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This week is not about the recipes that we think kids should master before they leave home. Nope. This is about survival. In this episode, we talk about how to prep your pantry and your recipe box to empower kids to cook for themselves at nearly any age. This week is a permission slip to say: you’re on your own. Thank you, YOYO dinners.
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Yoyo Your Way to Sanity
If ever there was a time parents around the world want to yell, in unison, YOU ARE ON YOUR OWN, it is right now. This week we talk about meal ideas and pantry ingredients that help make it easy for kids to feed themselves.
Here are the links mentioned in our conversation:
Essential Recipes that Kids (and All of Us) Should Know How to Cook with Katie Morford
Prep: The Essential College Cookbook by Katie Morford
The Magic of Meatballs (which includes some of our favorite meatball recipes)
Annie’s Microwavable Mac and their canned pasta too
What to Freeze (and Not to Freeze) for Easier Weeknight Cooking
Amiyrah Martin’s genius insanely easy Egg-Tortilla Roll Up
Outer Aisle Gourmet (Stacie loves their cauliflower sandwich thins)
Rao’s at Thrive Market (and if you decide to try Thrive, don’t forget to sign up using our URL, thrivemarket.com/didntijustfeedyou)
Frontera sauces at Thrive
Maya Kaimal products at Thrive Market
A recipe for toasted breadcrumbs
A Dozen Cousins beans
All About Homemade Pizza — and How to Make It Easy (including our favorite pizza dough recipes)
Get Social With Us
Be sure to join our private Listener’s Group on Facebook (our favorite cocktail is WHISKEY — you’ll understand when you try to join). This week, we’ll be collecting all of your ideas, theoretical and tried-and-true, for YOYO meals that kids can cook themselves.
And of course, don’t forget to sign up for our newsletter to make sure you don’t miss a thing.
You can also find us at @didntijustfeed you on Instagram, Facebook, and Pinterest. And if you happen to love us as much as we love you (because y’all are very real), you can find Meghan as @meghan_splawn and Stacie as @staciebillis on Instagram.
Other DIJFY Episodes You’ll Love
If you loved this episode — and all the other episodes we linked to in this week’s episode — we think you’ll also love these past episode. Binge listen, activate!
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