GLUTEN FREE/DAIRY FREE October 2011 OAMM Menu (OAMC, Freezer Cooking, Bulk Cooking, Power Cooking)
Southwestern Spaghetti Pie
The leaves are changing and the air is getting brisk. Fall is officially here! This month’s Gluten Free Dairy Free October 2011 OAMM Menu takes advantage of the wonderful fall produce in your local market and the delicious flavors of pumpkin and winter squashes, sweet potatoes, apples and cinnamon. There are plenty of comforting flavors in this menu to keep you and your family cozy. If you find a shortage of pumpkin in your area, try substituting winter squashes or sweet potatoes as a replacement. Enjoy!
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I hope you enjoy these meals as much as our early readers/cooks have. If you are new and not sure how to get started, read here. And there are several other helpful links under the Helpful Hints/Resources section below to help you on your cooking journey. Good luck!
Menu
- Included below are the menu items that we will be preparing as part of our Once A Month Cooking (OAMC) BIG DAY. In the printable GLUTEN FREE/DAIRY FREE October 2011 Recipe Cards the menu items are intended to feed one person for a month. You can insert the number of people are cooking for on the first tab to automatically make recipe adjustments to feed multiple people for a month. For more information on how the Gluten Free/Dairy Free OAMM Menu works, click here.
- View the printable GLUTEN FREE/DAIRY FREE October 2011 Recipe Cards.
- Having trouble using the Recipe Cards or YELLOW BOX? See this post!
Breakfasts
Gluten Free Dairy Free Cranberry Orange Scones
Lunches
Beef & Butternut Stew
- Cranberry Hoisin Chicken Rice
- Slow Cooker Beef and Butternut Squash Stew
- Baked Rice Paper Rolls
- Thai Chicken Patties
Dinners
- Layered Chicken Pumpkin Enchiladas
- Lazy Cabbage Roll Casserole
- Wing-style Marinated Chicken
- Southwestern Spaghetti Pie
- Apple-Glazed BBQ Chicken
- Pork Chops Baked with Apple & Yams
- Citrus Ginger Chicken
- Crock Pot Roast Beef
**Indicates meals that require NO COOKING on your OAMC BIG DAY!
Grocery List
- Included in this spreadsheet you will find a listing of all the items you will need to complete your GLUTEN FREE/DAIRY FREE October 2011 OAMC BIG DAY. For more instructions on how to use this, go here.
- GLUTEN FREE/DAIRY FREE October 2011 OAMM Grocery List
Instructions
- These are the step-by-step instructions you will need to quickly and efficiently approach your OAMC BIG DAY!
- GLUTEN FREE/DAIRY FREE October 2011 OAMM Instructions
Labels
Sample Label
These customized labels are designed specifically for the GLUTEN FREE/DAIRY FREE October 2011 Once A Month Mom Menu. They contain the name of the dish and serving instructions for preparing the dish on your serving day. They make preparation of the dishes hassle free and staying to your eating plan a cinch.
These labels are designed to be printed on Avery 8163
Pinterest:
Are you a person that likes to see the menus visually? Perhaps you should check out the October 2011 Gluten Free Dairy Free Menu via Pinterest to see the yummy goodness you will be cooking up on this menu. Not sure what Pinterest is all about, check out what Once A Month Mom has to say about it.
Facebook Fan Party:
OAMM Facebook Fan Page Party – October 16th 2011, 9:00 pm – 9:30 pm EST – We will be able to chat via video AND messaging during the event through FACEBOOK! How cool is that? We will be talking about the current month’s menus, answer your burning questions about freezer cooking and have fun getting to know one another. You can also see other past recordings from that tab as well.
Instructions for viewing live-stream:
- Go to the Once A Month Mom Facebook Fan Page.
- Click on the “Facebook Fan Page Night” Tab on the left side margin.
- Hit “view live recording” – If I am live streaming it will show you what is happening in progress. If I am not live streaming at the time, you will have the option to click through other videos that I have recorded in the past.
- Enjoy!
Test Cooks
Each month we have some wonderful volunteers who “test” out the menu prior to publication. They do an amazing job of helping to eliminate confusion and mistakes. They may not catch everything but they sure do catch A LOT! Here is a little bit about this month’s test cooks:
- Karen Knowles – Karen is a former business owner and now is a busy at-home mom taking care of two very active boys, one of whom is diagnosed with classic Autism and has required a GFCF diet since the age of two
Helpful Hints/Resources
- Saving and Printing the OAMM Menus Using Google Docs
- Creating Your Own OAMC Menu Series
- Preparing For A Successful OAMC Day
- Adapting The Menu for YOUR Family
- Making the Menu Healthier
- Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
- Shopping For Your Cooking Day
- Final Shopping Trip For Your OAMC Day
- Choosing The Right Containers
What do you think of GLUTEN FREE/DAIRY FREE October 2011’s menu?
