HGP 2015 - Week 9 - Pantry

[HouseElf]

Week Nine at the Holiday Grand Plan, Pantry Week, finds us still in the kitchen.

This week, we focus on food storage, the pantry and any additional closets. Taking time to declutter, deep-clean and organize these storage areas will pay off when holiday baking begins.

Holiday prep chores this week see us begin to address Christmas cards, continue to work on holiday gifts, and start thinking about Thanksgiving dinner.

Ready? Let's get organized with Pantry Week in the Holiday Grand Plan!

 

[sweetpumkinpye]

Oh I am glad that we are getting to organise the pantry. Mine is relatively small and it tends to get messy quite easily. Most of the Christmas "Goodies" are hidden in my gift closet so that they don't accidently get eaten and I have to re buy. I would like to find a different place for those items.

 

[HouseElf]

Going through packages today and tossing anything expired - and putting items in the "must use this" bin in our dinner plans, before THEY expire too.

Pantry stock is in pretty good shape, but would like a few extra containers for dry goods and added a couple more bags of flours to the shopping list for holiday baking.

Halloween, we are almost ready - will carve pumpkins tomorrow night. Will make caramel apples and pumpkin seeds with the boys Wednesday. A pumpkin coffee cake for the staff meeting, Friday.

We have a lot of cards left over from the past few years - a few of each design, so we are going to use those up this year!

 

[sweetpumkinpye]

Tam, what a good idea to put anything about to expire on the meal plan. When I clean the pantry I will look for things that are getting short on date and try to incorporate them into my meals for this week.

 

[AuntJamelle]

I did some work on Pantry last week - I have a large walk in and it was pretty bad! I got rid of expired items and straightened what was left.

We're gearing up for a camping trip this weekend so there is probably minimal action happening in the Pantry for me this week - other than just trying to keep it looking semi-nice!

I haven't been able to find a store selling Christmas cards yet - but I'm on the hunt!

 

[AuntJamelle]

Got a double batch of Lemon Snowball cookie dough in freezer!

 

[luludou]

Lemon snowball cookies??? that just sounds yummy... off to find a recipe for that

 

[sweetpumkinpye]

Lemon snowball cookies do sound good!!!!!!

 

[AuntJamelle]

Here is a link to the recipe I used:

http://www.cookingclassy.com/2014/12/lemon-snowball-cookies/

I flash froze the dough already shaped, so I after baking they are rolled in powdered sugar. So good!