My Once A Month Cooking (OAMC): this past weekend 4/16 & 4/17

Monday, April 18, 2011

this past weekend 4/16 & 4/17

Saturday I needed to bake bread as we are out of bread in our house. Well, my daughter and grandson came by. Needless to say I never got bread made. Instead I spent time with my grandson and daughter which I thoroughly loved! So I thought I'd get it done on Sunday! WRONG. Woke up feeling awful. couldn't just stay home as we (two daughters and myself and couple of other girls) had a puppet performance at church. Then I had my 3 kids come to my house for lunch. So I made 2 lbs worth of meatloaf, and mashed potatoes, gravy, green beans and Kansas dirt pudding for dessert! Then we were in charge of the snacks for our Life Group Sunday night at church! So I made 2 fruit pizzas and a couple gallons of punch. So after life Group last night I was exhausted. I was functioning of 3 hours of sleep thanks in a huge part to the body aches, chills, and fever.

Today here I sit...in my recliner with a blanket on me and I'm shivering cause I'm cold and it is not cold outside. My babies (dogs) are lying on my blanket, my lap. Needless to say, I'm home sick. My body hurts. Feels like I've been working out at a great big pace for a week! every single muscle hurts. Temp of 101.4. So I thought since I hurt too bad to sleep, and need to find something to keep my mind busy, I'm going to make out my menu for my once a month cooking. I'm going to be doing it all by myself since Amber will be in South Africa and Ivy doesn't have room in her freezer yet. I want to do it so I have food to feed the granddaughters for the 3 weeks and don't have to cook morning and evening! I hate thinking about doing it since I feel like death warmed over! But it'll be nice to have it ready and available when I'm busy with a 4 year old and a 6 year old! Gosh...I get exhausted just thinking about it!

I will post when I get the menu ready and when I will be doing the cooking! Ha! Anyone want to join me???

TTYL

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Introduction

Have you ever felt overwhelmed by deciding what to prepare for a meal? I know I have. Many times. Especially our evening meal when our three children were growing up. Then one day I stumbled across a program called "Once A Month Cooking" (OAMC) and thought I'd give it a try. It was a lifesaver and I loved it. I did it for years, from the time my youngest was in preschool until he was in the 8th grade. I don't remember why I quit, just that I did. When I was doing the OAMC back then I prepared a lot of full, complete meals and froze them, entree, side, and dessert. The only thing I had to actually prepare for the meal was the vegetable or the potatoes. For those of you not familiar with the OAMC program, I will try to explain it to you here. This blog is to try to help you see what it takes, how to do itm give you ideas and how much fun you can actually have. OAMC is the ultimate do-ahead dinner preparation technique. The secret of the OAMC technique is that you cook all your dinner main dishes for a month (or two weeks or even a week) in one day, freeze them, and enjoy eating tasty food, every night without the hassle of lengthy meal preparation. In this blog, I will try to provide the menu we use, shopping lists and recipes. You do not have to have organizational skills, nor do you have to be a good cook to successfully accomplish OAMC. What you need to expect and plan to is: Take a longer-than usual shopping trip, preferably the day or night before your cooking day. Spend the bulk of your month's food budget on this shopping trip (saving money over the course of the month) Cook with a partner or two or three, like I do, for maximum fun and efficiency. Cook half a day for a two week cycle, a full day for a month cycle. Love the freedom and possibilities this will bring to mealtimes. Enjoy family building times around the table and like us, the time we cook together. Take the stress out of having company for dinner I suggest for the first few time you do the OAMC to try to do the two week cycle. Then when you get the feel of the "system" advance on the full month if that is what you want and have room for the food. Also in this blog I will frequently give you suggestions of what to serve with a certain recipe. Please feel free to email me with any suggestions and question syou might have. Even leave a comment here on the blog.