Hey there, welcome to the Lazy Genius Podcast. I am Kendra Adachi and I'm here to help you be

a genius about the things that matter and lazy about the things that don't. Today is episode 271,

how to fix summer dinners. Yeah, we need to fix dinner as in make it, but also summer dinners feel

a little broken, especially around July, so we're going to fix them that way too. I love a good

fun. Let's start with the problem. I asked y'all on Instagram at the Lazy Genius what your biggest

summer meal challenges were and there were so many responses, like so many. And while there were

definitely some specific ones, because we all have, you know, different needs in different lives

that lead to specific problems, most of the responses fell into one of five categories, one, the lack of

motivation, two, the unpredictability of our summer schedules, three, you're tired of eating the same

things over and over again, which I feel like that could be true in any season, right? Four,

your usual easy meals or your brainless crowd pleasers, as we call them around here, are better suited

for cooler weather than in the summer, and five, it's too hot to turn on the oven. Seriously, the

number of responses that were that verbatim, it's too hot to turn on the oven. It was so many,

and I love it. We're all more or less in the same boat, right? So we are going to talk about those

five categories today. But before we do, I want to remind you of two very important things. First,

we need to remember the Lazy Genius principle live in the season. The summer is a season for weird

food patterns, right? It just is. A lot of those categories I mentioned are loosely rooted in the

season, right? Motivation, it's hard to be motivated when it's hot outside, when schedules are

unusual, when days are spent kind of active, and then by dinner you're out of steam, when you're

tired of eating the same things, but don't know how to cook new meals that don't require an oven,

and art expensive and are also easy and that your kids will eat if you have kids. Like, there are

just a lot of things about this season in particular that play into our motivation. The summer season

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