That was gonna do like a big like monster truck rally kind of intro and it was gonna be like from Casablanca to the cascades

From the to loose to Tacoma, but I got all the places wrong so we can't do that

Welcome back listeners future collars and cooking enthusiasts

This is dinner s os the show where we help you save dinner or whatever you happen to be cooking

I'm Chris Morocco food director of Bon Appetit and Epicurious

This week we're putting our dinner s os on ice and highlighting your kitchens unsung hero

Now our collar this week Lana is already pretty hip to her freezer

Maybe once every other month I'll spend a few hours on the weekend and cook you know 15 or 20 meals and stick them in the freezer

Lana lives in a pretty rural area in the mountains of Washington state with her husband and toddler

And that far outside of town it can be difficult to do regular grocery runs

So she shops about once a month and goes all in on freezer meals

But even still meal prep can be tricky

What I try and do is I you know I'll Google or I'll watch on YouTube or look at different websites to get ideas for recipes

And things always sound really good to me

But they're either things that I don't think will freeze well or I don't know how to adapt them to freeze well

And so a lot of it's kind of just been trial and error

It's funny because I think I'm like the exact opposite of you

Like at 6 p.m. every day I go down to the kitchen and I open up the refrigerator

And I ask myself where is dinner

Like what's it gonna be how do I make this happen like in about an hour

I'm gonna have to bring in like kind of the A team on this one because this is something I could frankly use some help with too

Yeah

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