From My Home to Yours: 12/26/25

 From My Home to Yours

12/26/25

~  the week of Christmas 2025 in pictures ~

we made our usual fudge cups for friends, neighbors and our church family

for families, instead of individual cups, we did fudge tubs ...

gifts for the ladies in a Bible class I attend

As you read in last week's post, we saved for Christmas spending all year long.  One of the things we chose to spend part of our Christmas savings on this year was meat!  Yes, meat for our pantry so when we found chicken on markdown, we bought it, brought it home and I canned 7 jars for our pantry!  (For all my non-canning readers, you can skip the canning and after it's cooked and deboned, freeze it in meal portion size packages for the freezer.)  We also took advantage of a beef sale we found and added some beef to the freezer part of our pantry.  Yes, we bought non-food gifts as well with our Christmas funds, but we are very practical people who don't mind at all taking advantage of meat sales even when it means spending money set aside for Christmas.  We'll enjoy this part of our Christmas gifts to ourselves all throughout the coming year!

I made a snack mix for a couple of events.  It went over really well!

more gifts ready for gifting

(We prepare for gift giving seasons all year long, it makes everything so much easier and affordable!)

gifts for the teens in the Bible class I teach ...

(You can read about how I put these together and about the hidden surprise inside HERE!)

and finally, we received several food gifts this holiday season from local friends and neighbors.  We were delighted ... fully cooked pork loin; chicken and dressing casserole, and of course an assortment of baked goodies.   The foods sure did come in handy, in fact they were such good and practical gifts, I'm making a note to make freezer meals ahead of time next year and gift them for the 2026 holiday season!

~ Happy New Year! ~

That's it for this week, I hope you've found something in my ramblings that will help and or encourage you in the upcoming week.

Until the next time ...

mrs. patsi @ A Working Pantry

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