...sometimes you’re tired after work...
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Which is why it’s smart to cook double batches and freeze meal-sized portions for those days. Takes no energy to set out the frozen, prepared meals and warm them up.
Not a lot of temptation where I live and I like to cook. I still don’t do it every day. The take out or sit down meals available in the country are pitiful. We cook better ourselves.
Don’t like to make those double batches? Buy frozen pizza and add toppings. Form ground beef into patties, cook what you’ll eat and freeze the extras. Keep tortillas on hand and make wraps or burritos with whatever you like or have on hand. When all else palls, sometimes a quick-baked microwaved potato topped with butter and cheese (more if you’re ambitious), hits the spot.
I feel guilty if I spend $10 a serving at a restaurant. I can feed the two of us dinner for a week on that.
“double”?
one of my favorite things to do is to make giant batches of stews and spaghetti sauces and such and freeze several portions that last a day or two when thawed ... i love to cook but don’t necessarily feel like it everyday, so nothing better than to peruse a freezer full of amazing home-cooked meals to choose from ...