Cooking a wholesome dinner can be challenging when pitted against other timely tasks such as schoolwork, meetings, and transcribing Atlas Shrugged into zapf dingbats. Complete typography to-do lists and dish up a hot supper with today's Groupon: for $15, you get $35 worth of homemade, prepared meals from T.G.'s To Go in Richmond.

T.G.'s To Go's menu of homemade, ready-to-go meals satisfies groups of any size with homestyle casseroles, comfort foods, and side dishes. Trays of meatloaf, stuffed manicotti shells, and almond-topped chicken with wild rice vie for shopper's attention in the fresh and frozen coolers, with a small portion of any entree ($20) feeding a family of four or a touring kazoo quartet. Tubs of specialty salads such as black-eyed-pea and mandarin-orange ($3.50–$4.50/person) stand ready to act in a supporting role to any meal, and corn chowder and mushroom bisque ($10–$15/quart) warm bellies and fill soup-lover's bathtubs.