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everything everybody said already, plus you should learn to cook some healthy easy meals well so when you're hungry you don't break down and get some greasy drive-thru disaster

learn how to bake a chicken in the same pan as potatoes and yams and carrots, that's a good complete meal and you'll have leftovers for at least a couple days

learn how to make soups and stews esp if you have access to a slow cooker

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ebert is a gift to humanity

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farmers markets are great but the one around here is stupid expensive with some things

a really cheap place for some vegetables is mexican groceries, i don't know if they have those where you live but most of them have stuff for like 1/3 the price of normal groceries and it's worth rooting around the bad stuff for

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goose just let the chicken thaw overnight, remove the giblets if you want, cover a deep pan/dish with a large sheet of parchment paper, pour some olive oil all up ins, put the chicken in the pan, put all your vegetables and stuff around it, maybe a few minced garlic cloves, throw some more olive oil and some salt and pepper and rosemary on it, loosely wrap it in the parchment paper (ie as tight as you can but don't kill yourself over it) and shove it in the oven at 350F for probably like two hours (20 mins per lb is the theory)

the onions and potatoes and carrots should cook to perfection along with the chicken. the parchment paper and olive oil is important because it will keep your chicken moist as fuck

it's good to do for yourself on a sunday so you have leftovers for the work week, and it is also impressive to guests

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yeah keep a lot of different herbs and spices around and figure out what they taste good on (usually there are hints on the labels.) this makes improvising good meals out of what you have lying around a lot better