Christmas is Coming

Redcup

Because Starbucks have the REDCUPS!  I know it's sad but that's when I know it's Christmas.  Enjoyed my first Christmas beverage today!

Funny thing was I popped into town to visit the new Lakeland.  Which seemed a bit cramped compared to their normal stores.  I was astonished however at some of their prices, £15 for 3 jars of preserves?  I think I may be underpricing my homemade christmas hampers!

Town was mental too - it has to be near Christmas when that many people are out shopping.  As we drove home we saw a huge queue of traffic going into the Tesco home store - get a life people it's not worth queuing for!

Pasta Sauce

suet free mincemeat

I made the mistake of "popping" into the farm shop today for a few things.  They had boxes of baby plum tomatoes for £1.99 - one box, a 50p bag of onions and a 50p bag of peppers and I have enough pasta sauce to see me through winter - that really is a LARGE stock pot - it fills the Aga oven. 

Meanwhile in the baking oven I had another batch of suet free mincemeat on the go - for my christmas hampers, I'll be taking orders this year folks!  Whilst the roasting oven had a roast dinner in too - I really was using it to it's fullest for once today.