’s a great way for children to eat vegetables, telling Choi: ‘It’s all about crudites. We have them every day because I think that’s how our kids love eating vegetables, you make it present beautifully with your eyes first.’

Meghan is pictured with husband Prince Harry, who makes a brief appearance in the final episode of her new Netflix show 

‘With Love, Meghan’ landed on Netflix on Tuesday morning and is aimed at showing a new side to the Duchess of Sussex

The Sussexes are pictured together with their children, Archie and Lillibet, who are mentioned throughout the series

The Duchess of Sussex’s lifestyle TV series, ‘With Love, Meghan’, launched on Netflix this morning, with all eight episodes released simultaneously 

In the same episode, the duchess also reveals that she puts sparkling water in scrambled eggs to help them ‘rise’ and become a ‘little fluffy’. 

While Meghan focuses on her love for cooking food during the series, she also offers an insight on the best way to make a cup of tea.

She reveals that she brews tea by leaving bags in cold water in the sun for two to three hours. 

Explaining the strange brewing method, she says: ‘Sun tea is something I’ve been making for a very long time. I made it as a kid and now I make it with my own kids. It’s really easy, it’s just tea. You can use nice silk bags, lots of loose leaf tea and you just let it steep with the warmth of the sun.’

She adds: ‘As a kid I was taking a bag of tea from the drawer in my house and putting it in a mason jar or probably an empty jar that once held spaghetti sauce. 

‘And putting it in the sun and sitting there like this, waiting for it to change colour, which funny enough is what Archie does now.’

Later on in the series, Meghan offers tips on how to make floral ice cubes. Explaining her method, she says: ‘It’s really really easy. It’s one of those surprise and delight moment for people.’

While cutting up petals, she says: ‘These are just edible flowers. You could grow them in your windowsill. I grow them in the garden. 

‘The one thing you need to know when doing these… I’ve made this mistake. Do not use tap water. There’s a reason, and the reason is, you use distilled water or boil the water you’re fine, otherwise the ice cubes come out cloudy and you want to see the flower!’

And in the sixth episode, she provides a ‘tip’ on heating dried herbs in a pan of oil to bring out their flavour ‘for people who don’t have fresh herbs’.

The duchess also dehydrates citrus fruits and suggests they would make ‘really great gifts’ for friends.

In the final episode, Meghan talks about her perfect brunch menu which she says should include something for everyone, handwriting for a personal touch and having two menus on the table to make it clearer.

She also suggests making crepes instead of pancakes as they feel ‘more special’.

While the series heavily focuses on guests joining Meghan to cook, viewers are taken into the duchess’s sprawling Montecito garden which she says she and Prince Harry are ‘really fortunate to have the space’.

When Choi asks her how long she has been gardening, Meghan replies: ‘Oh I love it. They had, in science class, a lot of time in the garden. I was probably 10 or 11. We learned composting, what nasturtiums are, and spending so much time…

‘I loved as a kid being able to go, ‘Wait, I planted this thing.’ I’d sit there patiently waiting and then suddenly you go, ‘It’s grown and I can eat this’.’ And it makes you so grateful for food.

‘Now we’re really fortunate to live up here, so I have space. I can share that same stuff with my kids.’

The duchess also suggests dunking towels in lavender oil to ‘treat yourself’ after a long day at work.

She explains: ‘We’re gonna get some very basic towels. Don’t use the beautiful ones that you have in your bathroom.

‘These are the ones you should think of as gym towels.

‘You’re going to we them and you can either put a drop of the lavender oil in each one or dunk them or just give yourself a lavender bath and they get dunked in the same thing… After a long day at work, maybe you want a lavender towel. Treat yourself.’

In an episode with Alice Waters, considered to be a pioneer of farm-to-table cooking, Meghan suggests that even people in small flats can have a ‘small piece’ of what she has in California.

‘People watching this at home might think, “Hey I don’t have this space at home!” she said.

‘But this is the value I think of what you’ve done, urban farming. Even if you’re just in a little flat in London or small apartment in the city, what people can do to make them feel that they have some small piece of this.’

The series has been billed as Meghan combining ‘practical how-tos and candid conversations with friends, new and old’ but she ends the series seemingly making a subtle dig at the Royal Family.

The duchess said her ‘new chapter’ was ‘part of that creativity that I’ve missed so much’. She also spoke about ‘healing’ after she previously accused royal aides of preventing her from expressing her true self during her time in Britain.

She closed the last of eight episodes with a speech to guests including her husband Prince Harry and mother Doria Ragland, saying: ‘I just want to raise a glass to you guys. This feels like a new chapter that I’m so excited that I’m able to share and I’ve been able to learn from all of you. So I just thank you for all the love and support.

‘And here we go, there’s a business! All of that is part of that creativity that I’ve missed so much, so thank you for loving me so much and celebrating with me.’

Meghan is also seen speaking to Harry about the party she organised for the show: ‘It’s good, right?’ He says: ‘Well done. You did a great job.’ Meghan adds: ‘Thank you.’ And Harry then says: ‘I love it.’

Within hours of the series being aired on Netflix, many flocked to social media with one user saying they were ‘genuinely baffled’, adding: ‘Who is even the target audience?’

Another wrote: ‘I’m not even 30 seconds into the first episode and I already know that With Love, Meghan is the FAKEST stuff ever.’

A third echoed: ‘Six minutes of with love Meghan… ok only for richest people..so.. bye bye.’

Speaking ahead of the release of what has been dubbed a ‘make or break’ series for Meghan, the royal said the show had helped her ‘find herself’ again.

Prince Harry tells his wife Meghan: ‘Well done. You did a great job.’ in the new Netflix show

With Love, Meghan launched on the Netflix at 8am UK time today and midnight in California

Royal sources claim the new show could be the last roll of the dice for Harry and Meghan in a bid to strike a new deal with Netflix, following their $100million mega agreement in 2020 

She also opened up about her family life in Montecito, California, revealing how her five-year-old son, Archie adoringly tells her ‘mama don’t work too hard’.

In a tell-all interview with People magazine, the duchess said she had found making the series ‘super joyful’, adding that it was particularly meaningful for Prince Harry and her friends to see her go back to her lifestyle blogging roots.

 ‘You have to imagine my friends’ experience through the past few years,’ she said. ‘They spend all this time with me at home and at their houses or out at dinners. For them to see who they know to be reflected on screen, it brought them a lot of joy.’

Before she met Harry, the former Suits actress had been running The Tig, a blog on food, travel and wellness.

But as her relationship with the Harry deepened, Meghan shut the site down in 2017 before later deleting her Instagram when she joined the royal family fulltime.

Meghan, who revealed Harry and her children visited her on set, added: ‘I loved that my children were able to watch me working and see the balance of that and understand what Mama does and is working to create and share. It was really special because up until then, they hadn’t seen me at work.’ 

‘As a woman, a mom and a wife, to be able to find yourself again … is a wonderful feeling,’ she added in an interview billed as her ‘most intimate in years’.

The eight-part series has been filmed inside an $8million (£5million) mansion on a sprawling estate just two miles from the Sussexes’ Montecito home.

It’s aimed at showing a new side to the Duchess – with royal sources saying it could be the last roll of the dice to salvage her and Harry’s lucrative $100million streaming deal.