One pretense I got over very quickly living on my own is the idea that you should run your kitchen by someone else's standards. If buying frozen veg means you'll actually eat it? GOOD. If getting pre-mixed/bagged salads gets you to eat them? GOOD. Do what will get you to eat. Full stop.

One day I was bitching to myself about why certain things were inconveniently placed. I realized it was because everything was where someone else had put it. So I rearranged my kitchen to suit myself and it was very liberating. Free yourselves from kitchen rules.

I agree with you, but I'll add my own bit of food snobbery: if you're eating tomatoes in the winter they better be canned (or dried).

I love bagged salads, a serious game changer for me

frozen vegs are great! if you're going to cook them, they're a perfectly good alternative to fresh, not nutritionally inferior, less work and less waste. if you're going to eat them raw, the texture will be weird after thawing, so i don't recommend that, like don't make a salad wih frozen vegs.

too quote some parents i know. Fed is best. Whatever keeps you sustained is what is good.

Also it’s basically impossible to spend more money cooking at home than you would on DoorDash, so don’t worry about the extra expense of pre-prepped food if it means you’ll actually cook and eat it

100% rice cooker good for rice and steaming frozen veggies when you don't have spoons for cooking

FED IS BEST! Also frozen fruits and veggies are very nutritious.