One of my favorite tricks is to line like a sheet pan with, you know, parchment paper or wax paper or something like that, so you don't have to wash it.

And you can reuse it, by the way. You could reuse that paper.

And like do all your prep things. Like put it on that. If you don't have like a big cutting board, create a big flat space that you don't have to wash.

Welcome to didn't I just feed you.

A podcast about feeding kids.

Hi, I'm Stacey.

And I'm Megan.

Welcome to this week's episode where we're going to answer a listener's question about clean up.

Clean up. Clean up.

It's my favorite topic.

We're honestly a little too enthused for the topic.

I love, I love a clean house.

I love a clean house too.

I find myself when I have nervous energy, anxious energy cleaning.

I find it very soothing.

And yet I still dislike cleaning up the kitchen after dinner. I find it very soothing. And yet, I still dislike cleaning up the kitchen

after dinner. I mean, yeah, I'm a clean as you go. I have to admit that there isn't like a ton

of cleanup at the end of dinner. Yeah. Because I'm like a clean as you go. What's the right word? I mean,

I'm a clean as you go, but I'm trying to say like, if it was a video game, there's like beginner level, there's like I'm a champion clean as you go. Oh, wow. Okay. Yeah. Let's get a little braggadocious. Yeah. I can't deal. Like, it's hard for me to cook if it's messy. I understand. And especially if you have a small kitchen like me, you're just like, I can't deal if there's 27 things out.

Oh, yeah, 27 things. Oh, skip that recipe. Skip that, baby. But you know when you're cooking from the hip, sometimes you just like tumbleweed into too many dishes. You're like, oh, I accidentally pulled out,

or like I pulled out this leftovers container to incorporate here. And now it's dirty and sitting

on the counter. Or like, you just pack, sometimes packaging from stuff, the trimmed ends of

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