M11: How to Scale Down Holiday Meals

Didn't I Just Feed You

Stacie Billis and Meghan Splawn

Food, Arts, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.8 • 611 Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2020

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Are you looking to scale down holiday meals? Between quarantine, picky kids, and way more intimate family gatherings, we know many of you are looking for how to make a smaller Thanksgiving dinner — or festive meal for any upcoming holiday. In this month’s mini episode, we answer a listener’s voicemail and share everything we know about how to scale down big meals and holiday recipes.

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0:00.0	Hey, this is Stacy and Megan with another bite-sized episode of Didn't I Just Feed You.
0:07.4	You guys know these by now. We have one a month. Sometimes it's both of us. Sometimes it's just one of us. And we may even have a guest thrown in from time to time.
0:15.8	It's so funny. We say that and we've never done it. Although this week, we do kind of have a little bit of a guest in a way.
0:21.6	I know.
0:22.1	All that pumping our voicemail number finally paid off, right?
0:26.9	Yeah, baby.
0:28.5	So today we're going to talk about how to scale down holiday meals.
0:34.1	We are coming in right under the wire for your Thanksgiving or un-thanksgiving or whatever
0:42.2	kind of meal you're going to have. And then all the December holidays. This is an agnostic
0:48.8	how to scale down holiday meals. Okay, okay. It's going to be how to scale it down no matter what you're
0:55.6	celebrating. Because we're going to be talking about measurements, not holidays. Let's be real.
0:59.9	All right. So before we dig in, because you guys know, this is going to be rapid fire tips. This is
1:05.6	the short mini episode. Let's hear from Gabrielle, who left us a vo voicemail whose question we're answering today.
1:12.3	Hello, Megan and Stacey.
1:13.4	My question is, is now that we're looking at Thanksgiving with COVID and there's
1:18.1	limitations on family get-togethers, we normally have multiple families, 16 to 20 people,
1:24.1	I'm looking at recipes and tons of magazines are still pushing group recipes for the holidays.
1:31.5	And what I need to do is basically create Thanksgiving dinner instead of for 20 people for four people.
1:40.0	What does that look like for buying a turkey?
1:42.4	What does that look like for potatoes?
1:45.7	Taking recipes for eight people and breaking it down to two because my kids don't eat a ton? Some ideas on that,
1:52.8	especially getting ready for Thanksgiving, would be awesome because there's not a single recipe
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