I’ve been buying fresh meat since HS. My mom was big on freezing meat. It’s an 80’a thing brought on my the Ziplock people. “Go buy a bunch of fresh food then freeze it for months in our plastic bags!” No thanks.
Then she would just let the chicken thaw in it’s own gross ass chicken water (or beef in its own blood) in the sink all day. Or worse nuke it in the microwave (!!??). Fuck that. I would come home from school, throw that shit out and go buy fresh meat.
If you can’t find 10-20 minutes to go buy fresh food your doing something wrong w your time.
Same w vegetables.