Instructions: TRADITIONAL January 2012 Menu
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These are the step-by-step instructions you will need to quickly and efficiently approach your once a month (OAMC) BIG DAY by yourself! The ingredient quantities can now be found on the TRADITIONAL January 2012 Recipe Cards. If you need assistance understanding this document, please see this post.
Google Document of Instructions – TRADITIONAL January 2012 OAMM Menu
Instructions
Day of:
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What to Do |
| 1 | Ingredients that need CHOPPED (**indicates usually okay for food processor)
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| 2 | Prepare and place Cinnamon Swirl Bread in oven. Bake at 375F for 35-40 minutes. |
| 3 | While baking Cinnamon Swirl Bread, prepare Breakfast Cookies for oven. |
| 4 | When Cinnamon Swirl Bread is done baking, set aside to cool. Bake Breakfast Cookies for 10 min. When done baking, set aside to cool. |
| 5 | Prepare and freeze Green Monster Smoothies and Ham and Cheese Pinwheels. |
| 6 | When cooled, package for freezer:
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| 7 | Assemble and Freeze:
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| 8 | Assemble and Freeze:
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| 9 | Assemble and Freeze:
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| 10 | Assemble and Freeze:
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| 11 | Kitchen Cleanup! |
| 12 | Congratulations you are DONE!!!!! |
I’m so confused. Is this supposed to last for an entire month?
Each menu will yield you approximately 6-10 breakfasts, 8 lunches and 16 dinners. Throughout the month you will be eating each entree 2 times. It’s not enough to feed you for EVERY meal during the month, but it should be enough to get you most of the way. We figure you will eat out, eat with friends, or cook a fresh meal on occasion. If you are willing to eat the same meals up to 4 times each month (lunches and dinners) you can double the number of people that you are cooking for and you will get the quantities needed for each. You would do this on the yellow box on the recipe cards.
Hope that helps!!
About how many hours does this menu take to complete from start to finish? And do you assume two people are working together?
It takes on average 6-8 hours but will depend on your kitchen organization and skill level. We actually no longer assume 2 people working together but it is highly recommended.
So I’m a little confused. When you say “assemble and freeze” .. does that mean that all of these recipes you would make and freeze while they are RAW, not cooked? I’m particularly curious about the Ranch Parmesan chicken and the Mexican Shepard’s pie. Do you cook those, and then let cool and then freeze (and when you want to eat you follow the instructions from the labels)? Or do you assemble and NOT cook and freeze it all raw??
If you refer to the recipe cards, you will find specific directions on each recipe. Some you freeze raw, some you cook first.
I’m confused! I’ve tried looking at the recipe cards, but I do not see any detailed instructions about the freezer cooking. I’m looking for more info on the Ranch Parmesan chicken and the Mexican Shepard’s pie.
This is the instructions which don’t have details. You will need to go back to the main menu post for this month and click on the “printable recipe cards” for those. Or maybe you aren’t looking at the tabs of the document? Perhaps this will help you: http://onceamonthmom.com/all-menus-saving-printing-google-document-grocery-lists-recipe-cards-instructions/