I’m getting ready for a small family get-together, and today will be spent pre-cooking many of the meals.
Ill be making breakfast burritos, breakfast sandwiches, hash browns, hamburger foil dinners, and many other items.
My husband will be smoking a large brisket of beef.
You might wonder why my money saving blog is talking about the menu for a camp out.
The kind of marathon cooking I’ll be doing today is similar to what I used to do all the time when I worked outside the home and had a family of four including two teen-aged boys to feed and care for.
We shopped once or twice a month, and I did all my cleaning, prepping, chopping, and cooking on the weekends, popping the completed meals in the freezer to consume during the month.
Now, there are blogs, web sites, and forums dedicated to Once a Month Cooking, (OAMC).
Check some of them out.
If you get in the habit of buying and preparing and freezing your foods, you will save a small fortune in take out and fast food stops because you’ll always have something in the freezer for all your meals.
Once a month too much for you? Start out with once a week or even just making doubles when you cook freezable meals. Get in the habit of “planned-overs” and then work your way up to OAMC. You’ll end up with lots more free time and lots more money.
