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[quote=Anonymous]It's cooking but it's a shortcut. It's fine. I'm not a personal chef and cannot spend an hour or two cooking a "real" meal every single day of our lives, plus cover breakfast and lunch and snacks, and still have a job and a functioning brain. I can't.

Usually I solve this by making large meals from scratch where half of it can be frozen or where we will get several nights of leftover out of it. I prefer this to frozen items from Trader Joe's because the quality is better but I still get the ease of just throwing something in the oven or thawing it on the stovetop and not actually having to cook that night. I will also do stuff like soup and sandwiches (where the soup is from a carton) or breakfast for dinner, where the cooking aspect of the meal is very simple and easy. It's still cooking -- it does actually take some skill to make a really good grilled cheese -- but I don't have to chop vegetables or worry about seasoning or marinade anything, etc.

Tonight we are having a frozen casserole I made last month and it's large enough that we'll be able to have leftovers from it tomorrow for dinner. I'll throw together a simple salad and that's dinner. It's best of both worlds because I did actually put quite a bit of effort into this meal, which includes good quality vegetables and meat and is thoughtfully seasoned (i.e. not loaded with salt and preservatives like a lot of frozen foods), but I did it a month ago so I can just enjoy the results tonight without having to do much. Best of both worlds.[/quote]

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