I might have mentioned once or twice (or a dozen-dozen times) that I love making lists. Ahh, here's another of my favorite lists: the thanksgiving shopping list.
I put this list together one year when I was dreading the act of pulling together all those menus for foods I make only once a year. I don't dread the cooking; it was the act of organizing all that stuff at a time that I was already really busy with kids and grading that was stressing me out. So I decided to create a "master recipe" -- one giant set of directions that starts with "Tuesday: clean out the gross moldy things from the refrigerator" and ends with a list of all the foods that need to go on the table Thursday at meal time. (Can you tell I've forgotten to bring out the cranberry relish one-too-many times? I vowed "never again"). I typed up the entire thing on my computer, and I bring it out again every November and tape it to my cabinet doors. I update it a bit from year to year, right after Thanksgiving, so I don't have to fret beforehand about what I'm missing.
Accompanying my master recipe (which I'll share tomorrow) is the master shopping list. The first round of shopping happens at home -- I check inventories and cross out everything we're already well-stocked with. Oh, I love this list! Yours is probably very different, but I can't restrain myself from sharing.
meat:
spices and oils
store-made items
I put this list together one year when I was dreading the act of pulling together all those menus for foods I make only once a year. I don't dread the cooking; it was the act of organizing all that stuff at a time that I was already really busy with kids and grading that was stressing me out. So I decided to create a "master recipe" -- one giant set of directions that starts with "Tuesday: clean out the gross moldy things from the refrigerator" and ends with a list of all the foods that need to go on the table Thursday at meal time. (Can you tell I've forgotten to bring out the cranberry relish one-too-many times? I vowed "never again"). I typed up the entire thing on my computer, and I bring it out again every November and tape it to my cabinet doors. I update it a bit from year to year, right after Thanksgiving, so I don't have to fret beforehand about what I'm missing.
Accompanying my master recipe (which I'll share tomorrow) is the master shopping list. The first round of shopping happens at home -- I check inventories and cross out everything we're already well-stocked with. Oh, I love this list! Yours is probably very different, but I can't restrain myself from sharing.
meat:
- 20+ lb turkey
- 1 lb turkey sausage
- milk
- 3 sticks butter
- 1 orange
- 4 apples
- 4 c (1 lb) cranberries
- 4 sweet potatoes
- 6 big potatoes
- celery
- lettuce
- green beans
- 1/2 c dried apricots
- 1/2 c dried cherries
- 1/2 c chopped walnuts
spices and oils
- 2 tbs chives
- 1 tbs dried thyme
- 1 tsp sage leaves
- 1/2 tsp nutmeg
- 1.5 c sugar
- 1/2 tsp paprika
- honey
- mustard
- cider vineagar
- brown sugar
- walnut oil
store-made items
- 2 baguette breads (for stuffing)
- 1 can cranberry sauce
- stuff for homemade bread
- 2 jars gravy
- vanilla ice cream
- ziplock storage bags
- ice for turkey in cooler
- wine — red and white
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