Having left the corporate world in order to feed my family during the school year (among other things), I’m faced with the endless culinary possibilities of today’s internet-based recipes and globally sourced exotic foods, while at the same time wanting to take advantage of local and healthy meat and produce where possible. I derive a certain enjoyment from food preparation but I often find it disappointing to put in all that effort only to have everything be gone in far less time than it took to prepare. I’d rather prepare larger batches and have food ready to be thawed for dinner.
I know that industrialization of food production has been done to death, and that’s not quite what I’m looking for. However, I would like to explore the use of the freezer as a way to put together good healthy food ingredients as well as near-fully prepared meals or dishes, whether in family- or single-sized portions. I can test these concoctions on myself during lunches, since I will eat pretty much any thawed mush, but I will hopefully discover frozen food secrets on the internet and in my own kitchen through my experimentation, providing a healthy and happy eating experience without necessarily slaving away between 4pm and 6pm every day.
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