Hey Reader, After being away for so long I wasn't sure what to expect when I hit send on that last email. Hearing back from so many of you was such a relief. And the thing that stood out most was how many of you said the same thing: figuring out what to make for dinner every single night is completely exhausting. And it is. It really, truly is. It's not the cooking, it's the deciding (and let's be honest, the cleaning). Every single day, multiple times a day, we need to eat and someone has to...

Hi Reader, I've missed being in your inbox and I have a pretty good excuse, I promise. I had a baby! Before she arrived, I went a little crazy stocking our freezer. Dozens of meals: soups, proteins, breakfast stuff, one handed snacks, dump crockpot meals. Enough food to get us through those first few months without me having to think about dinner once. And honestly, Reader. It worked. Completely. For months, meals were handled before the chaos of the day even started. And then we ran out. I...

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