The Chill MAMAs* (Make Ahead Meal Artists) are six mothers who meet monthly to swap frozen meals that we make at home using tasty recipes from Fix, Freeze, Feast and other once a month/freezer cooking cookbooks.We save money (it only costs us between $90 - $120 for 12 meals) by following savvy shopping techniques, plus making multiples of a recipe allows us to take advantage of warehouse-sized packaging so we waste fewer ingredients. We save time both while assembling the meals (12 meals takes less than 2 hours this way) and also when we prepare and serve the meals to our families (all the time consuming and messy prep work is already done - we just cook/heat and eat).
While our families are different sizes and have different tastes, we've managed to work through these differences to the benefit of our pocketbooks and our families' schedules.
If you have a group of friends who are interested in becoming MAMAs* and starting your own dinner swap group, send an email to Shawnee for information about scheduling a Supper Swapping Secrets seminar. You can also visit Kati and Lindsay's Fix, Freeze, Feast website here.
If you heard about the MAMAs group from KATU, please take a minute and leave a comment below and tell us how YOU save time and money in the kitchen.
2 comments:
Starting our own group. We can't wait. Have wanted to for years, but couldn't find any like minded meal planners until now.
Excellent! I'm happy for your group. If you think about it, keep us updated on how it's going.
Shawnee
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