Freezer cleaning.
You know those $2 ribeye steaks sold out of a truck in parking lots? Yeah. Now keep it in the freezer for two years. Combine that with a tiny amount of frozen salmon donated by someone a year ago and some instant mashed potatoes and corn.
I’m half asleep and this is what I get from that.
Cost per person $3.25 not including the peanut butter and jelly I will definitely eat after this.
A lot of the freezer meat shows up frozen and in tiny quantities. Like “gotta combine two to get fried rice out of it” small. So it sits there.
There is a thing where you see an ad or post about "20 ribeye for $20”. You go to the parking lot of your local Tractor Supply at the appointed time. Some guy tries to sell large packages of frozen beef, poultry and seafood, all from his farm. 800 miles away and deep inland so the seafood portion is sketchy. They only have like 6 of the ribeye deal. They are the thinnest cut possible and like three ounces of won’t-hold-themself-together when thawed. But it’s cheap protein so you get them. The more you use them the more stingy you get about using them until there are just two left in the back of the freezer hidden behind the emergency chicken nuggets that are $13 for 5 pounds in the freezer section of the local meat store.
That’s how it happened.