When my youngest daughter refused to eat this one, I explained to her that she really should give it a good go, as I'd spent a fair amount of time cutting up and preparing the vegetables to go into the fried rice. Now this wasn't exactly true, but I had spent a fair amount of time standing at the supermarket freezer, deciding whether to buy the frozen fried rice and vegetables or the frozen stir fry vegetables in Alfredo Sauce. In the end, the fried rice won out.
Okay, so now I'm struggling. Yes I'm resorting to pre-made meals more and more. Yes I feel bad about it. But I'll get by. I know people who live on this kind of food. It works for them. They don't seem to have grown any extra appendages or started talking in unrecognisable voices. No nasty side effects there. So I figure the odd use of such foods is a fairly safe risk. Although I will admit, it felt wrong - even for me - to be dropping a frozen brown cube into the pan, that would eventually become the sauce. Somehow, the words "stir until the sauce melts" just don't seem right to me.
Of course I did cook the chicken. And that was rather nice. So I don't feel too bad.
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