Once-a-month cooking

The concept of once-a-month cooking (OAMC) is to spend a set time cooking, be it a day or two, but with an end result of having enough meals to last through the whole month. OAMC recipes usually involve freezing the meals until needed. This has increased in popularity over the past few years in response to the global recession. Several websites now provide OAMC tips and tricks.

Advantages

The primary advantage to this method of cooking is to save time over the course of the month by buying groceries in bulk on the cook date. There are some other advantages like saved resources, energy used in cooking, and money.

Media depictions

• "Once-a-month cooking saves cash". http://www.bankrate.com/brm/news/advice/20000131a.asp.  at Bankrate.com
• "Meals for a month". http://www.hgtv.com/holidays-entertaining/meals-for-a-month/index.html.  on Home & Garden Television (HGTV)
• "50 ways to save money". http://www.ctv.consumerreports.org/50money.htm.  on Canadian Television
• PhillipsDeseret, Valerie (2003). "Frozen assets: Here's another solution for the 5 p.m. dinner panic". Deseret News. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4188/is_20030225/ai_n11380890. at Deseret News
• "Meatball Mania!". http://www.drlaura.com/sah/sahm.html?mode=view&tile=1&id=2238. on Dr. Laura
• Andrew Holleran's 2006 novel Grief depicts OAMC. The narrator's landlord cooks large batches of chicken for this purpose.
• "Save on Your Grocery Bill". http://www.cbn.com/finance/taylor-hough_grocerybill.aspx?mode=view&tile=1&id=2238. on CBN.com

See also

• Frozen food

References

External links

• Recipezaar