Here are features filed under Meal planning:

• A Beginner's Guide to Once a Month Cooking (OAMC) Once a month cooking, or "OAMC" is a wonderful tool you can use and modify to suit your needs. It is a simple idea, really, of cooking ahead and then preserving your food using a variety of strategies: freezing, canning, drying, refrigerating. Frugal mom Kim Tilley guides you through the basics.

• Meal Planning Made Easy It's no fun trying to decide what to make for dinner every night. Planning your meals ahead of time often saves you time as well as money. Author Rachel Paxton shows us a game plan.

• A Busy Cook Cooks Learn some nifty new tricks to make life -- and cooking -- a little easier!

• Convenience Foods That Are! Most moms who cook don't have the time to make every single meal straight from scratch. The trick is to find the right kind of ready-made, prepared and convenience food.

• Dessert for Breakfast? With today's fast-paced lifestyles, it's no wonder that busy moms can be tempted to rely on high priced, sugar-coated cold cereals that are low in nutrition. Oatmeal, and that other old stand-by hot cereals are both nutritious and frugal, but reliance on them for more than one or two breakfasts per week is almost certain to cause rebellion in the ranks.

• Eight Time-Saving Cooking Tips Cooking often takes time, which most of us have very little of these days. So why not learn how to prepare meals for your family and still have time to enjoy one another? Rachel Paxton, author of the "Creative Homemaking Recipe of the Week Club Cookbook," shares some advice!

• Five Thanksgiving Time Savers Every Cook Should Know If you're planning on hosting Thanksgiving at your home this year, chances are your plate is all ready full. Your "to-do" list may be jam packed with planning, shopping, cleaning and cooking. Take a deep breath and let these five tips help you save some time in the kitchen so you can enjoy the holiday with less stress.

• Freezing Meat for Your Family Meals Freezing meat to have on hand is almost a necessity when you have a family. Here's how to do it safely!

• Healthy Road Trip Snacks and Meals Taking a long car trip can wreak havoc on your diet. If you don't plan ahead, it's very likely you will spend a day living on fast food, candy bars, bags of chips and soda. But we have some healthy tips for your road trip!

• Holiday Wine for Everyone No one ever ruined a holiday party or meal with the wrong wine and food match, but anyone can make their meals more delicious with wine, no sweat. That's the kind of advice Andrea Immer, master sommelier and author of Andrea Immer's Wine Buying Guide for Everyone, offers wine drinkers, who say they are puzzled about serving the right wine with the right food.