How To Make Freezer Dinner Packets — Cooking Lessons from The Kitchn

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What’s for dinner tonight? Let’s ask the freezer. Here’s a little gift you can prep for yourself to have an almost effortless dinner ready to go at any time: frozen foil-packet meal kits.

Unlike more traditional frozen dinner kits, which are intended to feed four or more, packets are single-serve and can feed just one person at a time. Frozen foil packets are also wonderful for teens who might need to feed themselves, as they are mostly hands-off and only require an oven.

Here’s how to take a small amount of time and transform it into foil dinner packets, ready to bake.

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