Once we have developed the weekly meal plan, the next step is make a shopping list, where all the necessary ingredients will appear to prepare your menus.
Remember that it is important to take into account the number of diners final in order to buy the necessary quantities and that you do not fall short when you start to prepare the chosen dishes. This will also allow you avoid surplus food.
With the list in hand, the best option, whenever possible, is make purchases in local markets, where the product is fresh and often close.
Also recommendable avoid go shopping hungry, since it is likely that you will put more products in the basket than you had thought to buy, including unhealthy snacks or Christmas sweets such as nougat or polvorones.
Purchase placement
Once you have made your purchases, there are a series of recommendations on how to place the food in the pantry.
The snacks or sweets that we reserve for designated days, we will place them in a drawer or shelf where they are not at first glance, to avoid daily temptations.
In the refrigerator, which is usually fuller during the Christmas season, cross-food contamination should be avoided, which is where fresh food is mixed with already prepared food.
An optimal way to organize would be the following:
- In the upper trays we will place the prepared foods or the tuppers already ready, duly preserved.
- At next shelf we will place the dairy and sausages, which usually come packaged. This will prevent them from becoming contaminated if any container is spilled from the top shelf.
- In the next tray we will put the fresh products such as meat and fish, which must be wrapped or covered and placed in containers with drainer, since they usually release juices.
- In last shelf, which are usually a drawer, we will place the fruits and vegetables.
