Starting a Cooking Club to Save Money, Eat Better

You can reduce fresh food waste, protect the environment, and help others in your community by starting a cooking club.

Reader Contribution by Aur Beck and Advanced Energy Solutions Group
Published on August 12, 2021
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By starting a cooking club, you’ll not only eat better, but you’ll actually reduce the time you spend in the kitchen preparing balanced meals for your household.

A friend of mine and I have enjoyed starting a cooking club. One day each week, we cook extra and bring it to others in the cooking group.

If you’re interested in starting a cooking club, I recommend you start small, by cooking double meals one day each week and providing the extra to the other person. Soon, a third friend joined us, and I learned that it doesn’t take any more effort to cook for three families than to cook for one.

It is great to know that at least three nights a week, we will have a home-cooked meal, and two nights a week I don’t have to do anything but heat it up. And by starting a cooking club, we all get to try new foods. I started a regular slow food dinner where everyone would bring something and put on the kitchen table to come up with a meal.

We tried really hard to not make a stir-fry or a stew or soup. We did find a website and then an app where you can enter all ingredients and it would provide a list of recipes — like recipe roulette!

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