Whether you cook a week in advance or a month in advance, cooking ahead or Once A Month Cooking can save both time and money.
- Buy in Bulk – This usually results in a savings of 10-20 cents per pound for meat.
- Take advantage of coupon savings by buying larger quantities of sale items. Plan your shopping trip around specials and below cost items
- Less temptation to eat out because you are too tired to cook.
- Package meals according to how much your family will consume in a meal. This eliminates waste, leftovers and overeating.
- Less frequent trips to the grocery store to buy last minute budget busting items.
- It’s convenient when you are tired or rushed to just grab dinner out of the freezer.
- Make cooking day a family affair. Kids are more likely to eat and like a meal when they helped prepare it.
- Clean up – You only have to clean the kitchen from food prep once instead of several times.
These are just a few of the ways that cooking ahead can save you time and money. Tomorrow I will have the recipes that I have chosen and the shopping list. Do you cook your meals ahead? How have you found that it works for you?
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I cook meals ahead and it so takes the stress out of cooking the family meal after work. Good tips! Looking forward to the recipes tomorrow
I try to have 1 cooking day a week. Also, since my husband isn’t picky and we have no kids I just make 2 or 3 dishes in bulk that we’ll eat over time. It helps, though, if I want to make 2 things each with a small amount of chicken or split an onion, etc.
I also love the convenience. It’s so easy to just heat things up again.
My problem is that it’s just me and so I don’t get very motivated to cook. If I don’t have something fairly quick to cook, I either eat junk or get tempted to go out.