Okay, I know we aren’t quiiiite at the winter holidays yet and I hear Tday is “late” this year but haven’t really looked at the calendar. Anyway, it’ll come up fast. It always does. After Halloween, it’s all downhill.

So I have already purchased a few holiday food items. Chex cereal(s) at Meijer this morning. They already have them out in both major food aisles throughout the store. They know what us mooms want. And yesterday I ordered mixed nuts and sesame sticks from nuts.com. Yes, I could get those locally but I discovered nuts.com early in the pandemic and for a while sesame sticks were somewhat scarce locally and I want to continue to support nuts.com.

And then I “reset” the refrigerator, but not the freezer, alas, it is an overloaded mess. But we’ll get there. Maybe we’ll eat the remaining stromboli soon. That’ll help. Note that “fixing” the refrigerator is different than “resetting” it. A few readers may know what “fixing” the fridge means here at the Landfill.

I was too late to get homemade turkey broth (for gravy) from Sparrow Market this year but that’s okay. You have to be following them on facebook and QUICK to get it. Chicken broth will be fine or maybe I’ll be able to source some turkey broth somewhere else. We’ll see what I can come up with.

And turkey broth reminded me to put turkey parts on my grock list and make sure my make-ahead gravy recipe was in Plan-to-Eat.

A shill for Plan-to-Eat. It is an uber-cool tool for keeping track of recipes. It can suck up recipes from anywhere on the web or you can enter your own ingredients or… And you can access your recipes from your laptop or a phone app. I remember the days when I first had a viable computer and spent quite a lot of time and energy typing recipes into it. In Microsoft Word! It worked but the process was cumbersome. But not as cumbersome as hand writing recipes onto index cards. Fast forward a bit. Plan-to-Eat is not free but it isn’t very expensive either ($49 a year or $5.95 a month). I can’t say it has totally organized my massive collection of recipes. That’s on me. But I use it ALL THE TIME and it does make things easier.

P.S. I have a whole big shoe box sized container with tons of recipes that The Commander and my grandmother and various others wrote onto index cards and I am NOT getting rid of that.

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