Once a Month Cooking Recipes

It’s hard for me to promote Once a Month cooking recipes because so many of their recipes are not very healthy for you. Anyone can throw a can of Cream of whatever soup into something and call it dinner, but they are compromising their health by doing so.

I don’t practice Once a Month Cooking but I DO advocate freezer cooking. I think OAMC is a great idea for organized folks, but is not very doable in our busy society. I prefer to use the time I am already in the kitchen to stock my freezer rather than kill myself for 2 or 3 days in a row.

Freezer cooking has been around for a long time and has lots of benefits. It allows you to eat at home more. You are not as tempted to go out to eat or run through a drive through when you know you have a healthy home cooked meal thawing at home. Its just as easy to come home and pop a prepared meal in the oven as it is to run to a restaurant to get food.

When you plan a freezer cooking meal, you have more opportunities to add healthy touches to your meal. While your meal is cooking on the stove or in the oven, you have time to prepare a salad and cook a vegetable on the stove. When you don’t use freezer cooking, you’re spending a lot of energy cooking the meal that sometimes you forget to add vegetables to your meal.

By using a system like Smart Way Cooking you still get just as many, if not more meals in your freezer as Once a Month Cooking, but you are just focusing on one meal instead of 30 meals. You save time and energy and don’t have so much to think about at one time. It’s a low stress approach to freezer cooking. There is not as much planning as a once a month cooking recipe.

In my next post I’ll tell about my experience being a once a month cooking dropout and how I got over 50 meals in the freezer without having a single mega cooking day!