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[agatharchides]

This is only true if you have an easy source of magma available though. Without an easy volcano embark, glass costs fuel (or time to dig down to magma sea and haul sand down or pump magma up). Prepared meals, on the other hand require 2-3 dwarfs doing one of the following: farming/fishing/hunting/plant gathering and 1 cook, and you can buyout every single caravan in the game forever.

I mentioned the magma sea in my post as the one limiting factor of Glass goods. Though you are severely overstating how difficult it is to reach. Digging down to the magma sea is usually the first thing I do. With two miners and the other five dwarves sealing up any openings to the caverns I might have made, I usually have my magma forges and stockpiles dug out within one season after breaking through the aquifer.
The only problem is the long haul from sand on the surface to the forges at the bottom. Even if you simply carry the sandbags down instead of using shafts or something, you will still only need three or so dwarves total to fully buy out every caravan. You could also have a large sand collectors crew with one glass maker, but this requires more careful micromanaging.

It has its disadvantages, but its advantages make it a viable alternative to prepared meals.

It isn't hard, but it is probably harder than setting up a few farm plots. That's more true if aquifers are involved. They are certainly a viable alternative, really, almost anything is. Rock crafts, steel crafts, mechanisms, mugs, clothing, basically anything with quality modifiers. I would say meals win, but there are a host of perfectly viable, easy ways. Buying out trade caravans is not hard.

[Mushroo]

Considering my legendary cook just made a 53,000 quarry bush leave roast [100] out of 4 rock nuts and 1 potash (total profit 52,981), I'm sticking with "prepared meals" as my answer.

And then he made an 83,000 cave dragon meat roast [483] out of cave dragons and forgotten beasts that were trying to eat my dorfs anyway...

[werechicken]

Considering my legendary cook just made a 53,000 quarry bush leave roast [100] out of 4 rock nuts and 1 potash (total profit 52,981), I'm sticking with "prepared meals" as my answer.

And then he made an 83,000 cave dragon meat roast [483] out of cave dragons and forgotten beasts that were trying to eat my dorfs anyway...

Mmm dwarf-fed dragon.

I guess it depends on what you mean by easy to make if you mean not needing legendary dwarfs then it's probably crafts with gems encrusted.

[Iapetus]

1) Collect GCS silk goblinite.
2) Embroider.
3) Profit.