Traditional November 2012 Menu
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The Traditional menu is designed for the “traditional” or “average American family”. It is favorites you would find in a majority of kitchens across the country. If you aren’t the average american family you may wish to try out one of our specialty menus. If you are new and not sure how to get started we have a wonderful series starting with 5 easy steps to get you on your way to once a month cooking. Good luck! If you like this menu you might want to check out all our past Traditional menus or in-season menus – November 2009′s, November 2010′s or November 2011′s menus if you are looking for something different!
Cinnamon Pear Popovers
Breakfasts
Lunches
- Freezer Friendly Broccoli Cheese Soup
- Bacon Cheeseburger Puffs
- Pizza Balls
- Chicken, Bacon, & Ranch Mac ‘n Cheese
Bombay Chicken and Red Potatoes
Dinners
- Chicken and Green Bean Casserole
- Bombay Chicken and Red Potatoes
- Pork Chops & Cranberry Stuffing
- Spanish Rice & Pork Chop Bake
- Bacon Meatloaf
- Maple Glazed Chili Chicken
- Honey Apple Pork Loin
- Smoked Sausage, Cheese, & Potato Casserole
**Indicates meals that require NO COOKING on your OAMC BIG DAY aka “throw and go” meals, perfect for the family who needs to adjust to just do the quick meals!
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Pinterest:
Are you a person that likes to see the menus visually? Perhaps you should check out the November 2012 Traditional 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.
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! If you are interested in test cook, feel free to volunteer. Here is a little bit about this month’s test cooks:
- Heather Allen: Freezer cooking veteran of 8 years, resource to several freezer cooking groups in my city. Work full time from home as a Nurse Auditor. Wife of 25 years and mom to 3 VERY hungry teen and preteen boys!
- Danielle Krahl: Danielle is a stay-at-home Mom with 4 kids. She is very involved in Scouts. In their free time, her family likes to camp, bike, garden and explore new parks.
Get Started
Are you new to Once A Month Mom or once a month cooking (oamc) in general? If so, you might want to spend a few minutes (or hours) on the Get Started Series. If you are in a real hurry to catch on we have written some simple steps for getting started. Welcome!
The pork chops and cranberry stuffing links to pork chops and cornbread stuffing.
Hey Pat, yes the cranberries were added in by me. The full recipe with changes is available in the recipe cards.
Hey! I just went to the link for the Porkchops and Cranberry Stuffing and its for Porkchops and Cornbread stuffing…no cranberries involved!lol Just thought I’d let you know.
Hey Erin, that’s because the cranberries are my special touch. :) The recipe cards will have the changes in them for you.
For the Pork Chops/Cranberry recipe, my ratio for stuffing mix to water came out to 2.25 c stuffing / 10.5 c water. That seems like a lot of water! I used 6 as my serving size. Is this ratio correct?
We’ll check on the formula. In the meantime, you can follow the directions on the back of the stuffing box for water ratios and that should work as well.
So I just tried to download the grocery list and I get an error saying that my computer can’t open it as the file is damaged and may have been modified from the original. I’ve never had this issue before! Anyone else having this problem?
Britani, I just tried it myself and everything seems to be working. Maybe it was a problem with google docs at that moment? Try again and let me know. Also, you might try in a different browser (internet explorer vs google chrome, etc).
Katie,
I’m having the same problem. I try to download the grocery list as an excel file and that part works. But when you try to open it, it says it cannot convert it. I’ve tried through internet explorer, chrome and firefox.
Margaret, Are you following the steps in this post? http://onceamonthmom.com/all-menus-saving-printing-google-document-grocery-lists-recipe-cards-instructions/ First you need to make a copy, then you can save as an excel document from your copy not from our file. Let me know if that helps. If it’s still not working email me at kelly at onceamonthmom.com
I too am having trouble opening the ingredients spreadsheet. Google Docs keeps saying it has difficulty and to try the spreadsheet later.
