Once A Month Cooking – Monthly Meal Planning

A Great Way To Prepare The Family Meals In Advance

Have you ever heard of once a month cooking? I personally, think its a great way to cook your healthy family recipes! If you’ve never tried it, the idea of going to the grocery store and loading up on all kinds of ingredients for a month worth of meals might seem pretty daunting. If you know how to, then it can save you lots of money and you will give yourself more time too!

How Does Cooking Once A Month Work?

It’s really hard for me to explain the benefits of monthly meal planning.

I get really excited about it as I love it, so trying to tell you it’s a good thing, without sounding like I am trying to sell you on the idea is difficult…but let me tell you, it’s brilliant.

So, wouldn’t it be nice to just know what’s for dinner and not have to spend an hour or more working to prepare your healthy family meals night after night?

What about the nights that you just don’t feel like cooking? Once a month cooking is wonderful and perfect for those lazy nights.

Okay, before you rush right out and decide to jump into this type of cooking, you need a little background on how this type of cooking really works.

You batch cook up your recipes that you can prepare in one day and then you freeze them in the right meal sizes for you or your family. If you’re cooking once a month, it basically means the hours and hours you would normally spend throughout the month when putting meals together, are all done during the course of one day.

So, you gather your recipes and compile a list of ingredients for all the meals you want to make. You should know that you don’t have to make 30 meals to start with. If you would rather, you can start out by making a few meals. Some people prefer to make their meals week by week, so it’s really up to you and how much time you have.

You might find that a good once a month cooking cookbook will be really helpful to you. Books for this type of cooking have tons of recipes so you’ll never get bored with the same old recipes.

Monthly Meal Planning Saves You Time and Money

Let’s first talk about how once a month cooking can save you money. When you’re shopping to make several meals at one time, you have an opportunity to buy your meats and other ingredients in bulk. This is especially true for some of your basic, repeat ingredients. Buying food in this way has been proven to save people hundreds of dollars each year.

The next benefit of this kind of cooking is the way that you won’t have to stop and buy dinner after a busy night. Choose one of the easier to heat up meals and you will find that you can save a ton of money over getting fast food for your family.

When it comes to time, wouldn’t it be nice to be able to just pop something that you’ve already made into the oven and heat it up instead of having to make everything from scratch? What would you do for all that extra time?

Isn’t it time that you saved some money and time and fed your family the satisfying, healthy meals they deserve? It might be time to look into once a month cooking for a change of pace.