Oamc software

First, both the Lunch Is Ready and Dinner Is Ready cookbooks contain 14 chapters at the beginning of the book that lay out all you need to know about freezer cooking and making it easier on yourself. I have been doing Once a Month Cooking since last fall, but I learned quite a bit by reading these chapters. I have taken her advice to shop on one day and prep all of my vegetables before the actual freezer cooking day.

That made such a difference in my cooking time! Before I would chop my onion and other veggies at the beginning of the freezer cooking day, which could add 30 to 60 minutes to my work time; this time, I just had to reach for the chopped veggies in the refrigerator as I needed them. This system also advocates choosing separate methods of cooking—for instance, pick two slow cooker recipes, two assembly recipes, two oven recipes, two stove top recipes, etc.

By using this method on my most recent freezer cooking day , I was able to make 22 meals, 64 muffins and 7 breakfast burritos in 6. But what really puts this system over the top is the software. Install this software into your computer and choose the recipes you are planning on cooking. The software creates a grocery list for you that tells you all the items you will need broken down by section in the grocery store and the exact amounts of what you will need.

You can also use the software to add other items not related to your freezer cooking that you will need to buy at the grocery store. If you are new to freezer cooking, this is the perfect system to get you started. If you are a veteran, you will still learn some information from this system. No matter your knowledge level, this system will help streamline your freezer cooking days. My only wish is that the books contained the nutritional information. Curious what the recipes are like in this book?

In a word, tasty, but one that we really enjoyed was Cola BBQ. To enter this giveaway, simply go to 30 Meals in One Day , go to the recipe section and come back here and tell me which recipe you would like to try. This giveaway will end on Wednesday, November 3rd. The winner will be chosen via random.

Make sure you include your e-mail address when you enter. Thank you! All opinions are my own. I love lasagna but have never actually made one myself. I always buy store bought… so sad!! My husband and I are using your Oct day as inspiration to have our own freezer cooking day this weekend! I want to try the maple corn bread; ever since I saw it in your list of foods you were making I thought it sounded delicious!

I blogged about the contest. Also, there are a lot of comments by Beckys on this entry. Beckys of the world, unite! I really need to add to my freezer recipes!!

My favorite freezer recipe so far is a Lemon Chicken, but that Honey Lime chicken also sounds good- would love to try that! I would try the chessy ham and potatoes. Or any of the reciepes. Artists have always given their best when confronted with limitations. His series Drawing Restraint is today particularly poignant, that effort of overcoming self-created obstacles to reach something further, more powerful. But we can certainly have unlimited supplies of creativity. Latest Shows Seasons Designers Featured.

Next come up with themes that you cook in. Either by type of cuisine Italian, Tex-Mex, Asian , or by type of protein beef, chicken, fish, eggs, cheese , or by type of cooking crockpot, casserole, stirfry, grill. You get the idea. Figure out categories. This way you can have a wide variety during any given week, but still have some commonalities which will make cooking day easier. Such as for Italian nights, you can plan lasagna, spaghetti, manicotti, and all sorts of very different tasting dinners that all revolve around a homemade spaghetti sauce.

Or try meatballs. This is just my recipes that use my recipe for meatballs, and you can see the sheer variety of food you can make using them.

So, as you can see, having common threads can still give you a wide variety. Using dump recipes can also add to your freezer stash without adding a lot of work to your big cooking days. Most of these type recipes can either be cooked most of the day in the crockpot or grilled outside, both of which can cut your actual in the kitchen time for cooking it. So now that you have a strategy for choosing recipes, choose some.

For a full 30 days, with few repeats, you are going to want to choose at least 15 different recipes, closer to Plan some stuff that you can cook in a crockpot while you assemble and cook other dishes such as chili, soup, spaghetti sauce, shredded meat. Now that you have your recipes chosen, you will need some form of organization. For all 30 meals. There are a bazillion ways to do this from doing it all by hand on paper, to using software designed just for OAMC.