diff --git a/metricflow/dataflow/builder/dataflow_plan_builder.py b/metricflow/dataflow/builder/dataflow_plan_builder.py
index 324acb2477..48e3c743a7 100644
--- a/metricflow/dataflow/builder/dataflow_plan_builder.py
+++ b/metricflow/dataflow/builder/dataflow_plan_builder.py
@@ -553,6 +553,7 @@ def _find_measure_recipe(
             # this is going to be the lowest cost solution.
             if len(evaluation.join_recipes) == 0:
                 logger.info("Not evaluating other nodes since we found one that doesn't require joins")
+                break
 
         logger.info(f"Found {len(node_to_evaluation)} candidate measure nodes.")