Fast Healthy Meals

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Hey, what's up, everybody.

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Welcome back to elemental.

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Ivan show today is a nother mini Monday episode.

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So these are going to be a little bit shorter episodes as composed, as compared

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to the wellness Wednesday episodes, which are a full length episode.

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And so today is going to be just a quick, simple, straight to the point

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episode on actually I think a very important tap topic because it is

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regarding the health foods that we eat and making sure that they are accessible.

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and easy to obtain them.

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So today's episode is going to be on what I would call probably my favorite

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meal to actually make not necessarily my favorite meal to eat, although they

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are really quite delicious as well, but rather my favorite meal to make, because

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it's very simple to prepare and have ready and still be healthy and tastes good.

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So.

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The pretty much where this came from is when I was working,

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um, back in the day with my dad actually doing air conditioning.

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I would have had these days where, you know, it was super long.

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Maybe I was out for 12 hours, you know, it could be really,

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really long days in the summer.

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And so when I would get home,

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I did not feel like cooking.

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You know, the easiest thing would have been to a picked up food on the way home,

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you know, and just really outsource the cooking and preparation obviously to a

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restaurant or a fast food joint, even.

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Right.

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Um, which obviously I don't eat fast food Uh, so that wasn't an option for me.

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And so I had to figure out what is the best way to still get my health food in

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without having to, you know, add more stress and work onto my life after,

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you know, super long days in the baking sun or maybe in a super hot attic or

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whatever it might've been that day.

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So what I ended up doing was.

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I looked at, you know, what would be the best, like macro nutrients to have in

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the meal and, you know, the best kind of whole foods that would all go together

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and how can I make it really simple?

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So there's very little cleanup and very little preparation

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time and all that good stuff.

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So what I ended up doing was I would select a protein, a typically

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an animal sourced protein, right?

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So it'd be like chicken or a wild caught salmon or, uh, you know, grass fed beef.

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Um, You know, whatever protein I decided to go with that

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would be kind of the center.

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And then I would get a pan out.

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Uh, I would put a little bit of avocado oil or ghee in there, uh, just to get

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a little oil in the pan and then I would set it to really, really low.

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I would set it to maybe not the lowest setting on the stove top,

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but I would set it pretty low, pretty close to that low setting.

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And I would put my protein in there first and I would throw

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a little bit of seasoning.

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I kept it pretty simple, just some salt and pepper.

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Uh, maybe a little smoked paprika or something, add a little extra flavor,

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but more or less, I would just add the protein with a little bit of seasoning.

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And then I would choose a vegetable to pair with that food.

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So a lot of times it would show up in the form of a brussel sprouts.

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Uh, it would Maybe like cauliflower or broccoli or, you know, just pretty much

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any kind of vegetable that you would want to pair with that, uh, protein.

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So, you know, uh, let's just say it was a steak, for example.

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So grassfed beef.

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I would then put some Brussels sprouts in the pan as well, around the meat, and then

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throw a little seasoning on those as well.

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And then it would pretty much just cap the.

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Uh, the pan and just let it sit there on low.

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And then while it was cooking, I would go ahead.

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And go shower, uh, you know, get changed out all my nasty clothes and everything.

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Uh, get cleaned up.

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And by the time I was done getting cleaned up, uh, you know, done

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showering, all that good stuff.

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And come back to the pan.

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It was already pretty much done cooking, maybe needed a little bit of extra time.

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And then what I would do is just serve that bad boy up.

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You know, you have a protein, you have your vegetable.

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Um, every now and again, I would also maybe add in a,

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uh, sweet potato, like a yam.

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Uh, I would bake it on the side in a little.

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A little toaster oven.

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So then I could have a little carbohydrate with it as well,

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depending on how hungry I was.

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And so right there, I had a full meal that was very simple.

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Uh, very easy to make took like really no skill prep work or

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anything, just, you know, obviously.

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Uh, the vegetables you'd have to cut up a little bit.

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But aside from that, like practically no preparation, you can just put it straight

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into the pan little bit of oil, a little bit of seasoning cap it, put it on low.

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And then if it was the yam, for example, literally would just like stab it with a

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fork or maybe cut it in half and then, uh, put a little seasoning, maybe a little,

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uh, oil in there as well, and then wrap it in tinfoil, put it in the oven to

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bake and then it would go and get ready.

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So while I

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You know, cleaning up from the day and just kind of taking a

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load off my food is cooking.

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It's still super healthy.

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I'm cooking it on a low heat, which is very important for things like salmon.

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Uh, it's actually better to cook that on a lower heat as opposed to a higher heat.

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Um, yeah.

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And then that was it.

