<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">Good advice. There is a former chef at our farmer's market who sells really good stuff. But once my wife is well, we'll be cooking up a storm. I chop vegetables and freeze them to save some time in the kitchen. Ditto cutting up beef for stew. Dump everything in the slow cooker, raid the spice rack, and go read. bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Apr 4, 2022 at 1:50 PM Will Steinberg via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">In that case I feel like the best choice would be to go to some kind of organic market type place and check the freezers; or, sometimes people will make fresh stuff and freeze it to sell at e.g. a farmers' market</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Apr 4, 2022 at 1:26 PM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Thank you for your interest. We are heavily into cooking sauces and such, marinara, chili, beef stew and freezing them, including making my own chicken broth. A death in the family and the hospitalization of my wife and subsequent home recovery of her ability to walk has caused me to explore the possibilities. Fast food will never, I hope, become a main source of meals. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Huge traffic jams around here are caused by the elderly going to fast food outlets. Will never do that (although once a year or so I get a hankering for those little gutbusters at Krystal, or a double bacon cheeseburger at Wendy's. )</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">bill w</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Things seemed to get hidden in my chest freezer. I now prefer the upright by far. </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Apr 4, 2022 at 12:08 PM Will Steinberg via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">No offense man but anyone interested in life extension should not be putting Marie Callender's pot pies in their body more than very rarely. Plus you might be surprised how easy it is to cook a much tastier pot pie<div><br></div><div>@William: cook food and freeze it. Get a flat top freezer. Local farms often sell cheap good meat. Homemade breakfast sausage is easy to make and freeze a month's worth of in a few hours<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Apr 3, 2022 at 12:09 AM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Sat, Apr 2, 2022 at 3:30 PM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">I have had occasion to buy some frozen dinners lately and my judgment is that the fillings are sparse - really very little chicken or other meat. Tastes are good, but these are not good values - so far.</div><div style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">So I wonder if any of you know of brands that are more full of the meat advertised (Yeah, I could add some), or are all of them ripoffs?</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I have had good experiences with Marie Callender's pot pies. </div></div></div>
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