One of the many joys of living alone is that you can eat dinner in whatever order you like and however you like. So I can eat some veggies from the stew mixed in with some potatoes, then stop until I feel hungry again and then go eat a piece of meat from the stew and then maybe 90 minutes later decide I’m ready for the salad or the sugar free dessert… whichever I feel like eating first. And no one, not even my birds, think any of that is strange.