Raising four kids in a semi-rural area means buying food in bulk. Whether that bulk food is in component or finished form, there's a lot of it. It takes a truck and a lot of diesel #2 to get the bacon back to the pantry. When the sustained average cost of family pizza night went over USD 75, I did an engineering analysis on the components and processing, and quickly determined that "build" was better than "buy" for our little business unit. [...more]