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The Lazy Family’s Guide To Christmas
How To Avoid Cooking This Christmas
Christmas day is a time when friends and family get together over good food and reminisce about good times together. We all love to enjoy a hearty meal on Christmas day but we don’t want to spend the whole day slaving over a hot stove. Plan your Christmas meal in advance and enjoy...
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Christmas Decorations Without All The Fuss
Christmas is a perfect occasion to do something special for your home, if you want to add a little Christmas cheer to your home, but don’t want to deck the halls the traditional way, you can now decorate beautifully for Christmas, even with a busy schedule and a small budget. Consider the...
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Supermarket Meals You Can Treat Yourself To This Christmas
The moment we hear Christmas dinner, the majority of us thinks-kitchen, stove and ingredients. Sharing and indulging in scrumptious meals with family is the priority for many during Christmas, but holidays are also a time for fun, joy and making blissful memories with loved ones...now you can spend more time together and less time in the...
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Electronic Christmas Messages
Sending out Christmas cards by hand can be an extremely tiresome and annoying experience. First you have to go to the store, browse around until you find the perfect cards, then you have to stand in a long queue to pay for just 10 cards, and then go home, write out a message for each...
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Christmas Away From Home
Celebrating Christmas In A Different Country
Although the reason why people celebrate Christmas is the same, how they celebrate may be different. If you are visiting or staying in another country for Christmas it may be a good idea to learn about their traditions. It will be a fun experience and you will have a lot to tell your family back home. Here are a few countries’ traditions during Christmas...
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How to Celebrate Christmas Away From Home
While Christmas is a time for family and friends to come together, many people find themselves away from home during the festive season. Here are a few tips on how you can celebrate Christmas away from home. If there is a specific...
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Inexpensive Christmas
Having A Good Time On A Low Budget!
A tight budget would generally, though not necessarily, mean a low income. It could simply emphasise that every cent counts. There is more to life than just going to work, doing the chores and paying the bills! Everybody deserves a break every once in awhile and what better time than this festive period. Question is, how to entertain others, keep yourself entertained...
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Christmas On A Budget
The festive season is usually filled with lots of food, presents and a whole lot of debt. It is not uncommon for families to go into huge debt during Christmas and considering the current state of the economy worldwide you should avoid overspending. Christmas on a budget does not mean you have to say goodbye to all the things you like but rather plan and budget properly...
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Make Your Own Christmas Crackers
Christmas crackers are a fun festive tradition that brings screams of excitement at the dinner table. While they may be beautiful bursts of fun they can be quite costly. Why spend R100 for six crackers only to find out that some are duds. Instead of buying Christmas crackers of the shelf, why not make you own...
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Gift Ideas For The Whole Family
Finding the perfect gift for friends and family can be a daunting task. Not only because you are on a tight budget but also because you probably have one too many to think of. You don’t have to spend thousands of Rands buying gifts for all your friends and family members. All you need to do is think of unique and fun ideas that cost less. Homemade cards are more likely to be kept over time and you can get really creative...
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Shopping
How to: Buy Christmas Gifts for Kids
Shopping for children during Christmas can be quite difficult. With so many adverts bombarding “specials” of the latest toys on the market, you would be forgiven for going a bit crazy. Children change their mind more often than they do their underwear. One minute Barbie is in the next she’s out. But by asking yourself the following questions you will be one step closer to choosing the perfect Christmas gift for your child...
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The Heart of Christmas
When the holiday season approaches each year, it seems no matter how early you get started and how much you plan, you always end up trying to find a few cheap Christmas gifts at the last second, whether for an office co-worker, or a family member. We have made this problem...
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Christmas Recipes
Easy Chocolate Cake
This cake is so rich and moist anyone who has the privilege of tasting it will think that you spent a lot of time and effort making it. I like to bake this cake in a silicone Bundt pan and glaze it with chocolate ganache. 2 cups flour. 2 tsp bicarbonate of soda (baking soda). 1 cup cocoa powder...
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Christmas Recipe
I’ve always believed that a good crust is the beginning of a good tart. I love to make my tarts using sweet tart dough but when I’m not in the mood of mixing and rolling I always turn to a biscuit crust made from tennis biscuits or digestive biscuits. Like the sweet tart dough this crust is very versatile...
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Delicious Chicken Nuggets
Pour the flour into a small bowl and set aside. Combine the breadcrumbs with a little salt and pepper, garlic powder, onion powder and parmesan cheese and set aside. Combine the herbs and add some salt and pepper together with the chicken mince. Beat the eggs together in a...
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Festive Chocolate Clusters
These gourmet chocolate clusters make good snacks and can also be wrapped up to make tasteful gifts for family and friends. Use good quality chocolate like Lindt or your favourite Belgian chocolate. Melt the chocolate in separate bowls in the microwave or in a double boiler. Keep in mind that if you choose to melt the chocolate in the microwave...
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Deboned Rolled And Savoury Stuffed Turkey Drumsticks
While browsing through the butcheries of many food retail stores I have picked up that the price of turkey drumsticks are reasonably priced or rather a giveaway. A lot of people in SA usually cook chicken during Christmas...
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Christmas Cake Ice Cream
Gone are the days of traditional fruit cake and custard after Christmas dinner. This nice and easy Christmas Cake Recipe is relaxed and inexpensive dessert. All you need is some remaining vanilla ice cream which I’m...
