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Ask Me Anything (Office Hours)

Dan Marek - Ask Me Anything (Office Hours)

This event was on Tuesday, January 31, 2023 at 11:00 am Pacific, 2:00 pm Eastern

Join Chef Dan Marek in his virtual office as he welcomes all of your questions. This event was created for you and we encourage you to Ask Anything – from cooking techniques to cours… Read More.

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Question:

How can I make time for cooking? It seems I get too busy and keep buying premade meals.

— Bill Schrier

Answer:

Yeah, so bill again for this I think meal prep is the way to go, you know, so right when you get home from the store once a week again, just prep everything you possibly can that one day and make it simpler for later on in the week. Um pre-make your meals and you know, if you don't want to just do the the Mason Plaza at a time, you can also make some of the meals ahead of time. So, you know, you can make some of the like take the ideas from some of the favorite pre-made meals you've been doing. So pardon me again. So, um again, if you're you know, you're used to buying like a lasagna pre-made meal. We'll make a lasagna ahead of time. That's plant-based Whole Food based whatever you want and freeze it ahead of time. So that way you have lasagna for you know this week and next week or later on and you just do it in the smaller serving size like you want to be able to have it frozen and then you can bake it as you need it to be able to make those happen. So just you know again, I used to always joke, it's like everybody but was everybody's always surprised when dinner comes up, you know, when it's time for dinner because they have to make something. Well, it happens every single day. So planning a little bit ahead is always a wonderful thing to do. So again, I always like to use that one day per week. Right. Do you majority of my prep on that day to make the rest of the week easy for me? So it doesn't have just be me and plus it can be the entire meal if you want to so make you know five meals on the one day for yourself. So make it easier for the rest of the Be able to make it happen. So you can you know, make your pasta sauce. And the day of all you have to do is boil your pasta, you know or something like that along those lines to be able to make that work.
Dan Marek

Dan Marek

Director of Plant-Based Culinary & Dev

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