Castlewood Cooks: Guidelines

Each meal should cost about $8-10, for a total of $80-100 for 10 meals.

Each meal should have 6 portions.

Please email the group when you know your meal for the month. Tell us what your meal is, and also note if you are doing a fresh meal. Pay attention to these emails to prevent duplicates and to keep fresh meals to no more than 2 per month.

Label all items for your meal. Use printed labels to save time with multiple items.

These pages are taken from the book Girlfriends on the Go: A Busy Mom's Guide to Make-Ahead Meals by Suzie Roberts. Please share with new members of the group and substitutes. Click this link to view larger.

About Us

This blog is for the Castlewood Cooks. We do a monthly meal exchange in our neighborhood. Each month, we all make a meal for 10 families. Most of them can be frozen. We meet once a month to swap meals. We each come home with 10 different yummy meals. At least 10 times each month, we have an answer for that dreaded question: "What should we have for dinner?" We just pull a meal out of the freezer and prepare as directed. This blog is a way for us to share our recipes with each other, find more great recipes, and keep track of the meals we've had so we can request our favorites again.