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Earlier this year, I decided to stop beating myself up for not being the cook I once was.

Instead, I adopted afood as fuel attitude.

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Heres what Ive tried and how these kitchen shortcuts fared.

I smashed ADD TO CART without thinking twice.

You know how boxed mac and cheese cooks up; same concept here.

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My husband was not a fan, but the Goodles are cheesy and just salty enough to satisfy me.

Gal Gadot, take my money!

Unsurprisingly, I lack energy almost as much as I lack the discipline to take vitamins every day.

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Its not hard, I know, but its just anotherthingon a to-do list that never stops growing.

you could get me to do anything if you put it in chocolate form.

(A news headline says that Sarah Hylands Booty Is Straight ?

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In A Thong Bikini, so we do have that in common.)

I also got into theHype Bites, which deliver 500 mcg of vitamin B12.

Poppi

In the last decade, Ive had one or two glasses of soda.

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Its just not my thing.

Initially, PoppisRaspberry Rosevariety was pleasantly fizzy but, to my palate, still more soda-esque than I like.

During a heat wave, it was refreshing and light in a way that syrupy soda is not.

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What a FUN-HATER.)

I remember carefully melting the chocolate in abain-marie.

Pretty good and not sickly-sweet, which I appreciate.

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Did the kids eat them?

I like homemade brownies but I am also okay with a mix that gets brownies on my plate faster.

Jacques Torres can do the elaborate chocolate thing.

Mosaic

My husband and I consistently feed our sons.

They may complain about meals, but theres always a meal on the table.

Mosaic is one of many companies that ship frozen meals.

The kids would not even try any of the meals if youre keeping score.

Not even a bite.

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