Meal planning and meal prep come up again and again as one of the top time management challenges professional working women face on the personal side of life—and it makes sense. Between picking recipes, building grocery lists, shopping, and then actually making the meals, it’s a lot—and it happens every single week.

In this episode, I’m joined by Allison Schaaf, a registered dietitian, trained chef, and the founder of Prep Dish, a meal planning service designed to reduce the time and mental load that come with feeding yourself and your family. If you’ve ever wished for an option that hits the middle ground between a full meal kit delivery and figuring it all out on your own, this might be it.

In this conversation, we dig into:

why meal planning is such a universal time management pain point, especially for working parents
how to simplify and systematize it so it’s not something you reinvent every week
practical strategies for tackling both meal planning and prep in realistic ways (especially if cooking isn’t your thing)
different ways to involve your kids so they’re more likely to actually eat the food you make
the behind-the-scenes of Prep Dish and how it helps people reduce the invisible workload that comes with meals—without going all the way to fully outsourced kits
how to use your calendar to support and protect your meal planning time
and how Allison built this company after working as a personal chef and seeing what worked in real life

Whether you love cooking and just want to lighten the lift—or you're trying to get through dinner without a meltdown (yours or someone else’s)—this conversation offers great ideas and an option you may not have known existed.

Allison also shares a generous free trial of Prep Dish just for Bright Method listeners. To grab it, go to prepdish.com/bright.

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