What does it mean to live more with less? I'm Katie Wells and welcome to the Maximized Minimalist

podcast. If you found yourself caught up in the hamster wheel of modern day motherhood and want to

rewrite the script, congratulations you're in the right place. I'm here to be your guide and help you take

back your motherhood

and achieve a simpler, more joy-filled life.

Cheers to being a maximized minimalist.

Enjoy the show.

With days filled with activities and fun,

it can be so easy to forget about dinner in the busy summer months.

This is exactly why returning to the show today

is my good friend

Nikita Vassalo, who helps moms ditch overwhelm and save time in the kitchen. On this episode,

we'll be hearing her best summertime meal planning and meal prep tips. Let's dive in.

Hey, Nikita, welcome back to the show. We're so happy to have you here today.

Thank you for inviting me back. It's always such a pleasure to be on your show, Katie.

Thank you. So, gosh, we have a lot to cover today. I know speaking firsthand and I did a poll on

Instagram recently. So this is my listeners, people who follow me all can relate to dinner so often

in the summertime just feel like this afterthought. It's like I feel like during the school year,

we have our stuff together. We have more structure, more routine. We know what's happening.

We are a lot more on the ball. So summer rolls around and again, it's like five o'clock and it's like, oh, I need to make

something for dinner.

So it's just more relaxed and that's nice about summer, but then the stress of not having a plan,

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