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Friday Fun Thread for February 27, 2026

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Cooking

Looking for some delicious meals to make for family. But upgrading easy meals seems to have more bang for the buck than making hard meals. For example: fish tacos.

Caesar salad kit from the grocery store. Frozen fish sticks. Tortillas. Combine them and they make acceptable fish tacos. My girls won't eat those fish tacos, but they will eat fish sticks with their chosen sauce, and Caesar salad.

Anyone have any similar food hacks?

Make giant pots of soup and freeze them (in individual serving sizes). If you x3, x4, x5 a normal soup recipe it takes less than that many times effort. Especially if you use one that includes a bunch of things like canned tomatoes and beans rather than fresh chopped vegetables (though most of mine take a combination of both). Eat some of it fresh, freeze the rest (we have a bunch of plastic 2-cup containers my wife brought home from work). This doesn't work for every type of soup (noodles turn to mush, for example) but for some of them it's fine. Then on demand you can unfreeze a serving of soup and it has all of the cost and nutrition value of homemade soup but the convenience of canned soup. If you regularly do this with a variety of recipes then you can have a variety of soup types so you're not stuck eating the same thing every day.

It also works with other things like pizza or calzones. My basement freezer is a big box packed with presents from past me to future me. The point being I don't want to cook every day. But I can have home cooked meals every day anyway, as long as I force multiply when I need to.

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