Planning for Christmas 2017 - Countdown to Christmas Time Planner
TIME PLAN FOR PREPARING THINGS FOR CHRISTMAS Month Things to do August Start to add items to the shopping trolley. Items with a long stop date. Even if you do one thing a week it will soon build up and be less to fork out for later on. Take advantage of offers on baking consumables and especially dried fruit. Especially if you are going to make your own Christmas cake and Christmas pudding. Make your own flavoured sugars. I make vanilla sugar and use it when I bake in cakes and also decorating the top of and in home-made custard. It costs about £3 for two vanilla pods and all I do is find a big jar put the sugar in and then push one of the vanilla pods into the sugar it is well covered and then put the lid on and leave it for a few weeks. Lavender sugar can be made the same way. To buy it costs an absolute arm and a leg. You can use caster or granulated. ...