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Speaker 1: Hi everybody.

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Speaker 2: I'm Kelsey Nixon and this is Kitchen Prescription, the podcast

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Speaker 2: you listen to when you don't know what to make

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Speaker 2: for dinner. Today is episode seventy seven, Meal Prep cheat Sheet.

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Speaker 2: It's the beginning of April, and as one of my

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Speaker 2: friends put it the other day, it's the beginning of

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Speaker 2: the fly by months. I thought this was like made

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Speaker 2: total sense to me. She was referencing how by the

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Speaker 2: time we hit April, the school year literally flies by.

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Speaker 1: Chances are we're.

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Speaker 2: Maybe feeling a little bit anxious as we know that

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Speaker 2: what some people call May somber is just around the corner,

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Speaker 2: and with that comes all of the performances and the

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Speaker 2: end of your school celebrations and just general life craziness.

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Speaker 2: April is generally a full month where we're in the

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Speaker 2: midst of extracurricular activities on weeknights, school projects, field trips,

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Speaker 2: and just overall general busyness.

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Speaker 1: But I would like to discuss how we can.

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Speaker 2: Maybe calm that overwhelm with just But I'd like to

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Speaker 2: discuss how we can maybe calm that overwhelm just a bit.

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Speaker 2: And I think one of the ways you can do

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Speaker 2: that is through meal prep. Now, please do not stop

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Speaker 2: listening to this episode. I feel like the phrases meal

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Speaker 2: prep and even meal plan can trigger an absolutely not

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Speaker 2: response in your brain. But I promise you that I

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Speaker 2: am not going to make you do something you don't

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Speaker 2: want to do. So today I'm going to walk you

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Speaker 2: through the formula or the cheat cheet I use for

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Speaker 2: as possible with somewhat of a mix and match rhythm

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Speaker 2: that has been making things feel so much lighter and

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Speaker 2: easier for me in the kitchen, and I feel confident

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Speaker 2: that it could do the same for you. But before

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Speaker 2: we really get into that, let's do what we always

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Speaker 2: do on this podcast and start by giving you three

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Speaker 2: ideas of recipes that you could throw on your meal

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Speaker 2: plan for the week. We can almost all agree that

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Speaker 2: the hardest part of making dinner is simply deciding what

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Speaker 2: to make, so hopefully by sharing a few ideas with

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Speaker 2: you every week, it helps with that decision fatigue. In

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Speaker 2: the spirit of staying on brand, all of these recipes

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Speaker 2: are meal prep friendly, meaning you could easily make the

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Speaker 2: entire recipe or at least a portion of the recipe

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Speaker 2: in advance to make getting dinner on the table that

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Speaker 2: Italian sub salad. Now, I the origin of this recipe

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Speaker 2: came from TikTok. I feel like there was this type

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Speaker 2: I don't know, but basically, you take everything that's delicious

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Speaker 2: about an Italian sub and you put it in salad form,

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Speaker 2: and so I developed this recipe. And what I love

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Speaker 2: about it is that it's a real hearty salad and

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Speaker 2: so it's very filling. The other thing I love about

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Speaker 2: it is you're gonna take like some salami, some mazzarella,

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Speaker 2: some tomatoes, some olives, and you can make that in

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Speaker 2: And actually the longer it sits, the more flavor it

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Speaker 2: then if I'm meal prepping, what I like to do

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Speaker 2: I actually have the meal, I toss that kind of

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Speaker 2: marinated salad with the greens and it's so delicious. The

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Speaker 2: because I love pizza. Don't get me wrong. We do

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Speaker 2: I crave something green and something a little bit more substantial,

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Speaker 2: plan this week. We're also making my chili lime tacos.

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Speaker 2: This is one of those recipes I've been making for years.

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Speaker 2: I'm there, and it's so good. You could totally make

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Speaker 2: last recipe on our meal plan are my sheet pan

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Speaker 2: chicken pedas. This is one of the three most popular

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Speaker 2: recipes and recipe club, meaning people love this, and I

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Speaker 2: think it's because of the marinate on the chicken, which

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Speaker 2: then we're having pidas because you make the chicken, you

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Speaker 2: Off the chicken the onions and the peppers in advance,

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Speaker 2: chat about my meal prep cheat, Sheeta. So let's talk

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Speaker 2: about this first. What is meal prep? Meal prep is

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Speaker 2: essentially doing something to food so it's easier to cook

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Speaker 2: It's a classic example of doing something now to make

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Speaker 2: I think it's a really valuable one. But what I

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Speaker 2: and we have freezer meal specific recipes and recipe club

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Speaker 2: support helping you set up a simple dinner system. Next week,

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Speaker 2: we'll be chatting about how to save and organize family recipes.

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Speaker 2: With Mother's Day coming up. I think it's a beautiful

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Speaker 2: mother in law. It's like a collection of the sentimental

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Speaker 2: So we're going to chat about that. And I wanted

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Speaker 2: to mention because I get lots of questions the Gimme

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Speaker 2: five things I talk about every podcast episode. We have

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Speaker 2: created an Instagram highlight called Gimme five and in that

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Speaker 2: highlight you will find all of the links from not

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Speaker 2: only this week's Gimme five, but previous weeks Gimme five

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Speaker 2: as well. We also send out a Gimme five newsletter

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Speaker 2: every week and I share them on Instagram stories, so

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Speaker 2: make sure you're following me on Instagram and you can

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Speaker 2: get access to those.

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Speaker 1: And that's about it. Thank you so much for listening today.

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Speaker 1: I'm so glad you're here.

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Speaker 2: Until next time, I'm wishing you happy cooking.

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Speaker 1: I'm Kelsey and look forward to chatting with you next

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