Saturday, January 10

What was cookin at my house

There were so many great tips on the show and in the chat room last week. Someone in the chat room was talking about cooking a months worth of meals in one day. I've been thinking about this because it seems since starting school the one thing I've been short on is time.

I decided to try the idea of pre cooking meals, only not in such a large scale as a month. I decided to take a baby step and try doing a week. Today was a perfect day, it was snowing and nothing was really happening. I had gone grocery shopping yesterday. This afternoon for a couple hours I cooked all my dinners for the week. I put everything in freezer containers with labels. It wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be, actually it was very easy. I like the idea of knowing there is an home cooked meal I don't have to worry about doing all the prep work for when I'm so busy during the week.

4 comments:

Margaret said...

That's a great idea - thanks! Esp nice when he's (my DH) away for training or whatever ....

shannon said...

I love cooking in advance. It truly saves my sanity. We have 4 kids that all have after school commitments. Each one has one thing. But that puts us gone almost every night during the week. Then I discovered monthly cooking. It does take me all day to do mine but at the end I have 2 weeks of meals and I don't have to worry about what we are going to eat. There are some great websites that have recipes that work better for freezing meals and things like that.

Top said...

Hey Tara,

My wife and her friends did a big pre-cook swap. 5 women made 5 meals each then swapped them all. It was a big hit, maybe you should look into that as it's fun to try someone else's dinners now and then!

Kathleen said...

Hi Shannon! Cooking ahead is proving to be such a big help. Would you mind sharing some of the web sites you are talking about?
Thank you so much!--Kathleen

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