Meals Made Ahead: March Cooking Day

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

March Cooking Day

Cooking Day was a huge success! Everyone was on time so we could get started right away. We made 3 dinners and a breakfast item for each of our four families in under 3 hours. We also set out date, time and menu for next month. And we still had time to chit chat, which you know we love to do!

Our cost per person came to. . . $23.96! Woo hoo!

If you're new to the concept of freezer cooking, you may be wondering how we are able to accomplish all of this. Over the next couple days, I will try to post some information about how we make this all work.

For now, here are some picture I took today. I will also add photos of the meals we cooked in the original recipes' posts. As a reminder, we made Creamy Peanut Chicken, Tristy's Mac & Cheese, Turkey & Artichoke Stuffed Shells, and Sausage Biscuits.

Creamy Peanut Chicken is ready to be packaged together and frozen.

Trays of Sausage Biscuits are cooling.

Tristy's Mac & Cheese. Yummy!

One of the tables is full of kitchen supplies (and a toy guitar!)

Finally! Someone else does the dishes in my house!

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About this blog:

We are a group of moms who get together about once a month or so to cook Meals Made Ahead.

Meals Made Ahead are great because it's nice to always have something in the freezer for those nights that are busy, those nights when you can't think of anything to make, those nights when you have nothing to cook with because you didn't feel like dragging two screaming kids through the grocery store, those nights when you just don't feel like cooking.

Sure, we could do this on our own. But it's much more fun to cook with friends (and share the clean up!)

The secret ingredient

"If a woman could see the sparks of light going forth from her fingertips when she is cooking, and the substance of light that goes into the food she handles, she would be amazed to see how much of herself she charges into the meals that she prepares for her family and friends. It is one of the most important and least understood activities of life, that the radiation and feeling that go into the preparation of food affect everyone who partakes of it. And this activity should be unhurried, peaceful, and happy because the substance of the lifestream performing the service flows into that food and is eaten, and actually becomes part of the energy of the receiver. It would be better that an individual did not eat at all than to eat food that has been prepared under a feeling of anger, apathy, resentment, depression, or any outward pressure."
~Maha Chohan, Electrons