Once a Month Cooking/ Freezer meals
In my quest for simpler living, I have looked into once a month cooking (OAMC) and I really really like the concept. Basically, you make a detailed menu plan and list for a whole month, then shop and cook in a few days, the meals you will eat for the whole month. You freeze them, thaw them out the night before they are to be made then, pop them in the oven, voila! Dinner is served. So I began researching what could be frozen, etc and how to go about doing this. There are many great websites out there that talk about it and give some great recipes. A simple web search turned up some great sites. I think that personally, cooking for the whole month is a little to much for me, with three kids under the age of 5, but I adore the idea of making extra and a bunch of meals at a time and freezing them, for whenever they are needed. My husband works a weird shift, he goes into work at 2 pm, so lunch is our main meal together, but because we are always doing errands, or just spending family time, we arrive back home around 11:30 or noon, and there is just no time to thaw out meat, plan a meal, etc and get it on the table before he has to leave at 1. So I am going to begin making meals ahead of time in the evenings when the kids are calm and ready for bed, I will start meals, and then freeze them, then first thing in the morning , grab it out of the freezer and pop it in! By the time we get home, their will be a full meal waiting for us! I am really excited to try this out. I am trying so hard to make my life more organized and simpler because we are going to begin homeschooling in late august, I need my life to be simple and organized so that I can concentrate on the kids school! If any one is interested I would love to post some of the oamc recipes that i have found and tried!

2 Comments:
At 7:49 AM,
Tiana said…
Yes! Please post recipes for us to try. Maybe you could use the recipe first and then post it so you can explain how you made it and tell us if it was good or not. Thanks!
At 12:09 PM,
Joy said…
Yes, me too... Let me have the info where I can find. Just what Tina said, I say the same. *smile* Thanks!
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