I promised my plan for my OAMC and here it is. I have been doing OAMC off and on for a little while, but I got the idea to do cooking for a week from Kate at A Simple Walk. I will post my grocery list Thursday hopefully and then I will post my Plan for each day on Friday and then I will actually grocery shop on Friday or Saturday and hopefully the plan will be a success. I used to do this with a friend, but she now works 4 days a week and doesn’t have a lot of extra time. I still do my OAMC Cooking Club, but this is for my family.
Monday – Breads/Baking/Seasoning and other Mixes
(4) Pizza dough’s rolled out - use Bread Machine recipe
(4) Tammy’s Italian Cheese Bread – use Mixer
(6) Pie Crust
2 batches of Tortillas (24 total)
Dinner Rolls from my bread maker recipe book
12 Hamburger buns – substituting the shortening with coconut oil and the sugar with Rapadura
Beef Gravy Mix (pg. 61 – Master Mix of Meals)
Tuesday – Chicken/Rice/Italian dishes
(8 servings) Rice
(4 lbs.) Chicken Nuggets
Baked ziti – Recipe: Boil 1 box of pasta, drain and mix with spaghetti sauce, top with shredded cheese and freeze
Chicken Alfredo Pasta
Wednesday – Main Meals/Crockpot
Thursday – Breakfasts and Desserts/Snacks
(4) Baked Oatmeal (make ahead the night before)
(8) Freezer Smoothies – we add yogurt and wheat germ too
Blueberry muffins – from my Betty Crocker Cookbook
Pumpkin bread – from my Betty Crocker cookbook
“Mc”Muffin Sandwiches (ham or bacon) – will use English muffins
Breakfast Oaties – I will use real butter
I am not doing snacks this time. I will just do those on Mondays. For more Works for Me Wednesday ideas, check out Rocks in My Dryer.
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September 23, 2008 at 11:55 pm
Joy @ Happy to be at Home
What a great meal plan! Thanks for the link love, too!
Joy @ Happy to be at Home
September 24, 2008 at 5:14 am
cooking
Good Blog you’ve got here, sounds like a very good idea
September 24, 2008 at 8:40 am
Kim
I’m going to have to link to this because you have some great info on here.
Blessings to you and for taking the time to write this.
Kim
September 24, 2008 at 8:46 am
Nichole
You make your own hamburger buns?! Wow! That’s an impressive list.
September 24, 2008 at 2:18 pm
totallyscrappy
Impressive. It must be nice to sit back those three weeks and eat without working!
September 25, 2008 at 7:41 am
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September 26, 2008 at 11:44 pm
Kate
Wow, your plan looks great, and everything sounds delicious. I think I’ll have to start incorporating a few of the recipes you have listed into my plans.
I can’t wait to hear more about how the cooking for a week works for you!
September 28, 2008 at 6:36 pm
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November 8, 2008 at 1:54 pm
Sher
After you cooked for this week what are the menues that you eat for the next month? I like the shopping list you made but how much did you purchase?
November 8, 2008 at 5:20 pm
Gretchen
Sher,
You can see some of the dinners that I used for my all purpose meat mix and chicken mix under the wrap up at the end of the post. I pretty much just made my menus up weekly like I always do, but I would use one or two meals that I had in the freezer – like lasgna or my meatloaf. I would also sometimes look at the All Recipes website in the ingredient search and see what I could make with my meat that I already cooked. You can see most of my menus under “Menu” on the category list. I usually cook from things that I have on hand.
With my chicken I made chicken tacos then we had chicken and rice with peanut sauce and then we had chicken bbq sandwiches. Those are some of the things we had, also chicken pot pie and chicken noodle soup.
Regarding my shopping list, I just took my recipes and noted what things I already had like flour and butter and I only bought what I didn’t have. I made sure and noted how much of each ingredient each recipe called for then added that up at the end to get my amount that I needed.
Does that help any?
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April 6, 2009 at 3:04 pm
Christina
Can you tell me how many people you are serving with these meals?
April 6, 2009 at 3:08 pm
Gretchen
Christina,
I feed 4 people with this. This is actually two adults and two small children, but since my children don’t eat a lot I do have at least one serving left over to pack for my husband’s lunch. Does that help?