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Also I grew up with a mom who worked full-time and was still expected to make dinner every evening for our family of four. So we had a lot of prepared/frozen foods for dinner. Not TV dinners (at least, not too frequently, maybe once a week at most), but frozen chicken strips, canned veggies, instant rice, etc.

And our oven was broken for most of my childhood/teen years, so stove top and microwave was how she cooked.

We joked that the four food groups were bagged, boxed, bottled, and canned.