If your Christmas holiday goals include making your own
food, you will have to carefully plan and organize this activity. In your mind,
reassess the success of last Christmas's baking. Did you make too much, too
little, or just enough? If you baked cookies that didn't get consumed until
March, then, don't bake as many this year. On the other hand, did you run short
of homemade goodies last year? Did you gain 10 pounds due to oversupply that
you were forced to finish the rest of them?
A good way to measure the success
of your homemade Christmas goodies is to ask your family what food items they
really enjoyed most during the past Christmases. From the answers you get, you
have a guide on planning this year's baking, doing away with the items that
were not favorites unless they are something that you truly like. Sometimes we
are accustomed to think that it is a necessity to make certain traditional
foods, no matter what. Evaluate. Perhaps your family did not ever enjoy these
as much as you thought they did. Some people like dark fruitcake and others
favor light fruitcake, while some don't like fruitcakes at all. If your family
likes a bit of both, then have a friend bake the dark and you bake the light,
and do an exchange-cakes activity. You may find that your Christmas baking can
be much simpler this year with your family members truly enjoying the food that
they like.
Recipes to try:
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