best grocery store to buy meals that you can just warm up at home?
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Anonymous
| Wegman's has the best prepared foods but that gets pricey. I am not a bad cook, but just busy with two kids in travel sports. We do a lot of easy meals that really just involve heating by various methods. Frozen ravioli (Celentano) with jarred sauce (Rao's) and frozen meatballs (Rao's or Rosina, I think it is?) and a bag of frozen broccoli that steams right in the bag. Tacos - tortillas or corn shells, ground chicken or turkey with a taco seasoning packet, corn, (pre-)shredded cheese, salsa/pico from Whole Foods, cut up an avocado, can of black beans. Burgers (beef/chicken/turkey - store-bought patties) on the Foreman grill, store-bought brioche buns, baked beans from a can and a vegetable steamed in the bag. That type of stuff. There is no real cooking but it all only takes a few minutes. **We do sometimes cook on the weekend, making stuff that freezes well to use during the week, but not always. |
Anonymous
| Fresh Market has delicious meals ready to microwave. |
Anonymous
| Wegmans has nice healthy options but would get expensive for feeding a family (most recent trip, they wanted $14 for a tray of macaroni and cheese that would feed 2. A single-portion plate of protein + 2 vegetable sides was also $14). Costco is where you want to go for 3 or more people - gyro or quesadilla or taco platters, pot pie/shepherd's pie (assuming you have room to bake/store!), pasta bakes, shrimp cocktail. |
Anonymous
| I get Wegmans pretty regularly -- it gets pricey but otherwise I find we order out and it ends up being the same and we make worse nutritional choices when we do that. |
Anonymous
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Trader Joe's. This is practically their specialty.
(if money is no object, then sure go to Wegmans) |
Anonymous
| I miss Fresh Direct for this. |
Anonymous
Yes! I miss Fresh Direct so much. |
Anonymous
| I usually cook my own stuff, but was too tired tonight. So, I cooked my DH, the half bag of TJs frozen dumplings we had and I had the quarter bag of frozen orange flavored fried chicken. We were both happy with what we had. Tasted like carryout...surprisingly good. |
Anonymous
| Wegmans. |
Anonymous
Yes, Trader Joe's. Just beware the bagged options are usually half what you'd expect, so I buy doubles |
Anonymous
| I'm sure you could dump beef short ribs + 2 cups water into a 8 quart Instapot pressure cooker. Boil mini potatoes, and slab butter + Old Bay after you drain. Microwave broccoli. It takes zero skills. Except reading Instapot instructions. Just vent carefully with oven mit after cooking is complete. |
Anonymous
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Or mix 1 box of cooked Ditalini pasta + 1 box of Pacific or TJ Cream of Tomatoe + 1 can Campbells tomatoe soup. It's homemade spaghetti-os.
Fry bok choy literally like 3 minutes, with way bottom of stalks chopped little like celery but whole rest of stalk intact. Mix it with plain boiled soba noodles (wheat kind). Sauce 5 tbsp soy + 1 tbsp rice vinegar + 1 tbsp sugar. Or can use any veggies you want from microwave. Just boil the ramen. |
Anonymous
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A Rotisserie chicken is a wonderful thing |
Anonymous
| Wegmans, but for the price you could just order takeout. Wegmans is marginally healthier (mostly) but not much. |
Anonymous
| We all love the stuffed peppers at Costco. I need to find a similar recipe and make them myself. |