One Week To Go

 Christmas is exactly one week away. Are you ready? Are you all set for another round of baking? Peeling spuds? Get that ham or turkey? What do you need? One thing you don;t need is stress.

A lot fo people don't have the time to bake. However if you;re craving hiome baked, then buy a couple of logs of the Pillsbury Slice And Bakes. It's the same home bakd taste but easier. They have  some cute patterns like reindeet and snowmen. If you don;t even have time for this, then hit your local LIDL and other supermarkets like Acme or Stop and Shop. Lidl has an excellent selection of German libekuchen and specalioos. groceries such as Acmes not only have stoew baked cookies cakes and pies but also excellent selection of frozen desserts like Marie Callendar's chocolate chiffon pie ( I think this will be my Christmas dessert) and their banana cream one.Buy the easy to bake even in an air fryer crescent rolls for the main course.What about a Christmas brunch? Same thing. Buy easy to bake cinnamon rolls or just buy them along with smaller rolls for jams and flavored butters.

You should have the main course or should be buying it this week. Make sure you have plenty of room in the fridge or freezer for the ham or the turkey. You really can't sub in here. YOu can buy smaller easier to roast hams and sub in capon or Cornish hens for the turkey for easier cooking.The sides however, are a different story. Yes you can make that green bean cassarole. Do you want to make it from scratch which is a bit more time consuming or make the classic recipe using Campbell's mushroom soup with frizzled onions on top? You have to have all the ingredients for both kinds. If you're serving ham, then have baked beams to go with it.This is another conundrum. Do you want to make it from scratch or just buy a can and reheat them in the microwave. Luckily the homemade kind can be cooked days before Christmas and reheated for the meal.A ham dinner also requires potato salad. Again make sure you have th eingredients  such as potatoes, celery , eggs and mayo tor this. If your main course is turkey you have to ecide now if you want scratch stuffing or Stove Stop Stuffing. The last is easier to make and save you time to make time for other sides.

The biggest cooking day of the year is a week away. Be calm,Be prepard. getting through Christmas dinner and dessert is easy if you have a goodl handle on what you;'re doing