Hi there!
I'm going to start doing 'once a week cooking' in an attempt to rescue our bank account and my waistline. Once a week cooking involves menu planning for a week, shopping for that week, then prepping all of the food for that week. All of the food is typically prepped in one day and frozen to be thawed and cooked later on in the week. Some people do 'once a month' cooking instead. Same idea, but you only have to dirty the kitchen and really work one day of the month for meals! Since our freezer space is very limited, I'm sticking to the once a week cooking style, but I'll be menu planning and making out a grocery list once per month. If I can get by with it, I'll be doing one large shop at the beginning of the month, then all I'll need to run to the store for is eggs and milk hopefully.

Most of my recipes have been found on other blogs. If a recipe is located on an external blog, clicking the link will take you to the recipe on that blog. Be sure to give people credit when they've come up with something!

Fellow bloggers, if I have used one of your recipes and have not linked it to your blog, it's because I truly cannot remember where I found the recipe. If you send me a link to your recipe, I'll link to it.

I will expand this list as I go and I will eventually have everything linked, I promise!

*Note: Saturday nights are pizza nights here, and I'll include my recipe for homemade pizza crust here on the list at the bottom. I do not remember where I found the recipe for the pizza crust, but it's the one I've been using for years and it's wonderful as either a thin crust, hand tossed, or even pan crust!

September 2013
Breakfasts
A choice of smoothies, applesauce oatmeal muffins, buckwheat pancakes, American style buttermilk pancakes, breakfast burritos, cinnamon rolls, or buttermilk biscuits (savoury scones).

**Note: I haven't found a gluten free source of buckwheat flour in the UK as of yet!

Lunches
Either leftovers from the night before, a smoothie, or black bean and rice burritos.

Main Meals
1 - Mexican casserole (slow cooker)
2 - Meatloaf (slow cooker)
3 - Chicken and dumplings with vegetables (slow cooker)
4 - Mac and cheese (slow cooker)
5 - Red beans and rice (slow cooker)
6 - Marinara chicken and vegetables with pasta (slow cooker)
8 - Chicken and broccoli casserole (oven) (first recipe on the page)
9 - White beans and rice (slow cooker)
10 - Vegetable beef soup (slow cooker)
11 - Slow cooker pizza (with pasta instead of a pizza crust)
12 - Slow cooker potato soup
13 - Slow cooker creamy ranch pork chops and potatoes (about halfway down the page)
15 - Slow cooker scalloped potatoes with ham (I added 3/4 cup diced ham to the linked recipe)
16 - Slow cooker chilli
17 - Slow cooker pasta and fagiola
18 - Fajitas (slow cooker & homemade tortillas) *See note at bottom
19 - Broccoli and cheese soup (slow cooker)
20 - Golden chicken (slow cooker)  (click on the 'click here to view recipes' link on the page)
22 - Chicken pot pie (oven)
23 - Hashbrown, bacon, egg, and cheese casserole (oven)
24 - Pizza casserole (oven)
25 - Ham and onion pie (oven)
26 - Pork and vegetables (slow cooker) (click on the 'click here to view recipes' link on the page)
27 - Garlic and lime chicken (slow cooker)

Extras and recipes used in the above recipes
Homemade pizza crust
Homemade tortillas
Homemade hashbrowns
Salt free taco seasoning
Fajita seasoning
Creole seasoning
Chilli seasoning
Poultry seasoning
Dry ranch seasoning mix
'Cream of' soup mix - to replace condensed cream of soups called for in recipes
Condensed cheddar soup
Dry onion soup mix
Homemade (gluten free) Worcestershire sauce

*I don't really have a recipe for fajitas. We usually use chicken, but any meat can be used. Slice and cook meat in a bit of oil in a frying pan, then add sliced bell peppers and sliced onions. Cook until the onions are soft and translucent. Then mix 2 tbsp fajita seasoning with 1/4 cup water and pour over the meat and veggies. Cook until sauce thickens.