Even just the frozen food at your normal grocery store is really good. I’m pretty sure some of it it sourced in the same place these restaurants get their food. (I’m pretty sure I can get McDonald’s hash browns at my local Kroger.)

If you tend to buy in bulk, you might want to check out restaurant supply places like GFS. If I am doing bulk baking or cooking, I will sometimes pick up a few things from them. They are open to the public and sell a lot of stuff that restaurants use, too.

Seconding frozen veggies (and fruit). They’re frozen at their ripest. Makes for amazing roasted veggies in those cold winter months where I’m not feeling soup.

I was raised Roman Catholic and I was taught about the schism.

However, it was framed as the Eastern Orthodox Catholics broke off from mainstream Catholicism, therefore Roman Catholics were the “original Catholics.”

It does kind of tickle me how much the folks that taught me that, value tradition so highly that they try to rationalize this kind of thing until they once are “traditional.”