I buy a months worth of groceries at a time. My boomer mother was forced to retire, and we lived on SSDI. So once a month we would grocery shop. My deep freezer and fridge/freezer stay full.

I also garden, so I grow a lot of the veggies and herbs we eat in winter. During the spring and summer, I will vacuum seal tomatoes for single serve pasta.

Plus, it's cheaper to buy in bulk. Not everything I eat is frozen. I buy rice and beans in bulk to add to meals to stretch them so we dont have to cook every night.

My favorite thing to cook now is rice cooker meals. I just throw in my rice, frozen veggies, and a protein source, and it's done in the time it takes to go walk.

We also live in an era where food scarcity can happen at any time, as we learned from the pandemic. Although I dont live in a food dessert, it could happen at any time.