A friend guided me to a website listing recipes and I requested any recipe that could be prepared on the weekend and then heated up when my husband came home from work. My email box was flooded with recipes, many recommeding OAMC. My husband was sent to the local library with the names of two books. We went over those books and the recipes that had been emailed to me and selected 10 recipes that we liked.
We spent most of the day preparing those meals. Since it was just two of us, we ended up with approximately 40 meals. It was a great solution to our bedrest problems, homecooked meals that were within our budget and didn't contain huge amounts of calories or fat. The bonus was that my husband had to do all the cooking.
After the baby arrived, we were trying to balance ways for me to continue working out of my home, care for a new baby and cook healthy meals for our family. Devoting a full day to cooking while nursing a newborn is impossible.
Our solution was to prepare a few meals in duplicate, but we quickly tired of the same thing more than once a week.
That's when my love for mini-sessions began. Each of my sessions are based around a single meat (ground beef, chicken, ham..) and contains 5-7 recipes that that our family enjoys. Each of the recipes will yeild 4 to 16 servings and by packaging them for my family of 2 adults and 2 young children, I usually get 10 to 12 meals. Each takes about 3 hours from start to finish. This way I can prepare the meals during nap time for our infant, or during the evening while my husband is home to play with the children. Another bonus is that since the meals are based on a single meat is that at the end of the session, I usually only have one pan, plus 2-3 mixing bowls to wash, making clean up a breeze.
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