Living Behind The Curve

OAMC Really Leaves You Hanging?

Once a Month Cooking, or OAMC, is a fabulous concept: cook for a day, eat for a month. In theory, if you shop and cook for that one day, you will save time and help the environment all at one go - simple and wonderful and oh-so-nicely packaged. Why the snark? Because it doesn’t work.

Think about it - if you have time to let your lentil-rice casserole sit in the oven for an hour *after* you get home from [insert evening activity of choice here], then you probably have the time to pour some marinade over a few boneless skinless chicken breasts and microwave a bag of frozen peas.

OAMC for us was stressful, exhausting, and aggravating. Once we accepted SRSLY as our epicurean saviour, I reflected on all the time and energy we lost to OAMC:

• 24 hours per month (10-12 hours each day on one weekend) chopping, cooking, mixing, preheating, baking, cooling, wrapping, freezing,and cleaning.
• Hassle of remembering to pull items from the freezer the night before - if there’s no thawed casserole, there’s no dinner!
• An additional 1 hour per day spent re-cooking the prepped OAMC item. If we didn’t get home until 10 pm, we didn’t eat until 11!

Compare that to the time and energy invested in SRSLY:

• 2-4 hours every two months spent chopping and bagging, easily accomplished in an afternoon!
• Food goes directly from frozen to ready-to-eat!
• There’s no time spent when we get home from work - not only is dinner ready for us whenever we get home, but the house smells divine!

Are you ready to cook SRSLY?