Comments on: OAMC: The Processing Stage

By: Shannon

Shannon — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:35:55 +0000

Suzette,

I am laughing so INCREDIBLY HARD RIGHT NOW.

I am sure no one wants to know what my bowels look like. That would be a whole different kind of post LOL.
Sorry for your incontinence is hysterical.

Thanks for the good laugh at my expense (oh and your poor husband too).

By: Suzette

Suzette — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:08:47 +0000

“until my bowels looked like this”

Bowl= a rather deep, round dish or basin, used chiefly for holding liquids, food, etc

Bowel= well, something else

This is one of those words that a spell checker won’t find. Reminds me of the time my husband was sending an e-mail at work and ended it with “Sorry for your inconvenience”. However, he spelled “incovenience” wrong and spell check corrected it to “Sorry for your incontinence”. He noticed after he hit send.

By: Jenn

Jenn — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 21:59:48 +0000

I tried this just last week. I spent about 4 hours total in the kitchen with the clean up and ended up with over 20 meals. It is time consuming for sure, but totally worth it in the end. I used ‘power cooking recipes’ that use the same base ingredient and then a minimal amount of other ingredients to finish off each recipe(I would say less than 5 a piece). Cooking 5lbs of ground beef I used a pound for each recipe and ended up with chili, italian beef hoagies, beef stroganoff, beef taco mix and sloppy joes. Then I did the same with chicken. I also made a pork roast in the slow cooker and a few things from stew meat. So far everything has tasted great and was extremely easy to heat up and serve. There are only 2 of us, so there was plenty left over of each for another meal. These could have been divided in half and given us that many more frozen meals!

By: Keri Lyn @ SheSaved

Keri Lyn @ SheSaved — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:04:08 +0000

You are so very brave. I can’t wait to see how this goes. And your photos are so pretty!!

By: Shannon

Shannon — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:49:40 +0000

Kelly,

11 years is a long time for an appliance.!

By: Shannon

Shannon — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:49:06 +0000

Betsy,

You know I tried to convince my sister to do this with me, but she said she would, but I think she was just being nice.

Also, that is the reason I never bought a food processor – clean up.

By: Betsy

Betsy — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:22:36 +0000

I love the food chopper, since you can control better how fine things are chopped and it is sooo much easier to clean (diswasher) versus washing food processor container and such. But, I have both…and they serve different and wonderful purposes. I also find that doing this with others is also a time-saver. If you know of someone else doing this, why not go in together and dice/chop/peeel etc. and split the ingredients. Hope this helps!

By: Kassidy

Kassidy — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:49:12 +0000

I love my kitchenaid food processor. it is a true lifesaver.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:43:16 +0000

I have a Kitchen Aid and stand by it. It was my first KA appliance, I have had it for about 11 years or so. I love it, it has a small bowl that fits inside the big bowl. It chops, shreds/grates, slices. LOVE IT!

By: Shannon

Shannon — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:39:19 +0000

Rebecca,

Do you know that with all the cooking I do, I dont own a food processor!!! So what brand Food Processor do you like and should I invest in one?

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:11:58 +0000

I would use a food processor anytime I could rather than the PC chopper. I have that too, but it’s so much more work than pressing a button and watching your items get chopped to bits in mere seconds. That might speed things up!

By: Heather

Heather — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:09:59 +0000

The only thing I do to limit it is choose meals that have crossover ingredients. Of course, I don’t do “true” once a month cooking. I just do some bulk cooking & freezing to have emergency meals on hand. I’m not sure I’d want to eat meals made from the same 3 items all month long. lol