If the idea of a full month of cooking sounds overwhelming, start small. If two weeks sounds more do-able, try cooking ahead for two weeks. Or one week. In the course of your normal cooking, triple your recipes. If you re preparing lasagna, make three-one for eating tonight and two for the freezer.
Tomorrow night do the same thing with a different recipe.
After one week of tripling your regular meals and freezing two, you ll have two weeks of meals with almost no extra effort. It s really not much harder to prepare three lasagnas than it is to prepare one. Or make a large pot of spaghetti sauce rather than a single family serving and freeze the extras in meal-size servings. Start out doubling and tripling recipes as you go through your week. What you will find is that you will start saving time, you ll start saving money, and you won t be doing this in an overwhelming or difficult manner.