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[quote=Anonymous]Stop ordering pizza out. Either make it at home, you can buy premade crust and sauce if you want, or go with frozen. There are decent frozen pizzas.

When we wanted to cut down on eating, the first thing we did was stock our freezer with easy meals. Like you, we were finding ourselves run ragged and sometimes just couldn't bear the thought of cooking a meal. Having a freezer stocked with frozen food helped us over that hump. Initially, it was premade frozen stuff. Frozen pizzas, burritos, lasagnas, frozen veggies, pasta, anything and everything in kit form. We limited ourselves to eating out once a week, and my husband continued eating lunches out because it was his get away from the office sanity time.

Over time, we got better at cooking double meals and freezing half of them for later. That replaced a lot of the premade freezer stuff. We tried some crockpot meals, but because we have a split household (vegetarian and omnivores) we had a really hard time coming up with recipes that worked for all of us. When a recipe was a hit, we saved it. The goal was to end up with 2 - 4 weeks of recipes we knew we liked so we could meal plan. Eventually, I hope to end up with a book of related recipes so if we're making something that uses an ingredient, I can make sure that it's followed by recipes that also use that ingredient. Someday!

I recommend small steps because it sounds like you've been through a lot and are working on re-establishing better habits. That halfway step with premade freezer meals was really invaluable for us.[/quote]

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