Does anyone here do the Once A Month Cooking thing? I'd like to start, actually gradually start by making double (or more) what we eat and freezing meals to have on hand. It seems like it would be worth the work to take a day or two to just prep and cook for the convenience of having supper ready every night. Right now we are lacking for freezer space, but working on it :)

If you do, do you have any recipes you'd like to share? I have this link: http://www.mindspring.com/~debv/OAMC_101.htm , but any others would be appreciated!

TIA!!

Carla V.

I have The 30 Day Gourmet. It is my favorite of the OAMC books I've tried. It has just enough info w/o being overwhelming imo. The site has several recipes too:

http://www.30daygourmet.com/

This is from Jill Bond. Her book is called Megacooking. I have that one too. IMO, it has an overabundance of info, but some of the recipes are decent:

http://www.megacooking.com/start.htm

HTH!!

Thanks for those links. What I've been doing is just making bigger meals and freezing the excess. It's great for portioning (a problem which has led to excess padding, lol) as I can just divy the food up in either meal or serving size portions, ready to go. Makes it very easy to not over eat.

Today I made 2 lasagnas (1 veggie, 1 meat) and easily got 8 meals out of them. I made a turkey this weekend for company and got a ton of meals out of it (I cooked it frozen on a low temp and it was the most tender turkey I ever ate! DH usually doesn't like breast meat, but even he found it tender and juicy. I made a pot pie, we had the usual sandwiches for a couple days, had a meal of drumsticks, I made broth and froze a bunch of cut up meat so I can make soup later. I was tired of dealing with turkey at that point, lol). I also made a bunch of quiche, cabbage rolls and a bunch of other things. I'm trying to get half veggie meals, half meat meals as I want to cut down on our meat consumption.

The problem is I'm having so much fun making them, I'm going to hate to eat them :p . Oh well, if anything happens that I can't cook, we can still eat well. I'm glad I saved plastic containers and disposable pie plates. They come in handy for freezing.

Carla V.