Friday, August 1, 2008

Mission Accomplished.....

I know....boring post compared to my usual, but I had to blog about my accomplishment today. This week I decided that I was going to plan our meals for the month of August, cook some of them in one day, stick them in the deep freeze and pull them out when I needed them. I have gotten sick of buying groceries each when then feeling like I had nothing to cook. Well, I made my list (which looked a mile long) and headed to Wal-Mart. Much to my surprise, I spent less on a month supply of meals than I normally would have spent for two weeks of groceries. I will obviously have to go back and buy fresh things like bread, milk, fruit, etc., but I got all the ingredients I needed to cook for 9 meals! I cooked five casseroles this morning and froze them. I will then cook "small" meals one night a week. I know this is really boring to most, but it has become a bit of an obsession this week, and if you can't tell, I am really excited about it!! I will let you know how we do throughout the month with our pre-prepared meals!

I promise I will post about Myla soon!

4 comments:

Amanda said...

What a great idea, Meredith!!! I want the recipes for your favorites. Maybe I could do that one weekend and not feel like such a bad wife for never cooking!!!!!

Susan and Ethan Peterson said...

Good job Meredith! I know you are excited to have finished this!!!

The Morrisons said...

That is wonderful! Pass on the recipes...Great idea and I never thought about it but you are probably right that you end up spending less...Thanks for the idea!

The Family Bond said...

You need to pass these recipes on for the rest of us so that we can impress our husbands. HB