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Two-Week Cooking Project: Cooking Day Plan & Recipes

Now it’s time to get into the nitty-gritty!  I’ve created a couple of files for you to download. Remember that you’ll need the free Adobe Acrobat Reader software to open them.

Two-Week Cooking Project Recipes

Two-Week Cooking Project Cooking Day Plan

One of the hardest things for me is figuring out what order to cook things in. I promised you that I’d hold your hand through this one! If you’re using my menu recipe-for-recipe, you can use the Cooking Day Plan. This will walk you through the order that I’m going to be cooking in. It takes into account the fact that the chicken has to cook before you can use it. So we’ll have other things to do in the meantime.

Of course, you can always mix things up and do them in whatever order you want! I put this plan together in case you needed a little extra guidance.

My plan is still to shop Friday and cook on Saturday. I’ll be back to share my shopping trip with you, and I’ll be posting the results of the big cooking day. I’ll have a chance for bloggers to link up your finale posts then too.

Let’s get shopping and cooking!

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Comments

  1. This looks like a great and easy plan! My son had baseball until after 8 p.m. last night (his coach like long practices :)), and I was cooking dinner at 9 p.m.! This would sure cut down on my time spent in the kitchen on work/school nights. Thanks for sharing!

  2. Whew! I did it! …Shopped and cooked all today since my son and husband were out of the house. Now I need a nap 🙂

  3. …And your plan was awesome! …So easy and helped me through everything. Can’t wait to eat the meals now!

    • WAHOO!!!!! I’m so jealous! You’re a day ahead of me. I’m thinking about cooking the chicken in the Crock Pot tonight. Maybe that will give me a jump start for tomorrow. How long did it all take?

  4. Just saw your comment….It took me 3 1/2 hours total. And I switched out 3 of your meals for different ones, so that might have made it longer. I ended up putting the chicken on high for awhile so I could finish up quicker without having to wait on the chicken.

    • Not bad at all! Divide that by 14 meals, and you’re talking 15 minutes per meal. Of course, there’s a little more prep – like boiling noodles – that we’ll have to do for some of the meals. But still that’s awesome!

  5. For your crockpot method of cooking a whole chicken, have you ever checked it with a cooking thermometer to make sure it gets hot enough? I never thought it would!