From Dad Man's Kitchen

There’s a time for slowly simmering tomatoes, garlic and herbs on the stove, and there’s a time for getting dinner on the table before somebody starts eating shredded cheese directly out of the refrigerator. The trick isn’t avoiding store-bought pasta sauce.

Eating real food does not require making everything from scratch.

Processed food has become one of those phrases that sounds like it should come with a warning label. But is all processed food actually bad for us? And what does “ultra-processed” even mean?

Dad Man is changing. What started with cooking for people is becoming something bigger: a way to help families spend less time figuring out dinner and more time enjoying it.

Eating mostly whole foods doesn’t mean everything has to be made from scratch. Here are seven processed foods I’m perfectly happy to keep in my kitchen—and what I look for when buying them.

Eating a whole-food diet doesn’t mean making your own bread, yogurt and chicken stock every weekend. Here’s how I think about whole foods, processed foods and the very important space in between.