Our local HyVee does in the Deli section. Shoppers can get a hot meal or one they can reheat themselves. Maybe if you have a large store nearby that does, too. They are generally open from 7 am - 4 pm on holidays and serve until 2 pm.
That's my Plan C for Thanksgiving and Christmas if I'm too sick to cook or are just too involved in another project. (Which is also why I'll probably make beef stew on Christmas Eve.)
That sounds good and pretty easy.
I just bought a boneless pork tenderloin at COSTCO for just under $17 ($1.99 lb ) and quickly, easily got sliced chops from it and got 15 zip lock bags of meals of two Thick, pork chops each bag. That is only a little more than $1 per meal for meat. I could make pork stew. Beef is too Expensive for me now. I bought a roast chicken at COSTCO too and got two zip lock bags, each with a thigh and leg, two with wing+ big hunk of breast attached, two bags with half a boneless breast and a seventh bag with (chicken soup fixings )the chicken back, neck,other bones, skin, fat, and gelled meat gelatine With a modest amount of chicken meat Attached. Thats 7 meals for $4.99
today, I froze a chopped celery bunch in 5 bags (for soup) froze 4 bags of chopped green onion, and now have to chop and freeze a bag of mixed color green peppers in about ten bags. I got my kefir grains (With little basket to hold em in milk) order and made a couple batches of kefir milk, it is easy, even if you dont know much about the finer points.
I got a quart jar of coleslaw fermenting on the counter for sauerkraut, and a bunch of heads of califlower (I chopped )I got them for reduced price at Fred meyer they are now sitting In the fridge pickling away with with onions, garlic, salt, vinegar and sugar .
