{ Cookie Mixes... and other stuff too}

I posted this last year, but since the Christmas Season is upon us, I thought I'd throw it out there again.

Also works for bread mixes, pancake mixes* (which can make Christmas breakfast smoother), cake mixes, etc!

Good stuff.

Give 'er a try sometime.

Bagged Mixes Post

Tina

*That's for you, Margie ;)

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{I Know What You Did Last Christmas}

This is a convenience for you but also good for holiday gifts. 

Ok, so they aren’t as pretty as the cookies in a jar thing-a-ma-jigs, but this makes a whole recipe, not just a handful.

And people won’t be tempted to sit these on their shelves and admire them while exclaiming, “It’s just too pretty to use!”

At least I hope not!

But you never know about people.

 

Last Christmas season, I bagged up all the dry ingredients for cookies making it quicker and easier for holiday baking (or gift giving, as I said up there ^ ).

For Peanut Butter Blossoms, I dropped a smaller ziploc inside (you remember how I love ziplocs, yes?) with enough chocolate kisses to top the Blossoms. I also dropped a printed and folded  recipe inside a, yes, you guessed it, snack sized ziploc.

For the chocolate chip, I did the same, bagging the chips and recipe in individual bags.

Then, when it’s time to bake… siss, boom, bah! Easy peasy lemon squeezy. 

Done.

Or somethin’ like that.

With a whisk and a dream… Tina

I have an addiction…

I’m not ashamed to admit it. I just heart their lovely, shiny, plasticness.

I’m completely, totally, and hopelessly devoted to…

Ziploc baggies.

There. I said it. I feel better now.

Here is a peek into my pantry.

Please notice the R in last word of the former sentence. This is a PG blog after all.

Alright, fine.

PG13.

See, I’m not making this stuff up. It’s a Ziplocpalooza in there!

The only reason there is no flour or sugar in them is because they reside in canisters. I feel bad for them often… to be left out like that.

Living in the Land of Ziploc we have: Top Row-Brown Sugar, Whole Wheat Flour, Oats,  Powdered Sugar, and Chocolate Chips.

The Bottom Dwellers are: Chocolate Meltaway Hershey Kisses, Mini Reese’s Cups, M&M (Fall Mix), Caramel Hershey Kisses, Peanut Butter Chips, Andes Chips, White Chocolate Chips, Caramel Bits, Peanut Butter & Chocolate Swirl Chips, and Shredded Coconut.

I find the ziplocs a very effective way to store my items, more so than the packing them come in even. I open brand new packages and dump into my beloved ziplocs, sqeeeeeeeeeeeze all the air out and then place in the pantry. There’s no way I could have fit all of this in there otherwise. That’s 8# of brown sugar, about 5# of Powdered sugar, and at least 7 bags of (plain) chocolate chips. Not to mention all on the shelf below.

So… I’m not ashamed. A little obsessive maybe… but not ashamed.

With a whisk and a dream… Tina :)