Hello and welcome to Dishing Up Nutrition's midweek segment called Ask a Nutritionist.

My name is Brandy Burrow. I'm a licensed and registered dietitian here at Nutritional Weight and Wellness.

On today's show, I'll be

answering a question we received from one of our Dishing at Nutrition listeners. So today's

question is, what are the best small appliances or kitchen tools to help make healthy meal prep

easier and quicker? Well, this is the million dollar question because I think all of us are trying

to figure out how to make healthy eating fast and easy. Because when you are trying to eat

real whole foods, because that's the best thing for your health, cooking is definitely going to be

part of that equation. So I'm going to share with you a few kitchen

tools and acquaintances that I consider essentials in my kitchen, but they've also helped make

cooking just a lot more efficient and easy for me. And just to give you a little bit of a

background, I am somebody who really enjoys the process of cooking,

but I don't always have the luxury of preparing an elaborate meal every night.

You know, I have a full-time job and a pretty active life outside of work,

so that means I don't have time to cook from scratch every day.

But there was a time when my job was actually cooking. I was a personal

chef for a while that cooked healthy meals for families. So I'm bringing some experience about

how to prepare a lot of good tasting, healthy food under a time crunch. So I just want to share a few

things that I learned during that time

that maybe you can apply in your own kitchen as well. So the first few tools that I want to

mention are tools that do not require a lot of skill to use, but they do make preparing a recipe

a lot easier, especially when it comes to some of those more tedious tasks of cooking.

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