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Over the last year or so, I have become increasingly resistant to cooking dinner. I am responsible for doing the majority of the cooking in my household, and I am lucky to have a spouse who is very easy to please food wise, but for some reaon, the idea of cooking at the end of the day became totally daunting.

I re-examined the way that I had been shopping and cooking, and was able to discover what was at the root of my cooking issues: not enough forethought or planning. Usually, after work, I would come home, look in our nearly empty cabinets, try (often in vain) to come up with an idea for dinner, drag myself to the store, and then prepare dinner in a totally exhausted state. So, long story short, I am now doing the following: