OAMC stands for Once-A-Month Cooking. It’s also known as freezer cooking, bulk cooking, or mega cooking. This doesn’t necessarily have to be done once a month. Many people cook once a week, or once every two months. Still others just double the recipe each time they cook and freeze the second for later use, without having any special cooking sessions.

OAMC is the process of cooking multiple meals in one cooking session, saving on cleanup and making more efficient use of preparation time. There are many books about OAMC: Once a Month Cooking, Dinner’s in the Freezer, etc.

The one that I have, and use, and recommend, though, is The Freezer Cooking Manual. It actually provides the forms and help for you to devise your own plan, utilizing your own recipes. It also includes a selection of recipes (which are actually real foods that real people eat – even real kids!) and lots of helpful information, such as freezing information and conversion charts. (I found that when I read the other books, they left me feeling dependent on using their plans exactly as written, ‘though they were full of recipes we just don’t eat.) I also find their recipe layout very easy to follow.

Freezer Cooking Websites

There are lots of how-to and recipe websites for freezer cooking, too. These are just a few:

• Once a Month Meals
• 30 Day Gourmet
• FavoriteFreezerFoods.com
• freezer recipes at Recipezaar
• “Foods That Freeze Well” at Recipelink
  (Note: The format at this site is not particularly readable.)
• “freezer” keyword search at Allrecipes

• Family Freezer