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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We do a lot of bowls:
brown rice, barley or kamut 
Bag salads 
Roasted chicken (Whole foods, Tuesday sale) or extra firm tofu cooked in air fryer.
Beans (black for Mexican, chick peas for Mediterranean, white for Italian).

I cook a whole turkey when I can find good price. Use that meat for soups, tacos, bowls. Throw bones in crockpot w/ onion& celery. Let it cook for 24 hours, strain into mason jars, scoop off fat. Easy soup.

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+1 on roasting a turkey when you find a good price. Rotisserie chicken is fine in a pinch, but if you are willing to cook a turkey, you can get 4x or 5x the meat for the same price. I've got teens, and DH and I both work full time. Here are some things that helped us:

- I have a chest freezer in the laundry room. I bought it used several years ago for $50-60. 
- I try to plan weekly menus. Right now, I'm focused on trying to use what's on hand and in season, which means a lot of spinach and kale cooked with the grains/protein we already have on hand.    
- I have a Crock Pot and use it.  
- I made a pantry inventory list over break to have a better sense of what we already have on hand. 
- Do some advance work on the weekends or on days you know you have more time. I typically spend a few hours prepping for the week over the weekend, and will also do maybe 15 minutes of prep work mid-day on my remote work days. 
- AI will generate menus for you if you have an odd set of ingredients on hand, and don't know what to do with them.

I just unsubscribed to every grocery delivery service I was using. I found them hard to keep up with, and I ended up with duplicate items. The only thing related to food or recipes that I am still paying for is NYT cooking. It's $5/month (I think) and I have found it worthwhile. Here's an example of a recipe that I found today that I will be making -- I haven't made it before, but it's a five-star recipe with lots of reviews, so I'm willing to try it:

https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1021485-one-pan-orzo-with-spinach-and-feta?unlocked_article_code=1.l04.tGAN.zEED4JSEiJRm&smid=share-url

I already have orzo, frozen peas, garlic, and lemon on hand (maybe feta, too).

Good luck, OP!

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