100% Fresh with Two Chef Mission: Meal Planning Tips for Busy Parents and Professionals

During the holidays we know there are lots of gatherings, whether for family, friends or work. Join us in this seasonal episode while we dive into our top 5 tips on Holiday Appetizers.

• Think about balance in your appetizers: This could be textures, flavors, hot vs cold, and diversity of ingredients.
• Utilize make ahead appetizers or platters: These are great for a less stressful meal addition and are great for your cold apps.
• Add in seasonal ingredients and/or flavors: For fall into winter think warm spices and hearty flavors.
• Budget plays a part: Think about whether homemade will be best or will store bought be more budget friendly. Sometimes homemade is better and sometimes not, depending on your group size.
• Collaboration for the win: This can also be helpful with stress during the holidays, if you ask your guests to contribute to bringing items.

Bonus Thoughts: (If you want to add a little something extra)

1. Go Global in Flavors
2. Add in Some Drink Pairings
3. Play with Festive Presentations or Garnishes

We hope these tips find you well in this post and can’t wait to share more tips for the season! Remember to have tons of fun while cooking this holiday season, we know from experience that it makes it all more enjoyable, especially if you have friends and family helping. We hope you enjoyed this episode of 100% fresh and would love to answer any questions you may have. Connect With Us Follow us: @twochefmission Join our group: ⁠Meal Planning for Busy Parents⁠ where we go live each week to discuss different cooking and meal planning topics.

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This week we are talking about how utilizing batch cooking can be super helpful for parents and busy families when meal planning.

In this episode we discuss:

• What is batch cooking?
• Our top ways it can help you.
• Meal plans can always be adjusted and customized to fit your specific needs.

Batch Cooking Can Help With:

1. Efficiency
2. Consistency
3. Lower Stress
4. Variety
5. Schedule Flexibility

We hope you enjoyed this episode of 100% fresh and would love to answer any questions you may have. Connect With Us Follow us: @twochefmission Join our group: Meal Planning for Busy Parents where we go live each week to discuss different cooking and meal planning topics.

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Since we are in the holiday season, we wanted to share some tips to help simplify your meal planning for a stress free holiday meal. Here are our top 5.

1. Don't try to do everything on your own: delegate as needed.
2. Avoid trying out something new for the first time: stick with what you know.
3. Use the KISS method for your menu: keep is super simple.
4. Shop early: beat the holiday shopping chaos and traffic.
5. Prioritize your favorites first: these are the most important items.

We hope these tips help you have a great holiday season spent making tons of memories with family and friends.

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When getting into meal planning it can be easy to get overwhelmed and/or to try to do too much at once. That's why we are here to help offer tips on meal planning that can help you avoid them or at least to talk through them as all of it is a learning experience.

In This Episode We:

Talk about some of the biggest meal planning missteps that happen when getting into planning out your meals.

• Planning to do too much: This is especially easy to do if you are just starting out and try to throw every meal in (breakfast, snacks, lunch, dinner)

• Over complicated meals: Keep things simple as you start and get comfortable with the basics. Add on more and different ingredients as you go.

• Planning out too far in advance: This goes for planning your meals out weeks or months in advance or getting too much on ingredients too far ahead. This can cause a bit too much structure that you may feel can't be changed and it can cause ingredients to spoil and be wasted.

• Freezing the wrong things: For some freezer meals may be an easy way to have meals on hand, but not all ingredients do well freezing. It can also cause an issue if you freeze too much at once because even in the freezer things only last so long.

We hope you enjoy this episode and as always, please let us know if you have any questions we can help answer. We are currently working on getting our meal plan site up and running and can't wait to share more of the details on it with you! Please like and subscribe to 100% Fresh with Two Chef Mission and please share it out with anyone that may find value in it. Thank you for your support!

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I think we can all agree that we don't just start out with a huge passion for everything. We find things that grow our interest and then begin to learn more about them. This same principal is very much how growing your passion cooking at home starts. It has to start somewhere and that may be working to be able to plan meals for your family.

In This Episode We:

Go over where to start with growing your passion for cooking. This Includes:

• Learn the Basics: Start off simple and learn the techniques to create a base for your cooking skills.

