I bought the book, "Once a Month Cooking" by Mimi Wilson and Mary Beth Lagerborg, and completed one month of cooking yesterday. Here is how it breaks down:<\/p>\n
-Wednesday: I looked over the book and got the general idea of what needed to be done. Made a plan. Total grocery bill: $350.00 (food for the meals only)<\/p>\n Three loads of dish washing during cooking day…<\/p>\n It was a great experience and something I’d do again, but I would want an extra freezer. I was able to fit it all in my current fridge freezer, but I had to take everything out and re-organize about three times to make it fit. I will probably do twice a month cooking next month and see if it does not tax the freezer as much.<\/p>\n During the process, I kept wondering if it was worth it, and there were times I was tired during the cooking day, but having a freezer full of meals feels really good. Yes, it was worth the effort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I bought the book, "Once a Month Cooking" by Mimi Wilson and Mary Beth Lagerborg, and completed one month of cooking yesterday. Here is how it breaks down: -Wednesday: I looked over the book and got the general idea of what needed to be done. Made a plan. -Thursday: Shopping, part 1. It took about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-473812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-kitchen"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n-Thursday: Shopping, part 1. It took about 1.5 hours.
\n-Friday: Shopping, part 2. 1.5 hours, pre-prep: 2 hours.
\n-Saturday: 12 <\/strong>hours making 27<\/strong> meals, all different (3 ham dishes, 10 chicken, 12 beef dishes, 1 fish, 1 vegetarian)<\/p>\n