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We found Beyond that, if work or other factors limit nadas for emergencies while having the frozen

that many of your time in the kitchen, there are many other filling ready to go for a faster meal on another
ways to pursue “convenience” without resorting occasion. (Pyrex containers freeze amazingly
the services to outfits propped up by gobs of fake money. One well and allow you to store many meals plastic-
offered “full easy option is to get an Instant Pot and compile free except for the lids—the lids generally last
meals” that a list of quick and easy meals that you know about three to seven years.)
how to make in it. Our Instant Pot has saved us
As a final note, we found that many of the
really weren’t on many a day that “has not gone according to services offered “full meals” that really weren’t
full meals. plan,” turning a catastrophe into an easy, tasty full meals. Also, many people we interviewed
meal. With some frozen organic vegetables, ap- mentioned that they often substituted ingredients
propriate easy cuts of meat, some frozen stock, or had to supplement with additional dishes. If
a few minutes of prep and an hour of cooking, one weighs these and other limitations against
you are good to go! our household’s rough cost of three dollars per
Second, find real-food friends interested in person per meal—using a variety of tasty recipes
doing meal swaps. This gives you the option of with local and/or organic ingredients—our vote
having one night a week when you don’t need goes to the home-cooked meal every time.
to cook. For example, you can make a meal for
your friends on Mondays, and they will cover John Moody is a food grower, researcher and
you on Thursdays. author, appearing at conferences across the
Third, find a like-minded local family that country and helping people improve their lives,
could use some extra money and have them land and health. His new books The Elderberry
make meals for you. Over the years, I have seen Book and Winning the War Against Weeds
many young families with small kids do this for are available at johnwmoody.com. Elderberry
others. Sometimes, those “hiring out” meals products are available at abbyselderberry.com.
are single people who do not have time to cook REFERENCES
because of work or school; other times, it might 1. Meyer Z. Growing home meal kit phenomenon is
be families with children who don’t want to eat stirring up food industry, stressing out supermar-
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Walmart, Whole Foods and Kroger are taking the
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ing Traditions empanadas, we normally make a 4. Roberts C. How Blue Apron became a massive $2
billion disaster. Observer, February 20, 2020.
triple to quadruple batch of the filling. We freeze
half of the extra filling, make a double recipe of
the rest, and then freeze some finished empa-

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