• Try New and Unique Ingredients: Start to explore different flavors to learn more once you have a base ground.

• Research and Start Learning: To grow your knowledge and skills dive a bit deeper into learning more about cooking.

• Get Others Involved: Whether it's family or friends, getting others involved (even just to hang out with you in the kitchen) can do wonders to staying motivated.

While not all of these steps have to be utilized, we would definitely recommend the first and last because they can really help out with keeping you motivated in the kitchen. Some of the other steps may be of more interest later on.

We hope you enjoy this episode and as always, please let us know if you have any questions we can help answer. We are currently working on getting our meal plan site up and running and can't wait to share more of the details on it with you! Please like and subscribe to 100% Fresh with Two Chef Mission and please share it out with anyone that may find value in it. Thank you for your support!

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We all feel stuck sometimes, but the important thing is not to stay in the stuck zone. Whether it's in business or something as simple as what to have for dinner. This can definitely happen when you have a lot on your plate since then you are trying to decide on what to focus on and when. Since this is something, we are currently going through in our business, we wanted to share some tips on how we move through feeling stuck.

In This Episode We:

• Share that being stuck is something that is totally normal and can play a part in many areas of our lives.

• Offer tips on getting unstuck.

• Talk through different ways and times that we have worked through this.

Tips to Get Unstuck:

1. Step away and change your energy: Maybe go for a walk.
2. Come back and assess how you are feeling: Decide whether you feel like this is something you can work through.
3. Ask for help if needed whether it's for free or through finding a professional: Google, YouTube, Fiverr, Upwork, Facebook Groups
4. Are there others that may be able to help: Friends, Networking Ops, Business Contacts

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Getting into anything new can be challenging, so meal planning isn't any different. The main thing is to start. Create a roadmap and plan it out. Going step by step through the process will get you going and as you go to each new step you are more likely to continue. Habits take about 90 days to form, so don't expect it to get easy overnight. Keep going and if you need it get help along the way.

In This Episode We:

• Talk about how starting anything new can be a challenge.

• Offer some steps that can help in alleviating the process.

• Talk through a rough draft process of starting to get into meal planning.

• Offer a few resources that can help in saving time and stress on meal planning.

We hope you enjoy this chef bite episode for meal plan tips and as always, please let us know if you need any assistance. We are currently working on getting our meal plan site up and running and can't wait to share more of the details on it with you!

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There is so much information on social media and the internet about food related topics, diet and recipes, but where is it coming from? What is the source? Is it coming from someone with a background in nutrition or the food industry or is it coming from an influencer or home cook? We have seen some recent videos, recipes and food information that has definitely inspired this episode.

In This Episode We:

• Talk about some of the recent misinformation we have seen online.

• Do a deep dive into what makes a culinary professional and how it is different from a home cook.

• Offer some tips on how to do your own research to find who you are getting your information from.

While we are not saying that every home cook is spreading bad information, it is important to know where your information is coming from. As chefs we take everything we do very seriously, to ensure the safety of our clients. Because of this we also want to be able to offer insight into these topics here, so that we can shine a light on some of the muddled information that can be found online.

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Since we have wanted to share more of our story growing through business, we decided to take you all the way back to the beginning with why we chose to start. For this episode we also went completely unplanned to give our full feelings on why we created Two Chef Mission. We hope you enjoy a little of our backstory.

In This Episode We:

• Talk about the beginning of Two Chef Mission and why we started it.

• Go over the versions of what we started as Two Chef Mission and where we are now.

• Offer a bit of insight on challenges with a start-up business as well as being a microbusiness.

• Explain that the growth process is still continuing and never stops as you build a business that you want to continue to succeed.

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In This Episode We Share 5 Simple Tips for Beginning Meal Planning:

• Start Small and Keep it Simple: Include some of your favorites.

• Shop Smart: Seasonal and focus on whole foods.

• Utilize Your Freezer: Backup meal and weekly meal prep.

• Have a Well-Stocked Pantry

• Plan for a Night Off: Utilize your back up meal, leftovers or eat out.

Bonus Tip: Let someone else do the planning for you: utilize meal plans done for you or meal delivery.

• If having a meal plan done for you is what you need, we can help. Just send us an inquiry on our contact page: twochefmission.com/contact/

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