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Dan Marek - Ask Me Anything (Office Hours)
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Tuesday, February 28, 2023 at 11:00 am Pacific, 2:00 pm Eastern
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Question:
Can you provide a simplified shopping list for us, even if only verbally?
— Gayle Gilberto
Answer:
I think what you're talking about is one of the class and a lot of the classes we have like a master, you know list of different things you might need and that is an overwhelming list. There's like a lot of different ingredients on there. What I recommend doing is looking at the pace of the course that you're going through so If you know that you're going to go through, you know a unit per week or maybe three tasks per week or something like that. Look ahead and see which one of those you're going to do because a lot of our tasks will say like you can do this recipe or this recipe or this recipe. But you only need to complete one of them. And the shopping list that we have shows you ingredients for all three of those right? So look ahead to be able to see like, okay, you know what? I might want to do this recipe instead of this one. I'm gonna do that one and then look through your ingredients that you need on those ahead of time. Because then you can take the tasks and really kind of portion them out for the week as you want to go because you're definitely not going to take that whole shopping list and buy everything on that list just in one week because it's portioned out over the entire period of the course that you're taking. So that's really what I would do is kind of look at it to say like okay how many of these tasks am I realistically going to get through for the week? And then make your shopping list yourself to be able to say like, okay, like I'm going to I'm just pasta keeps coming back to mine, but I'm gonna make pasta this week. So and I know it's gonna be gluten-free right for the gluten-free task or whatever. So I'm gonna need this much gluten-free pasta. I'm gonna need you know to make a sauce. So maybe I want to do a walnut pesto so need walnuts and basil and salt and pepper and garlic and maybe Olive Oil if you want it, but you know, so that way you can list out all the ingredients that you actually need for it now. Some of those too might be larger things, you know, like like depending on the course you're doing olive oil might be in there. I might not but if it is olive oil, you don't want to just buy a small ball of olive oil, but when olive oil that you keep for a little bit longer or a bigger bottle that you can keep for a little bit longer but things that are fresh like the basil. Well, you just want to get what you need for that week. You definitely won't want it for something for leftovers for the next week as well. So I hope that helps a little bit just thinking a little bit ahead and also looking ahead. It's okay. If you look ahead as long as you click the complete button, you'll be fine with those as well. And for the graded tasks, they won't let you click the button until you've actually submitted something.