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5. Only Shop Once a Week?
If you can only shop once a week or do not have enough time to

prepare your dinner, you can consider the following：
• Plan ahead for meals for a couple of days. Consider different
combinations of meat, side ingredients and vegetables.

• Marinate and cook the meat you bought.
• Cut the same kind of meat into same shape for easy cooking (e.g.
slice/dice the pork, shred chicken).

• Divide the cooked meat into one-meal portions and put them in sealed,
clean containers with the cooking date labelled. Then, put them in the
freezer compartment.

• Defrost the frozen meat in the refrigerator one day before cooking.
• Cook the meat with vegetables to save time. For safe consumption, the
meat must be re-heated thoroughly until the core temperature reaches
75 ℃ or above.

Shopping Tips
Some supermarkets provide peeled and pre-cut vegetables (e.g. pumpkin cubes, winter melon
cubes, hairy gourd sticks, zucchini slices) for 1 to 2 people. Pre-cut meat (e.g. shredded
chickens, meat cubes) and soup packs with pre-cut vegetables included are also available.
Although ready-to-use ingredients are more expensive, you can save a lot of time on meal
preparation. Nevertheless, be aware of their expiry date and freshness.

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