Making Room For Christmas

There may be less baked items than usual featured on my blog in the upcoming weeks. This is because we are trying to use up all of the baked items we have stored in the freezer to make room for all of the goodies we will be making for Christmas. Right now we have the usual meats, leftovers, breads and fruits in the freezer, which we aren't too worried about. We are more concerned about eating the excess baked goods we have in there. We have some muffins, loaves, cookies, squares and other desserts. So instead of baking new things, we have been trying to eat what we already have to make room and avoid spoilage. We also want to get all of our treats eaten up before the Christmas goodies begin to pile on. There is absolutely nothing wrong with this, as all of these items freeze very well and you can hardly tell the difference. We also tend to freeze items we like a lot, because we bake a lot of them. The problem is, I also keep adding to the freezer, as the stuff I am baking isn't being eaten as fast because we are also eating from the freezer. Also, I won't get to bake as much between now and the time before Christmas baking starts, and I will have less to write about. Oh well, it will get emptied out, at least for the majority, before we start our Christmas baking, which isn't too far off! At least we do not have a huge tub of ice cream taking up room in the freezer like we did the past two years. Once the summer ends, no one seems very interested in eating ice cream anymore, and what wasn't eaten in the summer takes up a lot of room. Here's to the start of the Christmas baking season!