426: Cooking Hacks: Sneaking in More Veggies + Meal Prep, Saving Time & Money - Cassy Joy Garcia

Women's Wellness ON AIR WITH ELLA

Ella Lucas-Averett

Education, Health & Fitness, Fitness, Self-improvement, Alternative Health

5 • 699 Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

How to Feed Your Family Without Losing Your Mind! Cassy Joy Garcia focuses on practical cooking and meal preparation strategies for busy families. Cassy shares insights on efficient meal planning, using leftovers, and creative ways to incorporate vegetables into meals.

{REPLAY: original air date: 9/2021}

In this episode:

(00:02:59) Cooking Challenges for Busy Families

(00:03:14) Efficient Meal Preparation Strategies

(00:04:40) Dinner Series Concept -cooking once and eating multiple times from that meal.

(00:06:55) Weekly meal planning strategy

(00:10:22) Kitchen Hacks for Efficiency

(00:12:02) Cassy's approach to family meals - cooking one meal for everyone

(00:17:41) Frozen fruits and vegetables - nutritional value and convenience

(00:19:01) Meal assembly techniques and sharing cooking responsibilities in a family setting.

(00:19:45) Cassy's personal health journey and transition to Anti-Inflammatory foods

(00:22:44) The importance of understanding individual food tolerances and choices.

(00:25:28) Sneaking in Nutrients - strategies for incorporating vegetables into meals

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0:00.0	Welcome. You're on air with Ella, where we share simple strategies and tips from people who are doing something better than we are.
0:08.9	Whether it's wellness or relationships to just living better and with more energy or changing your mindset to accomplish more in your own life and succeeding however you define it.
0:18.2	This is where we share the best of what we're learning from the experts,
0:20.9	and we're learning more every day.
0:23.1	Live better. Start now.
0:27.5	Hey, you're on air with Ella,
0:28.9	and today I am delighted to be joined by Miss Cassie Joy Garcia.
0:33.4	Hey, Cassie, how are you?
0:34.7	Hey, thank you for having me. I'm good.
0:36.9	I have got to post a video of how cute you look today. How are you? Hey, thank you for having me. I'm good. I have got to post a video of how cute you look today.
0:40.1	Where are you? Where am I talking to you right now?
0:43.2	Right now, I'm in my pantry.
0:48.3	Where's your pantry located?
0:50.2	I'm in San Antonio, Texas. Was that too specific? I'm definitely posting the video now. No, the reason I'm in San Antonio, Texas. Was that too specific? I'm definitely posting the video now. No,
0:57.8	the reason I want to share the video is because Cassie looks absolutely adorable. And I look like
1:01.5	something that got scraped off the bottom of a shoe. So thank you for showing up today. I appreciate
1:05.4	you. And sorry, I couldn't do better. Cassie, will you tell everybody who you are and what you do?
1:12.3	Yes, I'm Cassie Joy Garcia. I'm the founder of fed and fit.com. We just celebrated 10 years.
1:18.8	Started as a food blog, became a holistic nutritionist. And now I run Fed and Fit as more of an online
1:24.7	editorial with a small but mighty team. And we just try to solve
1:28.2	all the problems that come up in the kitchen, you know, whether it's getting an easier dinner
1:33.4	on the table, how to have kitchen hacks, all the things in between. Good. I want to talk about all
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