Once A Month Cooking

     Yesterday My Other Crazy Friend and I combined forces and began our Once A Month Cooking...experiment.  I am excited about this because I think we really are going to save at least a little bit of money in the Grocery department and lot of money in the Out To Eat department.  Plus, we are hoping that it will save us tons of time.  
     Usually I either spend a ton of time on Friday night or Saturday morning making a WONDERFUL 2 week plan of well balanced, easy, inexpensive but tasty meals OR I remember that I am a member of e-meals.com and download the Any Store Meal Plan for the week.  Anyway, after that is done, I go shopping, bring everything home, put it away... and we go out for dinner.  Then a couple of times a week during the 2 week period in question, we will go out to eat because I dont feel like cooking.  Next time grocery shopping time comes around again, I have food that doesnt get used.  Not exactly the best use of our resources.  So enter...Once A Month Cooking.  

After we picked out about 10 recipes each (some we doubled because we both wanted to do them) we shopped in our respective pantries,cabinets, fridges and freezers and came up with pretty much all the ingredients.  

Here are a few of the recipes we made:

Lemon Chicken

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Ready for the freezer:

Peppered Flank Steak

Ingredients:

Ready for the freezer:

And Lime Grilled Mahi-Mahi

Ingredients:

Ready for the freezer:

Peanut even got to help!

I think we made out pretty well.  Don't you?