Freezer meals - The Once a Month Cooking Way

So the idea is to find a way to always have the food you need to eat ready to go each evening.  The only preparation required will be the heating up.  What a difference this will make!

Now, I was brought up with Sunday being the cooking day in my house.  My Mum rose at the break of dawn and cooked the stews and soups to last us the week and we were a household of anything between a minimum of six people (My immediate siblings and parents) to fourteen people (extended family and us).  Somehow, it worked all the time.

In fact people visiting knew what days to avoid if they did not like the food being served that day.  It was the same from week to week and we were all healthy and ...bored!

Surely, there is a way in between the two - my sometimes chaotic way of making food choices and my childhood regimens.  The Once a month cooking recipe book definitely went some way to provide a balance.

1. Time - The time you have to put into preparing meals becomes sooo much less.  Suddenly, you are just pulling meals out of the freezer in sufficient quantities to feed your family each evening without too much ado.
   This is even less time than waiting for the delivery of the takeaway meal and definitely healthier.  
   Yes, the day a month you spend cooking can be intense but get the whole family involved and it can be a family tradition each month.
    
2. Effort - The effort expended each evening is suddenly reduced almost to zilch.   All you do is pull out the designated meal, heat it up and you are ready to go.
    
3. Cost - No more of those trips to the grocery store where you end up buying more than you need because you are uncertain what you have in your home or you just impulse buy for yourself or the children.  You buy food when it is on offer so you get it at its cheapest price in bulk.

Three mighty good reasons that make the Once a month cooking recipe book worth the trouble of looking at it, I think!