Food

[wallwalker]

I don't like convenience foods. I don't want to eat them anymore. But every time I try to cook from scratch - or from "scratch," even, using a few shortcuts - we end up with more than we can eat. Every recipe I've tried to make ahead has resulted in more waste than I'm comfortable with, because we just can't eat it in time. That's why my attempt at make-ahead slow-cooked food hasn't lasted. Every dish I've made I had to either throw away or give part of it away! (The pot roast was quite a hit.)

How do you cook for two using fresh ingredients, not spend a ton more money than necessary on small amounts of produce and whatnot (so that they don't go bad,) and not have leftovers to the point that everyone gets sick of them? I seriously do not know.

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I'm very good at this game, actually

[novel_machinist]

My wife and I make a LOT of use of our icebox. We'll buy meat in a sale package and partition it for meals. So, for us, one large steak feeds us both, so each steak gets its own baggie. Two small pork chops per baggie, that sort of thing. We tend to buy fruit and veg at least every other week, and just force ourselves to keep to what we buy. This week it's Kale and some tiny potatoes and mushrooms. That's what we're eating, so we're making use of recipes.

We eat a lot of leftovers for lunches

If we do a large soup or meal we just package it and pop it right into the freezer.

In short, the freezer. Blanching veggies and freezing them is also aces.