Please let me know if you are following the steps outlined in this post http://onceamonthmom.com/all-menus-saving-printing-google-document-grocery-lists-recipe-cards-instructions/ and if you are still having problems.
I used the same method to get the recipe cards and that worked without any problems. Click on the link and once it opens, click “file” and “download as” excel. It worked last month.
Margaret, I’m working on trying to see what’s going on. I’ll update as soon as I know.
When you cook the ground beef & chicken in the slow cooker, do you advise thawing first or cooking from frozen? Thank you!
We always advise thawing first so that the meats do not stay in “danger zone” temperatures too long.
okay, thank you … this is my first month of really doing the whole menu and I feel like a rookie! I’m looking over the instructions and I’m confused. WHat meals are the beef & chicked for that we’re cooking overnight in the slowcookers?
If you read through the instruction cards you’ll see cooked beef and chicken as ingredients, like in the cheeseburger puffs, chicken mac and cheese etc.
I’m brand new to using this site, so I may be missing something, but I’m looking for the nutritional content of each of the recipes. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Jacqueline, right now we only calculate nutritional facts on the diet menu. You can find that menu here- http://onceamonthmom.com/diet-november-2012-menu/
Curious, was something changed about your upload format of your labels? I was able to download other months, but this new one is giving me a zip file for download with no document(except for the blank one which comes up as a pdf).
Yes, we moved to Word documents this month. Do you have Word? Let me know- I can upload in pdf form as well if it’s still a problem.
For the pork chops and cranberry stuffing, should we use fresh cranberries or dried cranberries? Btw, this is my 4th month of once a month cooking, and I can’t imagine doing it any other way!!
Abby, I used dried cranberries in mine when I made it about a month ago but that’s just because the fresh weren’t out yet. Either should work fine. And glad you love it- I felt the same way after my first month!
I am also having trouble with getting the labels to print for the November traditional and Mini menus. When I click on it, it just comes up with lines of letters and question marks. The blank labels print fine. Is there something else I need to do? I’m on a MAC.
Other readers have reported the same when using Firefox. No matter what browser you are using, try using a different one and see if that doesn’t help.
I also can’t print the labels for the traditional menu. My browser is internet explorer. I believe it has something to do with it being uploaded as zip format. Anway you can help us out? PDF maybe?
Hey Sara, I just uploaded them in pdf format as well. Let me know if that doesn’t solve the problem.
Thank You so much, Katie! The PDF formats works.
I’m new to this and it looks great and a resource I’m certainly going to use! :)
I was wondering how does meal planning out of the menu works?
I mean there are 30 dinners and lunches in a month but 4 lunches and 8 dinners in the menu. Does that mean I have to repeat one meal many times in a month, like eating the same meal 4-5 times in a months?
And the day I choose to eat one meal or another is up to me right?
Welcome Lea! Take a look at this post it should help you out :) http://onceamonthmom.com/ive-got-some-serious-questions-about-this-once-a-month-cooking-thing/ If not let me know if you have more questions!
Thanks for replying Kelly :D
Do you have an example calendar of a month of yours including the menu items plus the not planned meals and eating out.
I’m still not sure how this works.
For example in the page you linked it says the meny yelds 15 breakfast
But the breakfast are just 3. Does that mean they should be repeated 5 times in a month?
Lea a good way to see how all of our different writers utilize their freezer meals with other meals is to check our our Menu Plan Monday posts http://onceamonthmom.com/?s=menu+plan+monday But an example calendar month could be using freezer meals Monday through Thursday. Friday night Pizza night, Saturday and Sunday cook at home. Keep in mind that each recipe will give you TWO full meals for how many servings you enter in the yellow box. Does that help more?
tried to make the pork chop recipe but I’m pretty sure that the recipe is wrong. The water ended up being too much.
Christine, thanks for letting us know about the water ratio- I’ll look into it!
Hi there…I also made the pork chops this month & there was way too much water for the stuffing. Have you guys corrected it? I would like to try to make the stuffing the day of cooking the pork chops. Thank you.