Is the recession leaving you light in the wallet this holiday season?
Culinary instructor Anne Legg offers some tips on how to entertain economically:
- Use spicy Mexican seasoning on jicama slices to create your own dip with sour cream. ”It’s always better to make them yourself,” Legg says.
- The dollar store is also a good source for items such as chips, Funyuns (original and ersatz), fresh corn and flour tortillas, disposable salt and pepper grinders, staples such as canned tomatoes and stock, soft drinks, bottled water, nuts and trail mixes, Duncan Hines baking mixes (cupcakes, small-batch brownies and cookies), and assorted spices and seasonings (Be sure to watch the expiration dates.)
- Most dollar stores also stock disposable foil bakeware, pretty good wine glasses (at $1 apiece, you won’t cry if you break one, Legg says), disposable paper goods (including tablecloths), plastic cutlery and, best of all, plastic serving dishes designed to look like cut glass.
