Batch Cooking, OAMC, Freezer Cooking

Batch cooking and Freezer Cooking has become an OBSESSION of mine.  The idea of cooking one day a MONTH seems like a dream come true.  I have literally read tons of the once a Month and Freezer cooking books and my conclusion is that unless you live on high fat freezer meals already its very difficult to be a 100% committed to this.  With some of the books, they give you a detailed meal plan and if your starting out you may not even like all the meals.  Aside from that a lot of the meals contain high sodium items like canned soup, flavor mixes, bottled sauces and cheese.. which are not necessarily cheap items you still have to spend time re-heating and a lot of the menu items are by Oven.  And for me personally, I can't live without the occasional crunch veggie stir-fry or salad and fresh sticky rice so I'd still have to cook.

BUT.. You can definately live on a modified version of this and enjoy the benefits of this type of cooking.

PRO's

• Reduce your food waste (you can use a lot more of your ingredients so they don't end up spoiling and sitting there forgotten)
• Reduce Cost (from having to buy take out, bulk buying on sales, less grocery trips and opportunities to buy out of your meal plan)
• Reduce CLEAN UP (eg: cut all your onions at once and use the food processor once and clean up only once)
• Save TIME
• Forces you to Pre-Plan your meals more and you freeze in proper proportion sizes 

For me, there are certain foods that I like that do freeze well and its a really great idea when you've got a huge collection of foods you've picked up on sale.  And to avoid being really stressed out, I would start small that ways you don't feel deprived of your fresh tasting meals and just give up.  BECAUSE they benefits are too great to ignore.