If you don't know what you're cooking for dinner yet, the smartest thing you can do is like put a pot of water onto oil.

Because it takes a long time.

And sometimes I will start a big pot of pasta water before I even turn on the oven to roast veggies to go along with the pasta because it takes a long time.

Welcome to didn't I just feed you.

A podcast about feeding kids.

Hey, I'm Megan.

And I'm Stacy.

Today we are taking another episode request from a listener, long-time listener and community member Alice.

So during a call for episode ideas recently, Alice asked about a cooking timeline.

So she just wanted to know how could she be more efficient when it comes to cooking?

It started with a conversation

about big holiday meals and also doing big batch cooking or meal prep. But we realize that this

is actually a great topic to cover in respect to everyday meals because there's just so much that we're doing inherently as food

professionals that we've never really just like pulled out and called out in the process that can

help you just move through making dinner faster. We want you to cook faster and more efficiently.

Yeah. And like this idea of sort of having a timeline or a sense of how to make a timeline for cooking things is

actually one of the baseline skills of great chefs. And even us as food editors, when we're

writing recipes, we're thinking about like what is the best order of operations.

But that might be for a single recipe.

So then when you start bringing multiple recipes and multiple dishes together, you might not intuitively know where to start.

So today we're talking about how you can cook dinner faster by

being a little bit more efficient in how you cook dinner. So before we dig in, you guys,

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