i just thought I'd share this.

Every sunday morning I get up at 5am (horrid I know) but I do so for a good reason! What I do is plan a week of easy meals, not easy to cook, but easy to reheat the following week.

I've found that cooking a load of 1 pot meals like chicken casseroles, Bolognese, hotpots, curries and alike a tthe ungodly hours saves me a fortune in electric.

After cooking the lot I store em all up in a bunch of tupperware containers and get one out as and when I need it. The costs I've saved cooking this that early (eco 7 hours), is amazing. At least £1 a day.

The washing up is a lot easier during the busy weeks, its quick to boil some ride or pasta to complete the meal and best of all it's not tiring Nothing better than a hard days at work to come home to an easy 'home cooked' 5 minute meal

hope this helps,

Cheers,

A

I do something similar myself, we are very busy in this house & with kids to feed it is a great way of teaching them to cook. My daughter loves being in the kitchen with all the meals to prepare with daddy. I find it really helps with getting her to eat vegetables & all the other stuff kids think is yuk. She has started to plan meals for the week & my wife loves the fact she can leave us to it. I look forward to me & my daughter just spending time together & she is learning & having fun, she even makes shopping lists for the stuff we will need for the Sunday cook, Great fun.

Seems to be a good routine but personally I would not be disciplined enough to really do it myself. Although it is certainly a good way of saving money. But do you really need to get up at 5am, I mean 7 or 8am would still do

firstly you gotta peel and boil vegeies, then cook/grill/fry all your meats for your different meals at the same time(how big is your oven) I guess its good to get it all out the way at once, but the concentration would drive me mad. Im like Ramsay in the kitchen except Im swearing at no one cos im usualy alone!

I get up at 5am by habit But the better side of it is that I catch the end of the Eco7 electric, so I save an extra penny too.

The joy with one pot meals is that you dont really need to babysit them whhen they're on the go. After you've started them off, more times outta none you leave em slow cooking on their own Just be sure to put the buzzer/bell on to remind you they're there!

@Roxie: haha I'm the same when it comes to cooking pasta dishes FOr some bizarre reason I'm ultra finicky about how they're done and I usually end up swearing at myself (oddly enough in Italian)!

@snowy: that's how I started to like cooking When I wa a kiddo, I used to help my mum out in the kitchen and picked up an affinity for the cooking realm THere's nothing I find more therapeutic than preparing a simple meal

have you got any recipes that you could share?

I'm sure adridude will have some lovely ones, but some of these sound nice:

http://www.goodtoknow.co.uk/recipes/pictures/30616/20-simple-one-pot-dinners

Thank you so much, some of them look amazing!

I used to do similar as a student. Didn't fancy coming home at 7pm to come home and cook.

Thank you so much, some of them look amazing!

They do, don't they?

I'll need to scan em in as I tend to jot them in my 'keep calm and keep cooking; notepad I'll get that done when I come back