Cooking Club
Posted by Luanne | Posted in WFMW | Posted on 18-06-2008
I have been a member of a cooking club for almost two years now. It is AWESOME! Different people run cooking clubs in different ways, so let me give you the skinny on what we do.
Once a month we each have a cooking assignment. I pick a meal or two and the group approves one of them and it is my meal assignment for the month. I go to the store and get enough ingredients to make 14 of the same meal. Each meal is enough for a family of six. I freeze them flat in my freezer with the directions for cooking and date on the front of the Ziploc.
The whole group then gets together at a designated time and a designated restaurant. We have dinner, laugh, talk, catch up, and then we get out our freezer cookbooks and discuss who will be making what meal for the next month. After dinner and assignments for next month are over, we all go out to our vehicles and exchange meals. Each person gets 2 of each meal. When we are finished swapping, we give hugs and bid each other a good month and go home with 14 frozen meals (7 different ones but two of each.)
These are the top 5 reasons why this works so well for me:
- I love the fact that we all get 2 of the same meal because if I have company, I can use both meals and have enough for 12 people.
- I did not have to buy all the ingredients for 14 different meals. I just bought a lot of ingredients for one meal and I usually make it when I buy it so I don’t even have to put those away.
- I always have ready meals in the freezer when life gets crazy or the DH is taking care of dinner.
- I always have ready meals in the freezer when other people are in need.
- I don’t have to think about what I am going to make every night. I just pull something out of the freezer, thaw (or not) and cook.
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This is so cool! I don’t know anyone that is in a cooking club. If I ever start one I will have some great guidelines to build off of. This sounds great.
What a great idea! A friend of mine and I are actually in the process of planning a supper swap. We’re probably going to start with 6-8 ladies and only cook 4-5meals each. But we’ll see how it goes and maybe it’ll evolve after we get the hang of it! Thanks for sharing! Come on by Wani’s World sometime!
As the husband and partner of Luanne, I have to say that the cooking club works for me as well. It is easy to pull something out on short notice, we have fun (usauly!) making all of the food for the exchange, and the food is good. Cooking Club Rocks! okay, that was a little dramtic and overdone, but it IS pretty cool.
Never heard of one done that way… really nifty!
Hey, that sounds actually doable. I’ve been wary of stuff like this before, but I like the way your group does it.
Your hubby did a great job on the site. 🙂
I agree the food is yummy. I have feasted on it at Luanne’s house many times. But not as man as I’d like, (HINT HINT – make me dinner!!)
Interesting to know.
Great work.