I’m sorry for the delay in getting this information posted.
Last time, I gave you tips for preparing for the big grocery trip to Sam’s Club. So now it is time to hit the store.
Here is the grocery list I used for this bulk shopping trip:
Fresh Produce ~ Estimated total: $60.91
Zucchini (est. $6)
Onions (10 lbs. - [...]
Once menu planning is completed with your cooking club, it is time to tackle the grocery shopping. But first, you need to write out a grocery list.
If you usually do not grocery shop with a list, this may be an adjustment for you. However, when you are shopping in bulk and cooking with a cooking [...]
The cooking club that I occasionally cook with includes my sister-in-law and my mother-in-law. Between the three families, we cook for 12 people total - my family of 6, my sister-in-law’s family of 4 and my mother-in-law and father-in-law.
I usually handle the menu planning with some input from the other 2 members, such as what [...]
Now we are going to get down to some serious work with our cooking club. The next step, and perhaps the most important, is menu planning.
So how do you plan a menu when you are cooking as a group? There are actually a few ways you can handle this depending on how your cooking club [...]
Two weeks ago, I had the opportunity to join a conference call with professional chef Nicole Aloni. We discussed some of the benefits of logistics of cooking with a cooking club. Nicole, and the other bloggers on the call, had so many wonderful tips to share and I knew I had to share them with [...]
So now that I have introduced you to the idea of a cooking club and shared the basics for forming a cooking club, let’s get down to business.
Early cooking club decisions
Decide how often you would like to get together with your cooking club.
Decide how many meals you will prepare at each gathering.
Decide what kind of [...]
Part 1 introduced the idea of using a cooking club and Sam’s Club to save money and time in the kitchen. Part 2 covers the 4 basics to forming a cooking club.
Join Kate over the next few weeks while she shares some tips, tricks and ideas for using Sam’s Club and a cooking club to make the most of your money and time.
Like Mother, Like Daughter. We are a family who live in Central Massachusetts. My husband is a Boston Irish Catholic from a big family. His upbringing was smack dab in the middle of respectable Catholic America, not untinged by 60s unrest.
I am about as different from him as you can get: I’m an only child, my parents are divorced, my father was an immigrant from Egypt, I was raised on the cutting edge of the feminist/relativist/sexual self-fulfillment/diversity revolution. My upbringing was smack dab in the middle of 70s hippie snotty know-it-all America, not untinged by anomie.
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