Comments on: Frugal Holiday Cooking and Baking Tips

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Come, Shoot the Breeze With Me! | A Classic Housewife, Daily Life — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 06:19:30 +0000

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By: beth aka confusedhomemaker

beth aka confusedhomemaker — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:48:45 +0000

Great tips!

I agree on buying bulk on those must-haves. I also try to find recipes where I can use a lot of the same ingredients in different ways, cocoa, sugar, flour, eggs, vanilla & cherries for example can be used in several different holiday recipes.

Definitely stock up the pantry & cook from that.

And sales, sales, sales. If you are going for organic or all-natural (organic) look for good deals at stores like Trader Joe’s. Yes these ingredients can cost more for those on tighter budget but for those who want them but don’t want to pay really high prices (like at Whole Foods) a place like TJs is great.

If you buy a few ingredients at a time you can get everything you need & have a good amount left-over for taking you into Jan.

By: Missus Wookie

Missus Wookie — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:34:58 +0000

I add up how much of basic ingredients I’m likely to need and buy those in bulk – so today bought 3kg each of dark and light brown sugar, 10kg regular sugar, 3 kg unsalted butter and 7.5 kg plain flour. Plus some spices – much cheaper to pay wholesale for these then remember you needed to pick up more sugar for those cookies you’re taking tonight and have to run to the corner store…

Not to mention picking up dried fruit and cheap alcohol in January sales to soak all year before making puddings, cakes and mincemeat NEXT Christmas

By: Amber @ Classic Housewife

Amber @ Classic Housewife — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:05:38 +0000

Good tips! I really do need to start buying supplies, for Thanksgiving and Christmas both. Thanks!