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Anonymous wrote:A crockpot is great for working families. Put everything in when you wake up, turn on low, and dinner is ready when you get home. My favorites are pork tenderloin and bbq sauce. Shred with forks and serve on hamburger buns. Add canned baked beans and deli coleslaw.

Beef pot roast is also good. Put potatoes, carrots, and onions on bottom of crockpot, add roast, top with salt, pepper, a packet of gravy mix, and a 1/2 c of water. It smells wonderful when you walk in the house after a long day.

Love the crockpot but my mornings are suuuper rushed - I’m trying to squeeze in a workout and an hour long commute. so no time even for that. Maybe literally just dumping in a pork chunk and some bbq sauce.

I sometimes buy precut or frozen veggies for the roast. Takes literally 2 minutes to dump it all in the crockpot. Occasionally, mix all the ingredients for chili, put it in the crockpot insert and store overnight in the fridge. I put the crockpot insert into the crockpot and turn on low when I get up. Never had an issue.

Anonymous wrote:[img]A coworker I know gets dinners for her family at lunch time. [b]So she gets lunch prices that way. Also, when I get takeout, I get more than one night's worth. So I will get like, four quarts of soup.

That’s brilliant.

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Anonymous wrote:Rao’s lasagna frozen section of grocery store

I stock up on these when they're on sale. I've had up to eight in my freezer at once.

Are they that good?

Anonymous wrote:A crockpot is great for working families. Put everything in when you wake up, turn on low, and dinner is ready when you get home. My favorites are pork tenderloin and bbq sauce. Shred with forks and serve on hamburger buns. Add canned baked beans and deli coleslaw.

Beef pot roast is also good. Put potatoes, carrots, and onions on bottom of crockpot, add roast, top with salt, pepper, a packet of gravy mix, and a 1/2 c of water. It smells wonderful when you walk in the house after a long day.

Love the crockpot but my mornings are suuuper rushed - I’m trying to squeeze in a workout and an hour long commute. so no time even for that. Maybe literally just dumping in a pork chunk and some bbq sauce.

Anonymous wrote:Rao’s lasagna frozen section of grocery store

I stock up on these when they're on sale. I've had up to eight in my freezer at once.

Anonymous wrote:Panera at Dupont. Pick 2: sandwiches, soups, -and salads. Sign up for their rewards and they’ll give you free stuff all the time.

is that a dinner deal or just their usual? What’s good there?

Rao’s lasagna frozen section of grocery store

A crockpot is great for working families. Put everything in when you wake up, turn on low, and dinner is ready when you get home. My favorites are pork tenderloin and bbq sauce. Shred with forks and serve on hamburger buns. Add canned baked beans and deli coleslaw.

Beef pot roast is also good. Put potatoes, carrots, and onions on bottom of crockpot, add roast, top with salt, pepper, a packet of gravy mix, and a 1/2 c of water. It smells wonderful when you walk in the house after a long day.

This isn’t takeout but in a similar situation I turn toTrader Joe’s. My sons and I do a rotation of:

dumplings + edamame
fried rice and orange chicken
lemon spatchcocked chicken, roasted broccoli and a take and bake baguette
Marinated beef with freezer rice and veg
salmon, broccoli, and baby potatoes
Then we do one night of leftovers or pizza with one of the bagged salads

Both boys can “cook” any of these things so whoever is home chooses what we’re eating and nobody complains.

A coworker I know gets dinners for her family at lunch time. So she gets lunch prices that way. Also, when I get takeout, I get more than one night's worth. So I will get like, four quarts of soup.

Anonymous wrote:Panera at Dupont. Pick 2: sandwiches, soups, -and salads. Sign up for their rewards and they’ll give you free stuff all the time.

Good idea. And if you join their sip clip for $5/month you can have coffee, tea, lemonade any time.

Rotisserie chicken from the grocery store. At least one left over meal or lunches too.

Panera at Dupont. Pick 2: sandwiches, soups, -and salads. Sign up for their rewards and they’ll give you free stuff all the time.

Anonymous wrote:100% RTO has got me beat. I think I need to add takeout to the dinner rotation for my 13 year old son and I. Budget is a consideration so I’m looking for options I can pickup downtown that are healthy-ish but not too expensive. I work south of Dupont and can catch the metro home at Dupont, Foggy Bottom or Farragut West. any ideas for something fast-casual-healthyish I could grab on my way home? Are there any lunch places that do dinner deals? Any places that give discounts on unsold items at the end of the day? (I asked at Tatte and they acted like I was nuts …)

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100% RTO has got me beat. I think I need to add takeout to the dinner rotation for my 13 year old son and I. Budget is a consideration so I’m looking for options I can pickup downtown that are healthy-ish but not too expensive. I work south of Dupont and can catch the metro home at Dupont, Foggy Bottom or Farragut West. any ideas for something fast-casual-healthyish I could grab on my way home? Are there any lunch places that do dinner deals? Any places that give discounts on unsold items at the end of the day? (I asked at Tatte and they acted like I was nuts …)