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Start a Holiday Meal Box
I know it’s hard to believe, but we are literally moving into the whirlwind months we affectionately call, The Holidays.
This can be The Most Wonderful Time of the Year, or quite frankly, just the opposite.
Taking a few moments each week from here on in can help to alleviate a lot of the stress, both mentally and financially.
One thing I like to do this time of year is put together a holiday meal box.
What’s a Holiday Meal Box?
What’s a holiday meal box?
I literally take a box and start going through my newly inventoried pantry looking for items I know I will use in my holiday meals.
Do you have traditional foods that you serve every single year at Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners?
Are there new recipes that you would like to try this year?
Start by making out the menus, and then the ingredients needed to make those recipes.
Next, go through the pantry to see what you already have on hand.
Put those things into the holiday box.
Each week, buy something from this list and add it to the holiday box.
Include Your Holiday Baking Ingredients
The holidays typically include a lot of extra baking, so make sure you include all of those ingredients too.
Hands-Off the Holiday Box
Make sure everyone in the family knows that whatever is put in the holiday box stays in the holiday box.
These groceries are not everyday groceries.
They are being set aside for a purpose.
Everything in the holiday box is for the holidays.
Start Now
Starting a holiday meal box now will really help to take the bite out of your grocery bill later.
It might end up costing the same in the end, but it sure helps to not have to pay it all at once, doesn’t it?
Plan ahead, and let’s have a stress-free and debt-free holiday season this year.
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