I am done, done I say with any Stouffers frozen dinners.

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87. Here are my single person cooking hacks

First of all, no one should be nuking plastic, then consuming that food. And frozen meals are wasteful, non-recyclable, and more expensive. Most are crap tasting and crap nutrition, compared to what you can make, even if you don’t like to cook or pressed for time.

If you are cooking for one, your freezer is your friend! Here are a few of my hacks:

Spend one afternoon making an actual lasagna (and add veggies and other nurtrition boosts) create small portions and freeze them. Lasagna is one of those things that actually taste better after sitting for a bit as the flavors marinate together.

Homemade Soup is your friend! But if you are going to go to the work of making it, make sure you make a lot extra that you can freeze. One of my favorite hacks is taking the gelato brand called Talenti that actually uses reusable plastic JARS that are freezable (rather than other ice cream brands that use crappy, waxy non-recyclable cartons). Pour soup into the empty jars, which equal one serving of soup. So when you’re ready to eat it, you just put a few in the fridge for a day before as it thaws and then pour out the contents into a small pot.

(The plastic is NEVER heated—that is where the problems happen. These Talenti jars are totally reusable, recyclable and can freeze.plus, they make incredible storage containers for all sorts of things! Granted Talenti is more expensive and high-quality gelato, but you get a free container from it and you have to eat the gelato to get it. Win win.)

As you make more different kinds of soup, you’ll have a whole variety in your freezer. And you’ll have room in your freezer because you quit buying crappy microwavable frozen dinners that leach chemicals when heated.