What to do First

The first day of Once a Month Cooking (OAMC), you will be purchasing food (and using price matching and coupons, right?). 

The second day you will have a preparation day where you make all of the 10 freezer meals and put them in freezer bags and label them. 

From now on,  I will be posting recipes for each day and how to prepare them to freeze and to cook on the day you will eat them.  You will want to print out all of the recipes for the month and put them in order of how you want to cook them so you can be organized and so you can effectively multi-task.

Cooking all the meals for the month should take you about 2-3 hours.

Why only 10 meals?  Well, for our family of 5, each meal can be consumed for 2 meals (leftovers the second day).  It's hard for me to fit more than 10 in my freezer, and sometimes we go out to eat or eat at friends or family's homes.  It seems like 10 meals lasts us for a little more than a month so it's perfect for us.