Get Started: How to Freeze and Store Baby Food
Once prepared, baby food purees can be frozen and kept in the freezer making homemade baby food just as convenient as jarred baby food.
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Get Started: Basic Equipment for Making Baby Food
You don’t need a lot of fancy gadgets to get started making your own baby food. In fact with just 6 basics that you probably already own, you can get started preparing delicious purees for your baby.
How I Once A Month Cook: Kelly
Whole Foods writer Kelly talks about cooking for her family with her busy schedule!
Get Started: LIVE Facebook Chat
If you have never joined us for our monthly LIVE Facebook Chats, you should strongly consider doing so. These are a GREAT way to get started. Each month we make ourselves available to you via a live video chat on our Facebook Fan Page. Our usual topics of discussion are the months’ menu, items you [...]
Get Started: Starting with a Smaller Meal Plan {Mini-Menus}
If you are like me, I love, love, love the thought of OAMM or OAMC, but I can rarely carve an entire day out of my calendar to do a big cooking day. Here is my plan for creating a mini menu for yourself using the Traditional November Menu.
How I Once a Month Cook: Kristi
Here is a look at how our vegetarian writer does Once A Month Mom cooking with two toddlers.
Get Started: Freezer Inventory
One of the biggest challenges in once a month cooking can be keeping track of all those delicious meals that you’ve made and stored away in your freezer. Our freezer inventory worksheet can help keep count of those freezer meals so that you don’t have to throw anything away.
Get Started: Freezing Containers
We’ve covered in our Get Started series what you can and cannot freeze and some basic equipment to have on hand (including containers) for all of the great meals prepared on your cooking day. Now how do you really freeze those containers to maximize the most space?
Get Started: Extra Equipment for Once A Month Cooking
Earlier this week we had a look into what we suggest having on hand for a once a month cooking day. Those items can either be purchased or borrowed from a friend. I am notorious for stalking Craigslist for them as well. Gently used can be a big money saver. You definitely don’t have to [...]
Get Started: Make Your Own Baby Food
Interested in making your own baby food but not sure where to start? Read about the benefits of making your own baby food, plus some great recipes to get you started.
How I Once a Month Cook: Pam
How I freezer cook has evolved with different stages of my life. Here’s a peek at my current method, with three little kids and another on the way.
Get Started: Basic Equipment to Have On-Hand for Once A Month Cooking
One of the most daunting tasks in Once a Month Cooking is the first big cooking day. I don’t think you can ever be truly perfectly prepared for that first try. Everyone tackles the process a little different and finds different tools critical. Most of them you’ll already have in your home. But being a little more aware of the equipment necessary and the purpose of that equipment can save a few headaches (and borrowing trips to neighbors’ houses).
Get Started: Once A Month Cooking in a Small Kitchen
Tips for making your once a month freezer cooking day more efficient, especially in a small kitchen.
Get Started: Saving on Your Once a Month Cooking Costs
How much will a month of once a month cooking cost? is one of the most frequently asked questions we receive here at Once a Month Mom.
Get Started: What you CAN and CANNOT freeze
Here at Once A Month Mom we tend to make our own rules and break a few others when it comes to freezing food. There are a few basic guidelines to follow but we like to twist a few of the rules when it comes to our menus.
How I Once A Month Cook: Tricia
As part of our Get Started series I thought it would be nice for you to see that not even the writers at Once A Month Mom follow Once A Month Mom plans to the letter. In fact, very few of us do. Just like you! It doesn’t matter how you use Once A Month [...]
Introduction to Get Started: A Series to Start You on Your Once A Month Cooking Adventure
An introduction to our November series on getting started with freezer cooking.
All Menus: Saving & Printing Google Documents Grocery Lists, Recipe Cards & Instructions
A step-by-step video and written tutorial on how to save and/or print the Once a Month Mom Grocery Lists, Recipe Cards and Instructions.