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What a great blog! Will have to bookmark it for sure. Thanks for stopping by mine and sharing one of my recipes. :)
The Lazy Cabbage Roll Casserole looks fantastic! I cant’ wait to try this! Thanks for taking the time to share these recipes!
Thanks for this! We are now a GF/DF home and it seems so expensive to prepare buy groceries. I think we spend about $400 a month on food groceries right now.
Hey Elizabeth!
Are you the same one that meets with Andrea and the other girls? I am pretty sure you are and I was shocked to see your name here when I go on the site today to check it out. Tell everyone I said HI! Miss being able to meet with you ladies but I sure do love Colorado!
LOVE this concept, I’ll be trying it this week.
CORRECTION: “Rice Paper” is missing
it is not on the shopping or ingredient lists for the “Baked Rice Paper Rolls” thought it is called for in the recipe (and title)
1 package(1/2″ tall stack will make 10 generous servings. (Rice paper keeps well so over buying isn’t an issue.)
Thanks for the “heads up” on the ingredient list, etc. I will get that corrected as soon as possible! :)
Can’t wait to try this out but am I confused or is the menu item list not matching the instruction list??
Thanks!
The instructions and menu list appear to match to me. Let me know which part your are confused about, and I’ll see if I can figure it out. :)
I don’t know what I was looking at but it looks fine now. This is wonderful! I hope I can finally get back to being better planned with my meals like I had been before my allergies and two boys :)
I usually change something on the menus but this one all sounded good. The scones are great (although I ended up making mine biscuit-shaped instead)! Note, the pumpkin bread recipe needs to be in larger pans – mine overflowed big time and didn’t get all done.
Thanks for the heads up on the pumpkin bread. :) Hope you enjoy the rest of the menu!
Thank you, thank you, thank you! My son is on a GF diet. This will help a lot!
Your welcome! I hope you enjoy it! :)
You forgot 2 limes in the grocery list from what I can see. I have been working on making all the meals (not baked goods) over several days. Do you have any suggestions posted anywhere on how to do this w/a group or how to organize yourself for cooking? Also, do the gluten free baked goods taste different than nongluten free? I am concerned about spending that much money on flour and want to make sure that the taste is not weird for my picky family. Thanks!
The limes have been fixed. We have a series coming in November to address the group thing. More on your other questions soon.
I made the cranberry scones and my son likes them. This was a pleasant suprise since he has ceiliac disease. Thank you.
I am so glad he liked them! :)
I have never heard of gluten and dairy free plain yogurt. what are people using for this particular ingredient in the recipe?
Your organization of all this is amazing! I’m looking forward to learning more about doing it, since cooking gluten-free and also trying to work seems to conflict constantly.
My boyfriend is Celiac so I’m glad I came across your blog. Please post more gluten free recipes please!
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Spent 8 hours cooking yesterday and only have items 14 & 15 left. The cranberries in my Cranberry Rice chicken were bitter so next time I would omit those or use Craisens to give a sweet flavor. The breakfast breads are amazing and my husband asked me to make sure they were gluten free. Can’t wait to finish up today. So much work but from what I can see so worth it. Thank you for such an organized blog. This was my starter month and this list including herbs cost me about $350.00 using Winn Dixie and Earth Fare. I bet next month will cost me much less, but still amazing for such great recipes. We spend more than that eating junk and pizza.
Thanks so much for the report and letting us know how much you spent, that will really help another reader.
Glad to help, Tricia. I can’t wait to see what’s in store for January. I never dreamed it would be so much fun to fill my freezer. One more thing though, have you or anyone else tried substituting stevia for sugar in any of the recipes? I would like to cut down on the sugar next month since both my boys have autism and they already have more stamina than they need without the added sugar.
Hi, Sandy! I pull together the gluten free menu here at OAMM (we are all GFCF in our house, too!) – I have an article on my gluten & dairy free blog with how I use alternative sweeteners in baking: http://angelaskitchen.com/2008/09/25/how-i-use-natural-sweeteners/
I don’t use a lot of stevia in baking myself, because it throws the balance of the recipe off so much for me. I do use it in beverages (hot chocolate, smoothies, lemonade and the like). However, an AMAZING blog with gluten free, sugar free recipes is Amy Green’s blog http://simplysugarandglutenfree.com/ A lot of her recipes are also dairy free or can be easily altered. Hope that helps!
Thank you Angela. The menu is great! My new fav thing to make is rice paper rolls….yum! I will check out your sites.