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Christmas Preparations
Crazy Christmas To Do List
So the day is finally here and tomorrow you have no idea where to start. Food, drinks, gifts, last minute shopping, kids and guests, are you feeling faint? Breathe! Count to 10 and relax, this article will provide you with all you need to remember for Christmas day. Beautify your home...
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Be Prepared for Guests this Festive Season
During the festive season you are likely to have more people coming to visit than you did all year. If you are going to have guests stay over, make sure their stay is an enjoyable one. Before you invite every cousin and aunt to your home make sure that you actually have enough room for them. If not, consider buying a sleeper or inflatable beds...
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Christmas day is a time when friends and family get together over good food and reminisce about good times together. We all love to enjoy a hearty meal on Christmas day but we don’t want to spend the whole day slaving over a hot stove. Plan your Christmas meal in advance and enjoy...
Christmas is a perfect occasion to do something special for your home, if you want to add a little Christmas cheer to your home, but don’t want to deck the halls the traditional way, you can now decorate beautifully for Christmas, even with a busy schedule and a small budget. Consider the...
The moment we hear Christmas dinner, the majority of us thinks-kitchen, stove and ingredients. Sharing and indulging in scrumptious meals with family is the priority for many during Christmas, but holidays are also a time for fun, joy and making blissful memories with loved ones...now you can spend more time together and less time in the...
Sending out Christmas cards by hand can be an extremely tiresome and annoying experience. First you have to go to the store, browse around until you find the perfect cards, then you have to stand in a long queue to pay for just 10 cards, and then go home, write out a message for each...
Although the reason why people celebrate Christmas is the same, how they celebrate may be different. If you are visiting or staying in another country for Christmas it may be a good idea to learn about their traditions. It will be a fun experience and you will have a lot to tell your family back home. Here are a few countries’ traditions during Christmas...
While Christmas is a time for family and friends to come together, many people find themselves away from home during the festive season. Here are a few tips on how you can celebrate Christmas away from home. If there is a specific...
A tight budget would generally, though not necessarily, mean a low income. It could simply emphasise that every cent counts. There is more to life than just going to work, doing the chores and paying the bills! Everybody deserves a break every once in awhile and what better time than this festive period. Question is, how to entertain others, keep yourself entertained...
The festive season is usually filled with lots of food, presents and a whole lot of debt. It is not uncommon for families to go into huge debt during Christmas and considering the current state of the economy worldwide you should avoid overspending. Christmas on a budget does not mean you have to say goodbye to all the things you like but rather plan and budget properly...
Christmas crackers are a fun festive tradition that brings screams of excitement at the dinner table. While they may be beautiful bursts of fun they can be quite costly. Why spend R100 for six crackers only to find out that some are duds. Instead of buying Christmas crackers of the shelf, why not make you own...
Finding the perfect gift for friends and family can be a daunting task. Not only because you are on a tight budget but also because you probably have one too many to think of. You don’t have to spend thousands of Rands buying gifts for all your friends and family members. All you need to do is think of unique and fun ideas that cost less. Homemade cards are more likely to be kept over time and you can get really creative...
Shopping for children during Christmas can be quite difficult. With so many adverts bombarding “specials” of the latest toys on the market, you would be forgiven for going a bit crazy. Children change their mind more often than they do their underwear. One minute Barbie is in the next she’s out. But by asking yourself the following questions you will be one step closer to choosing the perfect Christmas gift for your child...
When the holiday season approaches each year, it seems no matter how early you get started and how much you plan, you always end up trying to find a few cheap Christmas gifts at the last second, whether for an office co-worker, or a family member. We have made this problem...
I’ve always believed that a good crust is the beginning of a good tart. I love to make my tarts using sweet tart dough but when I’m not in the mood of mixing and rolling I always turn to a biscuit crust made from tennis biscuits or digestive biscuits. Like the sweet tart dough this crust is very versatile...
Pour the flour into a small bowl and set aside. Combine the breadcrumbs with a little salt and pepper, garlic powder, onion powder and parmesan cheese and set aside. Combine the herbs and add some salt and pepper together with the chicken mince. Beat the eggs together in a...
These gourmet chocolate clusters make good snacks and can also be wrapped up to make tasteful gifts for family and friends. Use good quality chocolate like Lindt or your favourite Belgian chocolate. Melt the chocolate in separate bowls in the microwave or in a double boiler. Keep in mind that if you choose to melt the chocolate in the microwave...
While browsing through the butcheries of many food retail stores I have picked up that the price of turkey drumsticks are reasonably priced or rather a giveaway. A lot of people in SA usually cook chicken during Christmas...
Gone are the days of traditional fruit cake and custard after Christmas dinner. This nice and easy Christmas Cake Recipe is relaxed and inexpensive dessert. All you need is some remaining vanilla ice cream which I’m...
So the day is finally here and tomorrow you have no idea where to start. Food, drinks, gifts, last minute shopping, kids and guests, are you feeling faint? Breathe! Count to 10 and relax, this article will provide you with all you need to remember for Christmas day. Beautify your home...
During the festive season you are likely to have more people coming to visit than you did all year. If you are going to have guests stay over, make sure their stay is an enjoyable one. Before you invite every cousin and aunt to your home make sure that you actually have enough room for them. If not, consider buying a sleeper or inflatable beds...
