OK, since Mrshart did her once a month cooking i started thinking about trying it again. I have tried many things before but when cooking for 3 picky kids and a picky husband it is tough to find recipes to freeze that dont have lots of onions and peppers, and without the peppers a lot of the recipes seem bland.
so i went to the library and took out a couple books to read what they said. one was ok but the other was fantastic!!! It is called "once-a-month cooking" by miimi wilson and mary beth lagerborg. I found 5 or 6 recipes to make and i have liked every one of them so far, and my hubby has also. they were easy ones to make and small so as not to take up tons of room in the freezer as i still had to have room for ice cream, bagels, waffles, ice pops, ice cubes and hot pockets.
i made these meals starting the 30 of august, i did a couple that day and a couple the next and one i did the following week. they are fairly easy to put together on the day you are going to have them and i just keep a calendar on my freezer that has what we are having each night for dinner and in the margin any extras i need to but to go with the meals.
now, to feed the 5 of us i try to stay around $100 a week at the supermarket and around $150, or under if possible, a month at a warehouse club. So when i went to sam's i spent $150 and that included pudding for the kids and flavored water for youngest son and dh and slimfast powder for myself, and maybe a few other things. i bought more chicken than i needed but that is fine the price is good and it will get used. my normal sunday grocery bill is $75-80 for the last 2 weeks it has been $45!! on Tuesdays I go to a store that doubles $1 coupons and i have still been under $30 there and i have stocked up on toothpaste like you wouldnt beleive
the hard part is that since i dont have to buy meat i usually impulse buy something else, like more snacks for the kids. I am working on this though and hopefully will be able to get my food bills down even more.
well, i just thought i would share with my frugal pals how well this OAMC is going and how it is saving me money. definately check out the library if you are interested in doing this.
karen
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