to think frozen mash is a work of genius?

[BriechonCheese]

I had resisted for ages but bought some on a whim earlier this year and found it incredibly handy for those nights when I'm picking up and ferrying DC to various activities. It doesn't beat the real thing but it comes pretty damn close.

Does anyone else have any genius home or food products that they expected to be crap but now use to happily to survive family life?

Thank you all for sharing your tips on making life a bit easier. It's so helpful.
The short cuts might not always be the 100% tastiest but on nights where one DC is in one direction doing something, another is in need of a taxi service and the others are striving 90% will do us!