If your going that route, then why not make your own noodles. You can make egg noodles cheaper than you can buy them. So you could feed your family on homemade noodles covered in some sauce which is probably just as health as mac and cheese.

Freezing and pre-prep can help with the time issue. It will hurt the quality, but it will still be healthy. That said, I shop daily not because I have to, but because I don't like to plan my meals.

Physically, buying fresh food is cheaper. Time wise it is more expensive.

My wife and I have saved a ton of money by making our own bread, pasta sauce, soups, etc. We only eat fresh fruits, veggies, and meats and have saved tons.

However, the time investment to make a jar of salsa and can it, or to make a large pot of pasta sauce or chicken stock for the next month or two is probably out of the range of time a single mother with two jobs has.

I fully agree, I think anything funded with public funds should be public domain.

This solves two problems

1) It gives us more value for what we paid for. This helps other researchers get easy access to data.
2) It would result in less money being spent by the government. Many companies wouldn't take government money with this restriction, this means more altruistic work would be done and our money would be better spent.

I suffer from some kind of mental problem where when presented with a choice, I break into a near frenzy of research on said choices. It can almost paralyze my choices as I try to discover the best choice. While I enjoy the research, sometimes I think I would be happier to just have one choice.

If it makes you feel better, I use YYYY/MM/DD

I didn't buy it, I was selected to test it. I had no idea what capabilities they would give it. Turns out, it was functionally useless for anything I do with technology.

Sucked as a web browser (tablet is better) and sucked as a laptop.

Exactly,

I have a CR-48 sitting on my desk. It has been off for at least a year. I was unable to do any of the things I do on a daily basis with it. I need a full terminal with ssh support, a nice development environment that doesn't require 3rd party servers I am not in control of, and the ability to play and listen to my 40 gigs of music.

Exposing beer to the air will oxidize it and make it taste way worse. So what you will get is nasty frozen beer.

What would be better is to come up with a complex process of removing the water and condensing it down into a beer flavored shot!

That is true, I guess all my time fucking those chicks in the captains quarters must have given him the wrong idea.