Hi there. My name is Marianne Jurege. I am a chef and a culinary nutrition educator with the Cook's Cure,

and I partner with nutritional weight and wellness on their culinary education.

And so I know that they get a lot of really good questions on social media and from their

clients. And so we have collected some of those questions so that we can answer them for you

so that you can get into the kitchen. The theme here is really

shortcuts to nutritious meals. And so we're going to cover a couple of things through these questions.

So the first question is, how can I make weeknight meals easier? Excellent question. I think we all come home and we want a really easy weeknight meal.

And I'm going to say the first and one of the most important things you can do is to have a

protein ready to go. And that may mean that you stop and pick up a rotisserie chicken on the way home, a good, pastured,

organic rotisserie chicken, if that is in your wheelhouse. But otherwise, I would say the simplest

thing is turn on that oven, take a sheet pan, line it with parchment paper, get that cut up bone-in skin on chicken that you have in the fridge, lay it out on your sheet pan, drizzle it with a little oil, and now you can add some variety with your herbs and spices. So think about maybe you do cayenne and oregano one week and you do

Italian seasoning the next. So think about that. Even though you're eating chicken, you can change it

out with the spices and the herbs. Fresh rosemary is lovely or thyme. So make a nice big sheet pan of chicken, and now

you've got protein for the week. You can keep it in the fridge for seven days. If you want to make

a couple of sheet pans, you can freeze some of that. Maybe you take that sheet pan and you make

some meatballs.

That would be lovely.

You can combine different ground proteins to do that.

Maybe you make some pulled pork or pulled beef in your instant pot or your slow cooker.

Think about having protein at the ready because I think it tends to be the hardest part of our

meal usually takes the longest and we can always add a couple things to complete the package.

So there's number one. I'm also going to say having a nice stocked pantry will always make that meal easier. And I mean even your freezer is

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