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Planning for Christmas Presents

May 17th, 2020 at 08:42 pm

As Ceejay wrote, everyone's life has been touched by the pandemic and everyone's is a little different. Yes, indeed.

DH has put in a little bigger garden as far as tomatoes this year. He had 18 last year. He has 20 this year. We've been enjoying green onions and radishes so far and a little bit of lettuce. Our cool, damp, gloomy weather has not helped. I sure hope we get some sun this week.

I took stock of my canning pantry. I noticed I was about out of sweet relish. We don't use tons of it, but I like to have some on hand for things like egg salad, tuna salad, tuna cakes, etc. So, while at Aldi I bought some cucumbers and some bell peppers. I used the green onions I had on hand. I made 2 pints and 4 half pints. The two 2 pints will be enough for us (I still have a little left from last year) and I plan on giving the half pints as part of Christmas presents. There's a meme on Facebook of people wrapping up rolls of toilet paper for Christmas presents. Funny, but a little of sad truth. I thought, perhaps I could make some food baskets for Christmas gifts this year. In the past I have shared some of our canned goods at Christmas with a couple of people, but thought maybe I could do a little more this year.

I bought some grapes and after using some for chicken salad and fruit salad, I thought I could make some grape juice and make some grape jelly. I have the grape juice made. I plan to make the jelly later this week. Again, a jar for me and the rest for Christmas gifts.

I have already crocheted a few Christmas presents. I am working on a table runner for a friend that I am embroidering. Fortunately I had everything I needed. I guess I could order stuff, but at this point, I don't need anything.

So, anyone planning for Christmas yet?

Posted in Food / Groceries, Cleaning/decluttering | 3 Comments »

3 Responses to “Planning for Christmas Presents”

  1. terri77 Says:
    May 17th, 2020 at 09:01 pm 1589749309
    1589749309

    Funny, but I never thought about what relish is made of until now.

  2. CB in the City Says:
    May 17th, 2020 at 10:30 pm 1589754606
    1589754606

    Wow, you're really on top of things!

    Once when I ran out of sweet relish I chopped up some sweet gherkins that I had on hand, and it was great in tuna salad!

  3. Wink Says:
    May 17th, 2020 at 11:05 pm 1589756714
    1589756714

    My sister and BIL had been planning to come here for Christmas this year. I am hoping that travel will be safer by then, and they can still come. I miss her so much, and that would be the best Christmas gift I could ask for!

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