Organize A Casserole Co-op For Healthier Meals Light On The Budget
For sure you’ve experienced neither times wherein you didn’t have energy or time for slaving inside your kitchen to prepare a lovely dinner meal for the family. What normally happens is that we go to restaurants and eat out or rush to the nearest fast food to quench our hunger.
These are really expensive options and not really healthy for anyone too so why don’t you try to start a fun casserole club co-op together with some neighbors or friends who also are experiencing the same problems when it comes to the preparation of meals. This nice plan is great because it’s going to really save you time and present healthy hot meals to your whole family too.
The only problem is starting or setting up the co-op. First thing you need to be doing is calling a list of neighbors and friends who you think are having the same problems as you are with their meals. Get lots of participants but starting out with even 5 is really great.
Next, find delicious casserole recipes which are really easy to prepare and keep well inside your freezer too. Also 1 consideration is to make sure that all these recipes cost more or less the same. Then, you let the participants choose what casserole recipe they’d want to prepare.
Now, on to grocery shopping for ingredients. Each of your neighbor or friend will buy all the needed ingredients and recipe needs to be multiplied to 5 if there are 5 for the group. Buy 5 pieces of baking dishes/tins too where you place your casseroles in. Then, now time for cooking those lovely casserole dishes which you searched for earlier.
With 5 participants, there should be 5 of each yummy recipe. The one’s cooking must place a tag card on their casseroles indicating its name as well as defrosting instructions and also how to bake them. After casseroles are done, I cover them up with foil and place inside freezer bags to ensure their freshness. Just place the cards in the plastic bags so they don’t get lost.
Everything is now ready. Now, you could schedule up days and times where you and your group can meet up and exchange casseroles. So now each individual has 5 different kinds of casseroles which can easily be frozen then cooked for hot meals for their respective families.
No need to dial the fast food joints to have unhealthy food delivered, you now keep in your freezer great casserole dishes which your whole family is surely going to love and it’ll give you good relationships with the neighbors and friends too.
Cleaning up is easier too because your casseroles are served in baking dishes/tins and they wouldn’t need much cleaning. So you’d have lots of time for relaxation after your dinner and wouldn’t think much about messy and greasy pots and pans