Didn't I Just Feed You – Details, episodes & analysis

We’re excited to share an episode that we think you’ll love from Care and Feeding, Slate’s parenting show with Jamilah Lemieux, Zak Rosen, Elizabeth Newcamp, and Lucy Lopez. In this episode, they talk food with one of our favorite guests, Priya Krishna, but if you’re looking for more triumphs (and fails!), tune in for their weekly advice from helping one parent deal with their sore loser child to answering tricky questions like how another parent can talk to a friend who’s body shaming their toddler. If you like what you hear, make sure to subscribe to Care and Feeding wherever you podcast for advice on parenting kids from toddler to teens.

STRESS-FREE SCHOOL LUNCHES

Make packing 180 school lunches a breeze with our Stress-Free School Lunch Guide. You’ll get our tried-and-true school lunch packing tips, an essential school lunch grocery list, our list of favorite lunchboxes by age, our top 15 lunchbox recipes, and more.

MEAL PLANNING FOR EVERYONE

Looking to reduce the overwhelm of feeding your family while saving time AND money? Meal planning is the answer! We can help you get meal planning right (even if you’ve failed before) with our Meal Planning for Everyone audio course. We’ve made it possible for anyone to become a meal planner — even you! Crack your meal planning code today.

There’s no magic to becoming a better cook. It’s the simple business of putting a few key principles into practice over and over. These 10 tiny changes are the ones that will make the biggest difference in your cooking. 

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LINKS 

• Meal Planning for Everyone
• What Are Back Pocket Dinners (and Why Do We Love Them)?
• What’s the Difference Between All the Salts?
• Why Do You Keep Telling Me to Add Acid to My Cooking?
• How Do I Cook With Fresh Herbs?
• How Do I Cook With Dried Herbs and Spices?
• What Cooking Oils Should I Keep in My Pantry?
• How Do I Season Food So That It (Actually) Tastes Good?
• Simple Family Meals From Pantry Basics
• How Can I Cook Dinner Faster?

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Pasta is a family meal hero, but some pasta dinners can take more time and work than others. In this episode, we share pasta cooking tips and the easiest, fastest pasta recipes for making a pasta dinner that everyone will love in no time flat.  

• Our episodes, Why Pasta Is a Family Cook’s Best Friend
• How to Cook Pasta Perfectly
• How to Cook Pasta Ahead of Time
• How to Make One-Pan Pasta
• Creamy Beef and Shells
• Philly Cheesesteak Pasta
• Instant Pot Spaghetti and Meat Sauce
• One-Pot Pesto Tortellini with Broccoli
• Creamy Wild Mushroom One-Pot Pasta
• The easiest Creamy Lemon Pasta
• Shrimp Scampi (for putting over pasta!)
• How to Make Drool-Worthy Pasta Out of Nothing At All
• Creamy Broccoli Pasta
• Lemony Feta Pasta
• Creamy Smoked Salmon Pasta
• Creamy Cajun Shrimp Pasta

ICYMI, last summer we did a series of shorter episodes called "Summer Solutions". This year, we're reheating the most popular episodes from that series. We're holding onto summer this week with a simple guide to "preserving" summer produce without canning.

For even more from this episode, join our listener's community, where we will be discussing this reheated series: https://didntijustfeedyou.com/community

In this one, we share family-favorite vegetarian dinner recipes that can be made super fast with minimal ingredients that even non-vegetarians will love.

• Stacie’s Vegetarian Fajitas
• Quinoa Taco Meat
• Hard Boiled Egg Curry  
• Baked Crispy Peanut Tofu  
• Vegetable Biryani 
• How to Grill Pizza
• Our episode Teens and Protein
• Vegetarian meal ideas
• Moroccan Chickpea and Squash Stew
• Slow Cooker Golden Chickpea Soup
• Garlicky Broccoli Subs
• Grilled Open-Faced Cauliflower Banh Mi
• A great thread in our community on vegetarian meal ideas
• Weeknight Vegetarian by Ivy Manning

In each of these episodes, we walk you all the way through one recipe and then list five others. All in, you’ll get 6 easy weeknight dinner ideas that we’ve tested.

Links for these recipes + products are in the FREE area of our Didn't I Just Feed You Community.

Reverse meal planning is meal planning that starts with what you have on hand as opposed to with recipe ideas. Some say it's harder to think of recipes based only on what you already have in the refrigerator, freezer and pantry, but we have tips and techniques that say otherwise. And once you get the hang of it, you reduce waste, save money, and feel like a badass.

• We have also call it Bizarro Meal Prep (h/t The Lazy Genius)
• Chat GPT
• Campfire Spice blend by Beautiful Briny Sea
• Best Meal Planning Apps of 2023
• Eat Your Books
• Paprika meal planning app
• Plan to Eat meal planning app
• Eat at Dads on Instagram @eat.at.dads
• Our episode Meal Planning Isn’t Magic (But You Should Do It Anyway)
• Our episode Real Life Meal Prep Tips as Self Care
• Spillt: Social Recipes App

What happens if you struggle with diet culture, but also need to be on a specific diet for health reasons unrelated to body weight (think: eating gluten-free to manage Celiac disease)? Registered dietitian and PCOS expert, Julie Duffy Dillon talks to us about ways that we can keep from adopting a diet culture mindset even when eating for health is far from intuitive and may require some restriction.

• Julie's site, where you can learn more about her PCOS power course + community
• Julie's podcast Find Your Food Voice
• Julie on Instagram @pcosbodyliberation 
• Our episode, What Anti-Diet Gets Wrong With Jessica Wilson 
• Bri Campos on Instagram, @bodyimagewithbri
• Get 50% of your first box of The Farmer's Dog at thefarmersdog.com/DIJFY 

In each of these episodes, we walk you all the way through one recipe and then list five others. All in, you’ll get 6 easy weeknight dinner ideas that we’ve tested.

Links for these recipes + products are in the FREE area of our Didn't I Just Feed You Community.

Have you ever wondered what's the best thing to feed your dog? We’ve got answers! Here's everything we've learned about the best food for dogs and how we feed ours. We’re delighted to present today’s episode without ad breaks in partnership with our friends at The Farmer’s Dog.

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Here are a just few of the reasons why we love The Farmer's Dog and think that you will too:

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