I've got a busy few days ahead including getting blood pressure checked by the One Life Suffolk organisation. The Spot Wellbeing people, who did the exercise group for 6 weeks asked if anyone was interested in having some free health checks and since I've not seen a doctor for over 3 years and getting to see anyone is like an obstacle course that I've not tried. It seemed like a plan.
One morning is the exercise half hour with the new CIC group taking it over (so many different organisations!) Then there's the WI Knit and Natter on another morning and shopping sometime. Not sure if I can fit in swimming so it's a good thing I went yesterday.
Below is something I found online 5 years ago for the Photos in Advent 2017. I thought it was due a repeat.
It's from the USA and is a Betty Crocker advert from a 1958 Magazine. Several days involve baking one of Betty Crocker's cake mixes and on the 15th you should "Glamorize your Christmas punch set"!
Are magazines still doing those 'Countdown to Christmas' charts? With my huge pile of library books to get through each month and the Radio Times for TV programmes and reading, buying any other magazines is something I don't do anymore - another small money choice - and I don't miss them.
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Sue
Golly - altogether toooo much processed food - but I suppose they were trying to sell their product. What were Cheerios? I thought they were multicoloured extruded breakfast cereal, for the under tens?
ReplyDeleteCheerios are a sugary breakfast cereal. I cannot fathom why, on Dec 17th, I'd toss them in garlic and butter to sprinkle on my salads!
DeleteI guess we call these Advertorials now and I suppose the Cheerios we know now were the same in 1958? I have no idea as they certainly weren't here in the 50's
DeleteCheerios were just the plain ones in those days and not sugary. They are talking a variation of a snack served at the holidays called Nuts and Bolts.
DeleteCheerios in the US were and are a ubiquitous, relatively healthy oat cereal shaped like a teeny doughnut, about the size of a spaghetti hoop (American: SpaghettiOs). Often given to babies as a first finger food. It's possible to buy them unhealthy-ed up with sugar glazes added.
DeleteOriginal plain Cheerios in the US are not particularly sugar, often geven to babies as finger food. They were first produced in 1941.
DeleteADs like this were just for fun, inspiration. No one HAD to do all or even any of the ideas. No need to be so critical in hindsight, is there.
I can't imagine what cheerio icicle's on the tree would look like. I do however like the clear glass ones I bought years ago that sparkle like ice on the tree.
ReplyDeleteThey really wanted to insure lots of extra baking and fiddling with food in any spare moment you may have left over. I did enjoy reading the ideas though,
they were fun to read through. I liked the idea of cranberries and greenery in water in a rose bowl.
Lots of Betty Crocker baking required - I doubt anyone followed it
DeleteI get my teenage grandchildren to put my two trees up and a few Christmas ornaments around now. As for magazines, I only get the TV magazine each week and I swapped my one other magazine a week to buy a 99p Kindle book from Amazon, which is half the price and a lot better than any mag.!
ReplyDeleteI look at the covers of magazines in the shops but don't bother to buy
DeleteWell I won’t be following that plan thank you very much 😃
ReplyDeleteI do fancy doing a little baking though 🍰
If you download Libby app you can get free magazines with your Library card straight to your computer or tablet- huge selection available and very helpful Library staff helped me set it up on my device
Country Cook
I agree with CC, the Libby app is very useful, and free!
DeleteI used to like some of the smallholding type magazines but nowadays there isn't any that I'd bother to read
DeleteThanks Sue, for such a fun post!
ReplyDeleteI hoped that 5 years was a big enough gap to repeat it!
DeleteThanks for posting the countdown list. I must get started right now.
ReplyDeleteDon't forget to decorate your Punchbowl!
DeleteFor my sins, over the years I seem to have acquired a pile of those Christmas magazines. Such a relief, because in truth, those countdown to Christmas lists don't change much. So I can just pull them out from the attic and reread them. I guess I'm getting my money's worth.
ReplyDeleteI picked up some old ones from a car boot sale a few years ago but they went out when I moved. Don't need to do much planning now
DeleteGoodness! That's a lot of work and a lot of food to eat! I can't imagine doing any of those recipes. Most don't even sound that appetizing to me. Fun to read, tho!
ReplyDeleteCheerios here are oat 'o's and unsweetened.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Debby. Cheerios should never be confused with Fruity Cherrios. Mary in Maine.
DeleteGosh, THAT'S where I've been going wrong, I have never glamourised my Christmas punch set ... !!
ReplyDeleteI should imagine that all the magazines are rolling out their 'countdown' lists now. I started keeping Christmas magazines from one year to the next a couple of years ago to reread the following year, the only one I used to buy new was always Country Homes and Interiors as the December issue came with a calendar for the following year, but it's not in the shops this year. Another one that's folded perhaps.
Love the vintage Christmas countdown! I've stopped looking at the Christmas versions of glossy magazines - I realise they often portray a perfect Christmas and I'm not sure there is such a thing - not often anyway. What I do enjoy is dipping into the Nigel Slater Christmas diaries book but I realise his writing isn't everyone's cup of tea.
ReplyDeleteAlison in Wales x
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ReplyDeleteDue to the postal strike my Radio Times hasn't arrived this week - I've bought an extra one as being without the Radaio Times discombobulates us both!
...and now guess what's just dropped through the letterbox? I should have held my nerve!
DeleteI rely on The Times
ReplyDeleteIf you are interested Sue you can access lots of magazines electronically with your Suffolk library card. There are also newspapers available.
ReplyDeleteBetty Crocker (BC) was a 1940-50's icon in the US. I have my mother's BC cookbook. Decorate the punch bowl? Oh no. I'll stick with the Christmas tree. I have no action list but I'm making good progress: trees bought and decorated, wreaths hung on the outside doors and prime rib roast ordered.
ReplyDeleteThe Christmas as Hollywood Production idea! Great for magazine purposes, but comic relief for the rest of us. Thanks for the smile. The things I should be doing already..
ReplyDeleteGosh, much as I enjoy baking, that is baking overload! I bake from scratch too - no packet cakes here! When I was young and learning, I would get a Christmas magazine each year for the recipes. Not any more, though I did buy one this year to cheer me up and for veggie ideas for our son's girlfriend. I too ditched all my old magazines when we moved. I did keep the first ever Country Living mag (it was good in those days) and first Christmas issue of it.
ReplyDeleteThere was a smallholding mag I used to enjoy, but then it got a bit repetitive so I stopped getting it.
"Planning for Christmas"! - more than I'm capable of
ReplyDeleteI don't know if they still do them. I haven't bought a magazine in years now. I used to love the Christmas editions of several.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
That looks so interesting! I see on the 4th you're supposed to plan for New Year's Day - ha ha! I don't buy American magazines. I do treat myself to a British one once in a while. American magazines have more adverts in than anything else!
ReplyDeleteso...glamorizing the punch bowl means plastering it with stickers. I will never be a glamorous person I guess, because that strikes me as tacky.
ReplyDeleteOh, gosh - I have my own countdown but nothing as detailed or intense as that!! xx
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