Blogmas Day Eighteen - Making Space for Christmas Food?

 

I have been slowly and surely eating my way through the freezer drawers over quite a long time now, but have I been making space for Christmas food?

If I have I've failed miserably!!  No matter how much headway I make I quickly fill the gaps with random leftovers that I just do not want to go to waste.

There are some gaps, although looking at these photos you wouldn't think so.  I have been trying to eat the odds and sods that were in boxes taking up more room than they should have been, and that has been going well ... with some interesting results.

Three hash browns for breakfast must have been my most random meal, and one that I lived to regret.  All day long no matter what else I ate or drank I could still taste them.  It's put me off buying any more that's for sure.  Maybe I should have had them as part of a meal instead of the whole meal!!

But I did manage to throw away the box.  😄

I've done so much better at using up the things that are in the food cupboard.

Seen here from both sides of the dividing bar, as I can't step back enough to get a straight on shot.  There is so much more of the wood visible now than there was in my last photo taken in June of this year.

This was how it looked in June of this year when I sorted out the 2025 foods and those that were out of date.  I'm happy that some of the oldest foods have now been used and nothing has been wasted, but I guess I could have done a bit better.

Ah well, my not so little stash has kept me going nicely this year through my tiny pension payment months.  There are only five months until my State Pension now, or as Alan insists on calling his 'my old age pension'.

But have I made space for Christmas food ?  The answer really is no.  But then I don't have much to buy, and what I have already will fit easily into the new spaces in the cupboard.  I have two boxes of mini  mince pies, and one of some teeny tiny fairy cakes to take to Mum's on Christmas Day.  I have cheeses in the fridge and chutney in the cupboard, along with the little silverskin pickles and jar of beetroot that are visible on the bottom shelf.  I have stuffing in the jar on the top shelf and Linda McCartney sausages in the freezer, so for my 'main item' I will make a sausage and stuffing Wellington or plait.  

To compliment all that I will hopefully, be able to pick up some of the cheap supermarket vegetables to complete my Christmas lunch.  Alan has ordered his main item from Booths, I don't know what his final choice was as he kept changing his mind, he's also ordered a couple of  dairy-free 'cheesecake style' mini desserts for us both to have.

So that's it, we are pretty much sorted.

Sue xx