For many years, we used a food service. I didn’t cook. It was nice, because we picked up food twice a week, and it had full nutritional information.\n<\/p>\n
They changed how they were doing things and was no longer convenient for us. We tried a different service, but they didn’t have our food half the time and it was even less convenient.\n<\/p>\n
So I started cooking. First, we were wasting a lot of food. Part of the problem is that I grew up cooking for a family of four, and I’m still used to cooking those amounts. Also buying supplies was hard. We weren’t using a full \u00bd gallon of milk, dozen eggs, or loaf of bread before it spoiled.\n<\/p>\n
Problem solved \u2013 was on ham radio one evening when one of my ham radio buddies mentioned he had a freezer that needed a home. I bought the freezer from him along with some meat, and he delivered it to the house. It’s a chest freezer, but by adding some freezer crates from the Container Store it’s very easy to organize.\n<\/p>\n
So I still cook for four, but I freeze the extra portions individually. When it comes time to use the extra portions, I tweak the results \u2013 adding fresh ingredients, and making a new meal.\n<\/p>\n
I freeze portions of bread, and plan to start freezing milk. I don’t freeze eggs, but I boil my eggs when they get old and have them for lunch.\n<\/p>\n
For lunch, I take a lot of small portions of lots of individual things \u2013 a boiled egg or two, fruit, sweet bread, peanut butter, etc and a couple of snack packs. That way, I can eat a little at a time \u2013 something I need with my lap band.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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