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And if I felt really crazy, maybe I would add a salad in there or

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something if I wanted to add the extra work, but really it was a super

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simple meal that was very healthy and it Little to no preparation work.

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And on top of that, once I was done cooking and I already plated my

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food, what I would usually do if, uh, sometimes you get like kind of a.

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Like.

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I don't know, like crusty stuff on the pan after you're cooking your food.

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Like if some of it gets a little burnt on there.

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Uh, I would just add a little bit of water into the pan while it's

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still hot and allow that to kind of like take off the, uh, you know,

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the debris that's left in the pan.

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So then when I had to go clean it up, it was super simple.

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Just toss out that water, scrub it a bit and it was ready to go.

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So, uh, it was really one of the fastest meals that I was making at the time.

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And it was really awesome because it was at a time when I was really, uh,

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kind of trying out a keto style diet.

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And that was also somewhere where I lost a bunch Uh, probably close like

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20 or 25 pounds, but it was really cool because I was able to do so even while

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having more than a nine to five job.

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Right.

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I mean, I was working literally like 12 hour days sometimes.

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Uh, so I was, you know, very demanded at work.

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And when I would come home, I had very little energy to cook and clean

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and do all that good stuff, which I know is a lot of people out there.

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And so for those of you who think, you know, Just going and getting the

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McDonald's food is the only option.

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Like it's not, you can absolutely come home.

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Uh, and make a very, very easy and quick meal.

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Even if you have other family members just make a bigger pot, right.

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Or a bigger pan, sorry.

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And put.

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You know, additional meat, additional veggies in there, whatever it may be.

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And it's very simple, very easy to Then after that, if I had any cravings after

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that, I would always follow it up with my, uh, chocolate gold from Organify.

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Uh, that's always kind of my little go-to, um, like sweet tooth tree at the

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end of the night, because obviously I, I, growing up, I had a huge sweet tooth.

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Uh, even to this day I do enjoy some ice cream and some baked goods.

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I can't lie to you.

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That is going to be my.

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Uh, you know, an 80 20 scale.

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That is my 20% of the time.

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I love some baked goods, but, uh, Organifi is gold.

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Chocolate was a really good way of satiating that and kind of still giving

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me the feeling of like getting a little something sweet at the end of my meal.

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And, uh, but you know, being healthy and not having any sugar instead

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using a Monkfruit as the sweetener and, uh, you know, it's loaded with

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things like magnesium and tumeric.

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And, um, I believe that one has Rishi in it to help you get to bed better.

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Just have overall restful and peaceful night.

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So, uh, that was really enjoyable for me.

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So pairing the.

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You know, really quick meal within a nice little warm, like

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basically a cup of hot chocolate.

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You know what I mean?

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Before bedtime was perfect.

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And, uh, I just wanted to share that with all of you, because I know

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there's a lot of people who are on Uh, time restraints or constraints.

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And, you know, it's not easy to find time to really be quote unquote healthy, right.

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Even though we think, you know, being healthy is a hard thing to do

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and it takes more time and effort.

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There are really simple ways of doing it.

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And, uh, those are definitely some of the ways to do it.

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And with the chocolate.

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Uh, the chocolate goal from Organifi.

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I mean, that's literally just adding some water to this pre-made

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powder mix, which is delicious.

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Um, if you want to try some of that highly, highly

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recommend, . So that's Organifi.

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Uh, they actually have a code that you can use on their website, just

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for being a listener to this show, you will get 20% off of your entire order.

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The link is in the show notes and yeah, highly recommended.

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They have more than just the chocolate gold, but truly that

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was my go-to for my dessert.

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I guess you would say.

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Uh, and just a really nice way to ease into the evening.

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So go ahead and give that a check-out.

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Um, I promise you, you're going to love it as well as a really great replacement.

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If you have that sweet tooth.

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Uh, especially if you are like me and you love having a little ice cream to

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top the night off, um, it's just a great way to kind of get that fix without

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having to suffer the consequences.

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Right.

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So anyways, go ahead and check that out and yeah, go ahead and make

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some of these one pan meals is kind of what I like to call it, right?

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So it's just one pan.

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And then the, the plate that you eat off of that you're going to have

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to And it's still really healthy.

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And it's going to save you some time, right?

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You're going to be able to go ahead and take care of whatever you need to take

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care of when you get home and you don't have to worry about actually cooking

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the food and being very attentive.

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I hope you enjoyed this short little mini Monday episode on how to still eat

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a healthy meal, even if you don't have all the time in the world to do so.

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Uh, so anyways, enjoy, you already know the model of the show.

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And I will see you on the next episode, piece.