The Freezer Cooking Manual from 30 Day Gourmet: A Month of Meals Made Easy

This hands-on manual includes time-saving worksheets, step-by-step instructions, healthy tips, money-saving ideas and practical advice. Nutritional information and member access to hundreds of additional online recipes included.

The manual also features: demonstration photos
easy-to-follow steps
worksheets
choosing recipes for freezer cooking
shopping smart
assembling in quantity
freezing for great results
thorough appendix with equivalency charts
metric conversion charts
freezing time chart
blanching chart
list of basic cooking terms
freezer selection and maintenance
power failure procedures

Why choose 30 Day Gourmet?
we have a website and will answer your questions
we TEACH you how to be a great freezer cook. We don't just give you recipes and hope that you can figure the rest out.
Our cookbook is a manual. It teaches you how to freezer cook and it provides the tools that are necessary for you to do it any way you wish. Our worksheets (available free online with a book purchase) help you do all of the calculating. We also give you instruction in how to incorporate your own recipes into the system.
Our recipes are always multiplied out in the same way. We have saved you a bunch of time and headaches by doing this work for you. It helps you make multiples in an efficient way. Our recipes also are based on 6 servings per entree. It's hard to plan your cooking when some recipes have 4 servings and some have 12.
30 Day Gourmet gives you great help along with tons more recipes on our website. Our message boards offer help, stories, recipes and the expert advice of hundreds of seasoned freezer cooks.
The 30 Day Gourmet yahoo group is now #3 in the Cooking and Recipes groups with over 11,600 members. Join for free and we will send you a newsletter every month filled with tips, info and more freezer recipes.

Still not sure?

Read what our cooks have to say:
My friend and I are having a great time with this. Our husbands are proud of us and our kids aren't hungry anymore. We're not running through the drive-thru or making a meal out of soccer field food. Thank you for inspiring us! It's well worth it and we're hooked.
busy mom from Missouri
The best part about 30 Day Gourmet cooking is how much my husband brags about our full freezer to all of our friends. As a working mom, this has been a godsend. My kids love the recipes.
teacher from Iowa >BR>Although we are a small family, I was glad to see that is not a problem because your system isn't just geared to "large" families. This is a true FAMILY cookbook. Thank you for easy to follow instructions and ingredients I can pronounce.
dual career family from New York
Just awesome! I'm a whole new person come 6 pm.
home school mom from Florida
My 18 year old son and I made several meals for him to put in single serving sizes and take to his college apartment. He finds this to be a quick and easy way to have home-cooked meals.
working mom from Ohio
This cookbook is the best money I have ever invested!
frugal family from Washington
I recently compared my budget from a before 30 Day Gourmet year to an after 30 Day Gourmet year. What a surprise! I had cut our grocery spending by almost $1000!!! Thanks for the wonderful book!
computer analyst from California

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All Customer Reviews
Average Customer Review:
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:

The Freezer Cooking Manual from 30 Day Gourmet: A Month of Meals Made Easy, 2008-10-10
This book is very informative on how to prepare for making meals for 30 days in one day.


1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

save your sanity, save your money: Use this book!!, 2008-09-03
I have been freezer cooking for over 6 years thanks to 30 Day Gourmet. I started when my children were very young and I was a stay at home mom. Today I am a working mom with preteens and this book still never fails to save my time, money, and sanity! Nothing is better than knowing after a long day at work and a soon to be long evening of homework and errands that dinner is prepared and planned ahead of time. Talk about a stress reducer! How much is one extra hour added into your day worth? For my family it is priceless. Not to mention the savings you can get from preparing and freezing your meals ahead of time. My family saw a reduction of $200 a month in food costs alone. This comes from buying items on sale, using what you purchase before it goes bad, and NOT needing to run to fast food after a crazy day. The Freezer Cooking Manual gives you all the tools to make it possible with worksheets, recipes and a complete system for freezer cooking. Buy this book and see the results for yourself!


2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

Great Plan, So-So Recipes, 2008-07-26
As someone new to the concept of once-a-month cooking, I found the step-by-step approach and the worksheets very helpful. The authors provide a detailed description of the planning, shopping, cooking, and packaging phases of freezer cooking. They also provide worksheets and forms to help with all of these steps. The recipes, however, were mostly uninspired and/or relied heavily on processed foods. I don't really need another recipe for spaghetti sauce or meat loaf, and I don't use Velveeta or bottled salad dressing. I just applied their process to my own recipes, which is actually pretty easy. If you're looking for a place to get started in freezer cooking, this book can be really useful. If you're just looking for a source of good freezer recipes, look elsewhere.


3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

Excellent Charts! Checklists! Makes it look easy!, 2008-07-22
I have purchased several once a month cooking books after borrowing them from the library. This is one of them. The organization, charts and checklists make the price of this book worth it alone.

The recipes are like another reviewer noted, are geared toward kids. My kids are grown and I have a busy job and a husband that had a heart attack three years ago. I cook ahead to make my life easier, but I have to take into account that my husband can't eat ground beef, etc. I have used this book and edited it with veggie ground beef, turkey sausage etc. It works just as well although I have to say I haven't gotten "up to" cooking for a whole month in one day. I don't have anyone to do this with so it's just little old me.

For first timers I recommend starting with 4 or 5 recipes you would like to try and doubling or tripling them. Do this for a few weeks and it will go much easier. The lists will guide you and the recipes give you the amounts to use to make 2, 4, etc. meals.

The first time I tried to cook for a month, I picked 6 hard recipes where you had to basically "cook" them and freeze them. It took me all day long. I was so dissapointed I was ready to give up. Don't do that to yourself, work up to it. Having the meals ready made it worth revising my plan. Pick some easy ones that you just have to marinate in the freezer and the actual recipe is grilled or cooked the day you eat it. Have some pre cooked recipes that are all ready except for heating up like lasagna. Pick some that can be just thawed and thrown in a crockpot the morning you plan on eating it.

This book not only tells you the amounts you need for doubling or tripling a recipe, it usually gives you the option of doing the cooking ahead or prep and freeze to cook on the day you plan on eating it.

Alot of the other books have shopping lists and pre cooking day instructions. They are useless if you have to cut out the red meat and revise the list. This book gives you the template to make your own list suited to your family and their tastes.


1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

Save Money, Save Time, Save Sanity!, 2008-07-20
For the cost of only one meal for a family of 4, this book pays for itself! With the rising cost of fuel, think of all the money you will save being able to pull from your freezer a meal of baked chicken, mashed potatoes, green bean casserole and apple pie! While there are great recipes in this book, there are wonderful worksheets provided to allow you to adapt YOUR family favorites! You decide the number of batches to make - will it be a double, triple . . . quintuple? I was fortunate enough to see the author and her original business partner on a family talk show over 10 years ago and have been a fan ever since. Over the years (4 kids later) this book has taught me the skills I needed to save so much money, time and sanity. A small investment in time yields a freezer full of homemade food where you determine how much salt and fat and sugar are in your Muffins, Quiche, Macaroni and Cheese! Having meals on hand have come in handy to share with friends coming home from the hospital after surgery or having babies. There are great tips on what foods freeze well (ones that don't, too!), containers to use (even if you have limited space) just to name a few. One of the best hidden treasures of this book is the link to the 30DG website where there is a wonderful community of freezer cooks and newsletters! Make it a family affair - shopping, labeling, cooking and eating for everyone!

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